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Where we tell you about things we found that make life a little brighter.

Wonder

by Jacqueline Johnson on July 21, 2008

On a walk through the city this past weekend, I stopped in the park to see if I could catch some photos and maybe even a few thoughts in my notebook.
I happened upon two birds, who kept following each other incessantly. Either they were best friends, or one was male, the other female, and […]

Surprise

by Jacqueline Johnson on July 17, 2008

Go see Wall-E if you haven’t already. It’s quite the social commentary, I wasn’t expecting to see all my criticisms of American culture rolled into an animated movie in local theaters. The message doesn’t bombard or attack, though. Even without looking for a message, it’s still just an enjoyable animation.

Does the Notebook You Write in Affect What You Write?

by Lindsey Anderson on June 17, 2008

I was perusing Flickr, looking for some inspiration along the scrapbooking line, and came across a photo of scrap journals by Ann Hirschfeld and Sharon Derry of Secret Leaves Paperworks.
Those of us who write or journal by hand know how much paper one person can go through just by writing on it, let alone throwing […]

Plotting a Solution

by Lindsey Anderson on June 1, 2008

Are you an impatient writer that wants to “write a story, right now”? Need a plot in a hurry for this or that deadline? Writer’s block?
Consider looking over Georges Polti’s “Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations” or, as referenced in this article on Flemming Funch’s blog, “The 36 Plots” by Loren Miller.
Of course we know that plots are […]

Poetic Archives

by Jacqueline Johnson on May 30, 2008

Congratulations, you made it to Friday! And on Fridays, we share with you a website we frequent or something we’ve found recently while perusing the World Wide Web.
Do you love poetry, but haven’t found a decent website where you could simply absorb the art without loads of conspicuous advertisements? End your Google search for […]

I found an author’s blog

by Jacqueline Johnson on May 16, 2008

Author, Illustrator, and Guerilla artist, Keri Smith blogs too! She doesn’t overwhelm her blog with tons of information. Instead, she provides small and innovative ways to inspire her blog readers with simple, creative tips. I didn’t know what guerilla art was until I read her site: “Guerilla art is a method of […]

The World’s First Flying Man

by Edward Atkinson on May 15, 2008

From CNN: Yves Rossy is the world’s first man to fly with jet fuel-powered wings, and he achieved a speed of 186 mph! And how neat to be able to watch it all on film.

Collection of shipwreck photos

by Edward Atkinson on May 14, 2008

I’m not a huge fan of poking around the web, because there seem to be 100 bad websites to every good one. However! I just came across this absolute gem of a post of collected shipwreck photos (thanks to Simplebits).
Haunting.

Sometimes Bad Is Good

by Lindsey Anderson on May 10, 2008

Traditionally, we’ve been taught that improvement is a good thing and that being awesome at what we do is important. But geez, that can get old after a while. Thankfully, the Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) in Boston takes a different approach, displaying and celebrating some of the worst art they can find. What an inspiration […]

Somebody else tells stories too!

by Edward Atkinson on May 9, 2008

Thanks to Jamie of How Not To Write, I stumbled across an innovative twist on story telling, done by Penguin Books, under the same name as Mind Sprocket’s tagline: We Tell Stories.
There’s a neat story told through a progressively unfolding Google map, an interactive fairy tale (neat!), and more.
This is one of the better executions […]

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