Wanderer of Yawnder book prototype (it’s gettin’ realer)
Stairs by Aleksandr Malin
(via redhousecanada)
(Source: horus2.wordpress.com)
The Illustrator by Julianna Brion
(via drawnblog)
Book I’m reading about some fellers. (Taken with instagram)
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I did some very good books, which mostly is an isolationist form of life – doing books, doing pictures. And it’s the only true happiness I’ve ever, ever enjoyed in my life. It’s sublime to just go into another room and make pictures. It’s magic time where all your weaknesses of character, and all blemishes of personality, and whatever else torments you fades away, just doesn’t matter.
You’re doing the one thing you want to do and you do it well, and you know you do it well, and you’re happy. The whole promise is to do the work, sitting down at a drawing table, turning on the radio. And I think, “what a transcendent life this is that I’m doing everything I want to do.”
At that moment I feel like I’m a lucky man. I’m trying very hard to concentrate on what is here, what I can see, what I can smell, what I can feel – making that the important business of life. Just looking out the window at the colours that I see, reading Charles Dickens at night for an hour, little rituals I have of listening to Mozart. I’m learning how not to take myself so seriously, that what I’m working on, what I’d like to work on, it’s not earthshakingly important anymore. I am not earthshakingly important.
So what am I saying? I’m just clearing the decks for a simple death. You’re done with your work, you’re done with your life. And your life was your work.
I think what I’ve offered was different. But not because I drew better than anybody, or wrote better than anybody, but because I was more honest than anybody. And in the discussion of children, and the lives of children, and the fantasies of children, and the language of children, I said anything I wanted, because I don’t believe in children. I don’t believe in childhood. I don’t believe there’s a demarcation of “you mustn’t tell them this, you mustn’t tell them that.” You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it’s true. If it’s true, you tell them.
” — Maurice Sendak, from Tell Them Anything You Want[video]
“They’re either shallow, deep, or somewhere in between.” — E.L. “Buck” Perry responding to a question on where to find the best fish on a lake. (via bestmadeco)
So I’ve been working on a picture book. Here’s a peek at the cover art in progress. I’ll be posting more process photos over the next while. Been working on this for some time so I’m excited to start sharing it.
The Wander Postcard Project (my kinda tumblr)
No. 7 / Ping Zhu
Every wanderer needs a ditty bag.
The Best Made Ditty Bag: Origins
“There are two things that you don’t need in the Navy: a wife and a car. If the Navy thought you needed them they would have put them in your Ditty Bag.” - Co. Commander Gunners Mate First Class DeLapp
Through maritime history the item perhaps most familiar to any sailor was his ditty bag. Long stints at sea, and life spent in tight quarters meant that he was constrained to a handful of personal effects and tools, all of which were stored in his ditty. Originally the ditty would have been the first test of an apprentice sailmaker or seaman: before he could be trusted with the fabrication of a sail, he had to prove his mettle by making his own ditty bag out of sailcloth.
Originally a ditty bag would most commonly store the tools of a sailor’s trade, typical contents might include: beeswax, varied needles, buttons of different types, pins, white tape, Dutch tape, thimble, whited brown thread, black thread, worsted blue and scraps of light duck, his marlinspike, a fid, a palm and needles, a bullock’s horn, and personal sundries. As wind was eventually replaced with gas and nuclear power, the sailor’s ditty would contain uniform and personal effects (see above diagram). Since its nautical origins, the ditty has been adopted as an effective all-purpose utility bag for other trades including space exploration, forest services, the boy scouts, sea scouts, etc.
Some say the ditty bag got its name from from the word “dittis” (a derivation of the Saxon word “dite” meaning “tidy”), others say that because a sailor would spend great lengths at sea he needed two of each item (hence it derived from “the ditto bag”).
