Blank on Blank

03/19/2018

Five years ago today we launched the Blank on Blank animated series with PBS. Thank you for all of the support! Here's episode #1 -->>

"I'm playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: 'WAHR'. And this lady's voice--I can still hear her voice--she goes: 'I want you.'" - Larry Kin...

01/26/2018

"All things considered, I’d rather be dancing." ~Joni Mitchell blankonblank.org/joni-mitchell

01/25/2018

"We came off the stage and they grabbed us and said, 'Yo, boys. You're going to prison.'"

Things didn't go so great when the Beastie Boys opened for Madonna in Virginia.

01/24/2018

"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them ... If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people."

Author Ursula K. Le Guin died Monday at the age of 88.

Ms. Le Guin brought literary elegance and a feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy tales, drawing millions of readers around the world.

01/23/2018

Today is National Handwriting Day. Let's see what the penmanship of famous authors reveals about them.

Like all literary nerds, we’re fascinated by the marginalia of our favorite authors, and recently we’ve been totally addicted to examining their handwritten manuscripts and journal entr…

01/23/2018

"People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking." Heath Ledger .

Today marks 10 years since the actor's death. blankonblank.org/heath-ledger

01/19/2018

Happy birthday to the one and only Dolly Parton!

01/18/2018

On set at SNL, 1978. That's Murray in the middle sporting the 'stache. blankonblank.org/bill-murray

01/17/2018

"There were so many fellows ranked over me until I couldn’t just whoop them all. So I had to out-shadow them by talking." Muhammad Ali was born on this day in 1942.

Listen to a lost Muhammad Ali interview from 1966. Hear Muhammad Ali quotes on life, talking big, and boxing on Mars. Vintage audio edited and set to music.

01/16/2018

The story of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott told in comic book form. This 16-page pamphlet helped inspire nonviolent protest movements across the South.

01/15/2018

On MLK Day, we look back at this episode with Nina Simone. The artist describes writing her song "The King of Love is Dead" the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

01/14/2018

Get pulled in to this mesmerizing hand-drawn short.

In this hand drawn animation a line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects…