"The Great Gatsby" as video game

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It's easy! It's vintage-y old school! It's got a fake Japanese back story! It's canonical literature!

I don't need another way to procrastinate, but this really random Nintendo game based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is really trying to break my spirit...

Play at your own risk: http://greatgatsbygame.com/.

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eeboo

I noticed that many of my favorite things for kids come from one place- eeboo. We have their wall cards and tot tower in our playroom, their growth chart in my three year old's bedroom, and I have one of their beautifully illustrated memory games tucked away for the next birthday. I am so drawn to the illustrations on all of their products and so are my children. The shared admiration is an accomplishment for eeboo, because often a company's products will be irresistible to kids... or parents- rarely both.

In my quest to learn more about eeboo, I came across a post at thehaystackneedle blog and it was a treasure trove of information. There are photographs of the company's studio (even more incredible than I imagined) and some history too. Now I'm even more in love with their stuff!

These are just a few of the fantastic things to come out of their studio.....

{All images courtesy of eeboo.com}

Blue in the Face

The blog Smashing Color created such a neat little color game: matching names to familiar blue faces. But I also love how she assigned paint chips to those faces to really highlight the shades of difference between Smurf blue and Braveheart blue. (For the game go: here, for the answer key and color chips: here). Maggie Maggio, blogger and artist, has not only come up with 21 faces, but also also devoted a couple of posts (real blue faces, Mayan blue) to every baby boy's favorite color. I'd love to play the game with other colors - it's such a clever idea and it really shows how rich the shades of one color can be.