I really enjoy listening to people who are well spoken and thoughtful. It makes me want to be a better person. To endeavor to communicate with the world with a profundity that I do not currently possess. Stephen fry is a person who’s words and thoughts encourage me in this direction. I found this interview [...]
I made a totally sweet drawing of Nixon. Perhaps the most American of Presidents. Flawed, paranoid and tragic he was filled with ambition, but could not get out of his own way.
More work on the Arbuckle comic.
Last night I watched “The Artist,” the winner of last years best picture, best director and best actor academy awards. I had been looking forward to this for quite some time. I am a big fan of silent films and for years I have been telling [...]
I have not been posting this week as it is spring break here in the north dakotas. My wife and I took the kids on a trip where we got stay in a hotel that used to be a train. It was a big hit. We are still talking about it. I finally got into [...]
I have quite a few projects I am moving in between right now. Many of them have been over a year or more in the works. My post today is a before and after look at a comic I am making on the history of the Keystone film studio. I am focussing on Keystone’s biggest [...]
Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day Lewis were not the first artists to try and capture the essence of Abraham Lincoln. I tried my hand at it a few years ago in the form of a two channel video. The title of the work is 04-14-65. It is set just a few minutes before the paths Lincoln and [...]
I recently purchased a Wacom Cintiq and I have been working on learning to use it properly. To that end I have always felt that the best way learn to learn is by doing. So, I created this comic. Have you seen the movie Hemingway and Gelhorn? It was horrible. Like a car wreck you [...]
As always Superman, Neil Gaiman’s Calendar of Tales is on sound cloud. The 4th Search seems to be a way to customize short stories through a mad libs like questionar. To be honest I have not filled it out yet. I am so in love with the concept I am afraid I will be [...]
It has been while since I pulled any of these out, but in the not so distant past I made of series of two channel videos featuring presidents and their assassins. In honor of Presidents day I thought I would pull out the Kennedy – Oswald pairing. This was by far the most popular of the pieces I [...]