Cutest telling of the story of Jonah

The story of Jonah from Corinth Baptist Church on Vimeo.

"Thank you for shaving me!"

Love her! Seriously, talented & smart kid.

Cutest costume of 2010.

Michael as a mailman! His mom made that mail truck for him and he drove house to house and walked up to each home to pick up his candy. Adorable!




Best: his mom also sewed a stuffed dog to the back of his leg, as if a dog were biting him. Hahaha. Love it.

Print is not dead.

I wanted to post this up a while back when Design*Sponge first presented the new design magazine Anthology.



I was reminded of this when I came across another video this morning. A piece created by Lane Smith titled It's a Book.



Not only are these videos adorable (I pretty much love everything about the Anthology one) but they remind me of why I have 2 bookshelves overflowing with printed pieces, about 10 more books strewn across my bedroom, and 3 more in the mail coming to me.

About Smith's book, Adam Gopnik writes in the New York Times:

“The moral of Smith’s book is the right one: not that screens are bad and books are good, but that what books do depends on the totality of what they are — their turning pages, their sturdy self-­sufficiency, above all the way they invite a child to withdraw from this world into a world alongside ours in an activity at once mentally strenuous and physically still.”

Perfect!

Blog Action Day 2010: Water.

[One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.]

So this year's theme for Blog Action Day 2010 (today!) is water.
How amazing is it that there are over 5,000 blogs at this moment -- nearly 40,000,000 readers -- in nearly 140 countries all blogging today about the same thing: Water.

It makes me even happier to be doing the walk next Saturday (October 23) advocating for clean water systems, health education, & community development in war-affected Northern Uganda.

Of course, the issue of clean water is beyond just the region of Northern Uganda. It is a global issue, affecting even those of us in the great land of the United States with our lovely (though not vegan or kosher, but still completely harmless & fairly pure) New York City water that we can drink from tap.

Today, WATER is a human rights issue, a health issue, a sustainability issue, an environmental issue, and a global issue. When one out of eight of us don't have access to clean water, when more people die every year because of this than all forms of violence (including war), when 38,000 children die each week from water-related illnesses, this becomes our issue.

Below are some facts that I pulled from the official Blog Action Day 2010: Why Water? website. Click on the link for more tidbits.

• Cell Phones vs. Toilets: Today, 2.5 billion people lack access to toilets, but many more have access to a cell phone.
• Food Footprint: It takes 24 liters of water to produce one hamburger. That means it would take over 19.9 billion liters of water to make just one hamburger for every person in Europe.
• Technology Footprint:The shiny new iPhone in your pocket requires half a liter of water to charge. That may not seem like much, but with over 80 million active iPhones in the world, that’s 40 million liters to charge those alone.
• Waste Overflow: Every day, 2 million tons of human waste are disposed of in water sources. This not only negatively impacts the environment but also harms the health of surrounding communities.
• Technology for Good: Do you want to measure how much water it took to make your favorite foods? There’s an app for that.

And of course, there's so much more that you can learn about on the website as well as at UNICEF, WHO, charity:water, etc.

RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms.

RSA Animation on Sir Ken Robinson's view of how to bring up young leaders and thinkers.

Everything about this is brilliant. The animation is impeccably done and perfectly in line with what the lecture is about too. And of course, the lecture by Sir Ken Robinson is spot on and makes me want to jump into education reform advocacy, ha.

It's not the entire talk but you can catch the full length of Sir Ken Robinson's presentation on changing our educational system on RSA's website.

I know these are for children but I still want them for myself.

Aviator hood


Apple print school bag

Brought to you by Quirk Collective. Super cute.