Recent Posts Tagged With 'entertainment'

• A Sweet Dream

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 16:58 in entertainment, lombard street, candyland

  (image via Collectors’ Quest) To celebrate its 60th anniversary yesterday, Lombard Street in San Francisco was transformed into a life size version of Candyland! Hundreds of colorful foam pads were arranged on the 575-foot-long path recreating...

• Terrible Yellow Eyes

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 20:15 in entertainment, where the wild things are, arts & crafts

  “And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!” I am loving the collection of paintings and drawings compiled by artist Cory Godbey as a tribute to and celebration of the book Where the Wild Things Are . With the film ver...

• Up With (Paper) People

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 17:55 in entertainment, paper dolls, playthings, arts & crafts, paper source, jenny b. harris, the small object, jen corace, sarah neuberger

  The classic paper doll is a kid craft that’s been around for ages - the first manufactured version (named Little Fanny) appeared in London in 1810. Below, please find an itty bitty selection of modern paper doll kits, downloads and virtual vari...

• Bubblicious

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 02:02 in entertainment, bubbleology, sam heath, blowing bubbles, samsam

  ‘Bubbleologist’ Samsam Bubbleman (aka Sam Heath) may have just set the record for world’s largest free-floating soap bubble! In an attempt to break the current 2005 record of a 105.4 cubic feet bubble, he created one that stretched ...

• Some Kind of Wonderful

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 01:39 in entertainment, pretty in pink, john hughes, ferris bueller's day off, the breakfast club

  Today, a fond farewell to Mr. John Hughes, a writer, director and producer whose films made such an impression on my teenage years. “Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. ” -Ferri...

• Beware the Jabberwock!

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 11:26 in entertainment, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, alice in wonderland, helena bonham carter

  “There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a da...

• Move Over Godzilla

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 12:43 in Culture, entertainment

  Last weekend the mechanical marionette street theater company Royal de Luxe took over the streets of their hometown Nantes, France. In an elaborate dance of puppeteers and behemoth marionettes, the theater company performed a fantastic story written...

• Mama Mia!

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 15:08 in entertainment, literacy, gastronomy

  It’s likely you’ve visited the little town of Chewandswallow during nightly bedtime stories and fans of Judi Barret’s absurdist tall-tale Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will be interested to know that Sony Pictures Animation has ...

• Hot Air

  Posted on Monday February 2nd, 2009 at 05:54 in entertainment, arts & crafts

  Lest you wonder any longer who it is the holds the Guinness World Record for ‘largest non-round balloon sculpture’, let me put your mind at ease. Larry Moss and his pal Royal Sorrel utilized 40,781 non-round balloons to create a sculptur...