Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
You’re Allowed to Be Everchanging
Podcast Notes
“I forgot it was an experiment. If I stay in the experiment… it stays fun, it stays curious, and it stays open to shifting.”
“You’re allowed to be everchanging.”
“We have to make the space for the thing to come through.”
Marlee Grace (source)
DUPLO Dragon
My kid was playing with DUPLO while I was making notes from Lynda Barry’s Making Comics.
I turned from rereading this page to meet his DUPLO Dragon with a long green head and white window wing.
William Morris
Though best-known today as a designer of fabrics and wallpapers, in his own time Morris was equally famous for his writing and his pioneering socialism. He was a man of fierce energies and strong opinions. When he was taken to court for knocking a policeman’s helmet off during a political demonstration, Morris was stubbornly unrepentant. In his socialist vision of a future Britain, News from Nowhere, the Houses of Parliament are used for the storage of dung – all they are good for, says the book’s narrator.
News from Nowhere remains the best-known of Morris’ writings. Originally serialized in Morris’ socialist newspaper, The Commonweal, in 1890 as a rebuttal to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888), which predicted a world benefitting from advanced technology, it envisions a future, pastoral, post-socialist revolution England in which capitalism, class, industrialization, and (to some extent) sexism have disappeared. The iconic frontispiece to the Kelmscott Press edition, by Charles M. Gere, shows Morris’ country house in Oxfordshire, Kelmscott Manor, the model for the “house by the river” lovingly described in the book.
Kids Speak Image
I’m reading Lynda Barry’s Making Comics. I have no real interest in making comics or even illustration, but I am loving the lessons in storytelling and curiosity.
I think it’s especially powerful making art that is for process and not product alongside my kid. Something I haven’t done in a VERY long time.
Perhaps since I was a kid myself.
Being different in science fiction
“There is a thing that happens in science fiction where there are characters that have something that makes them special and important and valuable in the science fiction universe that tends to mirror something that when it expresses itself in our prime universe it makes them weird.
So I always felt like a weird outcast kid cause of the stuff that I liked. And I really identified with characters, especially in Star Trek where the thing that made them weird made them special and valuable.”
Wil Wheaton, The Ready Room
Season 1 Episode 3
Japanese Clothesline
I spotted a clothesline like this in Totoro and found it is a traditional Japanese clothesline.
Clothesline on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan – mid 1950s. Photographer: Gene Amore.
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Darning a Hole
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Circular Rainbows
“What you might not realize is that the shape of a rainbow isn’t a “bow” or an “arc” at all, but rather a full circle. The only reason you see part of that full circle, under most conditions, is because the Earth itself (or other foreground features) are in the way, preventing you from seeing the entire rainbow at once.”
