Daily post &Mary Blair 10 Sep 2007 07:55 am
Bits ‘n’ Pieces
A new blog hits the streets this morning. David Levy, the President of ASIFA-East and the author of Your Career in Animation: How to Survive and Thrive has started a blog called Animondays. This will be a weekly blog, an addition to the ASIFA-East website.
It’ll be good to have a refreshing new voice coming from New York, the original home of US animation. Welcome, David.
– On her site, Miscellainey, Lainey Schallock posts some of Mary Blair‘s Cinderella art from the newly published book. The book includes new text written by Newberry Medal winner, Cynthia Rylant.
Lainey, on her post, writes an extensive and informed review of the book. She is a big fan of Mary Blair’s work, and has focused much of the blog’s attention on art of the period. Take the time to look back at some of the other, older posts if you’re not familiar with it. It’s quite a nice site.
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- Cartoonist/illustrator, Ed Sorel, wrote a beautiful piece about George Herriman and Krazy Kat for American Heritage Magazine back in 1982. You can read it on-line at their website, and, if you love Krazy Kat and have five minutes it’s worth the read.
And if you’re really a Herriman fan, Alan Holtz, on his site Stripper’s Guide, has been posting Herriman’s non-Krazy Political cartoons. They were published in the LA Examiner in the early 1900′s. Every Saturday, you can sign in for another great cartoon or three. Check it out, and thank you, Alan Holtz.
- Rachelle Bowden posts some beautifully artful photos of Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs baseball game on Labor Day. That’s the game where Carlos Zambrano
attacked the fans verbally for booing him as he left the pitcher’s mound losing the game.
If you go to Rachelle’s site, check out the photo of her Birthday Flowers on Sept 7th. She’s a first rate photographer.
I love her annual post of the flowers she receives from her parents on her birthday. It makes for a great series; I’ve followed and enjoyed this string for years.
- Yet again, let me point you in the direction of Hans Bacher‘s excellent site, Animation Treasures 2. This site is a must see daily for all the stunning artwork Hans is posting from the backgrounds he’s reconstructing for us.____
His recent posts of the artwork from Snow White is just glorious. Such masterful watercolors. What an excellent film. I think I’ve gone back to his site half a dozen times, just to look. As a matter of fact I hope to make time to look at the film again, today.
- Finally, may I suggest you visit Bruce Watkinson‘s site, Understanding Animation. There he has an extensive and elaborate commentary on the life and work of disney legend, Ub Iwerks.
When I was a kid, my hero was Iwerks – (am I repeating myself?) The first short I bought to watch in my 8mm projector was Sinbad the Sailor. I studied that film frame by frame, backwards and forwards. I got the chance to talk with Grim Natwick when I learned that he probably had more to do with the film than Iwerks, himself.
I’m always excited by anything written about the man. His bio, The Hand Behind the Mouse, by John Kenworthy is one I’m pleased to own (though I wish there were another voice or two on the subject). Anything, on the subject is valuable to me. Hence, I was pleased to see and read Bruce’s piece, this morning. Check it out.
on 13 Sep 2007 at 5:57 am 1.Bruce said …
Hey Mike.
I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the Iwerks post. Who knew that he was one of your greatest inspirations/heroes? BTW, those animation drawings from ‘Steamboat’ are out of this world.
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