{"id":1700,"date":"2009-06-09T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2009-06-09T00:02:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T06:02:47","slug":"wild-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"Wild Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I read about the blog Terrible Yellow Eyes<\/em><\/strong><\/a> over at Fuse’s site<\/strong><\/a>. At this blog, which makes my eyeballs pop out of my head and fly straightaway across the room, various artists are contributing their own works, created in tribute to Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are<\/em>. Hey, wait. It just occurred to me: Tomorrow is Sendak’s birthday. This I know because of my excessively geeky Sendak fan-dom. I should be posting this tomorrow, but I’m not. Well, we’ll just wish him happy birthday one day in advance. <\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the blog. It is run by one Cory Godbey, and—as one of my favorite blog-readers and<\/em> bloggers, John E. Simpson, put it last week<\/strong><\/a>—this project possibly “smacks of blasphemy to some folks\u2026 but not to me.” I’m with John. I think the site is a beautiful thing. Here’s<\/strong><\/a> one of my favorites — by Adam Volker<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Here is what Terrible Yellow Eyes<\/em> is all about, in Cory’s words: <\/p>\n

Over the coming weeks and months I’ll display a growing collection of works created by invited contributing artists and myself.<\/p>\n

We share a love and admiration for Sendak’s work and the pieces we present here are done as a tribute to his life and legacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember this feature<\/strong><\/a> I did on illustrator Bill Carman in April? Bill gave me his permission today to post his contribution to Terrible Yellow Eyes<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Wild Ride<\/em>, here at 7-Imp. Take a look. <\/p>\n

And happy birthday—one day early—to The One and Only…<\/p>\n

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{Note: Speaking of Betsy Bird and Sendak, as I have in this post, did you all see James Preller’s interview with Betsy<\/strong><\/a> last month, in which she said that the book-creator she’s dying to meet is Sendak, yet “if I met him I\u2019d just flap my gums for a while and be destroyed by his single withering glance.” Heh. That made me laugh outloud. I’m not going to pretend I’ve not dreamed of meeting—or even interviewing—him, too, but well…he’s SENDAK, people. So, right now it remains just a dream. A very lovely one.}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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