real talk

burkey puked a river

MARRIAGE!

OFFICIAL, Peru, engaged to be married, and I sooo happy "I SO EXCITED I CRY... HUGS, million year hugs like what makes deep canyon from river of hug juice!!!"

Couldn't have happened to a nicer pear, or such a sweet peach, I wish them lifelong cuddles and many pets and whatnots.

post card with big clouds

blade runner

Along with a copy of the video game that Tom T. gave me I recently picked up the 5-disc blade runner box set as a present for myself (selfish bastard that I am). There are 3 commentary tracks I'm looking forward to hearing, so far I've just watched the film itself, (and maybe it's just my screen but..), I get the feeling that the digital remastering of special effects is prone to makes those effects look a bit out of place with the rest of the visual 'palate'... for example: Watching some of the fires over Los Angeles in the wide shots in the first scene, or the lights on the hover cars gives me a feeling akin to that one I have had when hearing an album I've enjoyed on tape for years on a CD for the first time. It's not wrong, it's just not right... (see: akira VO redub)

sean young, of course, is still breathtaking

gaddamnit

looking for a friend's email amongst old ones sometimes yields unwanted trips down memory lane... ughh...

dook dook dook

woot, drawn.ca wins again, today I found a link to an interview with personal hero: tony millionaire... here's a memorable memento of monsieur millionaire's machinations:


"First of all I don't stipple... I don't crosshatch either...
I don't like to put a line through another line, if you look at the drawings you'll see there are little lines next to each other...
I don't like crosshatch... crosshatch is kind of lazy and it doesn't look that good, it looks like 'aah yeah, he's trying to put in a grey'...
stippling is ok, but it's kind of a gimmick. I remember Art Spiegelman once said: "Never crosshatch when you can stipple" and I agree, stippling is better than crosshatching..."

the sincerest form of flattery

Interesting story here regarding inspiration vs. theft. To sum it up quickly, a guy with the same last name as a famous illustrator, is making his name by imitating the illustrator's style, albeit poorly, right down to signing his pieces in with almost the exact same signiature. The signiature thing, to me, pushes this well past imitation or influence and into the realm of forgery. But enough has been said on this issue in the link.

What I was thinking after reading the article and the subsequent replies to it relates to my own feeling as an "artist" of how fine the line is between imitation and influence. I think that many folks are unaware of this, or not concerned by it at all. I would say that you can't really afford to be a curator and a creator, one is going to overwhelm the other. This sort of thinking is often discouraging to me, and I believe it is both invalid and irrelevant, a painting isn't a pure bred pooch, or a master's thesis, there is no need to provide a pedigree, nor parenthetical references...

to expand:

Classical training

Sampling

Redefinition

Ideas

Conception

Passion -> Release, Enjoyment

Peace