Five Great Things About This Picture
Saturday October 31st 2009, 8:00 pm
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Here at Tinkering School headquarters, we’re in the process of creating illustrations for the long awaited “Fifty Dangerous Things” book. The process involves figuring out what we need to show in the illustration that accompanies each topic, and then hunting through Flickr and the rest of the web to find inspiration for the actual drawing. Julie found this photo while researching carboard-tube sword fighting:

1930's - Harlem, Boys sword fighting, by Aaron Siskind
(click through, it’s worth it)

There are five really great things that can be seen in this picture. I’m not talking about the beautiful cars, or the natty clothes – I’m talking about five great creative play things.

Find yours, and read on to see mine.
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