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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Piece of skin

I just watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation the other day (Netflix I curse you!) and...I wonder if this illustration was subconsciously influenced by that.  I hope not, because it was literally, literally, one of the worst films I have ever seen in my life.  Starring Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey strangely enough, but it was still so terrible.  However, it could be put in the 'it's so bad it's good' category, along the lines of Honey starring Jessica Alba, and Glitter starring Mariah Carey.  While wikipedia-ing Mariah Carey for the name of the film Glitter, there was a note that, "She made her film debut as an opera singer in the romantic comedy The Bachelor (1999), starring Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger." Renee Zellweger again! Weird. Actually, maybe not that weird.

Off topic. I started this illustration as a base for my new portfolio website design.  I want to finish this before I start the actual creation of the website, so here is a shot of it so far.  It was suppose to be a quick job but in reality all "small illustrations" take a good amount of time.  I do want it to be very graphic looking, drop-shadows and all, light and fun. You can click the image for a slight enlargement.



Current Events

So what's up?  What's up with you?

As always, I am redesigning my website.  Trying to create the whole thing in Flash because of my increasing familiarity with the program, or maybe just incorporate some aspects of Flash within the overall design.  I don't know yet, I have to investigate and see how it works out.

In the meantime, I am reading a VONDERFUL book, Between a rock and a hard place, by Aron Ralston. He is the guy that had to free himself from a boulder he got pinned under by amputating his lower right arm using a dull swiss army-type tool. Very insane I know. 

Film soon.  I happen to have low expectations of this book to film adaptation, only because I was deeply offended by Sean Penn's adaptation of Into the Wild, an amazing book by Jon Krakauer which I loved. However, it seems to be common knowledge that once you read a book, the film typically never stands up to your personal interpretation of it.  However, I will probably see 127 Hours when it comes out.  Just to see.


Via wikipedia:


British film director Danny Boyle is currently working on the film 127 Hours about the true story of Ralston.[12] Filming is expected to take place in March of 2010, with a release date scheduled for late 2010. Fox Searchlight will be funding the film.[13] Actor James Franco will play Ralston.[14]