On Gaza
2 months ago
2.21.2009
What is the plural of still life?
That mysterious green thing is a piece of broccoli that was really wilted by the time I was done, and a crab and bay leaves. I'm not a huge fan of still lifes (lives?) but I had to do it for my portfolio. I gotta get on drawings some more hands too. blllluuuuub!
2.16.2009
Study for a painting
This image will be incorporated, along with other elements into a 2'x3' painting. It is small, but if you click on it, it should take you to my flickr page. Ciao.
2.13.2009
2.11.2009
2.08.2009
9 and Coraline
Watch this:
Tim Burton is making this into a movie which should be pretty cool...as long as he doesn't mess it up like he did with Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
I just watched Coraline 3-D and it was awesome.
'Coraline': Making the most of 3D
Selick describes this scenario as "Alice in Wonderland" meets "Hansel and Gretel." Moviegoers might recognize more than a little bit of "The Wizard of Oz."
It took several years for the filmmakers to come up with their own version of sepia-tone Kansas and Technicolor Oz. Selick took the unpublished manuscript of the book to Bill Mechanic, a producer of the movie, who had worked with him on past films.
Initially Mechanic thought "Coraline" would be live action too, but Selick's push for animation prevailed. Still, Mechanic said he considered stop motion "kind of passe" and cast around for ways to make it "showier." He suggested that half the movie be shot in stop motion and the other half in CGI.
But the alternative reality, in Mechanic's words, "didn't really do the wow"; it didn't look special enough for Coraline to want to stay, or for audiences to be impressed. That's when 3-D, which had only recently become technically viable thanks to better technology and more comfortable glasses, came into the picture.
But with the entire movie now in 3-D, Selick and his colleagues still needed to find a way to make the alternative world stand out, literally. Selick's solution was to flatten the colors and "crush" the sets in the real world. Coraline's bedroom, the kitchen, the apartments upstairs and down: All these locations were compressed through the use of forced perspective and sets pitched forward toward the camera. For the alternative reality, the colors were deepened, the sets built out and the 3-D cranked up.
Tim Burton is making this into a movie which should be pretty cool...as long as he doesn't mess it up like he did with Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
I just watched Coraline 3-D and it was awesome.
'Coraline': Making the most of 3D
Selick describes this scenario as "Alice in Wonderland" meets "Hansel and Gretel." Moviegoers might recognize more than a little bit of "The Wizard of Oz."
It took several years for the filmmakers to come up with their own version of sepia-tone Kansas and Technicolor Oz. Selick took the unpublished manuscript of the book to Bill Mechanic, a producer of the movie, who had worked with him on past films.
Initially Mechanic thought "Coraline" would be live action too, but Selick's push for animation prevailed. Still, Mechanic said he considered stop motion "kind of passe" and cast around for ways to make it "showier." He suggested that half the movie be shot in stop motion and the other half in CGI.
But the alternative reality, in Mechanic's words, "didn't really do the wow"; it didn't look special enough for Coraline to want to stay, or for audiences to be impressed. That's when 3-D, which had only recently become technically viable thanks to better technology and more comfortable glasses, came into the picture.
But with the entire movie now in 3-D, Selick and his colleagues still needed to find a way to make the alternative world stand out, literally. Selick's solution was to flatten the colors and "crush" the sets in the real world. Coraline's bedroom, the kitchen, the apartments upstairs and down: All these locations were compressed through the use of forced perspective and sets pitched forward toward the camera. For the alternative reality, the colors were deepened, the sets built out and the 3-D cranked up.
2.07.2009
On the Subject of Disappearing Cats
"I believe you are entering a phase in your life in which many different things will occur. The disappearance of your cat is only the beginning."
"Different things," I said. "Good things or bad things?"
She tilted her head in thought. "Good things and bad things. Bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first."
"To me, that sounds very general," I said. "Don't you have any more concrete information?"
"Yes, I suppose what I am saying does sound very general said Malta Kano. "But after all, Mr. Okada, when one is speaking of the essence of things , it often happens that one can only speak in generalities. Concrete things certainly do command attention, but they are often little more than trivia. Side trips. The more one tries to see into the distance, the more generalized things become.
I nodded silently--without the slightest inkling of what she was talking about.
"Do I have permission to call you again?" she asked.
"Sure," I said, though in fact I had no wish to be called by anyone. "Sure" was about the only answer I could give.
She snatched her red vinyl hat from the table, took the handbag that had been hidden beneath it, and stood up. Uncertain as to how I should respond to this, I remained seated.
"I do have one small bit of information that I can share with you," Malta Kano said, looking down at me, after she had put on her red hat.
" You will find your polka-dot tie, but not in your house."
[From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]
"Different things," I said. "Good things or bad things?"
She tilted her head in thought. "Good things and bad things. Bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first."
"To me, that sounds very general," I said. "Don't you have any more concrete information?"
"Yes, I suppose what I am saying does sound very general said Malta Kano. "But after all, Mr. Okada, when one is speaking of the essence of things , it often happens that one can only speak in generalities. Concrete things certainly do command attention, but they are often little more than trivia. Side trips. The more one tries to see into the distance, the more generalized things become.
I nodded silently--without the slightest inkling of what she was talking about.
"Do I have permission to call you again?" she asked.
"Sure," I said, though in fact I had no wish to be called by anyone. "Sure" was about the only answer I could give.
She snatched her red vinyl hat from the table, took the handbag that had been hidden beneath it, and stood up. Uncertain as to how I should respond to this, I remained seated.
"I do have one small bit of information that I can share with you," Malta Kano said, looking down at me, after she had put on her red hat.
" You will find your polka-dot tie, but not in your house."
[From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]
2.01.2009
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