the other day Veronica had a school assignment to make a book about something so she made a book about ... books. The different parts of a book, what books are for, how to take care of books, different kinds of books, etc.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
lol @ DJP!!!!
Also "I want a Fancy Lord Taco Esq tshirt please" otm.
― the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Friday, 17 March 2017 15:48 (seven years ago) link
Veronica is so meta.
― DJI, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
a father's proudest day is when his daughter makes her first piece of Star Trek TOS fan art
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7Pgvu7VwAAMiyB.jpg
― Οὖτις, Monday, 20 March 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Really cool figure drawing!
― DJI, Monday, 20 March 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
My two-and-three-quarter-year-old has begun punning and making up jokes. Sample quips:
[We pass some tulips]"I have tulips, daddy. [points to mouth] On my face!"
[Partner is telling her story of how, before we owned them, our cats were strays rescued from a nearby car park.]"No mummy - they were rescued in a cat park!"
[She's having toast for breakfast]Partner: "We need to go to the post office, to post these letters."Marin: "We could post them in the toast office!"
I mean, okay, that's not "genius", but.
― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
sounds pretty genius to me
― niels, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
MSM decided to make her own homework the other evening. Took a blank piece of paper, wrote out the instructions, wrote out some examples of how to do it, then did it, on the other side of the paper. I guess the assigned homework was unsatisfying, like Monday/Tuesday crossword puzzles
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
https://d2ppvlu71ri8gs.cloudfront.net/items/3o2S142B3A3r0U0u072l/Screen%20Shot%202017-06-06%20at%2013.00.15.png
eat your heart out, cy twombly
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 11:02 (six years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/a78vv0csp40rhad/IMG_6502.jpg
to me this is a fairly obvious reworking of picasso's "las meninas" series of paintings, for example
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6dfp38mepesnpyl/f32674a94700096de2e9b1f76c8827b9.jpg
which of course were in turn versions of the velasquez painting:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/21szybsc0ra0cs7/velazquez.meninas.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 07:22 (six years ago) link
I believe your child is a genius
― niels, Monday, 12 June 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link
thank you
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 08:41 (six years ago) link
agreed!
― It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
to be clear he did not paint the last two
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
oh hahaha I really though he did the second last one. Yay for my BFA.
― It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
it's an understandable mistake to make, because my child is a genius
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
there's been a bunch of stop motion movies and bread making and art at camp this summer but my favorite thing lately is this perfect band logo she wrote on our kitchen whiteboard
http://i.imgur.com/xmVT3Zl.jpg
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 9 July 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
THE DERPS!!!!
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Friday, 14 July 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link
also look who's learned how to use powerpoint
http://imgur.com/7o6TcDV
― El Tomboto, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
imgrrrr
http://i.imgur.com/7o6TcDV.png
― El Tomboto, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Ben made a new track: https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/unravel
― DJI, Friday, 17 November 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
Ben made another one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-_C8RKf38
― DJI, Saturday, 27 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
A couple more Circuit tracks from Ben:https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/glidehttps://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/glide-part-ii
― DJI, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
This week Ben made this wild track in Ableton: https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/voidThere’s enough material in there for like 4-5 tracks!
― DJI, Sunday, 26 April 2020 04:11 (four years ago) link
And another. This one is really pretty.
https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/dune
― DJI, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
And another one. This is a little chillstep/ambient-ish:https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/dreamscape
― DJI, Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
Owen has been getting into 80s metal. Here he is trying out the pedal I got him for his birthday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQYl9uqmc0I
― DJI, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
Wow! But... think of the neighbours!
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
i take it the mask is a homage to agata from melt banana
― koogs, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
In San Francisco we wear masks in our own houses. 🤣
― DJI, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
this kind of goes in the darnedest things thread, but kinda here too. check this out. one of my kids is 9 years old. as we're biking towards the river to get a special lunch today (his class has to quarantine this week - but he's not at risk since he was already quarantining for the previous two weeks as a result of a trip to egypt with his grandmother!) he says this:
"daddy, if they could make everyone live forever... then money would be worth a lot more, right?"
i'm like.... wtf. i.. yes? i think?
"because people would need way more of it, because their lives would be so long. but there would be the same amount of money"
fuckin shit, i think that's right! kind of??
"so then everything would cost less"
i'm losing you, i've always been terrible at this stuff
"so we could buy a computer for like £100"
basically my son is a 9 year old economics genius who is going to figure out how we can all live forever and get computers for £100 each
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Best part about 500 year lifespan? £100 computers!
― DJI, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
one pound for every five years is a tough average
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Ben made another soundtrack-ish composition: https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/horizon
― DJI, Saturday, 2 January 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
7yo daughter, on being told she couldn't have a telescope fish as a pet as they're a high-pressure deep sea fish and various other reasons, so she made her own, called 'Boggles'. pic.twitter.com/v3vnyGPya6— Caustic Cover Critic 📚 (@Unwise_Trousers) January 20, 2021
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 07:26 (three years ago) link
A+++
― Madchen, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 08:43 (three years ago) link
Amazing!
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
V cool
― DJI, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
love it
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
Owen with some shredding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nroBCI13KAI
― DJI, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
I’ve been terribly lax contributing here for their early years, but since these kids are parented by two ilxors, they are sort of your kids too. They are 13 and 10 now, and without grasping their full provenance, they decided to cover the Strokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqW1M6LkUA
― Kim, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
excellent!
― na (NA), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
also excellent to owen!
― na (NA), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
Kim - that is so great! I wish I could get my boys to play together. They are a bit too arguey these days to make that happen.
― DJI, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
Ha! Yes, it’s a real struggle. They both like very different things and were just playing over each other and, just tired of the racket I said either play something together, or take turns, and that little magic moment was the result. Time will tell if it ever happens again.
Owen has some real skills!
― Kim, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
good kids all round
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
Ben made another one of his evolving videogame-soundtracky pieces: https://soundcloud.com/user-351496707/glass
― DJI, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
Aw, nice!
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
Beautiful! Love the banger buildup at a minute-and-a-half
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 09:33 (three years ago) link
my son just told me a great name for a locksmith would be “sure lock homes”he swears he made this up himself
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 24 April 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link