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I found these fabulous videos by electronic artist Pogo on YouTube. He takes many of my favorite childhood movies, splices scenes and sounds from them and then remixes them, to create an entirely new and funky techno-esque music .
This one is from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the good, freaky one with Gene Wilder):
This one is from Hook:
This one is from Mary Poppins:
There are others – The Secret Garden and The Sword in the Stone that I adored as a child. I suggest you watch them all.
It’s always fun to do writing exercises with friends – one person writes a line or a paragraph of a story and then passes it to the next person who then writes something and passes again. The end result is always crazy and fun because the story is bound to take a bizarre and unexpected turn in multiple people’s hands and it’s wonderful to see myriad writing styles blend together into one piece.
So imagine the collective literary power of the coolest group of talented children’s writers when they get together. This has become reality with a new round robin-esque serial novel, titled The Exquisite Corpse Adventure. And free online! The very fine and funny National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature, Jon Scieszka is up first with Episode 1. The amazing Katherine Paterson is next up with a new episode on October 9th. I can’t wait.
