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Video Friday

Posted on 7 September 2012 by Robert

Today’s video is Loom, a beautifully shot short film by Luke Scott, son of Ridley Scott. Giovanni Ribisi plays a laboratory worker in a dystopic future stylistically inspired by Blade Runner. Here’s some technical info: Luke Scott in cooperation with … Continue reading →

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Magpie Monday

Posted on 3 September 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ The 2012 Chelsey Awards were given last week in recognition of excellence in genre art. The winners produced quite an amazing collection of art to feast your eyes upon, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Fairy Tales, Magpie Monday | Tagged 30 Pounds of Human Tissue by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Dreams, A Wizard at War by A.M. Roelke, Adam Mills, AlphaBooks, autoerotic asphyxiation, Ben Towle, Birds and Birthdays, Bonnie Tyler, book cover art (design theories), Breaking the Frame by Kat Howard, Brothers Grimm, Cartographer's Ink by Beth Cato, Charlie Jane Anders, chocolate, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Barzak, Christopher Kubasik, Courtney Carpenter, Daily Science Fiction, Dark Phoenix, Dorothea Tanning, Edith Wharton's library, Electric Velocipede, electrified plants, Fin Fang Foom, forensics, genre, Grimm's Fairy Tales, haka, harvester ants, Heaven Under Earth by Aliette de Bodard, Hellboy, hermaphrodite sex, Hulu, I Dreamed the Moon by Julia Rios, Jabberwocky, James Scott Bell, Joe Bunting, John Bertram, L. Frank Baum, Lady Sif, Lee Pace, Legion by Brandon Sanderson, Legolas, Lightspeed, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl, Marc Basile, Mary Shelley, Matt Damon, Matthew Olin, Michael Parkes, Michael Pollan, miniatures, Moonstruck (bronze) by Michael Parkes, mythology (world) cultural appropriation, Neil Rivas, New Zealand, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs, Quebec City Magic Festival, Recovering Lolita, Royal New Zealand Infantry, Ryan Gosling, skin cake, Snow White, soft drinks, sperm, Stefan Tosheff, storm troopers, strokes, Superboy (new), Sutured Infection, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The 2012 Chelsey Awards, The Booth at the End, The Highly Sensitive Person and the Writer by Susan Sipal, The Hobbit (film), The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Spectre, The Super Team Family Blog, The Talented Mr. Ripley (film), The Three Graces (painting) by Michael Parkes, The Wizard of Oz, Theodora Goss, Thranduil, Tim Tadder, Tom Gauld, Total Eclipse of the Heart, travel writing, Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo, Undoing Winter by Shannon Connor Winward, Vampirella, Watching Rockets by John Philip Johnson, Water Wigs, webseries, Weird and Proud of It by Johanna Sinisalo, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, William Faulkner, Wonder Man, writing (novellas), writing (novels), writing (romance), writing (setbacks & stumbling blocks), writing (short stories), writing houses, Xander Berkeley | Comments Off

Video Friday

Posted on 31 August 2012 by Robert

“Metamorphosis: Titian 2012,” an exhibition at The National Gallery, is a “multi-arts project, part of the Cultural Olympiad’s London 2012 Festival, [and] draws on the powerful stories of change found in Titian’s masterpieces, revealing how these spectacular paintings continue to … Continue reading →

Posted in Video Friday | Tagged Diana and Actaeon by Titian, Luke White and Remi Weekes, Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, myths (Greco-Roman), Ovid's Metamorphoses, short films, Tell No One, The Death of Actaeon by Titian, The National Gallery | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 27 August 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Prior to seeing the image below on Terri Windling’s blog, I’d never heard of Kelly Louise Judd before. How is that possible? Her work is exquisite and reminds me … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged "Tequila" Yuen, AlphaBooks, Andrew Wheeler, animation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beautiful Evidence, Ben Towl, Bill and Ted, Birds and Birthdays, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Brian Azzarello, China Miéville, Chris Bird, Christopher Barzak, Cloudburst by Thomas Allen, cosplay, costumes, cremation, Dana Scully, Dante and Virgil in Hell by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Darren Criss, Davinder Brar, dolls, Edward Scissorhands, Endymion by Roz Kaveney, Espresso Book Machine, film trailers, Fire, Fox Mulder, free indirect discourse, Harry Potter, Joe Hill, John Byrne, Justice League, Justine Larbalestier, Kelly Louise Judd, Kingdom Come, know what you write, Leonora Carrington, magic realism, magic systems, magical-realist films, Marc Basile, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Downs (The Craft), Nancy Drew, Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), Neil Gaiman, Perched by Kelly Louise Judd, poetry (found), Portrait of Lisane de Patagnia by Rachel Swirsky, Remedios Varo, Roz Kaveney, Rufus, school lunch, Song of the Sea, spontaneous combustion, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Steve McQueen, Stray Books by Grant Snider, stress and genes, Superman, Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest by Bruce Boston, Swan Bones Theater, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Terri Windling-Gayton, Th Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Corinthian, The League of Extraordinary Gentlepersons 1996, The Mafra National Palace library in Mafra Portugal, The Sandman, The Secret of Kells, The Watchmaker's Wife by Lydia S. Gray, Thomas Allen, Tom Gauld, Under the Tree by Tania Hershman, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman (villains), writing (process), Zach Morris (sociopath) | 2 Comments

Video Friday

Posted on 24 August 2012 by Robert

This afternoon I’m going to see Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild with Molly and Emily, and in honor of my first movie theater-outing since the last Harry Potter film (no, I don’t get out much), I present to you Glory … Continue reading →

Posted in Video Friday | Tagged Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Court 13, Glory at Sea, Louisiana, short films | Comments Off

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