Chilligavva

Truly, poverty of the heart is what afflicts most of us.  I have never felt that as strongly, until I saw this video. Watching this video has definitely humbled me, and made me take a good strong look at myself.  For those who truly want to help, they help, inspite of all hardships.  For the rest, its a daily littany of whines, goal statements and spelling out of human greed [not wants].  I definitely fall into the second category of greed, rants, and whines. Im thankful to my friend Shakti Shenoy, for this link!  (I always believed that you meet a person for a definite spiritual reason) The video is a program that identifies a Citizen Hero.  The protagonist is a person called Hajabba from a small village off Mangalore, (my home town), called Nyupadpu.

Some would dismiss him as just another illiterate fruit seller, but, 47-year-old Hajabba's life is a lesson in inspiration. Hajabba, who built a school to educate over a 100 children in his village near Mangalore, was honoured by Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur after he saw the fruit seller's story on CNN-IBN. Thakur awarded Hajabba

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Looks like this week is all about animals. I have just completed a Jungle theme for Chilligavva, which you now see in action. For the curious, the animal icons are based on the Animal Dingbat series, called "Animalia Scissored" from Dafont.com, a font site. I have just come across the work of Jeremy Pettis, a student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design via Typographica Here is the exciting response about his work:

The immediacy and creativity of Pettis'™ work has spread like wildfire through the design blogosphere.

My favourites are: the letter C, I like the curviness of the cobra the letter L, I like the mane and tail the letter R , I like the ears

Here is what Jeremy said about his inspiration in his interview with Stephen Coles I found these old design annuals called “Modern Publicity. They have some great work from all around the world. I found a few from 1967-78 on Amazon fairly cheap. Collecting old design books can be a very expensive addiction. I love seeing great work from the pre-digital era. It seems

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I was watching TV when I saw a small news clip about this site. The site is a very netflix like service, where you can rent toys for a small period of time.  On one hand this is really nice, as one can introduce variety without breaking the bank.  On the other hand, we need to address a very common situation in this age group - "Falling in love with a toy and refusing to part with it." I just hope that the business has thought of a contingency in this case.Miti (my son) and I were thinking on these lines a couple of years ago, when he wanted all the cool toys which I just could not afford to buy. We of course thought more on NGO lines where we could run a free toy library based on donor inputs. I just thought, wow how neat and about time too!

And for all you neat freaks out there, as per the TV promo, I believe every toy between uses is sanitized and shrinkwrapped in

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