Koty's-web-blog

My picture book in Hebrew

2008-01-26T13:23:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-15T08:21:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-15T01:13:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-15T01:06:00.000-08:00

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

2006-01-10T02:10:00.000-08:00

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

2005-11-26T12:56:00.000-08:00

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

2005-10-24T23:54:00.000-07:00

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

2005-08-14T23:13:00.000-07:00

Click on the image to enlarge it.

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

2005-08-14T09:24:00.000-07:00

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

2005-08-14T09:18:00.000-07:00

Getting sweet recipe

2005-06-13T01:33:00.000-07:00

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.

Paying It Forward

2005-04-02T23:27:00.000-08:00

I just uploaded another short story of mine to AD -- named 'The proof'.

This short story is about a full figured woman. The story is also about a concept... that is about 'Paying It Forward'.

I beleive in the great concept of Paying It Forward. I chose to be good - because it satisfies me more to please people then doing otherwise. Also, all my life I was surronded by people who were in need of helping spirits.

Being nice unconditionally

2005-03-29T05:47:00.000-08:00

The other day I saw on DVD Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, and I enjoyed it very much. It is the second Bridget Jones movie. And I have to tell you I would have enjoy that work even if I wouldn't see the first one.

I liked each moment of it. Especially I was found of two scenes. The first one when I Bridget squat down to a dog, that she though it was a friendly puppy. She was so charmingly innocent while playing with the dog, that she even hadn't got angry when it turned out that the dog was a 'drug sniffer'... and she had been arrested for drug smuggling .

The other scene I liked so much was the scene where Bridget run into an office where she thought her lover is... and withough really checking out who is the person she is talking to... saying something like that: I loved you, I love you... I always will... When it turnes out that the person isn't her lover... she gets embarrased and says something like that: I didn't love you, I don't love you... I never will...

Why is that...

2005-03-23T05:35:00.000-08:00

I heard today that sentence... and I liked it...

'God looked at my work and was pleased... than looked at my salary and become sad...

Valentine's Day -- 2005-2

2005-03-20T21:29:00.000-08:00

I work so hard on my little stories... and whe I get a nice review I am really happy... here is one that I wanted to share with you...

'You've got a great plot and wonderful inner conflict going on.'

Multitasking

2005-03-18T02:34:00.000-08:00

I just found that quote on the Internet... I do not know if Oprah actually said that... but I like it very much... and wanted to share with you...

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time."
~Oprah Winfrey~

Class assignment

2005-03-12T13:15:00.000-08:00

Just a few minutes ago I got an email. One of my ladyfriends who is taking a writing class, asked my permission to take one of my works to her writing class.

She wrote that they have a class assignment to use editing tools they have learned and apply them to an online story.

She wrote me that these editing tools seem to be brutal on a piece, but she have had a few of her stories done by editing committees and it's proved to be a wonderful thing. Her stories have been enhanced completely by them.

I happily give my permission for using one of my stories for her class assignmet. Actually I felt a great honor that my work will be showcased in her class... and I even don't mind that there is a great possibility that the review I will get back will be harsh.

finding things

2005-03-05T21:52:00.000-08:00

The other day I take out the 'The Princess Diaries 2' from the video store. I was happy that I did that.

A year after that a moron computer guy 'messed up' my computer... deleted a lot of professional and artwork of mine... and what he left scattered all over in my hard-drive... I am still re-storing the things that he 'in his generosity' left on my hard-drive.

All of you who went through that experience... knew well how hard to put away each day a given time... in order to do the job of 're-storing'. Anyway, I am like a cast-away on the open see on a desert island... that look for the smallest thing... to cheer up her... to help her to keep going... I am always on the lookout for finding something to cheer me up a little...

Back to that movie... I like romantic comedy... so I really enjoyed that work... from the beginning till the end. But there was a scene that I enjoyed most.

Anne Hathaway [the princess]... tells to Julie Andrews [her grandmother on the movie --- please note: it isn't a direct quote.. ]' I lost it...'... And Julie Andrews with great surprise look at her and says: 'What do you say - you lost it... we supposed to find things... not to loose them...'

And I am wondering... why my mother never told me that?

"KidBooks --The Wild Virtual Enchanted Garden - picture book"

it isn't yours....

