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The story contest has ended. Thanks to all of you who participated. I struggled to come up with a winner for this one. The explanatory story by Tim S. was longish, but felt right. It was creative, fantastical, and offered an excellent fable-like template for such a story. Ending it with “And so it was…

This is stunning. Photographer James Mollison has a photo-essay book called Where Children Sleep, built around a powerful but very, very simple concept. It introduces us to children around the world by showing us the diversity of their bedrooms — what these private places look like, and the picture these spaces paint of their worlds.…

I am a sucker for cool things in high-def slow motion, and these unsuccessfuly attempts by skateboarders to land kickflips and other jumps fall resolutely within the category of cool slow-mo things. Ever since we watched portions of X-Games 17 together, my son has been way interested in skateboarding. Forget the kickflips…he just wants to…

Back at my old blog, I used to do the occasional story contest. I show a photo, set up a bunch of arbitrary and inflexible rules, and then invite readers to submit a story that goes along with the photo. I choose the winners based on creativity, rules adherence, and where the dart hits my…

Watch this with your kids. It’s short, but the awesome starts about 25 seconds in. Notice the fluttery feathers at the landing. [H/T: kottke]

A couple of interesting statements in this recent interview with Brad Pitt, who is raising six kids with Angelina Jolie. (Their adopted kids are Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, and Zahara, 6, along with their biological children Shiloh, 5, and twins Knox and Vivienne, who are 2.) The first is about how fatherhood has impacted his career…

The goal of Meet a Dad: Profile a dad and let him share his fatherly wisdom with us. Some of these dads will be well-known in certain circles; others will be largely unknown outside of their immediate circles. Doesn’t matter, because I think just about every father has as much (or more) to share than…

Fascinating interview at Slate today with Jeff Ryan, author of Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America (which releases tomorrow). I haven’t read the book, but in the interview, Ryan discusses the evolution of the Super Mario Bros. universe and what made it such a popular, groundbreaking game. In addition to talking about how Mario became…

My poor kids. They had the (debatable) fortune of growing in the age of video-on-demand, instant music downloads, and cars equipped with DVD players. But they had the misfortune of growing up in a world without Mr. Rogers. They know the Muppets. They were aware of Sesame Street and the Smurfs and other touchstones of…

The goal of Meet a Dad: Profile a dad and let him share his fatherly wisdom with us. Some of these dads will be well-known in certain circles; others will be largely unknown outside of their immediate circles. Doesn’t matter, because I think just about every father has as much (or more) to share than…
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