Category: Media

  • Shadow Puppet: The app Steven Spielberg missed out on as a kid

    Now, here is an app for the kids that really caught my attention, as I used to be a filmmaker. Shadow Puppet is a fairly new app that allows kids to create a montage of photographs, then add their voice narration over it as the slideshow of photos plays through. Your kids’ imagination will run wild.

  • R.A.D. A Brooklyn-based Zine for Creative Kids

      A cleverly titled children’s zine, R.A.D. (aka Read and Draw) gears its publication toward children and their parents in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Park Slope neighborhoods. Each artful issue takes up a particular seasonal or educational theme, and is just bursting with creativity and imagination. Read And Draw is the story of two sets of two…

  • “Where Children Sleep” – Photographic Series by James Mollison

    Indira, 7, Kathmandu, Nepal These are some photos from a pretty fascinating series by photographer James Mollison called “Where Children Sleep” which explores inequality as seen through the bedrooms of different children across the globe. In his series and upcoming book, ‘Where Children Sleep’, he shows portraits of kids followed by an image of their bedrooms, giving us…

  • Sketch Aquarium – Interactive Play Space for Kids

      Look at this quite amazing play area in Japan. Sketch Aquarium – is a creative space where children can foster their artistic skills by designing fish and then interacting with them in a virtual tank.  The genius behind this new self-dubbed “future park” is a group called teamLab which aims to provide children with a space to play…

  • Trax – GPS Tracker for Kids & Pets

    This is the answer to kids getting lost. Oh, and Fido too. Finally. With the recent release of its itsy-bitsy yet powerful Trax realtime GPS solution, Swedish company, Wonder Technology Solutions, has a real winner on their hands. Trax is absolutely perfect for parents of spirited kids or owners of wandering pets. I wish I had one of…

  • The New York Philharmonic will bring Pixar classics to the stage – May, 2014

    Pixar in ConcertPhotograph: ©Disney/Pixar Okay, now for some serious listening and something you don’t want to miss out if you are lucky enough to live in ol’ New York City! Yes, Lincoln Center has a big treat in store for you and the your little film buff kiddos. You can listen to the New York…

  • The Wheel of Life, Zoetrope – The Makerie Studio

    This is an incredibly enchanting  video (below) for the Makerie Studio’s New York launch. After years of experience perfecting paper craft, The Makerie Studio teamed up with Director André Gidoin to magically bring one of these worlds to life, by creating and filming a hand made paper Zoetrope. Filmed and edited over two weekends in New York.…

  • La Petite Mag – Issue 14

      As usual, La Petite Mag delivers an incredible issue. I am always in awe of the talents of photographer Karolina Henke and her outstanding and beautiful work which reminds me of Magical Realism. Here is part of her Gypsies spread of this issue. And the big news is the Petite Mag is now in…

  • Keepy App to Keep Your Kids' Artwork!

    Here are the two little stars, posing on the red carpet at the very special Keepy event at the Children's Museum of the Arts the other week! I told Oona that we were going to have a limousine pick us up like princesses and when she got in the car, she said, “Oh, Mama I…

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