Saturday, February 9, 2008

He's going to Graceland...

video

Well, not really, but there is a David Macaulay show in Memphis, Tennessee. The above talk, given in 2002, goes just over 20 minutes. So sit back, relax and enjoy.

If you don't know who he is:

Macaulay is an award winning pen-and-ink illustrator who wrote The Way Things Work and has sold over two million books while garning garnered a host of awards for his outstanding work. Amongst these are the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Caldecott Medal, won for his book Black and White, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, the Washington Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, and a Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award. He was a two-time nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and is the recipient of the Bradford Washburn Award, presented by the Museum of Science in Boston to an outstanding contributor to science.

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