Showing posts with label a book I'll always remember. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a book I'll always remember. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2007

A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book


My favorite blog ever is PostSecret. I wait all week for the new post which is published every Sunday. Check out this nice little movie about PostSecret on YouTube.
Frank Warren has invited people from all over the world to send him creative postcards bearing secrets they have never before revealed. These PostSecrets are shared on his award-winning blog, in an art exhibit, and in books: the bestselling PostSecret, My Secret, and The Secret Lives of Men and Women.


I ordered his fourth and new book A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book months before it was even published. And it will be sent off any day now. I collect all of his books and its secrets. Some of the secrets will shock you, many will move you, they can make you smile,...


I don´t consider myself to be a very secretive person, but in almost every new post I discover one secret which could be mine. I sent in a few secrets too. I´ll let you know if one of them will be posted.

This postcard is one of my favorite secrets on PostSecret so far. I remember that I was very moved when I read this:


Monday, May 28, 2007

IFN: A Book I'll Always Remember (The Hucho Hucho Girl)

Illustration Friday Night´s topic this week is: "a book i'll always remember" (suggested by red-handed).

The stories I used to devour as a child were Asian tales. They were mainly Indian and Chinese. This picture was inspired by the story "The Hucho hucho girl" and the illustrations done by Irmhild and Hilmar Proft for the book "Die neunköpfigen Ungeheuer vom Zweidrachenberg" (published 1974).

IFN: A Book I'll Always Remember (The Hucho Hucho Girl)

The illustration was beautiful in black and white. But I wanted to color it, as the story is about the Hucho hucho (redfish) girl. Somehow the color really took away a lot from the original pic.

Die neunköpfigen Ungeheuer von Zweidrachenberg: Märchen und Volkserzählungen aus China. Bräutigam, Herbert (1974)