I recently started reading a book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, entitled Freedom From The Known.
It’s a really good book that talks in depth about freeing yourself from pre-conditioning/programming that parents and society provides.
I’d recommend it to anyone looking for freedom from negative/useless conditioning.
It gave me inspiration to create the piece below, it will have it’s own unique meaning to each person who views it.
Oh Gnome!!!
**Edit:
A lot of you have been stumbling onto my page by looking for the age old question:
“Who came first, the Travelocity Gnome, or the Gnome in the movie Amalie?”
Look no further as I have the answer!
The movie Amelie was released in 2001, while the Travelocity Where’s my gnome? commercials started in 2004.
The Travelocity gnome was inspired by a really cool prank.
Also…
As a child I remember watching The World of David The Gnome on Nickelodeon, which was actually a Spanish cartoon brought to the U.S. in 1987, the foul year of my birth.
-Ego
Clever!! Which reminds me, wasn’t the Travelocity “Roaming Gnome” just ripped off from the French movie Amelie? Or was it the other way around?
After reading your comment I had to find out which one came first, the Amelie gnome or the Travelocity gnome. Amelie was released in 2001, while the Travelocity “Where’s my gnome?” commercials started in 2004. The Travelocity gnome was inspired by a really cool prank.
As a child I remember watching The World of David The Gnome on Nickelodeon, which was actually a Spanish cartoon brought to the U.S. in 1987, the foul year of my birth.
-Ego