Of Boatmen and waterfalls. My very first job in movies happened a few days right after I graduated from high school. Hemisphere pictures was hiring crew for a Vietnam movie being shot in various provinces in the Philippines. I got in on the recommendation that I knew how to draw. Which was entirely neither here nor there as I was going to be a grunt weilding a house brush most of the time. That was how I got to work on “Apocalypse Now.”
Half-way point. Stopped for lunch by this cascading falls. One of many leading up to the main one.
The last location I worked in my few months stint was the municipality of Pagsanjan (pronounced, Pag-sang-han) where the falls of the same name is located, and also where Martin Sheen’s boat inched along to get to Marlon Brando’s temple. A typhoon wiped out the [...]
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Hike and draw. Taal volcano is about two hours away from Manila and not as angry as Mayon these days. Couldnt’ fly to Legaspi City anyway with my schedules and this little beauty was quite accessible. The drive brings you to Tagaytay City where people with signs saying “boat to Taal” flag you down (be judicious and choose only Tourism Bureau sanctioned ones). The boat ride takes you across the fresh water lake (refreshing)for about fifteen minutes. You land on the island and go on a 45 minute hike…up. After huffing and puffing (you can rent a horse and guide for about $12) you end up at the lip of the caldera looking into the interior lake. What a grand view!
UPDATE Fixed–Movie clip of Taal here.
I attracted a crowd. Even this gentleman was curious about how I was going to draw what they [...]
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So it’s a new tablet for me. I started out with a Wacom intuos3 5 x 7, moved up to a tablet PC, traded that in for a Wacom intuos4 6 x8, and have now traded that in for a Wacom graphire4 4 x 5. That’s right, I’v moved down. The 6 x 8 just had so much real estate and it seemed like my lines would just get lost in the screen. My best pics certainly weren’t drawn with it and in the last 20 minutes I’ve felt better drawing with the 4 x 5 than I have for awhile.
So maybe this means you’ll finally start seeing more oddly shaped people (very much like the one above) on my site.
On another note – my blog has become saturated with some serious spam. I’m ok with the real estate spam but it seem now that [...]
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Ever wonder what 110 330 ZLIKS in a small NYC apartment look like? Something like this…
Looks like I’m going to be pretty busy for the next few days.
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40 down.. 60 to go! I just ran out of fancy paper…
3.5×8.5″ signed and numbered on velvet fine art cotton rag.Limited to 100.
If you pre-ordered a ZLIKS toy from shop.deadzebra.com you’ll be getting one for free! Toys started shipping, most of them will be out by the end of next week. Check the box for a black envelope!
Remaining prints will be available some time next week or so!
p.s. I just got LocoRoco for my PSP (thank K!).. good thing I finished Mario already. This may be the last PSP game I play before I sell it for food.
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Date -> Mon, Mar 12
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So I go to use the bathroom and low and behold…I spot the largest, most grotesque, most uncooth cockroach I’ve ever seen. This monster must have been at least four feet tall – he was smoking a cigarette (even though my employer has a super strict no-smoking policy), reading a paper and I think he started to curse at me (but since he was speaking swahili I really couldn’t tell.)
Naturally I usually would have broken out with some fancy kung-fu moves but since fighting and beat down’s are also against company policy I decided to whimper like a ten year old girl and back out of the bathroom…very…very…slowly.
On another note, I’m using Microsoft Writer to post this and I’ve found it to be freakin’ awesome thus far.
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I’m back from my trip to a cousin’s wedding on the good ole’ rock of Gibraltar with a stop over in the UK (yes I am technically half Gibraltarian). After being away for Comic-Con and immediately flying out to Gib, I’m a bit behind on life. Please bear with me as I catch up on emails, orders and getting back into the swing of things. For those of you who enjoy sitting through slideshows at relatives houses, here are a few sets of photos from my adventures:
- Gibraltar and England Flickr Set (MORE APES! OOK OOK)Photos courtesty of my lovely lady Jackie (I took a few of these as well)
If you missed out on the Dumbrella Comic-Con hijinks, here are a few photos from that as well:
- Comic-Con 2006 R Stevens’ Flickr Set- Comic-Con 2006 Steven Cloud’s Flickr Set
- Comic-Con 2006 509 Photos from our “live” booth-cam Flickr [...]
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Annette Damgaard:
Date -> Fri, Nov 10
”On the edge”
In-between function and disruption
International Digital Art Festival
November 2006, Aarhus, Denmark
In November 2006 Denmark’s biggest international digital art festival so far, will be unrolled. The festival includes exhibitions, concerts and real-time events in a number of cultural institutions in Aarhus.
Theme projects:
The exhibition “On the Edge” and the seminar to match “Crime and Political Aspects in New Media Art” focus on the human curiosity and need of posing questions. The artists challenge the dominant structure and order represented by society in general, for instance by affecting the very goal-directed results of research and the technological and commercial product development. What is in question is art on the edge, that seeks to tickle and disturb the present order
Satellite projects:
In a local network of cultural institutions, educational institutions and organisations that hold resources and experience on digital art, the festival and its collaboration partners present an excellent [...]
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Mayon Volcano. Known for its nearly perfect conical shape of all vocanoes, Mayon is also the most active volcano in the Philippines. And, as luck would have it, getting rather testy lately. It’s 212 miles south of Manila, so I’m well away from any fiery retribution. I think. Flights might be affected. Doesn’t seem to faze the locals.
Never gone to see the volcano myself, and maybe this isn’t the best time to. And my schedules don’t have that much wiggle room right now. Really.
I hope the drills work. I wonder if they get any more gear than just hankerchiefs over their faces. Troubling photos.
Wikipedia on Mayon volcanoPhilippine Officials:Volcano May Erupt
UPDATE:Alert level 4 raised as Mayon eruption ‘imminent’
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Photoshop. May need to refine this a little more.
Twelve years. Been planning a trip back to the Philippines since forever. One thing I learned from the last few years of doing books, Japan jaunts, Sketchcrawls, galleries and con appearances it this: Planning doesn’t work. You just do it. Variables and obstacles will show up, plan or no plan.
But this one has been hitting a lucky streak. Different. Classmates from way back have been very helpful in organizing meetings and talks. Tess’ uncle, Ted, just hustled and got a talk schedule into place. Going back to the old college, UST College of Fine Arts, and a few other schools. I’m preparing a Keynote file to do a rant. Even got a Macbook for the trip. Sweet. It’s like butter.
Tired and frantic, because there’s other things in life [...]
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Date -> Fri, Nov 10
19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival Announces
Call For Entries to the Stella Artois Film Awards 2006
The 19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival (SFFF) will run from the 10th – 19th November 2006, once again playing host to the competition for the increasingly sought after Stella Artois Film Awards, where hundreds of films compete for outstanding recognition as winners of these prestigious prizes.
Once again the Strand Multiplex and The Nerve Centre will give film fans the opportunity to see the very latest short and animated films, feature films and documentaries as part of the 19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival. Many of these inspiring screenings will make their debut in Derry, or will have entertained audiences at festivals around the world.
Delighted to be encouraging filmmakers, Nicola Trainor, Stella Artois Brand Manager, says, “As an international brand that is known for its commitment to film we are delighted to be involved [...]
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