{"id":98,"date":"2008-04-11T07:50:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=98"},"modified":"2009-09-04T02:29:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T10:29:33","slug":"alcester-art-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Alcester Art Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some pics from yesterday’s AWESOME visit to Alcester Grammar School<\/a>, near Stratford-upon-Avon<\/a> in Warwickshire. I did three talks, with around sixty young people in each audience, followed by a signing session in the library. I’d thoroughly enjoyed coming to the school to do my stuff back in October ’06<\/a>, so was keenly looking forward to my return – and let me tell you, I wasn’t disappointed.<\/p>\n

AGS students are an absolute pleasure to speak to. They love to ask questions! At each talk hands shot up straight away…<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Hands\"<\/p>\n

…so many, in fact, that I occasionally was a bit nonplussed about who to answer first…!<\/p>\n

\"Erm!\"<\/p>\n

…But I did my best to respond, albeit in my traditional manner:<\/p>\n

\"Preparing<\/p>\n

Spike Milligan<\/a> wrote a poem once about a baboon who wanted to fly to the sun. It was a formative influence on me in my childhood years, as I think the above image demonstrates somewhat conclusively. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

All three sessions were an absolute blast, as I fielded questions on everything from where ideas come from to what car I drive (btw: heh! I don’t! ;p) But a particular highlight of the day was seeing a display of giant monster artwork that students had put together to celebrate Tim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Alcester<\/p>\n

My hasty photo does no justice whatsoever to the glory of these monsterpieces (can you make out that green dude with the manga-style hair?? And look at that one top right of Tim asleep as he appears in chapter one<\/a>! Fantastic!!) HOWEVER…<\/p>\n

Inspired by the sight of the above, THE WEBSPHINX and I have had an idea. We would LOVE to create a Reader Art Page for the Tim website<\/a> if we can (along the lines of this one for Black Tat<\/a>). We’re raring to go: all we need is some art! So: if TIM has inspired you<\/em> to create some giant monster artwork of your own, and you fancy seeing it displayed for the amazement and edification of all, then simply scan it into a computer and send it to the following brand new email address: readerart@timdefenderoftheearth.com -We can hardly wait to hear from you!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a MONSTER thank you to the students and staff of Alcester Grammar School (and particularly Mrs Doubleday) for what was another thoroughly brilliant visit. HEE HEE HEE! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some pics from yesterday’s AWESOME visit to Alcester Grammar School, near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. I did three talks, with around sixty young people in each audience, followed by a signing session in the library. I’d thoroughly enjoyed coming to the school to do my stuff back in October ’06, so was keenly looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}