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Magpie Monday

Posted on 26 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Art Nouveau portraits. Artist kishokahime created a series of Art Nouveau portraits of fantasy heroines from the 1980s (film and animation). I do prefer my Art Nouveau a little more ornate, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged akinetopsia, ambient music, Anastasia, animation, Art Nouveau (portraits), astronomy, Bigby Wolf, Bill Willingham, Billy Nunez, Black Lady (Sailor Moon), book cover art, Book Mania!, Bryan Singer, Christina Oppold, Chuck Wendig, Cinder, Craig Hamilton, Crysta (Fern Gully), Daily Science Fiction, Damien Walter, Daniel Dos Santos, Dave Hensley, David Malki!, death of film, Derek Kirk Kim, Dr Atmo, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, etymology, Fables, failing vs. quitting, FAX +49-69/450464, film trailers, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, frogs, frost flowers, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hawkeye, home libraries (design), I Have Your Heart, intelligence supplements, interviews, io9, Irvine Welsh, Isles of the Sun by Margo Lanagan, Jack the Giant Slayer, jerks (attraction to), Jim Batt, Jim Fern, Joe Daly, John Kenn Mortensen, Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, Juls Chong, Katherine Salant, Kickstarter, Kim Boekbinder, kishokahime, Leakey’s Second Hand Bookshop, Lili (Legend), linguistics, London, lunar phases, Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice), Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds by Mike Allen, Malta (The Sea Prince and the Fire Child), Mark Farmer, Molly Crabapple, Neil Patrick Harris, Neil's Puppet Dreams, Night Shade Books, No Return, Odette (The Swan Princess), Pete Namlook, Pi vs. Pie, Porno, Ray Snyder, Right Here by David Steffen, Robbie Trevino, Russell Hinson, Sarah (Labyrinth), Scarlet, science fiction (history), seals, self-surgery, short films, siblings, Skagboys, Slow by Erin Morgenstern, Sorsha (Willow), Speed of Love by Deborah Walker, stop-motion animation, Strange Horizons, Susan J. Morris, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Childlike Empress (The Neverending Story), The Lady Amalthea (The Last Unicorn), The Milky Way, The Most Important Man in the Universe by Joseph Zieja, The Nerdist, The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer, The Simpsons, The Stone Badger by Misha Nogha, The Trap by Steven Kahn, The Wizard of Oz, This Is Your Problem, Thumbelina, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Trainspotting, Tune: Vanishing Point, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wondermark, Zachary Jernigan | Comments Off

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

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