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New art: The God in a Box
I’m part of the Pando Art Collective, which is a dozen or so artists associated with the Pandemonium Art Gallery; it just came together over the summer, and last night we had our first fundraising event so we could afford to advertise other events, have supplies for an art carnival, etc.: it was called “What’s…
Movies Seen Recently: Kong: Skull Island, The Soldier, At the Earth’s Core
Kong: Skull Island (2017) – Another mechanically competent blockbusterish movie-flavored factory product, with maybe some humans involved. I have a list of complaints — the soldier stranded on the island for decades was too well-fed, we spend way too much screentime with an isolated soldier who ends up dying off-screen, there’s no way that pterodactyls…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post
A recap for those who don’t follow me on Facebook: I just filled up another sketchbook, so I’ve been posting daily scans out of that sketchbook all this last week. (Actually, the sketchbook prior to that was abandoned halfway through — it was a leather-wrapped thing with handmade paper that held pencil so poorly that…
New art – and a new/old venue!
When last we spoke about my assemblage art, I passed on the sad news that the Pandemonium Art Gallery in Ogden would be closing. The new news is that, at the very end, the Pandemonium got new owners, who closed for the month of July to revamp it. Tonight is the official reopening (it’s the…
Movies Seen Recently: Horror Hotel, Alien vs. Predator, The 5-Man Army
Horror Hotel (1960) – A mostly not-silly movie saddled with a silly title (its alternate title, City of the Dead, is more respectable if no more accurate), its main problem is what I call “The Psycho Flaw,” i.e., establishing a protagonist and then killing that protagonist an unconscionably long time into the movie (oops, spoilers!)….
New Poster: Catacombs of the Blind Dead
My first poster that clearly takes its inspiration from an existing franchise (I think that, with more than forty years since the last Blind Dead movie, it’s ripe for a reboot).