David Lupton (British, b. 1974, based London, England) - Illustrations taken from a series that will form a wordless picture book narrative entitled
Now It’s Dark (2012-13) Drawings
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
We have a confession: when we were about seven-years old, we dreamt about being poets. The first book to inspire us in becoming major bookworms was Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends. Now, the latest edition released in 2004, is different from an edition we read in the 90s. Containing 12 new poems, we were filled with zest and nostalgia when we laid our eyes once again on Silverstein’s clean illustrations! One of our favorite poems from the new edition is “Invitation.”
If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer…
If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
Silly, imaginative and non-conformist, Silverstein explicitly plays on a person’s imagination. Unorthodox and playful, we recommend you read this book to everyone you know! Where the Sidewalk Ends inspired us to write our first poems and practice our recitation skills in front of any adult, who took the risk of listening to our mumbo jumbo. Nevertheless, we were in fact quirky, ourselves, too. Drawing inspiration from Peggy Ann McKay, we attempted to skip school one day by insisting we were sick. Although we did not fool our mother, we memorized Peggy Ann’s fun rhymes to get us a free day:
“I have the measles and the mumps, a gash, a rash, and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry, I’m going blind in my right eye.”
In case you haven’t noticed yet, this is not an educational or intellectual recommendation, this is a suggestion from the heart. This is one of our personal favorites. We have many memories with Silverstein’s prose, and we dearly wish your revisit one of the most fun poetry books in literature.
An artist recreates drawings he did when he was younger
okay this is really cool
Rich people showers
reblogging for that gif
i’m sorry i couldn’t help myself
Not gonna not reblog this….
The drawings are a necessary addition.
(Gargle shower and fireplace showers still best)
*muffled screams*
I had to
MY GRANDPA WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST
BUT HE HAD 7 KIDS AND A WIFE TO FEED SO HE ENDED UP OWNING A GROCERY STORE AFTER SERVING IN WW2
TODAY MY DAD WAS CLEANING THE HOUSE AND FOUND SOME PENCIL DRAWINGS THAT MY GRANDPA DID AND ASKED IF I WANTED TO HAVE THEM AND I
CAN WE JUST LOOK AT THIS
MY BAD WEBCAM PICTURES DON’T EVEN DO THEM JUSTICE LIKE LOOK AT THESE
MY GRANDPA NEVER BECAME A FAMOUS ARTIST
BUT I WANT TO MAKE HIM KNOWN
this is so beautiful hell im crying
i wish ur grandpa could know that almost 1 million people have seen his artwork.
26 DISNEY CHARACTERS RE-IMAGINED AS HOGWARTS STUDENTS!
“Because the only thing better than regular magic is Disney magic. Drawings done by Eira1893.”
I spent three weeks in a mental hospital and what I discovered there I feel like should be put into words.
we are not who you think we are.
the boy with turrets told the funniest jokes
the girl who raked her nails up and down her skin could create the most exquisite drawings
the girl who abused drugs had the wisest soul
the boy with schizophrenia had the biggest heart
the girl who tried to kill herself told the boy with insomnia stories to help lure him to sleep
the boy who wanted to kill himself had the deepest passion for cooking
the girl with slits and scars all over her body dried my tears and told me I was beautiful
the boy with anger issues gave the warmest hugs
the girl with bulimia told everyone every day that they looked beautiful in their bodies
the boy who was a compulsive liar told us that he wanted us all to get better, and that he was for once telling the truth
the girl who almost drank herself to death stood up for anyone that felt they were feeling bullied
the boy with social anxiety made sure nobody sat alone at meals
we are not who you think we are.
This is beautiful
Just to expand on this post about calling 911 and asking for a pizza to secretly ask for help:
The post is based on a Super Bowl commercial, which itself was based on a Reddit post that’s never been verified as true.
There is no actual pizza code with toppings and shit that dispatchers are trained in. If you come across someone who has heard of the commercial, they might understand. If you come across someone who’s never heard of it, they might think it’s a prank call and hang up on you.
A piece of actual advice to help you in this situation is to dial 911, then hang up without speaking, then turn the phone off. 911 will attempt to call you back, and when they’re unable to reach you, they’ll dispatch a unit to your location under the assumption that you need help and your call was interrupted. This will work 100% of the time, whereas the pizza trick will only work if the dispatcher has heard of the commercial/urban legend.
Also, the toppings thing was a complete and total fabrication and whoever wrote that should be ashamed of themselves, tbh.
As a former dispatcher…this post is bad.
While it is true that there is no “pizza code” that we’re trained in, we are also very intuitive. A dispatcher can tell if a caller is in distress/can’t give away the fact that they’re on the phone with 911, and the dispatcher may then make something up like, “if he has a gun, say you want no mushrooms.” If you need to pretend you’re ordering a pizza, do it (pizza is one of the easiest phone orders, this is why people use it). Just know we don’t have any pre-set code for it, so if you say, “I want onions!” we’re not going to know what you mean. Let us give you the prompts. We’re literally just that good at making it up on the fly to get you help.
Also, DO NOT HANG UP. EVER. NO NO NO NO NO. Not all communication centers have location tracking, also, even those that do are not always accurate (it’s typical for the location to set itself as a few houses away). ALSO, the more information we can give our officers to let them know what they’re walking into, the better (it’s really nice for them to know if they’re walking into a situation with loaded weapons or not). If it’s safe for you to stay on the line, do it. If not, we understand and we’ll do our best to get you help. The best situation is saying “Hi, I’m at ((address)) and I’d like to order some food,” to which the dispatcher will likely ask, “can you speak freely?” and you can say, “no.” We’ll ask you a bunch of yes/no questions.
Also, if you feel like you may ever be in a situation where you’ll have an emergency and need to do this, you may consider saving 911 in your phone as a fake pizza place such as “Fat Jimmy’s Pizza,” so if an abusive person near you grabs your phone, they will actually think you’re ordering pizza.
This is the most emotional post in the history of tumblr
I nearly cried.
This post makes me want to puke