Here’s a simple hack. Lost your bubble wand? Run into the deli and pick up two straws and twist them together as shown here, and presto! Giant bubbles to Mars! Indestructables is a fun website with plenty of neat projects for kids, and for grown-ups too.
We have been anticipating our trip to the abandoned City Hall subway station for a couple of months now. We are going today! There’s a nice write up on the stop at Forgotten NY. Can’t wait! You have to join the Subway Museum to go.
I think if I was President-For-A-Day I would ban all advertisements — except for ones for zoos. Why do zoos inspire such creativity? Did you ever play with the Build Your Wild Self from the Bronx Zoo? That was fun, but the San Francisco Zoo’s bus stop campaign rivals it. Snap a photo when you wait for your ride, then get home and send it on to them. Check them all out here.
It’s a problem for all of us. What to do?
The forest on the edge of Tokyo that inspired Miyazake to create MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO is being threatened. Where does beauty go when we let it disappear? Hmmm.
When I was fourteen, when I was twelve, when I was seven, John was the one. But I never met him. When Jerry Levitan was fourteen he snuck into John’s hotel room with a tape recorder.
NAUSICA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1992) was the first film of Studio Ghibli (even before they were Studio Ghibili!). It’s got everything in it, from the first seeds of steampunk, robots, a great female youthful heroine, and an environmental message (plus another one of how aggression is often a cry for love…). We’ve watched it numerous times, have the figures, and our very own pet fox-squirrel.
