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Online Community - while we are raising the financing to start building a new shiny website for you with all the added functionality, we have started a Lilipip Online Community on Ning - please support Lilipip and spread the word about us by joining, uploading your kids favorite videos from your computer or YouTube or from almost anywhere on the web, reviewing them, sending to your friends, blogging, chatting, and more! 

Facebook App – we have created a Facebook App that lets you watch any of our pipclips onFacebook. Please spread the word about us by using our app! 

Twitter – due to lack of time, daily blogging turned into a pain for all of us. We are now on twitter – you can follow Ksenia, Alex or Skot and see what we are up to, every day! 

Free pipclips – if you have noticed, we switched from “Pay-Per-View and Download” model to “Sponsor/Advertiser supported Free Streaming” model. Not all pipclips are encoded yet to stream full length, but we are getting there. You will see on some of them “Brought to you by…” – the businesses we are working with are carefully selected to be family friendly, socially responsible, green, and just plain old good. We are trying to be tasteful and mindful when it comes to advertising and sponsorship, so please let us know your thoughts about this (join a thread on the community forum, for example). The best part is, all content to you is FREE!!! As we transition, please forgive us left-over messaging in e-mails and on the site referring to downloads.

Mobile – since it has been a bit of a pain for you to download and make pipclips work on your mobile devices, we have taken the download part away, but we are working on bringing pipclips to your mobile devices another way. More on that in future newsletters. 

NEW CONTENT 

We are still working with the Children’s Film Festival to get their content on our website. But since they have been very busy with SIFF, it takes longer for them to contact all the filmmakers. We are working on making it happen! 

Side Dish (running time 3:53), by Squid. A fun music video from the band PSAPP. Starring numerous little intergalactic bugs, noodles, flying ducks and turnips singing a modern and catchy song. Animated and directed by Squid in London, visit her website for more of her fantastic and creative creations. 

The Tales of Donkey The Whale (running time 1:00), by Chris Corner & Dave Ezra. Donkey the Whale likes to eat fish sticks…Donkey the whale likes to do many things in this brief 1 minute Pipclip. 

Tir Nan Og (running time 4:03), by Fursy Teyssier. An amazing piece of animation that challenges the heart, as a child must see and accept the passing of her grandmother. 

Stay tuned for more news and keep up to date by visiting us online – on Lilipip website, Blog, MySpace, Facebook, Digg, or Twitter. And if you have any ideas for us, please let us know at team. 

Thanks! 

The lilipip team.

Lilipip | www.lilipip.com

If you have been going to SIFF over the years, you know it starts around May. This year it opened on Thursday, and the first film you don’t want to miss is Sita sings the Blues by a NY based animator Nina Paley - as Seattle Weekly puts it, an “imaginative, giddily witty, visually delicious take on the Ramayana, the ancient Sanskrit epic”. It shows tomorrow, Sunday, at 1:30pm and Monday at 6:45 pm at the Uptown theater. I am going with my almost 5-year old, and will try covering as many great finds for kids at this year’s SIFF as possible. Enjoy!

My son is about to turn 5, and I have finally gotten to figure out what we are going to do at his party. He wanted to do a LEGO themed one (his birthday is in June) - the first opening they had was July 13th! This is insane. I have gotten to Google in hopes of finding an alternative for the birthday party for him, and stumbled upon this fantastic article on parents revolting against the crazy kids partying culture with themes, expensive gift bags, and more. I love the idea of Birthdays Without Pressure - thank you St.Paul’s parents for starting it! What is it with the birthday craze? Maybe because I grew up in a different environment, it is odd to me - we so far have celebrated every birthday in the park, this is the first time I have tried to do a “themed” one as my son asked. Well, we have decided we will do our own LEGO party in the local park - with LEGO building activities out of his old legos and little lego cars as gift bags.

Trying to catch up on things - from e-mail to moving to new office, etc. Got sunburned (I always do on the first day of the sun!), but had so much fun biking and kayaking for the first time (on Lopez Island - beautiful!). Now that the much needed break is over, we are back to work - looking for the best content for your kids. Things are progressing slowly right now as the majority of my and the team’s time goes into fundraising, but we are still moving forward.

We are in the middle of fundraising right now, and I am feeling burned by the race - will take this weekend off for a much needed short mini-vacation. So, I was just looking around online for some wishlist shopping (every resource currently goes into the company, so I have no budge for real shopping:), and was dumb-founded to find out that Nau - the outdoor clothing company - is closing its doors for good. This is something that is facing every company - due to the economic downturn. Take a look at their hartfelt goodbuy. We may be faced with the same issue of we won’t find sufficient funding in time. I will keep you posted on the progress. In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me with questions, comments, suggestions - I will try to respond to each one ksenia @ lilipip dot com

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I came across a website, Zeer, where people rate the food they eat - listing the ingredients and what they thought of it. Might come in handy if you are unsure about a particular product that your kids want. More of this, please - like toys, where they were manufactured, how did they get to the shelves of the store, etc. I am sure it is just a matter of time before such a community will spring to life on the web as well.

Take a look at the new book by David Macaulay (my son’s favorite author for the “how things work” type books). As Core77 blog puts it: “David Macaulay is good at showing how things work (Cathedral, Ship, Mosque, Mill). For his newest book, The Way We Work, he wanted to show how our bodies were constructed, so it was natural for him to think of the human body as a gigantic “machine.” So the body is presented like a series of rides at Six Flags. No joke! It’s a universe of bodily landscapes and blueprints for life where a duodenum is two stories tall. Protein chains are stacked like Campbell soup cans. Cells are assembled like a social network diagram. Tissue making is organized into a dirty laundry room. Oxygen enters red blood cells on an assembly-line roller coaster, organs get trucked in on semis, and liquids course through the body as irrigation ditches then whitewater rafting courses.”

I have recently met with a wonderful woman and an Internet Safety Expert, Linda Criddle. She teaches the most difficult crowd of high school students - the most difficult topic you can teach - Internet Safety. The great part is, they actually listen to her. Especially after finding out what really MySpace’s privacy policy means. We need more of you, Linda!