Happy Saint Patty’s and Birthday

by on March 17, 2014 at 8:17 am
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BirthdayCardWell today is indeed Saint Patrick’s Day. It’s a holiday I’ve had extremely mixed feelings about. Mostly because in elementary school they took it WAY too seriously.

I’m not talking about being the odd kid out for not wearing green or that silly tradition of pinching. I’m talking about genuinely getting in trouble for not wearing green. It had gotten old by fourth grade.

Later I somehow missed all of the “adult” celebration of Saint Patty’s (I’m not much of a Guinness drinker) so for the most part once I got past the “forced to wear green” thing the only thing about Saint Patrick’s was all of the sales on books about Irish folklore.

However besides all of that Saint Patrick’s day is that it’s my sister, Juliet’s birthday. This of course gives it a lot of emotional weight. (For her mostly but it rubs off. I don’t think she’s ever forgiven me for winning a prize at a school parade that neither of us knew was also a contest.)

Anyway a very happy Birthday, Juliet and hope you have a goodone.

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Friday Sketches

by on March 14, 2014 at 10:00 am
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Today’s sketch are a handful of quickies from my Tuesday drinking group. Generally I find If I don’t have anything to contribute to the conversation is to sit back listen and draw.

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Prospero’s Back!

by on March 12, 2014 at 2:08 pm
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Good News everybody! The DMCA complainant who crippled my friends J & Aron’s Kickstarter campaign has withdrawn his complaint! So I put their banner ad back up! Let’s fix the rest of the damage with eleven more days to go by giving them some love right here!

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Wednesday Double Feature

by on March 12, 2014 at 10:08 am
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220px-Tall_tale_poster 220px-Beats-of-the-southern-wild-movie-posterFor this week’s selection I went with two American fantasies. Tall Tale and The Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Tall Tail is a heavy handed attempt at a swan song for an idealized myth of America from the point of view of a jaded young boy, played by Nick Stahl, as he travels through a mythic version of the frontier meeting legendary heroes Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Pecos Bill (played by Patrick Swayze in the last role I remember seeing him in.) diminished by the progress of industry and the real world.  Together they struggle to save the boy’s town from robber barons leading to a battle against traditional country values and steampunk industrialists.

Being a fan of American folklore, this movie was fun but for whatever reasons, budget or a lack or imagination, didn’t even come close to the potential it could have had.

The Beasts of the Southern Wild is something else altogether. Set in a a suffering but proud vibrant community on “the other side of the levy’s” called the Bathtub, director Benh Zeitlin creates a wonderfully realized world separate but next to the one we know had me thinking of a modern Dogpatch in the bayou all through the eyes of a little girl named Hushpuppy. The beauty of this is while we see what Hushpuppy sees , we comprehend more than she does. For example early on her father shows up after missing for several days in a hospital gown. Hushpuppy never knows what happened to him. We can see that he escaped from a hospital where he was being treated for the unspecified disease he is dying from.  In the process we see a modern day fairy tale that celebrates life and community in defiance of the community’s eventual doom as it sinks into the sea. Quvenzhané Wallis was a delight as Hushpuppy and I can’t wait to see what the rest of her career holds for her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF7i2n5NXLo

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Prospero Delayed

by on March 10, 2014 at 1:00 pm
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I just took down the banner ad for my friend’s, Aron and J’s, Kickstarter project. It had been going really well with them making their 3000 dollars with 12 days to spare and they were going into their home stretch when someone another author, DR O’Brian, in Scotland who was doing a Shakespeare/Lovecraft as well and found out about it and decided they were infringing on his project and filed DMCA takedown request with Kickstarter. 

This is ridiculous of course. Both the Cthulhu Mythos and the Tempest are public domain but companies like Kickstarter, Youtube and others get very paranoid about copyright issues and will respond to these claims with hardly questions asked.

So Kickstarter put the campaign on hold which has lots of previous donations being revoked as well. This is made even worse that their original plan for the campaign wasn’t just about publishing their comic, Prospero’s Price, it was about marketing it at the Emerald City Comic convention so this was a hit on their schedule in more ways than one.

The one good thing that’s coming from this in a “no such thing as bad publicity” kind of way is they are getting tons of support from everyone so I’m sure things will be all right in the end. But until then they have to make a counterclaim to Kickstarter and jump through lots of other hoops along the way. Not to mention all of the damage control they are going to have to make on their campaign.

Anyway here’s hoping everything goes their way and I’ll have their ad back up when it does.

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