John Musker made this animatic style tribute to Joe Ranft on what would have been his 50th birthday, the 13th of March. Madeleine Peyroux sings Bob Dylan’s “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”. It’s a sort of mini biography that charts seminal moments in Joe’s life. ___________________________________________________________________________
I found this early version of the Pink Ball, by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553) Click the image to enlarge it, please. (Andrei’s blog is at the top of the Blogroll to the right) ___________________________________________________________
Click the image to make it bigger, please. (It’s a rare picture of the Articles and Texticles aesthetics committee, scrutinising a submission from an artist hoping to have his work hung on this site…) Articles and Texticles is now functioning (almost) normally after changing web hosting company. Yippee, I say. It was a somewhat fraught [...]
If you visit this site regularly, you may no doubt have noticed that the image in the header area is different every time you return. Try pressing Ctrl + F5 (Windows), (or Refresh in Apple Safari) to refresh the page and change to another random header image. The header pictures don’t tell you much about [...]
A report by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reveals that there are nearly two million people in the USA who identify themselves as artists. This figure is only just smaller than the US military personnel (2.2m). Artists compose 1.4 percent of the total workforce, and between them, their aggregate earnings per year total [...]
On the outskirts of Tokyo, there’s a forest that’s very dear to the heart of Hasao Miyasaki, who claims that it was this very place that inspired him to write and produce the most enduring animated feature film, My Neighbour Totoro. The forest is being encroached upon by urban development, and so the Totoro Forest [...]
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Well Chuffed
One of the interesting dynamics of publishing a blog is the positive affirmation bounced back to the author in the shape of comments left by readers. In the case of many artist’s blogs, it seems that the need for positive affirmation ( call it ego strokes if you will ) is one of the main [...]