There is hope for all of you rubbish aspiring authors yet!
All of those classics of literature and more can be purchased from Abebooks which is HERE.
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I don’t know why someone didn’t come up with this sooner and by that I mean “Now why didn’t I think of that?”
The lyrics to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” have been illustrated and transformed into a wee book for children!
Click on the pictures to enlarge…
…Actually, don’t click on the pictures to enlarge because it doesn’t work and I don’t know why…
Although not usually the style of illustration I go crazy for, I reckon this is a brilliant idea!
From The Independent…
David Bowie’s 1969 song “Space Oddity”, which sees fictional astronaut Major Tom drifting into outer space, has been turned into an unlikely children’s book by a Canadian illustrator.
Andrew Kolb, from southern Ontario, has created an illustrated version of Bowie’s classic track. “It was an entirely personal project,” he said. “The song always played out like a picture book in my head anyway, so I wanted to see if I could make it work. It was for entirely selfish reasons.”
Mr Kolb said the book had a purposefully ambiguous ending, not revealing whether Major Tom chose to leave Earth behind or was cut loose by an asteroid storm. As Tom drifts into space, the song ends with the lyrics: “Planet Earth is blue… and there’s nothing I can do.”
The book is available for download via Mr Kolb’s website, with the illustrator in discussions with HarperCollins for a print run.
View and download the full book on and from Mr. Kolb’s website HERE and let’s keep our fingers crossed that he doesn’t get sued to high Heaven and back again by Ziggy Stardust because I think this is great for kids and an excellent idea in general that will probably catch on right away!
Matter of fact, I’m off to put some illustrations together for Rob Zombie’s “Jesus Frankenstein” right now!
Character actor Roberts Blossom has died in California.
He was 87.
I knew and loved him from his outstandingly creepy performance in John Carpenter’s “Christine” but you may also know him as the ‘shovel slayer’ Old Man Marley in the film “Home Alone”.
From The L.A. Times:
Roberts Blossom also won three Obie Awards for his off-Broadway work and performed on Broadway and TV and in many other films. He was a poet whose works were published in several books.
Roberts Blossom, a veteran character actor who played the old, white-bearded next-door neighbor who befriends young Macaulay Culkin in the hit movie “Home Alone,” has died. He was 87.
Blossom died Friday of natural causes at a nursing home in Santa Monica, said his daughter, Deborah.
The winner of three Obie Awards for his performances in off-Broadway productions during the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, Blossom also appeared on Broadway a number of times, including playing roles in Edward Albee’s adaptation of Carson McCullers’ “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe” and Sam Shepard’s “Operation Sidewinder.”
Blossom starred in the 1974 cult horror movie “Deranged,” in which he played a demented farmer who digs up his domineering mother’s corpse and takes it home — then digs up other bodies to keep her company before he begins hunting live victims.
But he’s best known in films as a character actor whose credits include “The Hospital,” “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Escape From Alcatraz,” “Resurrection” and “Doc Hollywood.”
Then there was his role as “old man Marley” in the 1990 family comedy “Home Alone.”
“That’s certainly the one he gained the most recognition from, and people still remember him from that,” said Deborah Blossom. “He was very happy with the outcome of that movie and its popularity, and he was very happy to be recognized for it.”
With a laugh, she added: “I think he’d rather be recognized for that than ‘Deranged.’ “
Blossom also did a lot of television, with guest roles on series such as “Moonlighting,” “Northern Exposure” and “In the Heat of the Night.”
In the late ’70s, he won a Soapy Award as best villain for a recurring role in the soap opera “Another World.”
Blossom was also a poet, whose works were published in several books.
“He wrote every day for 60 years,” his daughter said. “I always say about him: He’s a poet who made a living as an actor. His poetry was all pretty much about his philosophy: How can humans come together and unite?”
That’s reflected in the 2000 documentary “Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom,” directed by James Brih Abee.
Born March 25, 1924, in New Haven, Conn., Blossom grew up in Cleveland, where his family lost most of its fortune in the 1929 stock market crash. (Roberts is a family name on his mother’s side.)
A 1941 graduate of Asheville School in North Carolina, Blossom attended Harvard for a year before being drafted into the Army during World War II. After the war, he began acting in Cleveland.
In New York in the ’60s, he formed Filmstage, which has been described as a seminal multimedia avant-garde theater troupe. He retired from acting in the late ’90s.
Blossom’s marriage to his first wife, Beverly, ended in divorce. His second wife, Marylin, died in 1982.
Besides his daughter, he is survived by a son, Michael.
I like to stay up late into the night and look at books I can’t afford.
I found a couple of illustrations by chance tonight which are blowing me away.
From a new version of William Golding’s “Lord Of The Flies“,
All are by artist Sam Weber.
Sam Weber said:
“Using contemporary illustration to accompany a much loved classic was an exciting challenge, made more so by the active involvement of the Golding Estate. Lord of The Flies is one of my favourite novels, and in many regards this opportunity was a true dream job.”
I think all of those are stunning.
Visit Sam Weber’s site HERE.
“Mooses Come Walking”
By Arlo Guthrie.
Mooses come walking over the hill
Mooses come walking, they rarely stand still
When mooses come walking they go where they will
When mooses come walking over the hill
Mooses look into your window at night
They look to the left and they look to the right
The mooses are smiling, they think it’s a zoo
And that’s why the mooses like looking at you
So, if you see mooses while lying in bed
It’s best to just stay there pretending you’re dead
The mooses will leave and you’ll get the thrill
Of seeing the mooses go over the hill
Arlo Guthrie apparently wrote that to scare his children.
