Technically I finished the sketch challenge yesterday. but here’s the thing. I do these sketches on 8.5 & ll sheets of bristol board and I do two sketches a sheet. Since I was left with one last sheet of bristol[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Search for ‘fairy tale’
I had the opportunity to see Puccini‘s Turandot at the Seattle Opera last night and I’m happy to say it was a most enjoyable experience. I don’t get out to see the opera very often but I always enjoy my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently started a new custom. It consisted of being frustrated about waiting lists for certain DVDs at the Library and Scarecrow Videos the greatest video rental store in the West coast needing all the love it can get. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For 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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While I certainly enjoyed the first Hobbit movie it was one of those movies I never had an overwhelming need to go see it again and again the way I did with the Lord of the Rings films. This carried[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Beware of the Drop Bear
“Fairy tales are more than true – not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.” ~ G. K. Chesterton, One thing you have to be careful about with children is some of them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to touch on films about Ballet. My feeling about ballet is mixed. Half the time I regard it almost more of a sport than an art form and judging a lot of the incredible things the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Common sense has abandoned me yet again, and I know I am going to regret this in a couple of days…. But I’m starting yet another sketch challenge. Fortunately this time I plan to do a fun one: the cast of Batman.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s dark Christmas song is “Fairytale in New York” By the Pogues & Kirsty MacColl. Mainly because I like the Pogues but also because this one is delightfully viscous. Enjoy.
The intent of this week’s selection was marketing and advertising. The first on my list, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, tells the story of a smarmy advertising executive under breaking under the stress of his deadline when he can’t think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…