Ninja July 2nd, 2009
Wow, I am in awe of Wataru Itou’s handmade, papercraft castle. This intricate paper castle took four years to create and includes lights, a ferris wheel, and a moving train! It is on view at the Umi no Ue no Oshiro (A Castle On the Ocean—海の上のお城) exhibition at Uminohotaru.
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Hallo, hallo you lovely folks! Thank you so much for all your encouragement and little love notes as I nervously go through prepping for this show. You have no idea how much it means to me.
For her hair, I layered burnt siena, raw siena, and raw umber acrylic paint around thin strips of ochre underpainting.
Here’s where I left off at 3 AM. Seemed like a good stopping point. Stay tuned for more obsessively detailed hair painting. ~__^
Much love back atcha,
Ninja
Ninja July 1st, 2009
I have the bad habit of doodling on any random bits of paper that I find, and I lose sketch books at an alarming rate.
I’m trying to remedy all of this by starting a sketchbook I really care about. Here’s my first entry.
I know it’s kind of hard to read. The text that goes with these images is just a small bit about when left half my face went numb from my root canal and Penguin had the right side of his face temporarily paralyzed from Shingles. So we smiled lopsided smiles at each other until the pain medication wore off.
Happy sketching,
Ninja
Ninja July 1st, 2009
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The original matchbook and a work in process.
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Happy hump day,
Ninja
Ninja July 1st, 2009
Thanks for joining me as I go about my painting process and prepare for my first group show.
Fixed the crooked jawline and added some tone with light acrylic washes.
Evened out the eye levels. Then I built up and layered the shadows with thin acrylic glazes.
Next step: hair! I can’t wait. ^______^
Happy painting,
Ninja
Penguin June 29th, 2009
We just finished the first draft of the scene breakdown for The Intern Project. A scene breakdown is just a outline of every scene in the script focusing on who’s in it and what the central action is.
We had come up with the major story beats first, so we wrote up the breakdown for that. There was still a lot more stuff that we need to write to fill in all the gaps leading from beat to beat. So we just brainstormed for each episode, seeing what would be interesting or funny.
Then we started plugging the scenes that didn’t necessarily have to do with the overall plot into the scene breakdown. We were working over GoogleDocs, which made the process really hard. It was tough to see where the story was front heavy, back heavy, or just had holes.
Even though it took some time, we printed out the whole breakdown, cut it up into strips so we could move everything around physically. This was a great way to visually see how the story was progressing and what areas needed addressing.
We took notes and went back to the GoogleDoc and manually synced it to the strips. Then we went through and addressed all the notes we came up with.
This was the first time I’ve done a scene breakdown before and thought it was a great way to think through the entire script. Invariably, we started moving into some expanded scene breakdown territory with some of the more complicated scenes.
Now we’re going to go through and work on the expanded scene breakdown. This should take a few days, then we can finally get started on the script. We gave ourselves a deadline of July 7th, but I’m not sure if we’re going to be able to make it. It’s a lot of work between here and there.
I’ll keep you posted.
- Penguin
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Good morning!
Long story short, I royally messed up the original painting. So I stripped off all the varnish and gave the guitar a through sanding and started over again. It’s the same concept, just a different, softer pose.
Happy painting,
Ninja
Ninja June 26th, 2009
I’m always fascinated by an artist’s process!
Check out this video (directed by Felipe Lima) of Shepard Fairey working on pieces for an upcoming show.
TGIF, ttfn,
Ninja
Penguin June 25th, 2009
It’s always a blessing to be able to peak into the master’s process. And Kubrick is one of the great masters. In this snippet, Glen Kenny talks to Anthony Harvey, who edited Strangelove, about the ending over at The Auteurs’ Notebook.
Harvey, who had also cut the director’s prior film Lolita, recalls the press screening, which happened to occur on or around November 22, 1963, the day of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. “There we are. I was showing it to the press, I remember, around that time. We canceled everything and we all trudged on to Grosvenor Square, stood in shocked silence as the news unfurled. That’s the date. And some weeks after that, I believe, the film was going to be released.
Columbia Pictures were very nervous about anything to show the president—any president—in that state, as it should be…That ending, how it started, the George Scott character threw a custard pie to the Russian ambassador, and it missed and hit the president. And then all hell broke loose. And it was like there was about two minutes when, after this brilliantly constructed film, it devolves into a kind of silent Mack Sennett sort of thing, with everybody getting hit by custard pies.
[S]omehow they were very worried, the studio, about releasing it. They found it might be offensive or something. So Stanley took it out for the moment, and then the film opened and he just didn’t feel like putting anything back. So that remained in the cutting room floor. But it was a brilliant piece of work. Who knows? I certainly thought it was. But I think when you get to a point in working on a film for almost a year, and this sort of sudden pressure comes in as a result of what happened to Kennedy, it’s a sort of clear-cut situation. So that was removed. And it never went back.”
While stills of the footage exist, it’s still unclear as to whether the scene survived the loss of the original negative, or exists in Kubrick’s archive. Despite the hopes of some cinephiles, it is not, finally, included on the new Blu-ray disc of Strangelove.
I find it interesting that the serendipitous cut was what made the Strangelove ending the way it is. Usually, the work of masters is meticulous with every detail being purposeful and reasoned. Granted, there was a reason behind the cut, but not to serve the work.
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