(Ages 4 to 8) A reissue of a 1961 book, "Balloon" is evocative of a more whimsical time in picture books.
Yes, it's that whimsical time of year again: the fourth annual Hollywood Fringe Festival has swung into action.
I believe in childhood as a sacred, whimsical time of developing character and imagination; for this reason my son is not allowed electronics or internet access (unless he is researching a school project).
Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look.
It's episodic, impressionistic and whimsical; every time you settle down with a character he or she temporarily disappears.
Taxi Tehran seems light-hearted and even whimsical at times but its director is making very serious points about the repressive nature of Iranian society.
The second section, "prose poems written at speed," riveting in pace, whimsical at times, and "fugue sans fin," scurries across the "perpetual mysteries" of his childhood, the "tiny stage" of adolescence, and the unanswered questions of family, the loss of his mother, the travails of his father, that "last like Persephone's story, as good on one spinning planet as on any other".
The one collaborative work in the room is a 40-piece installation called Kuka Irititja (Animals from Another Time): whimsical, otherworldly beings woven from native grasses by Hall and a group of 12 Tjanpi desert weavers, when she spent two weeks near Pilakatilyuru, where the Northern Territory, South Australian and Western Australian borders meet.
Today, these cabinets of curiosities are whimsical hiccups in time.
The possible mathematical combinations the work yields by virtue of the multi-sided cubes and the grid that holds them speak of a certain intellectual rigor, but are, at the same time, whimsical and playful.
It also uses a whimsical theme to highlight the time of day and where you are (it showed an image of Sydney's Opera House, for example, when I was there a few weeks ago).
