[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-walking-with-dinosaurs-and-alex-and-a-few-sphinxes":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/crystalpalace2-f3b69a4101.jpg\" width=\"550\">\\r\n\\r\nThis morning I met up with writer and illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://www.themousehunter.com\">Alex Milway\u003C/a> to discuss some planning stuff for the \u003Ca href=\"http://palacefestival.wordpress.com/\">Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival\u003C/a>. This year the theme's going to be \u003Cb>MONSTERS\u003C/b> and feature \u003Cb>COMICS\u003C/b>! (Sat, 23 Oct, mark your diaries!) Last year \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garenewing.co.uk/rainboworchid/\">Garen Ewing\u003C/a> did the poster, showing one of Crystal Palace's big dinosaur's on the communication tower, so I thought I'd better get over there and see the dinosaurs to make this year's poster, and Alex gave me a great tour. \\r\nSo far I've only drawn a few dinosaurs on the train ride back:\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/crystalpalace5-e411d72d24.gif\" align=\"left\">\\r\n\u003C!--more A couple more photos under the cut-->\\r\n\\r\nThe park in Crystal Palace is amazing, it was the world's first science park and has all these very old sculptures of dinosaurs, based on what they knew then about them. So they're not very accurate, but still very cool. And it's also where the huge Crystal Palace from the \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace\">Great Exhibition of 1851\u003C/a> was relocated until it burned. But I'd never realised just how immense the whole thing was until I walked through its ruins today. I swear, you could've seen that thing from the moon. \\r\n\\r\nHere's me, looking silly on one of the concrete sphinxes:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/crystalpalace1-3c66dbcacb.jpg\"> \\r\n\\r\nThe dinosaur park:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/crystalpalace3-c9a16532c3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd the cool railway station, where I caught the train back. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/crystalpalace4-b5211aa945.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\\r\nMore monsters: Getting excited about the publication of \u003Cb>Drew Weing\u003C/b>'s \u003Ca href=\"http://www.drewweing.com/\">\u003Ci>Set to Sea\u003C/i>\u003C/a> comic. That guy (\u003Ca href=\"http://drewweing.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">drewweing\u003C/a>) is one of the best draughtsmen out there. \\r\n\\r\nAnd you can listen to an interview with my fab friend \u003Cb>David O'Connell\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">tozocomic\u003C/a>) at the \u003Cb>UK Web & Mini Comix Thing\u003C/b> over on the \u003Ca href=\"http://wildtyme.blogspot.com/2010/04/323-uk-web-mini-comix-thing-2010.html \">Wild Tyme\u003C/a> blog (about a third of the way through). \u003Ca href=\"http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5692686/wildtymethingcast.mp3\">Here's the direct link to the mp3 file.\u003C/a> \u003Ci>Thanks for the mention, Dave!\u003C/i>","2010-04-12T17:11:00.000Z","walking-with-dinosaurs-and-alex-and-a-few-sphinxes",[],"walking with dinosaurs and alex and a few sphinxes",1776628717932]