super tiny town!!

Window display in town, so great.

fable takes it on the road

Remember that table project from last summer? An extra design decal was dusted off and finally put to good use. One trip to drop-off will show you a minivan is positively naked without some sort of "domestic portrait" statement in the lower corner. And stick figures or skulls never quite seemed to sum it up for me. But these guys are alright.

auto kwartet

Dutch thrifted treasure, I have two boxes "Auto Kwartet" bought two years apart. I never have seen any evidence other of the Kwartets....  Koninginnedag, Groningnen.

spring break, NCM

We spent all day, still more to see. Current exhibit Trash, the New Children's Museum. 

han bennink

the jazz drummer who makes music out of everything! via fresh air/ npr.

froebel fascination

Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman, Abrahms, 1997

My new book arrived: !!! This is Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman, about Friederich Froebel (1782-1852), the inventor of kindergarten. I'm reading it cover to cover and it is ridiculously fascinating. The program taught spiritual unity demonstrated through principles of art, mathematics, design, and natural science. You can see how the seeds of what was to become Modernism were planted in original kindergarten students like a wee Frank Lloyd Wright. Traces of the original kindergarten remain in public education today, but we all know how that ended up.For more information/ inspiration, see:

http://www.brosterman.com/kindergarten.shtml

http://www.flickr.com/photos/orihouse/859284808/in/photostream/

http://www.uppercasegallery.ca/uppercase-journal/2008/6/23/old-school-research.html

http://theiff.org/oexhibits/kindy01.html

If you live in the NY area, more is coming your way: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1239

Wow, one more:

Vasily Kandinsky’s Composition 8 from 1923, recreated with kindergarten gifts number 7 (paper parquetry), 8 (sticks), 9 (rings), 14 (weaving), 15 (slats), and 16 (jointed slats).

From Cabinet: "Froebel and the Gifts of Kindergarten"

sweater weather

One of everything please! For more see ALL Knitwear by Annie Larson and blog.