Sophie Blackall is a Brooklyn based Australian artist. She has illustrated over twenty books for children, including Ruby's Wish (Chronicle Books, 2003) which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award, Meet Wild Boars (Henry Holt, 2005) which won a BCCB Blue Ribbon Picture Book Award and the Founders Award from the Society of Illustrators, Big Red Lollipop (Viking, 2010) which was a New York Times Top Ten Picture Book for 2010, and the ongoing Ivy and Bean series (Chronicle Books), which has over a million copies in print.
Blackall has collaborated with many notable authors, including Aldous Huxley, Judith Viorst, Jane Yolen and Meg Rosoff.
Her editorial illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Town & Country and many others.
Her latest project, http://www.missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com Missed Connections, which began as a blog in early 2009, is an ongoing series of paintings based on real, anonymous messages posted online by lovelorn strangers.
Like a message in a bottle, a "missed connection" classified (usually posted on a website) is an attempt however far-fetched, by one stranger to reach another on the strength of a remembered glance, smile, or blue hat. The anonymous messages are hopeful and hopeless, funny and sad. Ms. Blackall, award-winning illustrator of "Ruby's Wish" and "Big Red Lollipop", has turned some of the most evocative (or hilarious) of them into exquisite paintings. "Missed Connections" is a collection of illustrated love stories. There's "We Shared a Bear Suit." "If Not for Your Noisy Tambourine." "Hairy Bearded Swimmer." Each is told in the shorthand of a "missed connection," and then illustrated in Chinese ink and watercolour. The paintings are extraordinary: delicate yet full of feeling, each springing from one little detail of the post into a fully imagined world. Each brings the voyeuristic pleasure of watching love at first sight, and the pleasure of watching an artist discover a fresh new way to tell a story. And not all the connections are missed. Hidden in the book are three pieces that conjure up the magic of love found.
一直以为理想的爱情模式,应该是认识多年的好友,忽然有一天,发觉彼此无法分离,彼此才是对的那个。 看到这本书的时候,电光火石间,忽然想起,曾经的曾经,也竟有过不同的瞬间。 还是十几岁的年少时光,一群人去了其他班级的教室,只因为教室墙上的电视,正在播着那年的体育...
评分想念你的陌生人里面的主人公都是一群不食人间烟火的“怂货”,也就是所谓的罗曼蒂克,这里面的“爱”恰如其分,多一分则肥,减一分则瘦。 翻完它真的不需要多久的时间,但是,你去体会它的余温,却又绵长而悠扬。谁人没有过猝不及防的电击感? 但是,这感情,确...
评分刚入手这本书,只是看了作者的前言,便勾起了我心底藏了两年的情结。封底上有一句“给你心底的陌生人写情书吧”,于是我在今日凌晨三点写下了这样的LOVE LETTER。 -------------------------------------------- 亲爱的 对不起。 请允许我冒昧的也是自私的最后一次这么叫你。...
评分 评分茫茫人海,我们有时擦身而过,有时相视一笑,最后又走向拥挤的人潮,来得及Say hi,来不及Say bye。故事中很多个瞬间,我们有所经历,有所期待,为什么我们总是对陌生人念念不忘,为什么在那一刻我们没有勇气冲上去去搭讪?生活中,若有陌生人主动来搭讪,我又会以怎样的姿态去...
与陌生人的赏心悦目的偶遇是多么的浪漫又陶醉~
评分Unfortunately, I didn't look up. But I'm pretty sure you are beautiful.
评分New York's sweet heart
评分trivial moments
评分I like a happy ending as well as the next person, but I love the mystery and the uncertainty and the electric current of possibility. —— 但比起瞬间的小火花,作者也更偏向厮守的幸福,所以最感人的反而是那个「曾经沧海难为水」的故事
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