• L'illusionniste
• Ai Weiwei
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Robot & Frank
• Paranorman

Illustrated

• A Flight of Angels by various & Rebecca Guay
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• De:Tales by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
• Fables by Bill Willingham
• Gogo Monster by Taiyo Matsumoto
• Sandman (vol. 5+) by Neil Gaiman
• Spera
• The Child Thief by Brom
• The Unwritten by Mike Carey & Peter Gross

Fiction

• Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
• Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Pegasus by Robin McKinley
• The Smile by Donna Jo Napoli

Nonfiction

Books

• Paint it Black by Janet Fitch
• Better Than Running at Night by Hillary Frank
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Films

• The Art of Getting By
• What Dreams May Come

swimmer

• my mother found me in an abandoned rowboat

the last human

• dream : human child raised in a world of machines, her home in a museum of humankind's past, her mentor a machine designed to care
  • how would character develop?
  • morality, spirituality/beliefs, personality, emotional health
  • motivated by?
• meditative machines; mechanical bodhisattva & zen bot
  • why would a machine seek zen?
    • zen : (n.) a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing the value of meditation and intuition rather than ritual worship or study of scriptures.

• andrea gibson
• rumi
• maya angelou
• buddy wakefield
• ee cummings

Fiction

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Dreamhouse Kings II by Robert Liparulo
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Non-Fiction

• The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

• d-slr camera
• bicycle