I Am So Conflicted

by on March 3, 2015 at 1:17 pm
Posted In: Test

Whisky2015-03-03-12.48So I was spending my lunch break at Trader Joe’s to get a sandwich and some bare essentials when I saw a thing of beauty.

This was a gorgeous bottle both esthetically and practically. The big problem is not getting into the fact that I’ve been gradually becoming a tea-totaler over beer and wine over the last few years, I’ve never really been into the hard stuff. In fact other than appreciating a nice single malt, the only time I buy whisky is in november for a really good pumpkin pie recipe I have that calls for a jigger of bourbon. I’m not going to buy a fourteen dollar bottle just to pour the contents down the sink even if it were bad whisky (and based on my faith in Trader Joe’s usual standards I’ll assume that it’s not.)

Heck I don’t even know what I’d put in this bottle! Perhaps a homemade salad dressing, herb infused olive oil, maybe even leftover tea… either way I know I’m going to be obsessing over it for the rest of the day.

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Laurel

by on March 2, 2015 at 1:05 pm
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Laurel2015-03-02-09.37I’m planning to overhaul the cast page so I just began to do finished concept illustrations of the main cast. I’m starting out with Laurel (even though technically she’s 25 appearances short of being part of the main cast based on my current rules.)

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Twenty Eight

by on February 28, 2015 at 10:08 am
Posted In: Art

 

Network
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

I’ve been wanting to do this one all month.

I know it’s from having just watched it for the first time this January. But this is the one film was one of the few that I knew exactly what I was going to draw as soon as drew it’s name from the hat and as the day’s went on I became increasingly frustrated that I hadn’t gotten it yet.. (It was getting to the point where I was beginning to worry that it would be the thirtieth slip of paper (not a good thing in a February challenge)

But anyway I love this scene. A lot of people remember this as a scene where a news anchor finally works up the courage to make the ultimate sacrifice and speak truth to power, and while this is technically true Howard Beale has done this because he has had a nervous breakdown, he’s just arrived in the studio wet from the rain in an overcoat over his pajamas and really is in need of psychiatric help. The thing is the Network won’t let him get it because his ratings are just too good.

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Twenty Seven

by on February 27, 2015 at 9:39 am
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godfather
When I received my instructions to draw The Godfather this morning I’m sure there were many good options, Sonny’s murder at the tollbooth and the horse in the bed scene come to mind. But ultimately, when you stop to think about it, there is only one choice.

 

Bonasera: I believe in America. America has made my fortune. And I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a boyfriend, not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn’t protest. Two months ago he took her for a drive, with another boy friend. They made her drink whiskey and then they tried to take advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her honor. So they beat her. Like an animal. When I went to the hospital her nose was broken. Her jaw was shattered, held together by wire. She couldn’t even weep because of the pain. But I wept. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life. A beautiful girl. Now she will never be beautiful again. [He breaks down at this point, and the Don gestures to Tom Hagen to get him a drink.] Sorry… [He regains his composure and carries on.] I went to the police, like a good American. These two boys were brought to trial. The judge sentenced them to three years in prison, and suspended the sentence. Suspended sentence! They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom like a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at me. Then I said to my wife, “For justice, we must go to Don Corleone.”

 

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February Sketch Challenge: Day Twenty Six

by on February 26, 2015 at 9:46 am
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somelikeithot

Today’s sketch was of Billy Wilder’s classic comedy Some Like it Hot and the image that immediately came into my head was the final scene on the boat.

Osgood: I called Mama. She was so happy she cried! She wants you to have her wedding gown. It’s white lace.
Daphne: Yeah, Osgood. I can’t get married in your mother’s dress. Ha ha. That-she and I, we are not built the same way.
Osgood: We can have it altered.
Daphne: Oh no you don’t! Osgood, I’m gonna level with you. We can’t get married at all.
Osgood: Why not?
Daphne: Well, in the first place, I’m not a natural blonde.
Osgood: Doesn’t matter.
Daphne: I smoke! I smoke all the time!
Osgood: I don’t care.
Daphne: Well, I have a terrible past. For three years now, I’ve been living with a saxophone player.
Osgood: I forgive you.
Daphne: [Tragically] I can never have children!
Osgood: We can adopt some.
Daphne/Jerry: But you don’t understand, Osgood! [Whips off his wig, exasperated, and changes to a manly voice] Uhhh, I’m a man!
Osgood: [Looks at him then turns back, unperturbed] Well, nobody’s perfect!

It’s funny I was finding myself frustrated that the “don’t remind yourself rule” because I couldn’t remember what kind of dress Jack Lemmon was wearing when the big thing about the scene I forgot that Osgood was wearing his naval voting outfit.

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