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Hoy ENZO (ONZE) cumple doce. Today ENZO (eleven) turns twelve.

The boy grows quickly. It’s hard to believe that four point five years have passed since we made the graphic above (explained) while playing with his name. It’s even harder to believe that he’s been tugging on my ear (OZEN), exploring the world, and bringing joy to our lives for a dozen years (EONZ to him).

Today’s itinerary (ZONE): shooting BB guns (left over from when I was a boy), walking in the woods by the river, eating a menu of his design, and celebrating with a cake baked and decorated by his sister (NOZE).

¡Feliz día, hijo!

Here’s something from the homefront that I failed to mentioned. This happened: Young Enzo/Now Enzo.

The story of the Limby Gang starts with Enzo and has yet to end. Follow it here.

Delivered: Zoosense is now in the hands of The New Children’s Museum and can be found in the Improv Studio. This is the follow-up to Adaptalimbs, our previous work for NCM. More details to follow.

We’ll be sharing our work at the Spring South Park Walkabout in San Diego. South Park Quality Meats will be on display together with some of our costumes, embroidery pieces, monsters, birds, bigfoot, monkeys, etc. Look for the new Home Ec. Studio location in the Burlingame Garage. And we’re happy to say that Susie Ghahremani will be there as well. If you have a chance come by and say hi.

Spring South Park Walkabout
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 6:00-10:00 PM
2225 30th Street, San Diego

Some of the comics that Enzo’s been drawing.

Knight in Shining Duct Tape, Enzo’s Halloween Costume, 2009 (Click through for an explanation and more photos.)

United Steaks of America recalls Enzo’s salame label. See also these and this. (via episcopo) via Tastespotting via randomwalks d/j)

Halloween 2008

Two years ago, Enzo decided he wanted to take a closer look at meat. He spent quite a while absorbed in the topic, but then he took a break and switched his focus to Scratch and computer programming. However, our recent stay in Argentina left a big impression on his taste buds and he went right back to drawing and sewing salami and steaks. He’s even started work on one meat related Scratch project.

So when Halloween rolled around this year it made sense for him to dress as a butcher. The costume and side of beef are part of a larger project which we’ll be sharing very soon.

Linkage for a comment I left:

“… And here are some votes for unschooling, freedom, spontaneity (+1), and simplicity (+1 +2) – not to mention the here, the now, slowness (+1 +2 +3), singletasking, idleness, and going with the flow (natural, not societal).”

More on some of those topics messily warehoused here:
http://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling
http://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:simplicity
http://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slow
http://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling

Enzo via grecolaborativo

Already three years ago, Enzo took a picture of the word zone painted in a parking lot. At the time he initially mistook it for his name. Ever since, we’ve frequently played around with the letters in his name and recently we sat down with the computer to do the same.

This is a little graphic we made showing all of the possible permutations using the letters in his name. Now he also knows the difference between a permutation and a combination. We highlighted the results according to how much we liked each one, the darker ones being favored more than the lighter ones. We’ll probably screen-print some t-shirts (examples and howto) with the ones in black.

ZONE = the original mistaken identity NOZE = nose or knows (see also NOEZ) ONZE = ones or once (eleven) or once ONEZ = ones or owns EONZ = eons

Enzo trivia:

1. Some of our favorite other Enzos are designer Enzo Mari; Enzo Arnone, co-author of Ciccì Coccò; and futbol (soccer) great Enzo Francescoli. (As Boca fans, we like Francescoli despite his gallina history.)

2. The name is often defined as winner. It is an Italian form of Henry which means ‘rules the home’ (not in this case).

3. One of the primary reasons that Enzo’s (and Sophia’s) name was chosen is because it is pronounced more-or-less the same in both English and Spanish. Of course, a friend of ours mistook his name for end zone the first time he heard it and has called him that since.