http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal Writing about children's books, illustration, publishing and writing in Ireland and the UK. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:31:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie collected nearly $1 billion (the ninth-highest grossing film of all time) and still came in at a loss. Seriously. After loans, distribution costs and interest charges the film comes in $167m in the red. Time to send in the demontors! Click for a larger ... http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6520 Time on your hands this long weekend? How about making some 3D comics?? Matt Bogart has the lowdown on how to get bring your creation to a new dimension... and has a comic of his own to see how it works. Go on - give your pictures some depth! ...yeah. - a stereoscopic ... http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6522 Pope Benedict XVI has joined the ranks of celebrities writing children’s books... Gli Amici di Gesu (The Friends of Jesus) is to be the first book published by any pope. The characters in the book include each of the original 12 apostles, including Judas Iscariot; Matthias, who replaced Judas after the ... http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6601 LEGO run a workshop to train business facilitators "to develop powerful and compelling solutions to business problems."  Apparently used by some of the worlds leading organisations, SERIOUS PLAY enables teams to address complex issues... and put all the pieces together. (Mandatory pun) It sounds incredible - any excuse to apply LEGO to ... http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6565 I had no idea there was a Yogi Bear movie coming. (Thanks to scannain.com for telling letting it slip) Can't say that I'm too convinced by the CGI Yogi and Boo Boo but... it's Yogi Bear! Be smarter than the average bear... watch the trailer! http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6534 Uri Shulevitz's Writing With Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children’s Books has long been respected as the bible of how-to's for picturebooks - and now thanks to the Mighty Art Demos you can read some of that tome online... namely How to Make a Storyboard. This makes for essential reading ... http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6495 Moviefone has some suggested titles for Hollywood book adaptations - including In The Night Kitchen, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and Anastasia Krupnik. Blume's book has a solid status in the annals of popular culture: 'Margaret' has inspired everything from a 'South Park' episode to rock song titles ... http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6509 Have a look at the incredible quality of this - shot wholly on iPhone 4: iPhone 4 film - "Apple of My Eye" from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo. http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6516 Joining the elite - namely J K Rowling, Dan Brown and Mark Haddon - Stephanie Meyer has reached the two-million-in-the-21st-century book selling landmark. What that means is that last year, one in every 47 books bought in the UK was penned by Meyer. And as if that nugget wasn't enough news for ... http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6529 Nickeloden - the TV giant with characters such as Spongebob Squarepants, Fairly OddParents and Dora the Explorer - have agreed a whopping theme park deal on Blackpool's Pleasure Beach. The deal will see the the shows and characters appear at the resort - and  construction of Nickelodeon Land begins in ... http://www.davidmaybury.ie/journal/?p=6532