In a recent blog post, loyal friend of RAMH Froog dredged up a name I hadn’t seen or heard for years: “cartoonist” Hugh MacLeod.*
I no longer have any idea where I first encountered MacLeod and his interesting work. At the time, though, he was struggling to forge some sort of business from his creative output while [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cartoons & Animation'
“I Can’t Market My Art!”
Oh, Yes You Can
March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Art & Photography · Cartoons & Animation · In the News · Looking Backward · The Business · The Online World · Writing
(Under) Mining Your Dreams
February 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments
[Image: "Good and Evil," by Daniel Merriam. See the original, more clearly, at Merriam's own site.]
From whiskey river’s commonplace book (“the pursuit of fantasy“):
Writing in the Dark
It’s not difficult.
Anyway, it’s necessary.
Wait till morning, and you’ll forget.
And who knows if morning will come.
Fumble for the light, and you’ll be
stark awake, but the vision
will be fading, slipping
out [...]
Tags: Cartoons & Animation · Everyday Life · Language · Ruminations · Style and Craft · Writing · whiskey river Fridays
Avatar and the Uncanny Valley
January 5th, 2010 · 14 Comments
We saw Avatar the other day, and did the whole 3D, IMAX nine yards. It complicated things a little — there are many more showings of the plain-old 2D version, and for that matter of the 3D in non-IMAX theaters. But after all we’d heard about the experience, it seemed the only way to go.
My [...]
Tags: Cartoons & Animation · Everyday Life · In the News · Movies · Ruminations · Science & Medicine · Tech · The Media
A Quirky Eclectic Christmas Music Playlist (2009 ed.)
December 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Taking off from the first edition… All I’m going to do for the music portion here is just add ten songs (and pray that, over time, I won’t blow the little WordPress audio-player thingie out of the water).
As before, these artists and numbers appear, back-to-back, in the playlist:
Peter Robbins et al.: dialogue from A Charlie [...]
Tags: Cartoons & Animation · In the Blood · Looking Backward · Music · Television
So Your Book Just Sits There, Inert?
November 23rd, 2009 · 11 Comments
(hat tip to Janet Reid)
Tags: Advertising/Packaging · Art & Photography · Books as Books · Cartoons & Animation
Things Which Seem Otherwise
November 13th, 2009 · 10 Comments
From whiskey river:
Let me make this perfectly clear.
I have never written anything because it is a Poem.
This is a mistake you always make about me,
A dangerous mistake. I promise you
I am not writing this because it is a Poem.
You suspect this is a posture or an act
I am sorry to tell you it is not [...]
Tags: Cartoons & Animation · Everyday Life · Music · Poetry · Reading · Ruminations · The Missus · whiskey river Fridays
Do Not Distract the Artist
August 26th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Single-minded in pursuit of your ideals, are you? Think you’re putting a lot of time into your writing, your painting, your kids, your life? You call yourself dedicated?
Ha!
Or so I thought when I saw the video below. The maker claims to have spent 1500 hours on this not-quite-four-minute project, an estimate which I see no [...]
Tags: Cartoons & Animation · Tech · The Online World · Video/Computer Gaming
Art Forms
July 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments
[Above, the trailer for the short film Lost and Found, an adaptation of the children's book of the same name by Oliver Jeffers. For stills from the movie, visit the Cartoon Brew link above, and STUDIO aka.]
From whiskey river:
Recipe for an Ocean in the Absence of the Sea
You have the ingredients on hand,
Get to the [...]
Tags: Art & Photography · Cartoons & Animation · Movies · Ruminations · Theater
Stories in the Trees
July 10th, 2009 · 8 Comments
[The artwork above comes from a fantastic -- fantastically rich, but also just literally fantastic -- Web site called The Hermitage, from the mind and imagination of artist Rima Staines. She and her companion Tui seem to have a life straight out of fiction, as you can see from her blog. Check out their "wandering [...]
Tags: Art & Photography · Cartoons & Animation · Language · Poetry · Reading · Ruminations · whiskey river Fridays
There Are Some Cures for Pre-Summertime Blues
June 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments
Wanted to draw your attention to a couple of recent donations to the “life is complex and frustrating, so let’s go have some fun!” cause.
First, you can generally look to the Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog for a pick-me-up. (And before breakfast, say researchers, is when 99% of the populace most needs picking up. [...]
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