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"Stretch" Illustration Friday

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"Stretch"

 

 

My life has been out of sync since my dog “G” who is 14yrs old had a Vestibular episode over two weeks ago. She is on the mend and I am hoping for a full recovery.

armrest on LIRR

Last Wednesday I got a small break from the whole dog business with a trip using the LIRR to the DMV in NYC to renew my driver’s license I sat down and seen this little beauty.

 I got there early to avoid longer lines, what I did not expect is to get out in 20min this gave me way too much time before I start work.

So I ran a few errands and took a few pictures along the way of my NYC. I started my journey at “License X-Press” 300 West 34 streets (Between 8th & 9th Ave)

I was walking uptown and decided to walk through Bryant Park located between 40th and 42nd street and fifth and sixth avenue. I stopped into the New York Public Library to visit the original Winnie-the- Pooh Stuffed animal it was purchased as a birthday gift for Christopher Robin Milne (1921) it is located in the Central Children’s Room.

Side note: (“Interestingly, Shepard's sketches of Pooh were not based on Christopher Robin's bear, but on Growler, the much-loved bear belonging to Graham, the artist's son. Shepard's granddaughter, Minette, took the tired and worn Growler with her to Canada during the war, where, sadly, he lost a battle with a Scottie dog in a Montreal garden. Piglet had suffered a similar fate years before in an English orchard, but lived to tell the tale!”)

From there I left to go to Home Depot on 3rd Ave and somewhere in the 50’s, to look at interlock foam mats for my dog “G”; after that I started to walk over to 1st avenue and went into Bed Bath and Beyond as I was wondering around the store when I got a phone call from my friend Lisa she was heading to her art studio. The studio is located in Queens’s close to the East River and oddly just on the other side of the river where I was shopping on. As we were talking I started to walk to toward the river and past the” Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden” I have never seen this building nor heard about it but I will go back and visit it.

I found a little park next to the river and sat down a bench talked to my friend who was just on the other side of 59th Street Bridge. I also ate my lunch it was a little chilly but I enjoyed the view all the same.

 

My last stop was “The Society of Illustrators” located on 63rd between Lexington & Park avenue they are having a show till May 5th called “Ice Age” To the Digital Age. I never seen Ice Age but for a buck how could I go wrong I always like looking at the thinking process of making an animated film and I did enjoyed it.

My final stop was work on 63rd &Lexington

July 15 2011 Pooh is BACK! :)

Well mark your calender because on July 15 2011

 "Winnie the Pooh" is back!

 with all his friends and there relations in a new Walt Disney Animated film.

 According to the article from Ap Associated Press it has been thirty (30) years since they did the last big screen "Pooh" adventure. It does not surprise me they are working on a new film considering that "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood" was just published back in 2009. What I do find surprising and thankful is that they are bring back the old charm of the original films and it will resemble the the classic shorts from the 1960s and 1970s I can't wait!!!!!

 I'm not a fan of  some of the newer version they created with computer generated silliness

And this is the original
"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"
That I grew up watching.

Click: The link to see the trailer  the trailer looks wonderful

I hope the rest of the movie is as charming

"Return to the Hundred Acre Wood"

Not long ago

"Return to the Hundred Acre Wood"
by David Benedictus, Decorations by Mark Burgess

Became available my first thought was "You must be joking"

Q) Its been how many years?

A) Eighty years

I was not going to buy this book I loved the original there is no way they could bring back this wonderful bear with all it's friends & relations and make me happy.

Well I was wrong, while in B&N on a rainy day I spotted the book pick it up and read the introduction.

I new I was going to buy it after that moment and I have been enjoying reading it ever since.

My first encounter with this bear was not the original book. It was Disney's animated version

"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"

I always enjoyed the illustration (decorations) by Ernest H. Shepard

But in truth I never read the story until my late twenties.

Back when I worked at the animation studio I had a Walkmans with AM/Fm radios built in.

I found myself listening to a children station on the AM dial

(of course I did not tell anyone I was listening to a kids station)

and hearing for the first time the audio version

of

Winne the Pooh stories written by A.A. Milne

told by Peter Dennis

Fantastic!

(you can find out more on Pooh Corner)

I truly fell in love with it then and have been a fan ever since,

"Return to the Hundred Acre Wood"

is also a joy to read and I'm a fan of this book as well.