Diego Maclean animated this film which is narrated by the poet Billy Collins.
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Sally Saves Christmas
Some of the readers of this site will know that this story is the original piece of material behind Candlelight Stories. Back in 1994, I sat at a very flimsy folding table in a Los Angeles apartment with a box of pastels, crayons and ballpoint pens to scratch out a pile of illustrations that vaguely added up to some kind of Christmas tale. I still have all those original drawings in a big department store box.
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Illustrations by Bridget McKenna
Illustrator Bridget McKenna sent me these pictures and I thought they were nice. So here they are for you to admire. She could work on quite a nice children’s book I think.
She has a web site called Funkolicious Creations with a bunch of totally awesome stuff on it.
Her mixed media art is incredible. Yike! A talent! It’s been a while since I delved into the children’s art where this site began its life long ago. It’s really nice to do it again. I love this woman’s pictures!
See more of her illustrations after the jump.
Film: Metropolis Part 1
Having realized in a blinding flash of insight this week that the geek/tech outlook has essentially taken over most of the web world like some sort of a skin cancer and is absolute death to art, I offer an artist’s messy and incoherent view of urban life. It is very uncool and not technically proficient. But it is an artist speaking directly, without falsehood intervening. This piece is by Marvin Tiberious who lives in Italy.
I’m having a huge vomit reaction to these blogs run by little gangs of cool-cats who spread themselves thinly across all domains and offer a smug smirk when photographed. We’ve turned too much of the web over to the ugly little nerd group that wants everything to be just a tad retro. If I see something that looks steampunk I’m going to smash it. Steampunk is the white-supremacist version of cyberpunk which is simply a reference to any book you have read but cannot remember.
Animation: History of the Main Complaint
South African artist William Kentridge made this film in 1996. It concerns the recognition of white guilt expressed through the medical investigation of a real estate magnate as he lies in a hospital bed. Kentridge makes his films by drawing and erasing in charcoal. He photographs each alteration to create movement.
Bob Dylan’s Pink Christmas People
I love Bob Dylan’s recent album, Christmas in the Heart. Listened to it many times on Christmas day. This is his video for Little Drummer Boy. The people do seem awfully pink but maybe it’s just my eyes playing tricks on me.