Some background material on the curious case of Marla Olmstead, uber-adorable Gap-kid and kinda-sorta child prodigy:
Marla, above, paints in real time. (YouTube)
Marla's website.
Mia Fineman's wonderful article in Slate that says much of what I said (minor quibbles here and there), only more convincingly, complete with spot-on references to elephants in Thailand.
Her father, Mark Olmstead, writes a letter in her/his defense to Roger Ebert after Ebert wrote a review of "My Kid Could Paint That" that pretty much says he doesn't buy it.
An indieWIRE interview with "My Kid Could Paint That" director Amir Bar-Lev.
A Salon podcast of yet another interview with Bar-Lev.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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I wonder if that Jack Russell Terrier ever walked across one of her wet paintings and left paw prints all over the house.
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