JUSTICE

dude pours plaster down into an anthill, beauty ensues.

Deep Sea Creatures: (link)
LOOOVE.... some of the weirdest and scariest things i've seen.

thats all, haha

Today: a sketch and its inspiration. Tartakovsky's such a winner, everything really looks great in the movie... got to push everything a little further than in the tv episodes.




i think Dexter and Scudsworth must go shopping together.

101 Dalmatians is a great movie, check out these awesome color studies for the film at Cartoon Modern.

Paul Robertson:
I'm loving this gaming-inspired animation, especially Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006. Probably a hit or miss for most people, but i was mesmorized by it... great music too. zombies are always win, right?

Bob Clampett:

today i watched Suddenly Last Summer, a 1959 film with Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn, based on a play by Tennessee Williams. i'm gunna be light on the screenshots, and the picks themselves are kind of arbitrary since the film was not all that exciting visually... which doesnt necessarily bother me in most cases, but here it was like they tried to make up for it with random overkill like the juxtaposition of Kate's villainous character with the falcon and the skeleton etc. thats just silly, Hepburn can play psychotic and terrifying without the help of blatant visual cues. Anyway, it was interesting but its obvious that the play itself would be hugely better without the censorship of the movie... i like creepy weird movies with lobotomies and secrets. i dont know if i really like Elizabeth Taylor that much, but i cant even remember what else i've seen her in. maybe it just wasnt a good role for her. i think i was mostly amazed by how she could keep breathing despite wearing such torturous belts.



more important and more fun to look at is the Planet Earth miniseries they're playing on the Discovery Channel. everyone should watch it, its just hours of eye candy and the tech advances behind it are pretty mind-blowing to me. seeing the snow leopard weaving around that cliffside was beautiful, and that super-frame-rate shark attack? the most terrifying thing i have ever seen. and that freaky bird of paradise? ill be disappointed if its not everybody's new fave animal.


how can you say no to that face?

Going to start using this LJ to record some inspiration, I've tried doing it on paper but its so much easier to manage with screenshots and URLs...


Today I watched Akira Kurosawa's Yume (Dreams), which is strangely the only film of his I've seen start to finish. It is a collection of his own dreams, very surreal and tragic... way cooler than my own dreams, which tend to be more like something out of Slow Wave.

I enjoyed the beginning of the movie most, the first two dream chapters were the best, when the main character is a child. The first section kept true to childhood dreaming, exploring, strange creatures; i got a real Erik Erikson vibe off it (initiative vs. guilt) but I've been reading my Dev Psych textbook all weekend so its on my brain. i also loved when he brought in the folklore of the kitsune in the mist and then the dolls in the second section... and all the fog and weather. The whole movie has beautiful settings and a beautiful use of the landscape's natural divisions for framing. The forest compositions reminded me a lot of Gauguin paintings, and the outdoor/indoor contrasts reminded me of Orson Welles.

The dead soldiers section was the only dream i really liked after that, with the lone commander dealing with the guilt of letting his troops die. i guess i like more introspective pieces... most of the dreams had this whole "humanity sucks" deal which was boring. at least there were exploding mountains and demon-people with horns to make up for that. the dialogue made me laugh too... run! run from the lava!



So framing is kind of my favorite thing right now. that and misty forests and flowering plants and rivers and wind, i think living in the city is getting to me. for my Drawing independent project i'm going to focus on landscapes with and without figures... hopefully that will be the escape i need.

come back later.