Around Spring of last year, in an attempt to keep my pen moving, I signed up for a life drawing class. It was the first time since high school art class that I was going to draw human models in real life. Over the last decade, most of the human ...
Drawing from Life
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 5, 2015Radio Play 2015 - What can YOU do to help?
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 2, 2015
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2014 saw a very sad thing happen, or rather not happen – the first time in four years that we did not to a DD Radio Play. For those who haven’t participated in the past, the Radio Play is truly one of the coolest ...
Happy boxing day!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Dec. 26, 2014
I hope you'll all forgive me for a short newspost this week as I spend time opening presents, watching movies and baking with my family.
I'd like to thank everyone who took part in Secret Santa this year. I was completely blown away by the quality of the ...
'Tis the Season! Art-based charities
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Dec. 19, 2014
Since it’s the holiday season, I thought I would take the opportunity to suggest a way that we can all express some generosity in a way that matters to us. I imagine most of us understand how valuable art can be as a way of escaping a bad situation ...
Quackcast 196 - The Sidekick-cast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 9, 2014 LISTEN!
Content:
The topic of the Quackcast was inspired by Kawaiidaigakusei's Thoughtful newspost article “An Ode to Sidekicks” that examined the varied subject of The Sidekick. She was inspired by Geoff Peterson, the much loved animated skeleton on the Craig Ferguson show and she went on to examine some ...
Quackcast 194 - Adapted Adaptations
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 25, 2014 LISTEN!
Content:
This week the topic of our Quackcast was inspired buy my Friday newspost where I talked about how we relate to adaptions of created properties (fave comics or books turned into movies etc), and some of the challenges involved in creating adaptions.
i.e. Hollywood will often try ...
Searching for Printed Comics
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 24, 2014
Sometime after the events of 9/11, my family signed up for our first printed newspaper subscription to keep up with the world headlines. I was a high school sophomore at the time and in order to take my mind off of the United State's imminent involvement in an ...
Adaptations
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2014
In recent years Hollywood has been desperately mining already popular material in the hopes of producing ready-made hits, so we've had a great bonanza of classic Scifi, fantasy and comic book films blasting onto the silver screen with the likes of The Lord of The Rings, The Chronicles of ...
An Ode to Sidekicks
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 17, 2014
I have been slowly lamenting over the end of The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson ever since he announced that he was stepping down from hosting late night television in April. Needless to say, the jokes from his show have been a welcome distraction from the daily grind and ...