Archive for September, 2007
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UNENDING WONDERS – Another video (this time, a reading)
September 28th, 2007 |Posted In: Unending wonders of a subatomic world
Here ya go, another “Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin” video, sculpted by me with loving care. A brief, edited reading of a page from the book this time. With music.
“I’ve never heard you read your work before,” Marty said, and I realized he hadn’t. All those plays performed and all the writing I’ve done, and he’s never heard me read.
Of course, I read the novel aloud to myself many times over, during the years of writing it. Checking pacing. Flow. But always when Marty was asleep or out.
He still has not heard me read live. Only the recording.
I’m wondering if I should do some podcast readings. My voice may be perhaps not too irritating to the ear…
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this tidbit.
UNENDING WONDERS – The Come Hither Video and a FREE promo download (limited time offer)
September 27th, 2007 |Posted In: General, Unending wonders of a subatomic world
Here you go. A promotional video for Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin. Made with my own two fiendish hands. It took me…hours.
Not hours and hours.
Hours.
Me sounding like a bleating sheep at the beginning was unintentional (distortion from a cheap mic) but the rest is pretty much as planned. If you can tell me what movie my recitation may remind you of, you get kudos. Marty immediately recognized it without my even mentioning to him what the effect was I was going for with the tinny, sublimated voice. “Hey, that’s…,” he said, and I replied, “Kudos!”
If you follow this link to the purchase page, the timid, only vaguely interested, mostly uninterested and kind-of-curious can deny themselves a nice printed copy because they’ll be able to download a pdf of the book FOR FREE. For now. Maybe for the next ten hours. Maybe for the next ten months. Who knows. But I can tell you that you’d really prefer a printed copy as it’s dense and easier to read and reread and read over again in hand.
Am I not great at marketing? I’m gonna get it down, real good. Just you wait and see.
After Hours at the Imperial Palace Cinema – Remembering Vertigo
Digital painting
30.02 by 23.36 inches
2007
Appreciation is extended to Intergalactic Stock whose stock I used as reference for the model.
“The Importance of Perspective”
A quick comic by H.o.p.
The Child Experiments with Flying, 2007
H.o.p. says hello to an old friend of mine, as he flies from the sofa.
You can’t see it but today he made a T Rex out of clay from the inside out. He did the skull and teeth and stomach and intestines and bladder and ribs and back bone etc., but you will never see the inside as he then started layering on muscles and then finally layered on the flesh in little scales.
“Don’t you want to do a cross section where people can see all the work you’ve put into making the inside of the T Rex?” I asked.
“No, you’re not supposed to see it,” H.o.p. said.
(Originally published Sep 19 2007)
OK. Approaching desperation mode. I’m printing out image after image (wasting ink and paper) on the new Canon Pro9000 and thus far am unable to get even a vague resemblance to what I’m viewing on the (SpyderPro calibrated) monitor. Flat. No contrast. Sepias are red. Greens are gray. No detail because there is no black. I’m not at the point of screaming but I am very nearly ready to crawl under the bed and not emerge until a next life. It all looks like hell. Something is wrong wrong wrong with the profiling and I don’t know how to fix it.
But let’s not talk about that or about how my website is slow as hell and I am unable to get Dreamhost to fix it and how I never want to photograph or paint anything ever again.
I promised more entertaining dancing girls. How about jumping and dancing girls! Gunther provides! (Oh, a nanosecond isn’t safe for little ones.)
At last! Entertainment. Right? Or a link to it. That’s a problem here. No ****ing entertainment is what most say I’m sure. “Forget that. She’s not entertaining at all.”
Marty didn’t spend all last evening working on the printer. He also watched the below, and tried to rouse me from my sleep to watch it, saying, “You must watch this! It’s funny!” But I said, “No! Leave the page up and I’ll watch it in the morning.”
He was right. It is funny.
Southwest Seekers – The Cover Up Cafe
Digital painting
30 by 18.70 in
J Kearns 2007
Appreciation is extended to Intergalactic Stock whose stock I used as reference for the model.
This painting took forever to complete.
It’s the painting we’ve been using for test prints of the new Canon Pro9000.
After a rather exhausting day, I watched Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (wow, talk about a no win situation for everyone concerned) then fell asleep while viewing “Saboteur”. And while I slept Marty worked on setting up the Canon Pro9000 printer and trying to get the print-out colors to match what was on screen. I remember him doing multiple color tests. I remember him eventually coming in with a new painting of mine that he’d printed out and it looked awful and I told him to try using the printing software that came with the Spyder 2pro. I remember him then coming in with a second print and that he was very elated that it looked right on the second try and going on about how great it looked and didn’t I think it looked wonderful.
This morning I wake up ultra early after too little sleep, think I’ll check email and have some tea and go back to bed, then I pick up the print-out and think, “Wow, I don’t like that painting at all printed out!” Which was disappointing. Then I took it and compared it to what was on screen. No wonder. It’s two entirely different paintings. I can see where Marty would have thought he’d gotten it right but the greens and blues are nothing like they are on screen. It’s also darker than it should be. Sky blue has become a deep intensely saturated turquoise. Light olive drab has become a very dark olive drab. The light has been sucked out of mustard golds and made into a muddied khaki.
Grrrrr.
As for the printing quality itself. Superb. Couldn’t be more beautiful. It’s gorgeous.
I don’t want to fight with this all day. I don’t want to waste expensive ink on fighting with this. I want it right, right now.
My brain hurts. I want to go back to bed.
Faintly, I plead with the printing deities, “Help! Help me!”
