Sliding Out of The Year with Cartoons
Until my brain recovers from the traveling and security measures so extreme they were surreal, I thought I'd pop up a few animations I did for the holiday crowd. They were meant to be digital version...
View ArticleA Snack until Dinner
She dabbles, she fiddles, she edits, she revises and still - STILL - she doesn't have anything finished enough to pop it on a blog. What the hell is UP with her? I don't know. It's a good thing it's...
View Articleof course it's a horse
You might remember I can't draw a horse.At least, I can't draw one from memory. It's as if I've only seen them in a block, a block painted in primary colors with a big H for horsie.Here's a horse I...
View ArticleWhat I Do when I Can't Do Creative
When last we met, I was trying to animate a slightly more horse-looking horse than what I could manage when scribbling. Well, you can try as much as you want sometimes and all you get is something ......
View Articleglue'll do it
Last night, I was almost sure I'd get a blog written because I managed, well, this:Perfect blogging conditions - I'm drinking and eating and pretending to get ready to go to a film from Japan that...
View ArticleCautionary Tale Part 52
I don't know why I bother to be cautious. It never works for me.I'm now the owner of 9 (nine!!) tickets for the remaining films in the Santa Barbara Film Festival, collected through verrrrry careful...
View ArticleLines
In the event any one thinks I'm being unusually - as in 'more than usual' - negligent in attending to this blog, I thought I'd give you my day in reverse, just so you, too, can own a glimpse of what is...
View ArticleFinally, some bits of Madrid
You have to start somewhere if you're making itsy bitsy videos about Madrid on your way to making videos about Barcelona, and this it it. Somewhere. Gosh, it was two months ago we were in Spain and you...
View ArticleA Brief Romance with Tapas
I'm going to think you'd have done the same - dedicated yourself to testing every tapas that crossed your path, even if you had to make a little detour to ensure that the paths did, indeed, cross....
View ArticleArt in Any Language
It'd be pretty cool if art was art in any language, but Hungarian, for one, had to go and get all contrary with muveszeti. (Cafe Muvesz is one of the better coffee houses in the whole world so maybe...
View ArticleWhen the cat drops the ball
The cat was howling that I am a conquering hero howl cats do when they slip up and think they're lions or tigers or pandas or whatever they mistake themselves for. It's piercing, you know. And it was...
View ArticleMadrid. The End.
Madrid is a fine place for Madridians and other people who like it, but I'm glad to be through with it. In popular parlance, travel is a passion of mine (one I don't get to exercise so much since it...
View ArticleLarchmont Village
Santa Barbara's okay. It was summer warm today, the jasmine's making everyone drunk and it's beautiful. Still. It just doesn't do for me what a big city does. Last week, we dashed down to Hollywood,...
View ArticleRecovery
Last night, at 5 pm, we were happy elves, peeling the freshest limes swiped off the tree next door and loads of oranges from the farmers market.I was making a nice big bowl of gaucamole from the...
View ArticleStarting Somewhere for the 28th Time
I was excited to start these little animations about story ideas with no endings. I didn't want to use any of my favorite ones first - not while I was figuring out the format and timing and whether or...
View ArticleSeeing Beauty
Here's the second 'Tell Me How the Story Ends' thingie - it was already posted before I thought to ask your sterling opinions so the intro is still long and laborious, but I'd already started to...
View ArticleThe Proper Thing to Do
It only seems right to interrupt my marathon of animations-in-training with something a little more entertaining, like life. It might be the right and proper thing to do, but in the end, the really...
View ArticleCrappety Crap
I was on the porch this morning, sketching characters when I got distracted by shirt, the one I put on an hour earlier, when it was clean. Somehow, inside those sixty minutes, I'd managed to get kitty...
View ArticleMagic Bloggers
This is my new favorite animation, glitches and 'Really? You had to zoom in again?'s included. It was fun to tell you by way of cartoon how much I like your blogs and comments - and not just on my blog...
View ArticleThe Written Word Strikes Again
I'm feeling pretty biblical tonight. I made sun-dried tomato hummus from scratch, using one of those blenders you'd find in a flea market in Old Jerusalem. And later, I'll dunk my footsies into warm...
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