Dealing with monsters

Kids’ books offer ways to make sense of a world that is suddenly spinning so quickly we’re permanently dizzy; it’s one of the few formats that helps you do everything at once in the way the internet landscape demands; escape, understand and take action. But as much as we need them more than ever, we’re still making the mistake of thinking that kids’ books are transient; that they only serve to get through a bedtime, or prep a child for the responsibilities of being a grown-up.
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Hell on Earth

Photograph by Dylan Taylor. 

 

Ring of Fire

Photograph by Callie Chee.

 

After the first frost.

Photograph by Nich Hance McElroy. 

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

Incidental Comics

 

Weekend plans @itsPeteski

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Thank God, It's Friday!

By​ Hazal Yalım

 

The Future

[new lyrics for old songs]

 

Just in time

Anatol Knotek

 

Waiting for a sign

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The Snowman, Yogi Bear and Hollywood's unintentionally funny movie posters

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Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole in The Snowman.

Photograph: Jack English 

Screenwriters Peter Straughan and Hossein Amini have adapted Jo Nesbø’s bestselling 2007 crime novel, and the director is Tomas Alfredson, who with production designer Maria Djurkovic creates that familiar, shopworn, down-at-heel and often shabby world recognisable from his earlier movies such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and his modern vampire classic Let the Right One In (2008), though here it is always refreshed and made new by the ever-present sparkling snow.It’s a serviceable, watchable thriller, with very gruesome images, coagulating around psychopathologies of father obsession and son obsession, and set in the freezing cities of Oslo and Bergen, locations that afford sweeping cityscape views that are made to look cosmopolitan and densely populated yet also weirdly remote, islanded and forbidding.
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“Empress” by YZ Yseult

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The Giant Picnic.

Days after his image of a Mexican toddler peeking over the US-Mexico border wall was removed, the French street artist @jr got busy again, this time laying down a huge pair of eyes in the form of a fully functional dining table and hosting a picnic simultaneously on both sides of the wall.
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Hybrid Mechanical Sculptures by Pierre Matter

See more of Pierre Matter's work at his website.

 

Murathan Özbek’s journey toward his memories.

The pieces he created from the common points of photography and memories make visible the moments that are reconstructed in his mind with the passage of time.

 

Robert Kipniss

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Flashback

San Francisco-based painter Kim Cogan explores the vanishing architecture of the city’s streets.

 

World Mental Health Day

Ori Toor: World Mental Health Day on It’s Nice That

 

Illustrator Daye Kim draws friendly faces in everyday places

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Fun with Dick and Jane @itsPeteski

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Artificial Tears

Evelyn Bencicova