"When I see my work, I am thinking... it is nothing special."
Oh man! We (Laura and I along with all three roommates- yes, all four of us together! Actually doing something! Rare but possible.) went last night and saw "The Protector," the US release of "Tom Yum Goong." Evan, Christian, and I tried to watch it once when I borrowed a copy of the original Thai release from Marvin, but it was all jacked up and we only saw the first twenty minutes or so, which in no way prepared us for the awesomeness of the rest of it. Okay, the plot is nonexistant, the acting is generally so-so, and there's all this horrible dubbing in the US release specifically, but all that aside, it is insane that one man can do the things Tony Jaa can do completely unaided. Go see it if you are at all interested in watching a guy fight his way up four flights of stairs in a four-minute, single-shot fight sequence, or if you like seeing like 40 people get their limbs broken in 40 different ways, or a 300-400 pound men being beaten with elephant bones. We all discussed its coolness on the way back.
In other news... uh, school is going on and on. I made a to do list today and it's really long. (Updating my journal, of course, is not on it.) I feel really, really busy, but that's probably a good thing. A lot of it is the pressure of SPX and getting everything done for that. I'm excited though. And it's great motivation.
The Comic Con this past weekend was pretty alright; well, it was better than my last trip there. The talks with Olivier Coipel and Paul Pope were pretty interesting; I had met Olivier on Thursday and he (at least seemed to like my minicomic; I don't want to think about what Paul thinks about the copy I gave him, since he says he finds faults with any comics other than Carl Barks, Moebius, and a select other few. I dropped a copy on Chris Pitzer as well; who knows if he'll look at it. Jose got me and Joe a professional crit with Chris Staros, who was pretty hard on us but in a way that dispensed supremely good advice. Jose says this is a good thing; that if Chris is easy on you it's because he sees no hope in the piece and doesn't bother to crit it. I hope that's not just empty reassurance. My first crit with Jose himself was in a similar vein; and my first independent study meeting with Brian was really good- nice and relaxed but with lots of stuff to take and work on. This is all boring for you the reader, and I apologize. So let's summarize all that by saying: I have been given a lot of great advice for what to do with my comics so I now must internalize it all and figure out what to do.
Also, trips to the BMA to see 400-year old prints by some crazy good printmakers. I'm totally doing more printmaking now.
In other news... uh, school is going on and on. I made a to do list today and it's really long. (Updating my journal, of course, is not on it.) I feel really, really busy, but that's probably a good thing. A lot of it is the pressure of SPX and getting everything done for that. I'm excited though. And it's great motivation.
The Comic Con this past weekend was pretty alright; well, it was better than my last trip there. The talks with Olivier Coipel and Paul Pope were pretty interesting; I had met Olivier on Thursday and he (at least seemed to like my minicomic; I don't want to think about what Paul thinks about the copy I gave him, since he says he finds faults with any comics other than Carl Barks, Moebius, and a select other few. I dropped a copy on Chris Pitzer as well; who knows if he'll look at it. Jose got me and Joe a professional crit with Chris Staros, who was pretty hard on us but in a way that dispensed supremely good advice. Jose says this is a good thing; that if Chris is easy on you it's because he sees no hope in the piece and doesn't bother to crit it. I hope that's not just empty reassurance. My first crit with Jose himself was in a similar vein; and my first independent study meeting with Brian was really good- nice and relaxed but with lots of stuff to take and work on. This is all boring for you the reader, and I apologize. So let's summarize all that by saying: I have been given a lot of great advice for what to do with my comics so I now must internalize it all and figure out what to do.
Also, trips to the BMA to see 400-year old prints by some crazy good printmakers. I'm totally doing more printmaking now.