The Wild Blue Imagination

Working camp this past week, I've come to appreciate many things but the most of which is the pure, unrefined awesome-sauce you taste when you get little kids to have fun just to have fun.  I'm pretty sure, once upon a time, we old people used to call this "playing."  But the little dudes and girls really have it mastered, which is kinda funny to think about really - usually time and experience allow you to master something, but the inexperienced youth of our society are the ones who really know how to do it up right.  I can't think of any other species or example of where this really ever happens.  Kinda cool.

Anyways, what got me on this tear is a link I found on The (Daily?) Dish (part of blogging again requires one to actually do some deep reading again).  It's for Imaginawesome, an art project by artist/software engineer Garrett Miller in which he takes the submitted artwork of kids and gives it an experienced artist's touch.  The product is something like what you get to the right, but the even cooler by-product is what you get below: