It would seem like China Mièville’s foray into crime fiction has paid off. It was a risky departure, abandoning the much loved Bas Lag universe (after the astonishing trilogy of Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council) and inhabiting an apparently (initially anyway) more grounded one. The result of this endeavor is ‘The City [...]
Sick Tonightdan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip | MySpace Music Videos Wow. As Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip draw to the end of their European tour (promoting new album Logic Of Chance and Scroobius Pip’s new book ‘Poetry In (e)Motion) They present to us, like benevolent viral video gods, a new promo for album [...]
Creator of the sublime Acme Novelty Library, Chris Ware was recently commissioned to submit a cover for Fortune Magazine’s 500 issue. This is an economic magazine which annualy publishes it’s listings of the 500 wealthiest and most influential businesses and individuals. Chris Ware may not have been the most sensible person to ask for this. [...]
I’m somewhat speechless. Awed. But speechless nonetheless. o_0 Yub Nub God, I still want an Ewok SO BADLY!!! Some dreams just aren’t meant to be I guess.
After reading The Guardian’s interview with Mike Judge (which was unfortunately as benign as most Guardian interviews) I was reminded that last year saw the release of a new animated series called The Goode Family, which was written, directed and starred Judge. This news will be greeted by a mixture of enthusiasm and apathy in [...]
Bear with me for a moment. It’s the 1960′s and Jack Kerouac is in a bad way, several decades of alcohol have taken their toll and he is distraught with the state of the world he lives in. He decides to leave his Big Sur hideaway and seek out Neal Cassady (his real life inspiration [...]
It’s rare that any of the Best Picture Oscar winners will ever come as much of a surprise to anyone. Usually they are formulaic crowd pleasers which seem contrived and shallow to people who demand a little more from their movies. The one saving grace of the outdated celebrity parade that is the Academy Awards [...]
Out Of A Forest is a beautiful stop motion animation directed by Tobias Gundorff Boesen, shot on location in some pretty Danish forests. It is set to The National’s ‘Slow Show‘ which suits it perfectly. There were only four animators involved in this project. Four! Given the intense level of graft involved in any stop [...]
A few months ago, I posted a link to the website of Jessica Borutski, a young and highly talented animator who creates some of the most amazing characters. Inspired by Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, she takes the quintessential elements of classic animation and successfully transfers those ethics into a modern form. There are not [...]
It is with great excitement that I write this. It is no well kept secret that I am a great fan of the Cryptozoological Scientific artwork of the immensely talented Alex CF. His nightmarish visions assimilate well composed back stories to astonishing tangible displays of the bizarre and the grotesque. The references and allusions to [...]