I haven't talked about this much here, simply because there was not a way that it had anything to do with Illustration- but I am a newly baptized Lincoln Lover. I was thrown into a research class in the fall, the subject of which happened to be his date of death: April 15, 1865. The objective was to learn how to research properly. The faculty kind of randomly picked the assassination due to the fact that there's so much documentation about it. However the outcome was much greater than even they could have imagined. First off there were six eager students that were already obsessed with details, secondly this overlapped with the last three months of the Obama-McCain election.
My five classmates and I became so enchanted, so enthralled with our subject that not a day goes by that we don't talk about him. I have a stack of books a mile high and growing, a few of which I've already worked through, many more that will take some time to absorb properly. I made handsome little cameo pins to celebrate his birthday a couple weeks ago that I happily passed out to my friends and family. I am working through the Ken Burns' Civil War documentary, and have taped two more Lincoln documentaries from cable....AND am following the Lincoln Spielberg movie deal with bizarre interest.
And Barack was elected one week before the end of the class. We cried ALL DAY.
On a seperate note, I discovered Maira Kalman, a beautiful illustrator and author, on accident YESTERDAY via the Molskinerie blog. I've copied the video I watched below of her talking below about her work on TED Talks (the link I instantly added to the Creativity & Productivity list on the left.) I thought: I should find out more about this artist. Her work is enchanting.
Knowing my Lincoln Love, today a friend sent this:
I could just die. Please visit the link- it's a beautiful artist's essay on her discovery of my new Love- who should be ALL of our Love, Lincoln.
I have another new love, and her name is Maira.
