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Here's a whole new take on the 'houseboat' concept: There's a seaside village in France where many of the homes are made out of upside-down boats. You can rent one here for your next vacation.

Speaking of houseboats, artist and poet Shel Silverstein’s Sausalito houseboat was recently on the market. Shel Silverstein had a big creative influence on me. (See the newly-illustrated poem I wrote for my children many years ago, below.) Did you know he wrote Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue? Here he is performing with Dr Hook & The Medicine Show on his houseboat. (That's a very strange looking party!) Anyway, recording on a houseboat reminds me of Pink Floyd's David Gilmore, who turned his houseboat on the Thames into a recording studio. Watch David Gilmore sing Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 on that houseboat. <-Great!

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"I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down."
–Mitch Hedberg

"Summertime is always the best of what might be."
–Charles Bowden

1. Upside Down Text: Type text, words, letters, or symbols into this website, and it will give them to you upside down and backwards. (I used it to make the backwards 'House Boats' headline at the beginning of this email.)

2. Have you ever wondered what an upside-down iceberg looks like? Check out these rare and stunning photos of one that flipped. Speaking of icebergs, this giant iceberg weighing a trillion tons just broke off Antarctica.

3. Take Home a Piece of the Paris Love-Locked Bridges. My family and I put a lock on a Paris bridge years ago – I wonder if it's for sale. (The key is in the Seine!)

4. How the British Library Digitized One of the World’s Largest Books.

5. 10 Amazing Recycled Ship Houses.

"The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up."
–Billy Sunday

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Hi. I’m D.E.Uhlig. I’m an artist, author, husband and father.

For as long as I can remember, I have loved to draw. Years ago I gave my wife a hand-drawn card for our anniversary, and she loved it so much she made me promise to ALWAYS hand-draw her cards. Then our three kids made me promise to do the same with their birthday cards. And when I posted some of my drawings online, people began asking how they could purchase my work—so I created this newsletter. I believe in something I like to call “The Happiness of Art” and I hope it makes you smile.

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D.E.Uhlig is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in numerous publications including the Kansas City Star, Christian Science Monitor, University Daily Kansan, Editorial Humor Magazine, and World Policy Journal. Commercial illustration and design clients over the years have included Samsung, Sprint, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, among others—and his Starbucks RedCup illustrations have been featured on the company's Pinterest and Facebook pages. In 1989, Mr. Uhlig co-founded Uhlig LLC, a leading provider of cross-media publishing and communication services in industries ranging from residential housing to book publishing to cancer care. Mr. Uhlig is married with three children and resides in Kansas City. He is currently working on children’s books, ebooks and apps.

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