JOHANNA, HOW OLD R U?

JOHANNA KINDVALL, illustrator, kokblog

How is your bed? I share room with my twin sister Anna. My bed has a black painted cast iron bedframe with golden nobs. Sounds hard? Yes it is. I think my bed is prettier than my sister's but her's is painted green which is my favorite color. Which kind of meal you do not like?  I don't like pancakes even if they are served with plenty of jam and cream (which I like). And your favorite? My favorite meal is my grandmother's Bolognese as it's mostly made of meat and the vegetable are chopped in tiny pieces. She always serve it on rise. My other grandmother's beef patties with plenty of cream sauce is another favorite. I also like my mother's tomatoe based tuna sauce. Your favorite book to read? I like all books with ”Emil i Lönneberga” by Astrid Lindgren. They are great and have many funny images. Even if the stories can be sad the always ends well.  (the books are illustrated by Björn Berg) Have you got an imaginary friend? Yes I have. It's Emil (see above) and his little sister Ida. They live in me and my sister's walk-in closet.

ENRICA, HOW OLD R U?

ENRICA, La fatina in cucina How is your bed? My bed is very high and very old, it has got a lot of blankets and my favourite one is a black patchwork one with a lot of smart colours, the most beautiful that I have ever seen! Which kind of meal you do not like? I like eating really everything, and my favourite flavour is the one of pumpkinbread, a special sweet bread, made with orange pumpkin, with a lot of white crystal sugar on the top, that my father brings to me coming back home. Your favorite book to read? “L’allegro Bob” – the happy Bob, it’s a small illustrated book  which tells the history of a funny yellow dog. I can read it at the library of my nursery. Have you got an imaginary friend? Yes I have, not only one! I have two groundhogs, very beautiful and funny, that stay with me all the time, also if often they are sleeping ‘couse they are very lazy! Moreover we are not alone, because my groundhogs have two special friends, two squirrels

GABRIELE, HOW OLD R U?

GABRIELE GALIMBERTI, photographer How is your bed?  Soooooooo confortable!!!! Which kind of meal you do not like? I don’t like anchovies, actually i hate them! And your favourite? My favourite is pizza! Your favorite book to read? I just play with my electric train, i don’t  like books, even because i’m 5 and i can’t read yet! Have you got an imaginary friend? Yes, he’s a monkey and his name is Bingo Bongo

Toy Stories

Toy Stories is the in-progress-project by the Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti

"Who doesn’t remember a favorite childhood toy? All kids have one. Rich or poor, all children have a chosen one, one they love the most. How can I forget that doll with a broken eye? It was ugly but had no rivals. And it was my favorite, no doubt. Gabriele Galimberti, during his tour around the world, explores this phenomenon with gentle irony and loving attention. The idea starting by chance while photographing a young Italian girl from Tuscany. Now it has become a photographic series that is mapping children’s worlds in an almost obsessive way. The toy stories of our times". Arianna Rinaldo

SALLI, HOW OLD R U?

SALLI SWINDELL, THEY DRAW AND COOKHow is your bed? Cozy.  I have my yellow bunny rabbit and raggedy ann and andy dolls and our black and white tabby cat in bed with me. I like the worn cotton feel of my pink and red quilt. Which kind of meal you do not like? I do NOT like meat of any kind. Yuk…I don’t like texture or the taste. And your favourite? I like potato chips because it means my older brother and sister are babysitting while our parents go out for the evening.  And I like red licorice which I find in the bowls left on the table after our parents bridge parties. Your favorite book to read? Dr. Seuss books!  Especially The Cat in the Hat. Have you got an imaginary friend? I don’t have an imaginary friend but all of my dolls and stuffed animals carry on very fun conversations with me all day long.  I build forts with sheets from my bed and we sit inside and tell stories.

CELINE, HOW OLD R U?

CELINE VERNIER, Pepillo How is your bed? My bed is a bunk bed, the day we can climb, jump and play at night is reassuring because my sister Sophie sleeps over. Which kind of meal you do not like? I did not like beef tongue. And your favourite?  The floating islands by my mother! Your favorite book to read? The adventures of Noddy. Have you got a year imaginary friend? No, only real and small favorite toys.

CAROLINE, HOW OLD R U?

CAROLINE, My Red Poppy

How is your bed? I share a double bed with my big sister. Our bed is covered with a typical 70's pink velvet bedspread. I feel good in this big bed with my sisiter, she teaches me how to make huts under the cover.  

Which kind of meal you do not like? I absolutly can't eat spinach, I don't like the smell! 

And which kind of meal yo do love ?  I love chicken and home made mashed potatoes. I make a little well in the mashed potatoe to put chicken juce in it.   

 Your favorite book to read? Tom-Tom and Nana stories, that i found at the end of the "J'aime lire" books collection.   

Have you got an imaginary friend? Not really, but I imagine many stories for my barbie dolls.

 

DAVID, HOW OLD R U?

DAVID GRAHAM, designer, move-it product How is your bed? Messy What is your favorite dish?  Anything I can fit in my  mouth. So called ‘Baby food’! What is your favorite book?  Any book I can chew – I have an appetite for knowledge Do you have an imaginary friend?  Who needs imaginary friends when you have real ones ...

Move-it!

Move-it (!) The whole thing is about empowerment. – Move-it. It means YOU personally can Move-it, you personally can make a difference in the world, and that change happens one person at a time. You think you know cardboard, think again.  | G R E A T !

The Telepathists !

Italian artist Stefano Arienti has transformed some large and time worn local river rocks into roughly hewed and painted heads, placing them so that they would camouflage in the landscape. It's a permanent installation in the village of Trivero (Biella, I) presented by Fondazione Zegna for the third edition of ALL’APERTO, opened 24 September 2011. Arienti involved in the project the students from the local secondary schools inviting them to spread the news and to draw with him, in a collective action, the imaginary faces of "I Telepathists".

“I chose an ironic title, such as "I Telepati", to evoke those people capable of transmitting their thoughts – which is something I personally don’t believe possible, but that makes everybody fantasize a lot – because I like the idea that sculptures may embody the concept of immaterial communication. As if a contemporary technology such as the Internet realized an ancient dream of humanity: that of communicating at a distance, “wireless”. Stefano Arienti
 

DAVE, HOW OLD R U?

DAVE KEUNE, designer

How is your bed? I have a wooden bed with 2 drawers under it. Those are filled with toys. Which kind of meal you do not like? I eat everything, really everything. Your favorite book to read? Schippers van de Kameleon - a book about a dutch twin who have a lot adventures on their boat called the Kameleon. Have you got an imaginary friend? no!