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March 21, 2013
Fuzzies – House
Book 2 of Fuzzies is underway and I wanted to share a sample from the artist, Vovik. He hails from the Ukraine and he brings a real sense of magic and happiness to his art, which will translate well to the property.
The sample is his rendition of a Fuzzy house.
Filed under: Fuzzies, Graphic Novel
February 12, 2013
Lateral Epicondylitis Debridement
That is the name of the procedure I had done today. For the last three years I have been grappling with serious left elbow pain – and I am a lefty. It started bad, then I maintained and managed the pain with Accupuncture, but it came roaring back and has just been debilitating for the last 6 months. I haven’t been able to train for at least 3 of those, and it affects everything I do – including sleep.
But hopefully the ordeal is over and I can let the healing begin. I even have some deer antler velvet waiting for me…
Filed under: Uncategorized
January 22, 2013
Work of Art
No, I’m not talking literally. This is more of a figurative work of art. A masterpiece painted by a High School senior from upstate NY with his lacrosse stick. Gale Thorpe – son of lacrosse legend Regy Thorpe – who will be dressing up for the Syracuse Orange next year – stuck one of the filthiest goals you will ever see (on any level) last week. And by filthy I mean awe-inspiring.
This, to me, is a thing of beauty. Something that most people can’t appreciate because they don’t realize how hard it is to achieve. A play like this is why lacrosse is the greatest sport on the planet.
Gale Thorpe Goal – Tri-State MLK High School National Indoor Lacrosse Tournament from Lax Ally Video on Vimeo.
Filed under: Uncategorized
January 18, 2013
Back up and running… literally.
It’s been about a month since my last post. Besides Christmas and New Years, I had some personal things happen to me since then. On New Year’s Eve I got t-boned by some jerk in a hurry. I somehow walked away with nothing but a headache for a few days, but my car wasn’t so lucky. Being just outside the city on Long Island, you absolutely need a car to get around… and what followed and continues is a constant, full-time job of dealing with insurance companies, sleezy used car salesmen, mechanics and a lot of hours at the computer researching used cars in my price range (which was very low). I’m back behind the wheel finally and things are getting back to normal. Kind of. I’m going to have to go to small claims court to get any out of pocket expenses from this guy. Unfortunately I can’t sue for the time lost at life.
I hope to be back to posting regularly next week. There are plenty of updates on R.E.M., Bulderlyns, Chasing Rabbits, White Space (although I can’t really talk about them yet – but it is going well) and my next film, Lunatic. I need to post my top 10 films of 2012 (taking into account this accident and how it screwed up my ability to see some end of the year movies), as well as my company year end recap.
Filed under: Bulderlyns, Chasing Rabbits, Fuzzies, Harbor Moon, Lunatic, R.E.M., White Space
December 21, 2012
Top 5 Christmas Movies
Because I celebrate Christmas, here is my Top 5 list of my favorite movies about the holiday.
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animated)
Emmett Otter’s Jug-band Christmas
Honorable Mention
Scrooged
Filed under: Top 5
December 5, 2012
Overcome with Joy
Every now and then it hits me that I’m living my dream. And I have been able to do it my way (coming right out of grad school as a producer, not an assistant), working only on projects I choose, not beholden to anyone. And ideally those are projects that I love.
And for the most part, those are projects that I write myself. Not to slight any of my other little darlings, but my favorite is Chasing Rabbits. And now that the book is really underway, I get artwork in and it literally makes me tear up. Like a complete pansy. Because my goal is to please myself. I believe that if I can please myself, my bar of quality is high enough that I can please a huge audience. I’m limited, or I have been, by budget so far – but I have been consistently producing things that far exceed their budget. And then I get pages like this, which may not seem like much right now – just pencils – with very little context. But it makes me rejoice that I get to do what I love, and I get to work with someone like Zsombor who somehow nails these things that I thought were only in my head.
(I should also post script this: it’s not so much that I am gifted, but that I am able to work with people who are gifted)
Filed under: Chasing Rabbits, Graphic Novel
December 4, 2012
Art Prints: Zsombor Huszka
When Zsombor sent me these I was floored. These two (my favorite is Gotham Waltz) are stunning. Most of the people who stopped by the table at New York Comic-con agreed. It got me fired up for R.E.M., which he penciled/inked… and even more excited for Chasing Rabbits, which Zsombor just started this month. Seeing his work come to life in color is spectacular.
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Filed under: Uncategorized
December 2, 2012
Son of a B-!
Yesterday I completed a draft of a script I’ve been working on in relative obscurity. Not that the government or anyone else is keeping tabs on my activity, but I do work with a lot of people and almost none of them know about this project. It was borne out of discussions with my financier and my desire to literally pick up a camera and make a movie. Some people call under a million ‘micro-budget’. I find that a bit out of touch with reality and call something under $100,000 micro-budget, with a ‘get it in the can’ number of under $40,000. That is where this would fall. I’m really happy with how it came out. More importantly, so is the financier.
The project is called S.O.B. – which is an acronym for the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway on Long Island (which runs north-south in Nassau County), as well as ‘Son of a bitch.’ It is comparable to the original Pusher trilogy by Nicolas Winding Refn, except set on Long Island. I loved the simplicity of those movies – particularly the first one. But also the amount of style he brought to each film. The world just sort of sucked you in, and his gritty style kept you there. The film is packed with plenty of strippers, dealers and cretins.
I now find myself in a really odd position. It looks likely that Lunatic is going to get the greenlight in the next week or two for a Spring shoot (much more coming on this – I promise). The same company will be financing another project I’m producing which would shoot right after that in Sweden. Now I have a project I can just go shoot, the financier with the pocketbook (and desire) to do it – but I don’t think I will have the time to shoot it before I need to really dive into pre-production on Lunatic (and this other project).
What worries me is the casting and locations for S.O.B. Even though it is micro-budget, if I can’t find someone for the lead that I think can carry the movie, then I just have to wait. If I had everyone ready we would be a full go for a January shoot. The more likely scenario is that we start casting now for an August or September shoot.
Filed under: Filmmaking, Lunatic, Movies, S.O.B.
December 1, 2012
Chasing Rabbits-Penciled Page
We’re not even a month in and Zsombor has penciled up to page 32. Below is one of the pages. On this page, Alice walks in a driving rain to a brothel in the Queen’s territory, the Fyerz Rouge, to gather information on a Jane Doe that showed up floating in the Wonderland River without a head.
I would bet large sums of money the inked version will take this to a whole new level. Chasing Rabbits, my dream project, finally coming to life.
Filed under: Chasing Rabbits, Graphic Novel
November 30, 2012
Art Prints: Dmitry ‘Lemon5ky’ Dubrovin
Dmitry ‘Lemon5ky’ Dubrovin was awesome enough to put this collection of prints together for New York Comic-con (and beyond). His style is pretty unique and he brings it to some classic stories here. Like his take on Batman, Lord of the Rings, Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood.
Dmitry is the colorist for Bulderlyns, and is the creator (artist/colorist/letterer/writer) for Orange Lif3.
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Filed under: Bulderlyns, Graphic Novel, Orange Life
