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How To Talk To Girls (by a 9yo)

Eliza Coleman — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:16:32 +0000

Must See >> The Power of Music

Eliza Coleman — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:46:00 +0000

“A 90-year old man recounts a remarkable experience in WWII.”

Don’t quit in the middle of this one, you need to get to the end.

Wisdom/Fortune

Eliza Coleman — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:16:00 +0000

On the refrigerator in the cool Brooklyn apartment of this photographer.

As photographed by Jamie Beck, who has this awesome blog.

What Love Is

Eliza Coleman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:34:00 +0000

Just watch it. I know it looks goofy at first glance, but it’ll probably move you to tears.

From StoryCorps:

Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, came to StoryCorps to recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny’s final days with terminal cancer, these remarkable Brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen.

Directed by: The Rauch Brothers
Animator: Tim Rauch

First I Reconized That You Were…

Eliza Coleman — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:27:00 +0000

Finnish born architect Eero Saarinen met Aline Bernstein in 1955 when she was working as an art editor and critic for the New York Times and she was assigned to write an article about him. As the story goes, they fell in love instantly, and this list of things he loved about her was written shortly before they married.

Easy as ABC

Eliza Coleman — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:57:00 +0000

I don’t know why exactly, but I found this little video so charming. Watching the little boy trying to write letters, struggling with the forms and fitting them on the paper, while his dad, who clearly does this as his trade, masterfully writes beautiful letters is sort of inexplicably touching, and not just because I like handwriting. But maybe the combination of handwriting plus father/son stuff and the snapshot of a phase of childhood was just too much for me.

The little boy’s efforts are so wonderfully child-like, at that stage where imitating shapes is still so difficult, and he’s trying so hard, glancing at his dad’s paper but rarely able to get it right, and you know some day he’ll probably show the same talent as his father and dad will be so proud of the tradition and ability he passed on.

PS- the intro credits are long, but even those are entertaining, watching the dad write in two distinct fonts!

"You Are My Universe"

Eliza Coleman — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:12:00 +0000

Artist Rob Ryan, who I featured a while ago back here, has a new limited edition print available through the Tate Shop.

100 of them, signed, here at the Tate Shop.
See previous post for more work and his book (which I’m still dying to see!).
via Curated.

the look

Eliza Coleman — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:24:00 +0000

by Sarah Gardner