HERRO!
I'm not so sure you missed me (those of you you have Facebook were probably delighted by my almost daily movies posts and ranting about the weather), but here I am to bother you again ;D
In this hiatus from my usual activity (webcomics and other crap) I spent the most of my time watching really weird movies on streaming instead of working on my cosplay ._.;
Anyway, this experience taught me some serious things that I need to share.
I'd mostly like to thank the world of cinema for two reasons:
Björn Andrésen playing Tadzio in Morte a Venezia (aka Death in Venice in the USA).
During the movie you could hear me shouting "DORIAN!! DORIAN!!" all over the place XD
Helmut Berger ♥ singing
"Kinder, heut' abend, da such' ich mir was aus" in Götterdämmerung (aka The Damned in the USA).
I really enjoyed this movie. I mean, it was HORRIBLE. Think of all the most terrible things that you may imagine (I'll say a few for you: pedophilia, a son raping his mother, Nazi orgies <-ok, this last one was quite amusing XD) and you'll find them in the disadventures of the powerful Essenbeck family as Nazism takes power in Germany... BUT, it was intense and most importantly, "pretty to look at".
Visconti is really good with visuals, well, not as much as Fellini, of course, but the poetry that he can get out of each frame is absolute. --But that's not what I wanted to talk about!
My favourite character is the EVIL-OMG-SO-EVIL Aschenbach (also if the most of watchers would probably identify the villain with Martin, since he does the worst things), the cousin of Sophie, and the "deus ex machina" that brings the family to the ruin.
I JUST LOVED HOW HE MANAGED TO CORRUPT EVERYONE IN THIS DAMN MOVIE D: And you know what? I decided that he turned the sensitive and cute nephew Gunther into his sex toy. Ahahah >D
This said, I must say that I'm very bitter about my recent doujinshi selling activity :/
I have lots of copies left unsold of both Give Bison! and This time it's for ever! and apparently nobody really want to buy them :/
Well, go ahead and keep buying Japanese crap over ebay for 30 dollars a booklet if it makes you happy.
As for me, I decided that I'm not going to make doujinshi based on such anime fandom anymore. I can't really allow myself to waste money this way, also if they are founded by my commissions... Or maybe I'll do as others do, and accept pre-orders before printing anything, this way I'd have the required money for the printing and no left-overs.
Anyway, my next projects are original thinglets, as I told you time ago.
First, a doujinshi inspired by The Portrait of Dorian Gray, focusing on the relationship between Dorian and Alan :DDD Speaking of Tadzio, I guess that for the cover art I'll just rip
this picture off x'DD *shameless*
The second project is a soft-erotic artbook featuring pretty boys and shibari. I need to collect a good amount of ref pics and get in a good enough mood to start playing around with the concept, then I'll see :D
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