I met a friend from iSchool for lunch at Veggie Heaven today. For those of you who don't know, it's a popular vegan restaurant right across from campus that serves cheap, mostly Asian food. I had the "Open Sesame" which was noodles and veggies in a "brown sauce." It was quite good. After lunch we walked over to the Harry Ransom center to see the drawing exhibit - and the Gutenberg (pictured above) of course. It was pretty magical. The drawing exhibit was quite large, it was all we could take today. I would like to visit their library and maybe hint at an internship for the summer. There were some very cool drawings on display. I liked one in particular that Salvador Dali did on the title page of a book. It was a self portrait with his eye as a drawer opening out of his head. There was an entire display of travel sketchbooks, which immediately made me think of my parents. They always take a "trip book" to write and draw in when they go on vacation. One of the books on display had full page watercolors on most of the pages. On the whole I thought it was pretty cool. I will have to explore that place a lot more.
On a side note, I found Media Services on campus and checked out "Gone with the Wind" on DVD. I feel like that's one of the movies I should watch. Two of the drawings on display were costume designs for the movie. Did you know that after the Bible, "Gone with the Wind" is the best selling book in the world? It is followed closely by "The Little Prince."
4 comments:
I LOVE The Little Prince.
and also the Bible of course.
I thought the movie of gone with the wind was ok, although really long and I think overrated. but definitely everyone should watch it at least once.
Are you sure...I thought Ann Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" was the second most published/sold book to the bible. Check your fact's miss librarian!!!
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