{"id":331,"date":"2007-04-21T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-01-02T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T06:26:09","slug":"till-it-looked-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/04\/21\/till-it-looked-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Till it looked O.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, my favourite Sendak picture book is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_the_Night_Kitchen\"><em>In the Night Kitchen<\/em><\/a>. I love the illustration, the cityscape made from kitchen packets and utensils, the dreamlike whimsy of it, and Mickey&#8217;s confidence. Above all, I like the part where he models the dough into a plane:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/20\/ok.jpg\" title=\"Ok\" alt=\"Ok\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What better way to describe how you go about the creative process? I was delighted to find this lovely video animation of the book, adapted and directed by Gene Dietch, complete with jaunty music:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xPvSnvbPngU\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, my favourite Sendak picture book is In the Night Kitchen. I love the illustration, the cityscape made from kitchen packets and utensils, the dreamlike whimsy of it, and Mickey&#8217;s confidence. Above all, I like the part where he models the dough into a plane: What better way to describe how you go about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,193,17],"tags":[370,1390,683,681,1368],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-illustration","category-video","tag-creativity","tag-illustration","tag-in-the-night-kitchen","tag-sendak","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-5l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}