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summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells
grey days, unusual grey days in davis. Makes me think of arnold's predecessor. Anyway, this is the saturday afternoon drawing, of an interesting house (obscured by a tree) on the corner of E and 3rd. I've wanted to draw this one for a while but never got around to it. I see it every time i go to the bank to drop off my checks, or go to newsbeat to but my english, french and german footy magazines. This picture is pretty much as 'davis' as they come. |
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23.9.07 19:31 |
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la mort d'un mime (i didn't know he was still alive)
When I heard that Marcel Marceau had died, my first thoughts were what his last words might have been ( "" ); my second thoughts were of his coffin, being an invisible box with him stuck inside. This made me giggle like a little girl, of course; I felt a bit bad about that, but y'know, I think Marcel would have wanted it that way. I was surprised to learn that his real last name was Mangel. This made me think of Neighbours, at which point I really stopped laughing. |
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26.9.07 06:18 |
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food corner
on the corner of market and 6th, san francisco; drawn from a photograph, because (being pretty much the tenderloin) there were a lot of characters around of the sort that would make me feel uncomfortable standing around for two long drawing attention to myself with my sketchbook; i chickened out, and took a photo instead. I did the drawing below first, on a postcard fairly qickly, and i liked the colours, but then decided to do the one above, larger, in the moleskine, in a sepia monotone, with a lttle hatchwork via my copic .01 fineliner. i used a payne's gray and burnt sienna wash, with a little ultramarine for the shading. It's a different way for me, another experiment, and I quite like it (more than i liked that new show 'journeyman', which i watched straight afterwards). 
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26.9.07 06:45 |
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oh boy
TV season has begun again. Well, i really mean New Show Season. It's where I choose, against my better judgement, to watch a new show, having seen the previews all summer, and get utterly turned off of its absolute cheesiness and lament the failed opportunity of what might have been a good idea were it not in the hands of network tv producers. Last year it was Heroes, this year it is Journeyman. The pilot aired last night, a show about an accidental-time-travelling-journalist, who (and I doubt the show's producers meant this) is probably the least charismatic character ever invented. To be honest, it's a good idea with some seriously bad writers, extremely bad execution, dire casting, and already no mysteries, due to its unbelievably predictable storyline. Perhaps they wanted it to be an updated Quantum Leap, but Journeyman has less heart than a group of tax-collectors and absolutely no humour whatsoever. It is set in San Francisco (i counted every major SF landmark except the pier 39 sealions cropping up somewhere in that first episode) though it is clear that the producers are not from san francisco, and know nothing about the place (my wife spotted historical discrepancies instantly), and don't mind throwing in an insult, either. The first moment the protagonist steps goodnight-sweatheart back through time, we can tell it's the past because the 49ers are celebrating some big victory or other; I'm sure all '9ers fans were gritting their teeth and thinking, yes thanks for reminding us we haven't won anything for years). Worst of all, the soundtrack was absolutely dreadful. Bad reality show cheese. I might watch it next week, to see if it improves. Or perhaps I too will be mysteriously sent back in time, maybe to when TV was good. |
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26.9.07 07:00 |
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don't stay up too late
Guess what: yesterday (the 27th) was the second anniversary of my arriving in the U.S. Two years! That's a long enough time, you know. Hard to imagine. This time two years ago I was a gibbering wreck. Now I'm just gibbering. Anyway, here's my efforts of last night and this afternoon, more words added, the first in the living room, the second outside bainer hall. I'm glad it's Friday. This has been a busy busy week.
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29.9.07 07:01 |
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