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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Collaboration

Met with some friends the other evening to talk through a short film they're working on. They had about 5 pages as a rough draft of the story. (They write and film as a team.)

I was happy to be a part of the process as we discussed the tone of the film. And we hashed out motivation of the characters. (What is the thing that pushes them over edge?) It was great to have a sounding board for ideas. And the solutions were already part of the story, we just had to pull them out of hiding.

They're planning on getting this film shot and edited by the end of summer so they can send it out to some film festivals in the spring.

Now I want to do the same for one of my stories. I have some "almost finished" first drafts that have gaps that need some thinking through. I need a sounding board.

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Flux Museum Call for Entries

Here's an interesting site with a call for art.

www.fluxmuseum.org

I may do a flux box to send in by the end of June 2009. The show is in July in Texas.

Maybe one of my silly ideas will work.

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More Cats

Yes, this is him, King Louie as he is sometimes called.

(He has many names, some of which aren't fit to print.)

Doesn't he look awnry?

He's part Oriental Shorthair. When he goes cross-eyed - watch out!

Now this is Cozy... doesn't she look sweet?

And she is. Loves to get her belly rubbed.

Loves to fall down in front of you like a fainting goat.

More photos at a later date.

Both kittens inspired characters in a short animation I did a few years back called Deep Magic.

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Cats with Thumbs

My cat has been asking for a thumb for a long time.

It helps with the pop-top cans of cat fud... er, food.

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Easter Bunny

A sketch I did of Louie (the cat) a year or so ago.

He's dressed as a the Easter Bunny.

He's dressed as Santa Claus.

He has a mouse yo-yo.

He is a clever cat.

He does stand up like a Meerkat too.

When he was a kitten, he and his sister would run through the kitchen like Jesus lizards.

His sister, Cozy, sits up in front of the wall furnace in the perfect Lucky Kitty pose, one arm stretched out in front toward the furnace, the left arm reaching high in the air above her.

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Personal Anchor

Here is a sketch I did a year or so ago.
(Very Thurber-esque I must say.)

It's been windy here again. 45 mph wind gusts. Just steady wind all day and all night.

So that reminded me of this sketch.

A Personal Anchor attached to your belt. There is a "Up" and "Down" button on the control panel.

So you don't blow away in this turbulent time...

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