{"id":1245,"date":"2009-07-07T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2009-11-23T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T14:52:00","slug":"the-octuplet-story-of-our-lives-by-babette-wagenvoort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"The Octuplet: Story of Our Lives by Babette Wagenvoort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BW_Octuplets_Story_classic_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1246\" title=\"BW_Octuplets_Story_classic_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BW_Octuplets_Story_classic_cover.jpg\" alt=\"BW_Octuplets_Story_classic_cover\" width=\"170\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1247\" title=\"BW_Octuplets_Story_cube1\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube1.jpg\" alt=\"BW_Octuplets_Story_cube1\" width=\"170\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1248\" title=\"BW_Octuplets_Story_cube2\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube2.jpg\" alt=\"BW_Octuplets_Story_cube2\" width=\"170\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1249\" title=\"BW_Octuplets_Story_cube3\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube3.jpg\" alt=\"BW_Octuplets_Story_cube3\" width=\"170\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/ebooks\/BW_Octuplets_Story_classic_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/ebooks\/BW_Octuplets_Story_classic_US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">US Letter<\/a> PDF 3.4Mb<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/storycubes\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube1_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> StoryCube 1<\/a> PDF 1.6Mb<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/storycubes\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube2_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> StoryCube 2<\/a> PDF 1.6Mb<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/storycubes\/BW_Octuplets_Story_cube3_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> StoryCube 3<\/a> PDF 1.6Mb<\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong> :\u00a0<em>The Octuplet: Story of Our Lives<\/em> is the first published story in English by Dutch visual artist and illustrator Babette Wagenvoort.\u00a0It tells the strange story of eight human-beings living inside their mother, while they prepare for their future. One of the octuplets seems better equipped for life than the others&#8230; \u00a0Much like Babette&#8217;s visual work this story balances between reality and fiction, between poetry and prose.<\/p>\n<p>Published July 2009 in the Diffusion\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?cat=191\" target=\"_blank\">Transformations<\/a> series<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babettewagenvoort.com\" target=\"_blank\">Babette Wagenvoort<\/a><\/strong> (MA RCA) is best known for her red drawings from the series &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rectilinearpersonality.com\" target=\"_blank\">Life According To A Rectilinear Personality<\/a>&#8216;, which she published daily on her website for years. \u00a0As an illustrator she has worked for several publications like VPRO Gids, De Volkskrant, Vrij Nederland, Opzij and Hollands Maandblad in The Netherlands and the BBC, Le Gun and Dazed &amp; Confused in the UK. Her drawings can be found as commissioned public art works and animations in schools, as wallpaper designed for Maxalot, but also as wall drawings, animations and installations within more regular exhibition spaces. She teaches drawing at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and is curator of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volkskrant.nl\/oog\" target=\"_blank\">Volkskrant Oog<\/a>&#8216;, an online platform for artists of the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. A new book with Babette&#8217;s drawings called &#8216;Mood Swing &#8211; An Alphabet of Moods&#8217; will come out in July\/August 2009.<\/p>\n<p>*** a classic landscape eBook &amp; StoryCubes created with the new <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?page_id=4\">Diffusion Generator<\/a> ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download A4 | US Letter PDF 3.4Mb StoryCube 1 PDF 1.6Mb StoryCube 2 PDF 1.6Mb StoryCube 3 PDF 1.6Mb About [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,191],"tags":[71,715,171,38,716,146,211],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-storycubes","category-transformations","tag-art","tag-babette-wagenvoort","tag-drawing","tag-fiction","tag-illustration","tag-poetry","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}