Dr. Seuss, also known as Theodor Geisel, has been a very important creative inspiration in my life ever since I was small child.
In the early 1970's, I truly lived to watch the Dr. Seuss animated specials that were broadcast on CBS sporadically throughout the year. I loved everything about them! The music was exceptionally funky and the stories were amazing since they came out of the mind of a creative genius that had no limits. The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, and The Hoober-Bloob Highway are classics. Just to see the original illustrations I had fallen in love with as a child moving and alive was wonderful. I can trace my love of cartooning and pen and ink to Dr. Seuss books being read to me by my Dad when I was 4 years old. The stories were weird, funny and filled with outlandish story lines that had an insightful message and a lesson to be learned in the end. I just couldn't get enough of the subtlety in Seuss' line work and the unbridled imagination behind the characters, text and imagery.
I am very grateful for him being alive on this planet and inspire young minds to dream big and grow their imagination through nonsensical concepts. In the end, his style of creativity forces your mind to challenge what it knows and understands in a completely different light and produce new thought and ways of looking at the world around you.
In the early 1970's, I truly lived to watch the Dr. Seuss animated specials that were broadcast on CBS sporadically throughout the year. I loved everything about them! The music was exceptionally funky and the stories were amazing since they came out of the mind of a creative genius that had no limits. The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, and The Hoober-Bloob Highway are classics. Just to see the original illustrations I had fallen in love with as a child moving and alive was wonderful. I can trace my love of cartooning and pen and ink to Dr. Seuss books being read to me by my Dad when I was 4 years old. The stories were weird, funny and filled with outlandish story lines that had an insightful message and a lesson to be learned in the end. I just couldn't get enough of the subtlety in Seuss' line work and the unbridled imagination behind the characters, text and imagery.
I am very grateful for him being alive on this planet and inspire young minds to dream big and grow their imagination through nonsensical concepts. In the end, his style of creativity forces your mind to challenge what it knows and understands in a completely different light and produce new thought and ways of looking at the world around you.
