On My Bookshelf

If you have been following my blog for any length of time, you have read about my infatuation with how other artists create. I love to find out how other people think, imagine, create, and make art. I also love to read other people's journals. I have shared with you my many journals, including my travel journals and idea journals of all shapes and sizes. So you can imagine, no pun intended, how happy I was when Amazon.com recommended Imagination Illustrated: The Jim Henson Journal by Karen Falk with a forward by Lisa Henson. 

Karen Falk is the Archives Director of the Jim Henson Company (could you imagine having access to all things Jim Henson?). Lisa Henson is Jim Henson's eldest daughter.

Did you ever have a book that could always make you happy? No matter what kind of funk you might be in or whatever creativee impasse you might have reached--a book that immediately made things right with the world. Well this is the book that does that for me.

I have always been a Jim Henson fan. Not only for his puppetry but for his ability to create imaginative alternatives to reality--rather they be people, things or universes.

As I was reading through the book, I came across the discussion of John Denver and the collaboration he did with Jim Henson and the Muppets for their joint Christmas album--which to this day is still one of my favorites. It is the only album that I have purchased every iteration: 8 track, cassette, album, CD, and iTunes. 

  

In closing, this is a must have for anyone wanting to delve into the mind of one of the most creative, imaginative, and all-around nicest men of the world.




Full Disclosure: Neither Amazon.com nor the authors have provided any compensation for this review. This book was purchased online without a personal perusal before purchase.