Turning Children’s Drawings to Toys by Child’s Own Studio
Remember all that crazy shit you drew as a kid? True story: when I was but a wee lad I was fond of drawing bones with wings on them. There was a whole family of them. Why? Who the hell knows, kids are weird! But how awesome would have been if a cool company like this existed: where they take children’s drawings and convert them to real world toys. Maybe one day my Flying Bones with faces can get the same treatment. Check out tons more at their flickr
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you…
i worried through the whole book that john green was either going to make me cry or disappoint me. i won’t comment on the crying (could be a spoiler) but i was not disappointed. it was real in all the ways fiction should be.
“ When Jack kisses Rose and the Doctor goodbye, John Barrowman made a special effort to kiss both actors in exactly the same way… except on one take, when he kissed Billie Piper as usual, then said his line to Christopher Eccleston, started the kiss, and didn’t stop until they fell on the floor. ”
the art and story were both just as good as volume one, although probably darker. also a bit more disjointed, presumably since readers have a better sense of the world now. it’s like trying to look at something too big to take in: you don’t want to pull away from the part you’re looking at, but you also want to see it in relation to this other thing over here.