My picture book in Hebrew

I have finally finished writing the Hebrew version of

children story 'The Enchanted Garden'. You can buy that book on 'Lulu.com'.... Direct link is:

http://www.lulu.com/content/1755610



I hope you'll enjoy.



Koty

Marquis 'Who’s Who in the World', 2008

I am so happy... I got a notice that I has been earned inclusion in the 2008 Edition of Who's Who in the world. My biography has been included in Who's Who since 2000. As far as I understand to be chosen for inclusion, candidates must have attained a significant achievement.

The Enchanted Garden and The Virtual World

The other day, one of my picture book readers asked me whether my little picture book, the "The Enchanted Garden" has been inspired by 'Second Life'... one of the popular virtual social community on the Internet.

I told her, that no... my little book wasn't Inspired by Second Life...
my little book has been inspired by the Art Community of RDNA
and Renderosity that I am a proud member of them.

She somehow didn't want to believe me.
So, I told her... please go to the Internet and look for the date when
Second Life first appeared on the Web. She went and looked up the
data that I asked for.

Here is the date, taken from :

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:7l3ZoiGSfzoJ:slhistory.org/index.php/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages+2003+second+life+timeline&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1


and here is the quote:

"Closed beta began on November 2002, with public beta opening on April 2003."

And I joined to the virtual artist community at: Mar 2, 2003

Anyway, I though that I share with you, gentle reader the above conversation,

in order to show you... my book was written before 'Second Life' come to the Web.

Anyway, I am really happy to the success of 'Second Life'.... because I think it
is doing a great job on the domain of social networking.... with a great emphases
on the possibility of earning money in the virtual world.

The Enchanted Garden

Hi,

I added
on my Zazzle shop:

http://www.zazzle.com/bonbonish


postcards and stamps that contain some of the illustration pages of my picture book, titled "The Enchanted Garden".

They are can be great gifts for the holidays!

Enjoy!

Research Results -- Juggling

Western Style juggling:
http://www.juggling.org/papers/history-1/

Western Style Juggling:
http://www.aboutfacesentertainers.com/jugglers/about_jugglers.htm

Western Style Juggling:
http://www2.bc.edu/~lewbel/jugweb/history-1.html

About Chinese style juggling:
http://www.chinastyle.cn/perfoming-arts/acrobatics/

How to learn Juggling:
http://www.twjc.co.uk/tut001.html

Sony viao notebook

http://smb.sony.com/

BX540B

Total: $2,669.01

I has been earned inclucsion in the 2006 Edition of Who's Who in the world

I am so happy... I got a notice that I has been earned inclucsion in the 2006 Edition of Who's Who in the world. My biography has been included in Who's Who since 2000. As far as I understand to be chosen for inclusion, candidates must have attained a significant achievement.

The image with the trumpet

Click on the image to enlarge it.

Copyright © 2004 By Koty Lapid --The story is about the pain of un-appreciation of a gift. It is also about the changing attitude towards art presented on computer in our society.

Betsy and Roger took their vows at five o'clock. The ceremony was short and so was the party afterward. When the last guest had left, Nita and Tara left with Betsy and her new husband, Roger. They went to the newlyweds' apartment.

After they were in the apartment, Nita, Roger and Tara sat down on the comfortable sofa at the spacious living room.

Betsy then went into the bedroom to change her clothing, while Roger told them a few things about their plans for later on. When Betsy returned, she decided to start opening the gifts. She opened Tara's first.

Tara's gift was an image of a Lady with a trumpet, that she created some time ago. Nowadays it was displayed on one of the Internet's Virtual Galleries. Tara knew Betsy liked it because she had called her to say how much she had enjoyed looking that image just some minutes later Tara had posted it. Hoping to give something special to Betsy, a week before her wedding Tara took her Notebook and went to a printer and instructed him to print that image onto a heavy glossy paper. Then Tara took the image and went to a nearby frame-shop, where Tara had the image framed and wrapped in fancy wrapping paper.

After opening it, Betsy graciously thanked Tara for it and went on to unwrap another gift that she had received from one of her relatives.

Nita was looking at the framed picture while Betsy had put it aside to open the other gifts.

Nita remembered that Tara'd given her a copy of the same image when she asked for one a few months earlier.

"Oh, I had that image, too," Nita remarked.

"Had? And what did you do with it?" Tara asked. Nita didn't answer.

"What happened to it?" Tara asked again.

"I made a note of the URL where it's posted online and then I threw the image away," she answered.

Tara was deeply hurt. The gift she had given Nita may not have been framed or wrapped in fancy paper, but Tara'd spent a small fortune to have it printed on heavy, glossy paper. "Nita," Tara asked, "why did you throw away my image after you'd asked me for it? I printed it especially for you."

Nita then replied, "I didn't throw it away because I didn't like it. You know very well that I liked it. I thought keeping it was a waste of space. It's on the Internet, so if I want to look at it, I can see it there."

"But Nita, I went through the expense and trouble of having that image duplicated especially for you because I know you liked it. Frankly, I really don't think what you did was okay," Tara said, "I want you to understand what I've done for you. I wanted you to keep it. Instead, you've treated it as if it were just a free download off the Internet!"

Nita said nothing, but her face got a little flush, and that made her somewhat beautiful. Nita blushed when she was confused. Tara knew and understood her well. Yet, Tara could tell that Nita was convinced she'd done the right thing. She kept the URL.


* When an artist prints a very small number of her work it is called limited edition. Each piece of that edition is special.

... Enjoy the story...

Playing the flute

The main inspiration for this image is a clown. Once I heard on the radio about a show of a clown - named Clown John. . He had a show where

he with his partner, would go out to the stage while he is playing a huge trumpet... and his

partner was looking at him from the side and enjoy the music. Suddely the partner starts to

run and steal the trumpet. Clown John, don't run after his partner, quetly gets

out from his suitcase a smaller trumpet... and starts to play the trumpet... his partner steal it

once again. And it goes that way... Clown John plays smaller and smaller trumpets, and his

partner steal all of them... one by one... till Clown John gets from his suitcase a very small trumpet,

and when the partner comes to steal it... Clown John simply eats the tiny trumpet... So there

is nothing to steal anymore...

Almost Insane -- Mental Cruelty

Getting sweet recipe

The other day one of my friens send me a low calory sweet recipe.

I prepared the dish, and it was really delitious. Why eating it... I remembered one of my favourits movies.

The name of the movie is 'Chocolat' with Dench, Depp, Molina and etc...

The movie is about a woman and her daughter and the woman's chocolate shop in a small French village. The woman sells her hand made chocolates. In the chocolates she puts all kind of spices also like: black pepper. When she opens the shop there are few people who like her chocolate, but people eventually like very much her chocolate.

I like movies about the simple pleasures in life :)... like enjoying eating a good chocolate :), or enjoying eating a little cake [cake eating is one of the short stories I wrote, you can find it on AD...]... or eating that nice dish that I received its recipe just now from my friend.