http://jameskennedy.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:32:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some schools have put The Order of Odd-Fish on their reading lists. That's great! So I've put together a classroom guide for Odd-Fish. It's 44 pages of discussion questions, lesson plans, and projects. It also features Odd-Fish fan art by enthusiastic readers—art that was featured in our Odd-Fish gallery show in ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/09/01/the-odd-fish-curriculum/ We had a raucous time at Collaboraction's Dome of Doom in Logan Square on Sunday! As soon as I get the video and pictures, I will post them. Thanks, Collaboraction and Unity Park Advisory Council! In the meantime, check out some more great art from the Order of Odd-Fish art show ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/08/24/dawn-heaths-odd-fish-art-and-ted-leos-broadway-musical/ If the animation above takes a few seconds to load, wait for it—it's worth it. It's by Swisidniak of DeviantArt, and it's a doozy: a 6-frame animated .gif of the giant fish vomiting the Odd-Fish lodge. Amazing work! I especially love the queasy look the fish gets before he hurls, ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/08/19/dome-of-doom-in-logan-square-this-sunday/ This is great! Chicago's amazing Museum of Science and Industry is holding a contest to find someone to live in their museum—for someone to eat, sleep, and breathe nothing but science and industry for thirty days. Seriously! From their website: We're looking for someone to take on a once-in-a-lifetime assignment: spend ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/08/11/month-at-the-museum/ OK, I am officially ridiculous. It's been three months since the Order of Odd-Fish art show, and I still haven't posted all the great art on this blog yet. What is wrong with me? I promise it will all be posted soon! Above is one of the most spectacular pieces from ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/07/16/mike-bricis-odd-fish-art/ It's been a while! Lots to cover. But first, take a gander at the above video by Freya & Theo, Georgia, August, & Frankie, and the notorious Arne, in which they hilariously dramatize the beginning of the Very Polite War between the Vondorians and Snoosnids from The Order of Odd-Fish. ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/07/02/ala-adventures-and-polite-wars/ As a writer, I'm sometimes asked where I get my ideas. The answer is that all my ideas, no matter how ludicrous, come from the real world. For example! The villain of The Order of Odd-Fish is a celebrity terrorist called "the Belgian Prankster." He goes around the world doing insane ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/06/11/the-original-belgian-prankster/ The auction for Evanston Public Libraries is over. They raised $39,000! My ridiculous "Night with Audrey Niffenegger as Played by James Kennedy" contributed a tiny bit. Two nights, actually: it sold for $60 to someone called "Mamaro" and for $65 to someone called "lmur988". I really hope one of those ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/06/04/avant-garde-pies-week-part-2/ This week on the blog, I want to highlight Order of Odd-Fish fan art I've received that has to do with avant-garde pies. This first is by "Order of the Pie" founder (and eleven year-old) Mason, whose illustration of the La Société des Friandises Étranges chapter (above) was featured in ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/06/01/avant-garde-pies-week-part-1/ UPDATE! To my astonishment, people are actually bidding on the chance to have dinner with me dressed as Audrey Niffenegger. As of this writing, this instance was bid up to $30, and this one is bid up to $20. So that's $50 raised for the Evanston Public Library. As far ... http://jameskennedy.com/2010/05/27/the-odd-fish-art-of-breanna-bliss/