random: yayoi kusama & alice

beautiful design by yayoi kusama (who has a medical condition where she views the world with dots) and her own take on alice in wonderland. 

read more here: brainpickings.org

random: the world is round by stein

love this children's book by gertrude stein. has beautiful illustrations...the illustrator is Clement Hurd, who did Goodnight Moon

random: phenakistoscopes

I ran across this while searching for ways to push my idea for my second poem, "A Centre in a Table." I was so intrigued by these little animations! I'm thinking of "animating" type using this method, where it'll move around the circle, however I'm still not sure how I'm going to utilize it with type. 

Anyhow, since I've taken a recent interest in optical illusions, I thought this would be fun to experiment with. It also goes along with Stein's poetry, where everything "is not what it seems." Phenakistoscopes are really just little drawings for each slice of the circle, but when it's turned, it appears to be moving. Where ambiguous figure-ground tricks the eye, Stein also tricks the mind with her writings. 

http://dickbalzer.tumblr.com/page/6