On the heels of earning an Oscar nom for co-writing "The Kids Are All Right," Lisa Cholodenko is in negotiations to direct a live-action adaptation of the children's picturebook "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" for 20th Century Fox. => http://bit.ly/lI7QCN
I wasn’t born a good presenter or presentation designer, and both of those skills I work on to improve daily. However, there were influences in my life that have brought me to where I am currently, and I wanted to both share them with you and encourage you to share your influences, inspirations, and resources that have helped you become a better presenter and presentation designer. => http://bit.ly/iIeaiR
HE'S reclusive, he's enigmatic and he's Australia's most celebrated living author.
But it seems Tim Winton is also amazingly forgetful.
With the film adapation of his classic novel Cloudstreet due to hit the screens on Foxtel this month, the four-times Miles Franklin winner has revealed he left the half-finished handwritten manuscript - and the carbon copy - on a bus in Rome on his way to Athens in 1988. => http://bit.ly/jikp93
According to the dictionary, a talent is a natural endowment of a person. It is an ability or natural capacity that we have, which may range from our creativity to our athletic abilities. We all have them, but we are not always so good at identifying what they are. Sometimes they can be right in front of us, and we miss them.
If you can determine what your talents are, you can tap into an amazing resource that can help you in every aspect of your life, including your business. Whether you are searching for the perfect type of business to open or you want to find ways to grow the one you have, you may find the answer in your personal talents.
Ways to Discover => http://bit.ly/lblxFl
The work of Shaun Tan, the Australian children’s book illustrator, recalls Terry Gilliam or Tim Burton, but with a mature sad-humored control. It’s a tone that pervades The Lost Thing, an animated adaptation of Tan’s 1999 book of the same name, which won an Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards. It’s the tale of a young man in a post-industrial landscape who discovers a neglected many-tentacled playful cyborg on a beach. This month, that and two of his other older children’s books, The Red Tree (2001), a meditation on loneliness, and the John Marsden-authored The Rabbits (1998), an allegory for the plight of the Aborigine, are enjoying a wide release in America in a one-book compendium Lost and Found: Three by Shaun Tan. These are the kinds of children’s books over which you obsess over the details of the pages’ margins.
Tan, who lives in Melbourne, answered some questions by email. => http://bit.ly/mL2dXc
Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.
Welcome to the 2011 Read It Reading Challenge.
This a monthly reading group that encourages Australian library users to read and tweet about what they are reading.
Check the monthly themes at the blog to decide what you will read each month and how to tweet your reading experiences.
Run by the NSW Readers Advisory Working Group
You know that in order to become a better writer, you need to become a better reader — and so polishing off some classic novels is in your future. But who has the time?
You do. Nobody’s admonishing you to get your book report in within two weeks. But if you still feel pinched between the hour hand and the minute hand, ease into great English literature with these short novels (most have fewer than 200 pages): => http://bit.ly/hB7dnp
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation ~
Daniel Webster
Morris Gleitzman at the launch of his new book, Too Small to Fail at The Little Bookroom in Melbourne last night.
Morris Gleitzman at the launch of Too Small to Fail
