now, this is an exercise in playing with numbers i can get behind.
check out the full series, from london-based designer and illustrator paul thurlby, here.
LOST IN TRANSLATION
and not the scarlett johansson and bill murray kind.
as a native spanglish speaker the struggle to find the right translation, the right word, the right phrase, is REAL. how we communicate is such an integral part of who we are that lost in translation moments can carry a lot of weight in our lives. writer and illustrator ella frances sangers explores this in her book lost in translation: an illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world. try and translate that mouthful!
i really loved and wanted to share these illustrations. and it's fun to think about the cultural context for some of the words she shares. definitely need to incorporate wabi-sabi into my vocabulary.
ADVICE TO LITTLE GIRLS, FROM A YOUNG MARK TWAIN
i’m always discovering beautiful and thought provoking things over on brain pickings. author maria popova says this is one of her favorite posts and it’s one of mine too.
in 2011, maria came upon an italian edition of a little known story by a very young mark twain. written in 1865, and featuring artwork by russian-born illustrator vladimir radunsky, the book playfully, and beautifully, encourages girls to think independently. last year maria brought the book to america. (you can get your copy here. i just got mine.)
i am in love with these images. and this playful text. and with the concept. and with the fact that it was done in 1865. and that it was written by a thirty year old mark twain!
"Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravated circumstances."
"If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother, do not correct him with mud — never, on any account, throw mud at him, because it will spoil his clothes. It is better to scald him a little, for then you obtain desirable results. You secure his immediate attention to the lessons you are inculcating, and at the same time your hot water will have a tendency to move impurities from his person, and possibly the skin, in spots."
"If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won’t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment."
