I'm Johnny Relaxed right now. Friday night, I played a bunch of God of War 2 (I never finished it and I've got to get ready for God of War III), read an old issue of Giant Robot featuring an interview with the Katamari series designer Keita Takahashi. Last night, we went to see Ghost Writer, I played more God of War and read a bunch of Arabs: a History.
I also did these two sketches:
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I just started writing the word LEGAL and it just followed from there.
You know, the reason I've been able to post so much art from this class is because I haven't made it out to the art store to get a couple of larger pads. I usually have a nice big pad of drawing or charcoal paper and then a pad of newsprint for life drawing. Since I hadn't been to lfie drawing in maybe three years my supplies on that front were completely depleted. Which means I've been drawing in a 9×12 sketchbook. That kind of sucks for the art itself, since I have to use pencil/pen and not charcoal/conte crayons, but it does mean I can share more of my art here.
At least there's that.
Check out this week's higlights:
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Last night, I watched Lost, read a chapter of The Arabs: A History, watched Stagecoach and drew this:
Fun.
After getting done with the redesign last week I clearly put it into shutdown mode. I figure I earned it:) Anyway, I'm back!
Now I just have to work through a whole stack of draft posts. I've got about a half a dozen movies to work my way through, plus a book or two, so I hope you'll forgive me if I don't go too in depth on a few of these.
On with it, then?
Why oh why did I wait as long as I did to see District 9? This is scummy, screwed up (in a good way) science-fiction. There's no wide-eyed Close Encounters awe here- just grime and xenophobia and hacked-together, destructive technology. I've got lots of love for ugly science fiction and this movie certainly fills that gap. Half mockumentary, half action piece, District 9 is a solid couple of hours- a little bit of social commentary, a wee bit of a love story, some nasty-ass special effects and a good chunk of mecha-inspired action.
I'm not quite sure it deserved an Academy Award nomination, but who knows what's up with the Best Picture category after they went to 10 nominees. Check it out.