2005-02-23T00:03:00.000-08:00

The other day I cought a TV show... that I think is a re-run. The name of the show is: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy-- where The Fab Five restyles a choosen guy's apartment, wardrobe and almost every aspect of his life.

There are several reasons that I like that show... one of them is that show allows straight and gay men to relate to each other with understanding.

The other reason is: that I always find there something... that reminds me an episode from my own life. I liked that given episode that I am going to write about because I could relate to its main character very much.

In this episode the main character was Steven who was the co-host of a live show about rock music. He has been recognised as an rock music guru. Steven and her girlfriend's home was dominated by her stuff, giving very little space of his personality.

As the show progressed, Steven's new look was revealed: first to her girlfriend, and then on the TV show where Steven participated.

As Steven arrives to his TV show... all the other participants of that show adore his new look. One of the ladies likes so much so Steven's belt, -- that was made from a playfully printed silk necktie -- that she took it -- without asking permission -- and put it on her neck... as a trendy sal. She didn't take it down... till the end of the show... and I couldn't see if she ever give it back to Steven.

Based on what I learned about Steven's personality... no sign about it in his apartment -- I assume -- he never asked it back, and never get it back... never get that precious necktie back.

small problems of life

2005-02-22T23:56:00.000-08:00

You can see I like to write different genres... my works sometimes can be fall under the cathegory of 'woman', 'culture', children... and so on. But all have a common trait.
What I like to write about... are the small problems of life.

I encountered into many rude reviews on my writings... for example for my 'Valentine's Day': I got a review: 'Why so much going on about a CAKE??? It's a gift to do with as you wish. Eat what you want then throw the rest out.. what is this story about? Friendship... or cake and diets...?? "

I just thanked to that person... because tell you the trueth... I had no idea what to answer him... without hurting his feelings... but his review haven't ruined my love to continue to write about small problems of life..

Valentine's Day -- 2005

2005-02-22T23:53:00.000-08:00

I would like to share with you another review I got for my work titled 'Valentine's Day -- 2005':

'I thoroughly enjoyed this piece. It was sweet, and you were able to completely capture the intracate smaller problems of life, and the thought process behind them.

I especially loved the wine bottle, Happy Birthday handwritten on it. It gave a real, personal touch to the piece, as did the numerous people that helped to make the cake. I feel as though I have been in that situation, debating whether or not to keep the gift of food I probably won't eat, or shouldn't. '

Focus

2005-02-22T23:50:00.000-08:00

The other day I got a very nice compliment on my little stories. I felt that compliment was my birthday gift [yes, that day was my birthday]... I thought I would share it with you:
'Your stories have a good focus. You seem to do really well with the short stories because of your focused story telling technique. Your stories move with a good pace. There isn’t any fluff to bog the story down. Pretty straight-forward plotlines.'

BonBonish

2005-02-22T22:51:00.000-08:00

I would like to thank to all of you who commented on my illustrations that can be find on several virtual galleries on the Internet... and some of them on my:

http://www.bonbonish.com
Some of them asked me who is that BonBonish person who signes my images...

When I post my digital artworks on the Internet my screen name is BonBonish. My daughter, when she was a little girl, used to use bonbon as her screen name. I asked her permission to use her screen name with a little switch -- bonbonish. Because I am not as beautiful as she is... just bonbonish

Mug -- one of my would be favored item

2005-02-22T22:45:00.000-08:00

Besides conversations, I usually am inspired by household chores also. I like to cook, and to serve the things I made. I like to hear my family members praising my dishes, and I like to see their faces enjoy my preparations. I am also always on the lookout for new and interesting household items... that can improve my family and friends' enjoyment from the simple everyday life. I like to read about those things also. I would like to share with you my latest discovery: That great designer's site:

http://www.designmuseum.org/designerex/onkar-singh-kular.htm
... who makes items for the everyday life's activities.

One of his items is a series of mugs in colors, which correspond to one owner's ideal brew. I do not own any of these mugs yet... but I can imagine if I had them... even if one of my children would stop talking to me... because he is angry with me for this or another reason... When he would like I prepare perfect tea... he would point to one of the mugs at the kitchen cabinet... and I would know how strong I would prepare him the tea that day...

Interview

2005-02-22T02:29:00.000-08:00

I have been asked by RIM editor Dee-Marie to write a little article about the creation process of The Wild Virtual Enchanted Garden. The article has been published by the title: Creating My Online Children's Book: by Koty Lapid