Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files

Just finished reading the novella, "Back Up" by Jim Butcher.
Great read. And quick. (I don't read novels very fast.)

We're watching the Dresden Files on Netflix. Well done series. They made some changes from the novels to make them play better on TV. (I like it that on the TV series, Dresden doesn't carry a staff with him. By eliminating that, it makes the viewing more believable to me.)

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Watchmen: Portraits by Clay Enos

Found a book at the library in the oversize section called "Watchmen: Portraits" by Clay Enos. Wonderful black and white portraits of the folks that worked on the film, "Watchmen". Set designers and bit actors all get the same fantastic treatment with the camera.

Just flipping through the book, I feel like I could write stories about these characters. Looking into their faces, wondering about the lives they lived. About the lives they are going to live. Adventures in the making....


Here's Clay Enos website to view his portfolio:
http://clayenos.com/

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Milton Glaser

"What paintings do, and what theater does, and what poetry does, is to penetrate people's immunity and to embrace the puzzles to be solved. That's what I mean by the phrase 'moving the mind'." --Milton Glaser

Found a book today at the library titled "Drawing is Thinking" by Milton Glaser.
Looking at the cover, it looks like a ponderous book art essays.
But flip through it back to front (like I like to do) you find that it is all art and no captions (for the most part).
What a delightful surprise!
(There is an introduction and an interview at the beginning. Plus an index of the art in the back in case you want to know what year each painting was done.)

I like it.

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