"Each year, the Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod runs an all-ages
envelope art contest. This year’s theme is 'The Utter Zoo.' You have until Dec. 1 to submit envelopes decorated accordingly. The website suggests 'a compilation of creatures, a bestiary, a compendium of the fictional, plausible, cranky, vengeful or just highly undomesticated.'... My favorite
winners from last year are the ones from little children who seem deeply imaginative but not necessarily artistically gifted in the classic sense. A friend told me recently about taking a singing class with a guy who couldn’t hold a tune but who was so passionate that the teacher gave him a solo in the class’s final presentation. Of course his performance was the one the audience found the most stirring...."
Writes Melissa Kirsch, in
"The Good List: 6 Things to Add Some Delight to Your Day" (NYT).
Click on that link for
winners from last year. Lots of great stuff, mostly by the artistically gifted. As for singers who can't hold a tune but are powerfully passionate... reminds me of the early years of "American Idol." It's highly amusing... up to a point. And these days, what's the problem? All the singers are auto-tuned.
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"Finalist: Remy V. (7) Boulder, Colorado"
LOL - He captured perfectly what he saw along the Boulder Creek Bike Path.
"First Place: Ava D. (10) West Brattleboro, Vermont"
(from first link)
Excellent - captures Gorey's essence and style.
A friend of mine is obsessed with that little gory Gorey book.
The gashlycrumb tinies.
Messed. Up.
“ And these days, what's the problem? All the singers are auto-tuned. ”
The problem is that these days that’s no longer good enough. I’m looking forward to when they’re all A.I.
the singing shows don't work for me because they all sound the same. No one shows up with a unique voice.
Boring.
oh - you linked it twice. er. yeah.
another fav:
"First Place: Niamh C. (13) Falmouth, Massachusetts"
Fun.
It’s not uncommon to see real artistic creativity in young children (if not artistic skills). Usually, they become more self-aware and the free flowing imagination is suppressed. Life man, it gets you down...
Ava, age 10's envelope has a postmark on it that says "Dog Bite Awareness." She probably didn't know the post office would put that on her envelope, but it's appropriate for an evil garden.
It’s cool the kids understand the assignment, even the little ones…
…when I was a very young wgbh did the fundraising commercials between shows and invited us kids to send in artwork. My mixed media interpretation of the antenna outside the station was featured prominently on the art wall behind the tv presenters. I thought life was going to be like that…
It was Edward Gorey's drawings in the introduction to PBS Mystery.
Lem - I want one of those bat wing head caps.
Thanks for the link! A lovely grisly way to end a Friday paired with a Devil's Margarita.
My youngest brought some Gorey pictures to school many years ago. We got a call from the principal.
Ogded Weary has written The Curious Sofa, a porno-graphic work, and The Beastly Baby, a book no one wanted to publish.
Mrs. Regera Dowdy, who lived in the nineteenth century, is the author of The Pious Infant and such unwritten works as The Rivulets of Gore and Nets to Subdue the Deranged; she also translated The Evil Garden by Eduard Blutig, the pictures for which were drawn by O. Müde.
Madame Groeda Weyrd devised the Fantod Pack of fortune-telling cards.
Miss D. Awdrey-Gore was a celebrated and prolific mystery writer. . . . Her detective is Waredo Dyrge, whose favorite reading is the Dreary Rwedgo Series for Intrepid Young Ladies. . . .
Dogear Wryde’s work appears only on postcards.
Addée Gorrwy is known as the Postcard Poetess.
Wardore Edgy wrote movie reviews for a few months.
Wee Graddory was an Infant Poet of an earlier century.
Dora Greydew, Girl Detective, is the heroine of a series (The Creaking Knot, The Curse on the Sagwood Estate, etc.) by Edgar E. Wordy.
Garrod Weedy is the author of The Pointless Book.
Agowy Erderd is a spirit control
I might have a chance against the 5 year-olds, but that's still a stretch. Very fun.
"Ogdred"
Other than that, perfectamundo.
"My youngest brought some Gorey pictures to school many years ago. We got a call from the principal."
Did you kindly tell the Principal to fuck off?
Well, then came the incident with the cut up Barbie doll diorama. It all worked out.
Anyone new who sounds any good with a great accompaniment to match arouses immediate suspicion. Is it ai or is it memorex.
Ann, what”s it with you and the NYT? I know you are a NYT subscriber, but the NYT ceased to be a serious news source a very long time ago. It has become the equivalent of late night TV after late night TV imploded. My dog has a better grasp of reality. Save your money snd cancel your subscription.
At first I thought you wrote Professor Erwin Corey, the World's Foremost Authority
@Goldenpause: Pshaw
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