Incredible

So I was just going through my folder of pics, looking, refreshing my memory about some, and I stumbled over her again.
she reminds me of a character that could live in "The Incredibles" universe. Just something about her, maybe because I can see her being a molded plastic figure, maybe that's it, since that's kind of the incredibles thing, anyway, just another "something" to put up here.
besides, I like her hair, or should I say the way I did her hair. Either way, She's a pouty little chick ain't she?

"Quality Human"

Here's a sketch I did this weekend. I liked her face, her expression. I scanned it and did a quickie color job on it.
She's a version of a character that's been knockin' around for a while, her name is Jayney.
She's based on what I used to call a "quality human".
She's an odd drawing, hard to reproduce, pin down, and create a "model" for, her head is an odd shape, her eyes don't match exactly, so how do you recreate it? Well, I'm workin' on it.

Enjoy.

Pencil Sketch

So here's a little sketch babe, just an experiment to see what it looks like, anyway, enjoy.

"Deleted by Administrator"

Originally the title of this entry was going to be:
"Hello, my name is ASSHOLE."
I decided to change that...

So the new thing is some dorks are posting comments to my entries with links, or just flat out plugs to their companies, software, whatever, and y'know what ya dufusses? Nobody's reading this stupid blog but me, duh!
I will, and have deleted comments that have links to questionable things, or just anything that isn't just a link back to a normal blog without links to some product, get it?
You're not speaking to some huge throng, it's my dumb ass blog, I may send the occational link to a friend to show him something I wrote, but other than that..nothing.
So the name badge that you will be wearing will read:
"Hello, my name is ASSHOLE."

Cinema Du Spielberg

So I was watching War of the wolds the other day, the Steven Spielberg movie, and I was thinking how I'm not too thrilled with the way his movies have looked lately, so I did a little research on IMDB.
Here's a small, not at all complete, look at some of his cinematographers.
What I found interesting was that some people he only worked with once (Mikael Solomon) and others repeatedly.

-Bill Butler (Jaws)
-Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
-William A. Fraker (1941)
-Dean Cundey( Jurassic Park, Hook)
-Allen Daviau ( E.T., The Color Purple)
-Douglas Slocombe ( Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (India sequence)
-Mikael Solomon (Always)
-Janusz Kaminski (shot everything Spielberg has done since Lost World: Jurassic Park 2)

So Janusz Kaminski is his current collaborator of choice, but like I said, I'm not too thrilled with the way his movies have looked lately.
The one that stands out in my head as being different, or more similar to previous Spielburg "looks" is A.I. but only in parts, and as a movie, overall, to use a colloquial term, "Sucked".
I haven't see Munich yet, froom the brief shots I have seen in th commercials, it seems to have a more traditional film look.
My thought is, and this is my taste as a film viewer, that the "distressed" film look can be over done, and I think he has done just that.  It worked, and was appropriate in Saving Private Ryan, and even to a degree Minority Report, althought I think it was overdone in that case.  The milky white, washed out blue tinged look can be a bit much for a whole movie. 
So, I really wanted to point out some of his collaborators, and that was the reason I made the above list.  Douglas Slocombe, amazing, love the films he's done for Spielberg, and apparently so did he, his last film was "Last Crusade" and then he hung it up.  Good place to stop if you ask me... (Steven, Harrison, George, "good place to stop" get it. I am perfectly happy with Last Crusade being the last Indiana Jones adventure, hello, the rode off into the sunset, done, fini! Don't get me started on the whole Hollywood has run out of ideas thing!)

I also liked Mikael Solomon's work on Always very much, it wasn't his most succesful movie, but it's a sappy love story with adventure elements, catch me in the right mood, and I'll tell you this is a "great" movie, it's not, but sometimes, I'm sappy too.  It does "look great" though, and that is Mikael Solomon all over.
He also did The Abyss, Backdraft, and Arachnophobia.  Then sadly, like Barry Sonnenfeld, they (the imfamous "they"), decided to offer him a directors gig, and his D.P. skills would never be seen again. 

Sidebar: Barry Sonnenfeld, Director of Photography on the following movies...
Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Three O'Clock High, Throw Momma from the Train, Big, When Harry Met Sally..., Miller's Crossing, Misery.
Some of these movies while okay, were made much better by Sonnenfelds hand.  Some of the scenes of When Harry Met Sally in the park are just beautiful, same with Big.  Some of the hyper camera moves polished in the Coen brothers movies make it into "Throw Momma" and it's a better movie for it.

Anyway, my point, and damnitt, I have one, if you'll sit still long enough to let me get to it, is I think that the Directors of Photography sometimes deserve more credit for the success of a movie than the director might like.  And adding to that point, I think D.P.s should be listed in a more prominent place in the credits on IMDB, if for no other reason that to make compiling lists for rants like this one easier.  they should be listed after writer, and director, not burried on the second page, halfway down!

Anyway.  Barry Sonnenfeld, and Mikael Solomon should give up the director gigs, and go back to being D.P.s, oh yeah, and so should Jan De Bont!

Reality

So reality has set in.
I lack motivation.  I need motivation.
"But Dude!"  you say.  you have the motivation, you want money, right?
Yep, I want money, I signed up for Paypal, and got a special email just for eBay sales, and to make money, right?  I can't make myself do it, I can't make myself do the things necessary to get the stuff up online, and do the auctions.

"But Dude!"  you say.  you have the motivation, you want money, right?

Yeah, I said that already, right, but no, the answer is no.  I want the motivation.
because I lack the motivation.

Let's say I lack water, I need water.  But dude...nope, I still need water, I want the water.  Wanting the water doesn't make the water appear.  The water makes you feel less thirsty, what you want is to feel less thirsty.

I'm thirsty, but I can't make the water appear.  I can only wait for the tiny bits, the droplets that may appear as I hold my head back, mouth agape, tongue extended...

I'm thirsty, and I can't find the well, don't know what it looks like, and have only found that...clarity, occationally, and completely by accident.

So now here I am, knowing that I'm untethered, short attention span, attention deficit disorder... whatever, making my plight even worse.  I know I have these moments of "brilliance"  but really they seem only to be moments of "un-dumbness" where the semi-retardation of daily zombie-life is momentarily cleft, and you realize there is something more inside your brain than the rusted steel wool you try to fire electrons through.  And you think, I'll remember this moment, I'll remember the mountain top, the clear air, the brisk, bracing air, and then you get bogged down, and it's like a dream you remember in the middle of the night, you wake up, and think this is the most amazing thing ever, I must tell everyone, I'll remember this, mental note, yup, got it, now I gotta get some sleep.
Next morning, a vague thought that you might have had something you wanted to tell someone when you woke up, but now...damn, nope it's gone.

Anyway. the next plan of attack, at least the one foremost in my brain today is "I sold it on eBay" the store I passed the other day with my family.  There, I assume, I merely stop in, give them the stuff I want to sell, and done, pick up a check, and that's it.  I sure hope it's that easy, otherwise my simple primitive primate brain might be incapable of handling more!  So I can do the sketches I planned on doing, do the art to sell, and get the coin!
We'll  see, we'll see...