fuel

If you give a man some pizza, maybe some tea, and another, tinier man, some oatmeal and Reese's pieces ice cream, and they get together at a party (the kind of party where you would find all these things), then this is what you find on the table afterwards.

bittersweet

There are two things standing between me and seasonal affective disorder in this dumb part of the year (november): a tiny maniac marching around my home with a recorder, and grapefruit. It's grapefruit season! I love grapefruit. Everything about it is happy: it's big and yellow and it sounds like "grateful", but it is also a little bitter. It's not like the sweet orange or the sour lemon. It's a little complex. And it's pink inside. Perfection. 

collage waiting to be picked up at school (not by by my son, by another cute little boy).

endpapers (detail) from Noah's Ark by Miche Wynants —  pinterest via Sarah Edmonds via Stopping off Place. phew.

details from the wayside

Little details from The Wayside, Julie Morstad's gorgeous new book from Drawn & Quarterly.

fall leaves colouring sheet | feuilles d'automne à colorier

A new Auggie colouring sheet, in French and English: fall leaves (PDF). This is also a little identification guide to common leaves. We like to go on scavenger hunts for leaves at this time of year. You can subscribe on the auggiebloggie I'll let you know the next time we have a good free printable (it will be class Christmas/holiday cards).

the night life of trees

This is a special present: a book of art & folklore from the Gond tribe in central India. At night, when all the daytime visitors have left, the spirits of the trees reveal themselves.

machine

I just used the last of the big machinery wrapping paper by Marian Bantjes that we had. I saved a scrap for Auggie. Marian's work is about expressing love and obsession through repetition, ornament and pattern. I was touched that she made this for for the little machine-lovers like my son. It's printed with fluorescent and metallic silver ink.

I looked at my notes from her talk last week and it says: Persian textbooks had spaces for notes to written right on the page (they are not quite margins, more like blank areas that the text runs around, like an absent image). Hmmm.

claire fontaine

We stopped by the opening for Carelessness Causes Fire, by Claire Fontaine tonight. Part of the installation was a wire that rings an alarm when stepped on. Auggie loved this (naturally) so we spent a fair bit of time investigating the exhibition. On the other hand he does not like loud or sudden noises.

So:

Children's Films | Kino für Kinder

Films for Children — films made for children by artists is on until November 11 in Vancouver. Only children are allowed in the audience (except guardians if needed). Presented by the CAG and Gareth Moore.

Admission is free. Pippi & Thelonius by Harrell Fletcher. Image below is by Phillipp Ottendörfer.