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Peek Behind the Curtain!

Here’s some behind-the-scenes clips along with some finished products to give the taste of what we’re up to! If you want to help make another poem into an animation, click below!

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Big Ups to Loulie Bouler and Site 30 Studio!

All hail our first couple of Drunk Poem Animation sponsors!

As our first PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, Loulie Bouler’s got a logo coaster in production, hopefully en route soon…along with our eternal gratitude!

And you friend and ours, Site 30 Studio has become our inaugural FIRST A.D., bravely throwing their hat in the ring for yet another production!

You all rule!

If you’re interesting in joining forces, click below!

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10 Years of THIRST...

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The CLAMSHELL EDITION with FLASK

Ten years.

Ten unbelievably amazing years.

I honestly can’t even wrap my head around it.

Everything about this book has been pure magic from the beginning. The 5 week flood of first drafts. The birth of the DrunkSkull. The limited edition hardbacks that came with a flask! People the world over wearing T-shirts, sticking stickers.

Things like this just don’t happen that often.

And then there’s the AUDIOBOOK.

People the world over recording poems, sending them across the ether. Voices, accents, laughter…pure magic.

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The AUDIOBOOK

And now…the ANIMATED DRUNK POEMS. People the world over animating those drunk poems — in claymation, rotoscope, collage, and traditional 2D animation…and who knows what else will happen!

It’s been an honor and a privilege and I have each and every one of you to thank. You’ve made the book a success, and the experience an utter joy.

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Magic, I say, pure magic…from the beginning to exactly this moment, and even beyond.

Over the next decade or so, I’m hoping to finish all the animations — because when you’ve got the magic, you need to honor it. And so I will. I’ll keep pushing…keep working…and if you’re interested in being part of the continued push, part of the next 10 years, then click below…

I want to be part of the next 10 years!

Happy Birthday, You Beautiful Bastard!

Hank

This is 103!

More Moving Pictures...

Guernica-Chic

CHINESE GUCCI COLLAGE

The Chinese Gucci Collage-Cover Hardbacks were one of the most rewarding artistic experiences I’ve yet had, and I’ve finally gathered some of the recorded pieces in one spot, for your viewing pleasure.

It starts off with the “making of” mini-doc, followed by the Art of Chinese Gucci promo before it delves a touch deeper into the videos of 6 actual covers as they were made.

And, as I have been a bit down in the maw artistically, it is a powerful reminder of just how important making art is to me. Hopefully that portends a return to the salad days of yesteryear!

Wraith...

Happy to help out on a new track for my old poetry compadre, Christopher Cunningham’s new music project titled IN SEARCH OF. It’s a track called WRAITH, about the loss of a close friend 25 years ago, and how our own grieving brains can pull mighty tricks on us. It’s always tough to revisit this day, and the loss, but as an artist himself, I’m sure my friend Roybal would be doing and making things today if he could, so it’s the right thing to do with the complicated feelings. Give it a listen if it sounds like you might get something from it!

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The Un-Trampled Blossom...

So…for most of 2023 it’s been…quiet. That’s because it has hardly been salad days here at the HQ. I’m a fairly private type, so no need to expand beyond that — but suffice it to say: I’ve had better days! Or, you know, years.

Of course, rough times find us all eventually, it’s a simple human truth, that, like all simple truths, contains multitudes. By that I mean, there’s good and bad in the best of times and also in the worst. It keeps our mushy brains from figuring out this crazy life, leaving us just a little bit of room to worry and wonder. Every time the world tries to break our hearts, there are still battlefield flowers that somehow go un-trampled. Somehow, in all the wreckage and chaos, some magical calculus exists that spares just enough beauty — if we’re lucky enough to recognize it. And that illuminates a dark little corner of the mind and offers us the gift of gratitude.

For instance: (and not to embarrass anyone) A few months back, “S” bought a book for a friend, ”A.” Now here at the HQ we hardly believe in the wanton ravages of Capitalism, but we can begrudgingly admit that, yes, it’s nice to sell a book every now and again.

But better than that is the idea that a reader responded to and now vouches so much for the work that they’ll send it on to a friend. That, right there, that’s the lucre there, y’all! The real dream…made real!

But when a third link in the pay-it-forward chain appear?! When “A” then orders a book for “Z,” — well, that’s enough to soften up even this ol’ world-weary pecan of a heart!

So I wanted to say thanks — publicly. You who’ve done this — both now, and before — know who you are. You’ve taken my work further and wider than I ever could’ve alone, and what’s more, you’ve reminded me why creative folks keep creating in the face of so much noise and apathy. It’s to be part of that larger confluence…part of that inter-mingled exchange of ideas and inspirations.

You all keep me going, and — in this world anyway — that’s a pretty great thing...one we could all use more of in whatever ways we can manage. I hope to find my way back to some projects that, for now, lay fallow. Until then, I won’t forget what you all have done for me.

Mixed Media over at Atticus Review...

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Here at the HQ we’re really jazzed to be part of the terrific mixed media section of Atticus Review’s latest, Issue 4. It’s a cool and unique corner they’ve staked out in the larger art magazine realm, and a pretty damn fun rabbit hole to go down if you’d like to see some poetic filmmaking/writing combinations. It’s a one-stop shop for small press, auteur-like projects, ofter called ‘videopoems,’ limited only by the creator’s imaginations. Diverse, and inspiring, it’s exactly the kind of thing we here at the HQ wish everyone was getting up to…so we are humbled to join the every growing archive with a small film and sentiment we’re still in love with!

Do yourself a favor and spend some time with Atticus Review, and their Mixed Media archive. Tell ‘em DrunkSkull sent you!

Paper & Ink: Best of the First Ten Years...

Considering the top drawer work found in issue after issue of the small press gem, I’m sure narrowing down this best of the first decade issue was tough rowing, so I am really pleased to have a piece make the cut. To my eye, Scumbag Press and DrunkSkull Books share quite a bit in terms of intention, only they’re far more active and consistent that the monkeys running my ship! I’m always jazzed to hustle a piece their way, and to share the pages with one of the best stables of writers around.

And rumor has it you can order a T-SHIRT to go with yours, so long are you get it in during the pre-sale, so why not let everyone out there know that you support the folks out here doing their thang, making stuff, and keeping those artistic fires burning!

I Barely Had 3 Drinks...

Sometimes it's the SIZE of the drinks, not the number...

Walevska Perez-Herrera reads. Brody Lee musics. Lucas Schwantes animates. Hosho McCreesh did the writing (and drinking) for this, the latest in what promises to be a decade of animated drunk poems from Site 30 Studios and DrunkSkull Books.

Grab yourself a pitcher and enjoy!