Hosho McCreesh's Blog, page 8
May 5, 2022
Hungover at Work...
It’s been many years since I’ve had a decent hangover, but admittedly there were those days way back when…and usually a quick little 15 minute nap could fix me right up. I didn’t even need an alarm — my body just knew. It was great…
Until it wasn’t.
We’re pleased to share our newest animated drunk poem for your viewing pleasure. Animated by emma_dibus with narration by yours truly, we hope this brings a smile or maybe even a chuckle your way in these difficult and worrisome times.
May 1, 2022
Glister...
Like Remnant Embers…
…the city lights, while knocking back some wine out at the volcanoes.
Our latest drunk poem brought to life…this time our friend and publisher Ryan Winters (the artist formerly known as Bradley) reads, and Tharinda Dharmasena and the Sri Lanka crew offer up their beautiful stop-motion animation once again.
This poem, and its understated heartache, is one of the major tent poles to the larger story of the collection, and, as such, has always had a warm place in my heart.
April 17, 2022
And The Drinks Are Flowing...
A wise and dare we say manageable angle on ambition is at the core of this, our latest drunk poem animation!
After all, who’s to say what tomorrow holds, and if it will be better or worse or even just the same as this moment? Here at the HQ, the Dead Bird Gang and I encourage you to gather with your tribe and knock back a few while considering just what it is all that ferocious ambition is actually getting you in the end.
And should you have ambitions to watch more drunk poems, well you’re in luck!
April 6, 2022
Rental Car Shenanigans...
In our latest drunk poem animation, Bastien Chiarini narrates the increasing tension of driving a car in front of your dad for the first time. PavBar delivers the clean and whimsical animation.
Dead Bird Gang and DrunkSkull Books hope you enjoy it!
Watch more drunk poem animations here!
March 30, 2022
The Newest Drunk Poem Animation...
Here’s the short, snowy drunk poem animation we previewed at our WATCH PARTY this past weekend, for anyone interested. Once again, Tharinda Dharmasena and crew have delivered a cinematic stop-motion. It sure is fun making these!
If you want to watch them all so far, here’s the page:
March 26, 2022
March 23, 2022
On the House...
Seems there’s been a little trouble finding the SMOL FAIR freebies, and, well, that’s a crying shame!
We love what they’re doing with the SMOL FAIR, and want everyone else to love it too!
So I’m re-linking to the freebies here:
Free copy of the CICADA ebook (over at Smashwords)
Free download code for the full-length
A DEEP & GORGEOUS THIRST - UNABRIDGED AUDIO
(at Author’s Direct)
Want 20% off any order at our store during the SMOL FAIR? Just enter the code:
Lastly, this Saturday afternoon…
March 19, 2022
One SMOL Step for the Small Press...
The Eagle has landed! Starting today, DrunkSkull Books is proud to take part, once again, in the SMOL FAIR — a truly independent, free-to-all book fair that puts small presses on display for all to discover. There are so many places, readings, and events to check out that you probably can’t see them all — but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying whatever you can!
To celebrate, here at the HQ we’re doing a few things:
1) As you may have seen from that annoying pop-up (I know, I know, but hear me out!) we’re giving away free digital stuff. And it ain’t nothing to sneeze at either! You can get a free copy of the CICADA ebook (over at Smashwords) or you can get a free download of A DEEP & GORGEOUS THIRST - UNABRIDGED AUDIO (code works at Author’s Direct). That’s just for stopping by (while the digital supplies last)!
2) We’re also offering a sale here at the STORE. Just enter the code 20SMOL$AVINGS at checkout to receive 20% off your order. So it’s a great time to catch up on any titles you (or a friend) might be missing.
3) Lastly, we’re hosting a DRUNK POEM ANIMATION WATCH PARTY to wrap up the SMOL festivities, on:
Saturday, March 26, 2022
2pm - 2:30pm Pacific
3pm - 3:30pm Mountain
4pm - 4:30pm Central
5pm - 5:30pm Eastern
(Apologies to our overseas friends for the late/early hour!)
We’ll look at our most recent animation from start to finish (that’s storyboards to finished claymation), talk a bit about the DrunkSkull Philosophy of making stuff in the hopes that others might be inspired too, and close with as many animations as we can squeeze in between chats and questions. It should be a quick half-hour, and we’d love to see you there if your schedule allows.
March 10, 2022
The Low Grumble of Thunder...
Years ago, I had this little ditty published by Six Sentences and, well, I’ve always had a soft spot for it. Mel Bosworth also made a terrific recording of it and — while it’s never appeared anywhere else — I loved just knowing it was out there in the world. I went looking for that terrific recording not too long ago, and unfortunately it seems it has been lost to the vagaries and slow degradation of the interwebs.
The piece has always had exactly the right feel for a more cinematic treatment…and, well, I finally got around to finding the talent folks needed to realize that visual dream! If only I had Mel’s voice to go with it! Oh well, we’ll have to settle for mine. So here we are, years after its original publication, checking yet another little bit off the to-do list of forever.
And Marc Hamill (not that one, I don’t think!) really did It up, really understanding the mood and feel I was after in the piece was after. And when that happens, it always feels like I owe the fates a little thank you…so thank you!
If interested, you can watch other fun stuff over at the Audio/Video, Misc. Page.
March 6, 2022
SMOL: Drunk Poem Animation Virtual Watch Party! (Save the Date!)
In support of the terrific and truly independent SMOL FAIR, DrunkSkull Books and the Dead Bird Gang are proud to offer up a drunk poem animation watch party!
Saturday, March 26, 20222pm - 2:30pm Pacific
3pm - 3:30pm Mountain
4pm - 4:30pm Central
5pm - 5:30pm Eastern
(Apologies to our overseas friends for the late hour!) Event Page
It's an early salvo in what promises to be a years-long campaign to create animations for all of the poems from A DEEP & GORGEOUS THIRST. From rotoscoping to traditional 2D animation to claymation, the poems are brought to life by animators and narrators the world over!
We'll start with the PREMIER our latest animated poem, THIRST #125, followed by a deeper dive into the actual production of it -- to include sharing both the original storyboards and nuts-and-bolts of our basic process. With any luck, it might get fellow writers and presses dreaming bigger, and thinking further outside their promotions box when banging the drum for their own projects!
That will be followed by a handful of other animated drunk poems:
THIRST #3 - Tina LaTurner-McCreesh/Romana Vashtar (0:33)
THIRST #26 - Ben Tanzer/MusicAnimation (1:25)
THIRST #28 - Bastien Chiarini/stoniends (with music by the mighty Leeches of Lore!) (0:58)
THIRST #50 - Walevske Perez-Herrera/Tharinda Dharmasena (1:22)
THIRST #140 - Willy Vlautin/Mattia Adorni (1:45)
We'll close with a brief chat/Q&A.
