Another one out of my sketchbook: …plus six convention sketches that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
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Movies Seen Recently: Eegah!, UHF, Man in the Wilderness
Eegah! (1962) – You may think you love your children, but would you ever write and direct a movie with yourself as a supporting character, mostly so your son could have a chance to play the hero, and also to sing several rock’n’roll songs? No? Well, Arch Hall Sr. did that for Arch Hall Jr.,…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post, with more sketches for sale!
This week, I posted one sketch out of my sketchbook: …plus six convention sketches that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.
Movies Seen Recently: Iron Sky, The Strange Ones, The Time Tunnel
Iron Sky (2012) – We truly live in a magical age, where for $8 million, one can have a fully realized movie about Nazis who’ve lived on a base on the far side of the moon since World War II and are now coming back to finish what they started. Perfectly respectable digital effects, stunning…
Evil and agency.
I was asked to speak in Sacrament meeting today, along with my wife and our daughter Sariah, about agency, liberty, choice and accountability, and linked topics. Below are my prepared remarks. In what sense is “evil” a thing? Evil doesn’t “exist” in the sense of having mass, taking up space, etc. Evil is an attribute…
Movies Seen Recently: To Catch a Thief, Battle Beyond the Stars, Space Raiders
To Catch a Thief (1955) – What was it about Grace Kelly that persuaded directors to pair her with leading men old enough to be her father? The three roles I know her best for were in High Noon (1952), in which 23-year-old Kelly was the wife of 51-year-old Gary Cooper; Rear Window (1954), in…
FanX this weekend!
I’ll be participating in FanX in Salt Lake City this Thursday through Saturday. Here are my panels: When Where What With Whom Thursday 7pm 151A Art! Where to Start? How to get from doodling to sketching and from there to compositions. We all start somewhere and most of the time don’t have any direction on…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
So the biggest related news this week is that I’m not posting my sketches of the day to Facebook anymore. I’ve been getting progressively more irritated with the “All Your Face Are Belong To Us” mentality there, and the final straw was when it was discovered that you couldn’t post a link to an essay…