Comic Theory

Explained by Scott McCloud:


For a basic painting class we were required to read his book "Understanding Comics." It seemed unrelated at first, but it is a fantastic book, even if you don't THINK you like comics.

Sweet Dreams

This is insane. I mean, a cupcake and butternut squash? Put yo wrapper back on you crazy cupcake!

"Sweet Dreams" by Kirsten Lepore
Music by Kirsten, Chelsea, and Megan Lepore

www.kirstenlepore.com

Death to the Tinman

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Meat Puppet, or man of tin with a heart of gold? This is a really cool re imagining of the Tinwoodsman of Oz. Sweeeeeet.

Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon.

This is a trailer for the movie Primer. I definitely recommend it.

If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?

A Lovely Sunday Night

Last night was pretty awesome. I went to Gallery 5 to see the "Dirt Cheap Opera" put on by Bread and Puppet. After that I went to go see Accordion Death Squad,
Skeletonbreath, and Horror Show Hot Club. I've seen Accordion Death Squad a few times and they are awesome, but I had never seen Skeleton Breath and it was a great surprise. It was really high energy gypsy metal type stuff.


Skeletonbreath


Accordion Death Squad

Yay!

Sketchbook!

Crazy Drawing

I drew this a few months ago, and never got around to finishing it, but I scanned it in and I think I'm going to mess around with it in Photoshop for fun.



Also, I'm super excited because I started learning HTML. Just a little bit, but I look forward to understanding it more and being able to do fancy things.

Espinazo del Diablo

"What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber."



Why do I watch these movies late at night when I'm all alone? This, as well as most Guillermo del Toro stuff (e.g. Pan's Labyrinth) was beautiful and chilling. I like the historical background they both have, with the innocent child protagonist and similarities to fairy tales.

"unlike a maze, a labyrinth is actually a constant transit of finding, not getting lost. It’s about finding, not losing, your way. That was very important for me. It is a place where you do sharp turns and you can have the illusion of being lost, but you are always doing a constant transit to an inevitable center. That’s the difference. A maze is full of dead ends, and a labyrinth may have the illusion of having a dead end, but it always continues."

"There are fairy tales that are created to instill fear in children, and there are fairy tales that are created to instill hope and magic in children. I like those. I like the anarchic ones. I like the crazy ones. And, I think that all of them have a huge quotient of darkness because the one thing that alchemy understands, and fairy tale lore understands, is that you need the vile matter for magic to flourish. You need lead to turn it into gold. You need the two things for the process. So when people sanitize fairy tales and homogenize them, they become completely uninteresting for me.”

It's raining leprocy and acid...

Last night I went to Gallery 5 and saw Jason Webley. This was one of my favorite songs he played, though its a video from some other show:

He's from Seattle. Boy would I love to get serenaded by him on a river boat.

In progress...

I haven't finished this yet, and I need to take some better shots of it, but I'm happy with where it is going.