Unusual interview

[yakalskovich]

Sorry, I'm spamming the flist today. But Der Spiegel has an interview with Shaun Tan where he answers in pictures*.



He has a monster that eats his leftover ideas! How immensely useful. Both the Nazgul and I could use one of those before our stacks of things to do and books to read pile up beyond the limits of the solar system...


*questions are in German, but his answers are drawings, universal as his wordless graphic novel 'The Arrival'. Also, he has a Wikipedia article at last.

Comments

[ceitfianna]

That's a very cool interview. One of the best parts of my children's literature class was that we all had to do a presentation about an illustrator. I did mine on Paul Galdone and it was pretty horrible as I freaked out over it and didn't manage my time well.

Someone did one on Shaun Tan and it was fascinating. At some point, I'm going to give my nieces one of his books as they're wonderful.

[yakalskovich]

Give each niece a different one, they're all wonderful.

[ceitfianna]

I probably will as there can never be too many books.

[yakalskovich]

For a given value of 'never'. **eyes to-be-read stack**

[ceitfianna]

*snerks* Yes, they do pile up, but they're so pretty.

[yakalskovich]

I should take pictures of all my piles and post them...

[ceitfianna]

You should, I also should post some more pictures today. I think flowers and birds and cute critters.

[yakalskovich]

I think I'll do that tomorrow. I have posted enough for one day.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

And tomorrow would be + yawn + now.

[yakalskovich]

Tomorrow is always after one has slept.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

But what to do when you can not afford to move into bigger and bigger houses?!?!! I'm totally serious and I still refuse ebooks butbutbut

[ceitfianna]

A trip to the used bookstore to clear out those you won't reread and get new ones for reading. I love your icon.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I joined bookmooch for that but it's hard to give away expensive unread books that pile up and up over the decades, as y knows, and fewer things delight but rereading old ones is a mixed bag and anyway, I need a castle. And servants. And airconditioning to keep them dry. Not the servants. WEll maybe all of us.

[ceitfianna]

I've never heard of bookmooch but I have many bags of books that really need to be sold. Castles sound like a good plan with built in bookshelves.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Yeah, I never managed to sell a single thing in my whole life, not for 89 percent reduction.

www.bookmooch.com might be for you

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

*shakes fist at yakal* I already have too much cr- books and despair over the millions of images drawings photos in the world that are there and interesting plus I can*t compete and now I want more children s books - it s like going into the toddler corner at libraries. The texts might not be great but there are always always great illustrations, but so so so many.

I need a flailing icon again. But I'm always too tired to fix LJ.

[yakalskovich]

I think I'm going to iconise the monster that munches leftover ideas. It's such a lovely, whimsical idea!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

And it's name shall be - ALZHEIMERS *snort* sorry, how about - memoryloss? No, it'd need to wipe clean even the memory of the memories and shall be named - reboot? I swear I'm not insane, just briefly back into my rapid-trainofthought-typing, knowingly silly.

[yakalskovich]

It's not about forgetting everything, but simply letting go of the ideas he didn't do anything about. That's what I like about it. The Nazgul and I tend to have too many ideas and not enough day to make them real.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Yes, that's what I meant with mem-of-mem whipe, I could do with that. It's like spilled milk. Good night, I hope!

[yakalskovich]

Spilled milk, exactly. Or say, spilled rice. Some of it you can pick up and save (the useful ideas you put into practice), but some of it will just hang around in the crannies and corners for ages.