So I've been thinking about taking a new direction with my blogging habits. SAN started out over 3 years ago as a way for me to get my noggin back into creative gear, and I think I've been pretty successful at that. I always meant to grow into something other at some point, and I'm seriously considering a separate, art-based blog. It might update on Mondays (MAN?)
I would love to actually get a comic rolling, but I'm still a little nervous about announcing an update schedule and not being able to cut it. I have to face it, I need to go through some remedial storytelling classes before I can actually even think of beginning a story. At the same time maybe I need to hone my fiction writing skills.
Monster Pulse by Magnolia Pearl Porter is a little like Pokemon, a little like Orphan Annie, and a little like Avatar: The Last Airbender. Maybe a little like A Distant Soil too.
I just bought š! #9 after learning that it won an award at Angoulême this weekend. I thank Lewis Trondheim that I am even aware of Angoulême International Comics Festival .
This seems like a great place to start reading: Jessica McLeod.
I almost forgot I bought Shutterbug Follies this past week. It should get here some time this week. The state of the union address was given this week. Also I got a haircut. I also tried to watch the Golden Globes. And then I heard Mike Holmes did this interview on Where Monster's Dwell, which I learned is the longest running comics radio broadcast. I watched an episode of Alcatraz by accident. Also some guy conjectured about Ice Cube's good day.
I started reading Friends with Boys again. And then I got sidetracked investigating a reference to Demonology 101.
So other than a few productive things I did on Saturday, this is how my weekend feels.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Innocence Naivete Childhood
The weekend started off right having dinner with a good friend and his family. I keep joking to him that I am his son from the future, because his son and I have so many of the same mannerisms. Its probably just because we're both mentally childish. :p
I watched Let the Right One In last night. It left me with a feeling of cold, longing; the kind of somber yearning you feel in preadolescence when something earth shatteringly tragic happens. Its a film full of quiet moments, pregnant with the possibility of something magical happening, but the skeptical adult mind will nevertheless realize the brutal fatalism of it all. This was just one of the suprise pieces of art I encountered this week.
The other was quite a reversal. Magnolia Pearl Porter's The Good Crook promises you violence and tragedy, but delivers an unexpected warm caress of innocence and humanity. I expected failure and sardoodledom, and instead discovered a narrative that flawlessly urges you on moment to moment. The artwork is intentionally rustic, punctuated with some of the most lyrical imagery of mundane moments.
http://www.adamcadwell.com/wheeler/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yt1ooLQGo
Well, the night's almost up, and I have a gazillion things to do before bed. How was your week? Do you have a lot planned for this week? Me, I'm hoping to start painting this week. Its definitely going to be an action-packed, up hill trudge, beginning with paying off some bills so old they're called williams, immediately followed by slaving for the man, topped with a dollop of trying to get into bed at a decent time and still get things done while getting up early enough to get other stuff done. Cheers, its beer:30 over here.
I watched Let the Right One In last night. It left me with a feeling of cold, longing; the kind of somber yearning you feel in preadolescence when something earth shatteringly tragic happens. Its a film full of quiet moments, pregnant with the possibility of something magical happening, but the skeptical adult mind will nevertheless realize the brutal fatalism of it all. This was just one of the suprise pieces of art I encountered this week.
The other was quite a reversal. Magnolia Pearl Porter's The Good Crook promises you violence and tragedy, but delivers an unexpected warm caress of innocence and humanity. I expected failure and sardoodledom, and instead discovered a narrative that flawlessly urges you on moment to moment. The artwork is intentionally rustic, punctuated with some of the most lyrical imagery of mundane moments.
http://www.adamcadwell.com/wheeler/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yt1ooLQGo
http://www.facebook.com/Dis...
"Up," remixed by the Australian DJ, Pogo.
"Up," remixed by the Australian DJ, Pogo.
Well, the night's almost up, and I have a gazillion things to do before bed. How was your week? Do you have a lot planned for this week? Me, I'm hoping to start painting this week. Its definitely going to be an action-packed, up hill trudge, beginning with paying off some bills so old they're called williams, immediately followed by slaving for the man, topped with a dollop of trying to get into bed at a decent time and still get things done while getting up early enough to get other stuff done. Cheers, its beer:30 over here.
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