lovely post by Polly and Chris

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For those of you who aren’t yet familiar with the work of illustrator and animator Julia Pott, it’s seriously awesome (a word not used lightly), and we have to lay our cards on the table and say we love what she does.

Pott has a really affectionate style and incorporates charming…

My film is screening tonight in the ‘Dark Toons’ night at Rooftop Films in the Lower East Side. Come on by and let’s watch some weird cartoons together.  

Old development still 

I probably spent 90% of my time in Calfornia pretending I was in the O.C.

Oh hi LA, oh hi Daniel

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. That is obvious. But what is just as obvious — and what is too often overlooked — is the fact that from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

Maurice Sendak you were a huge inspiration to all of us, you’ll be greatly missed.