What I’m wokring on and so where were we when the lights went out? These are raw reading of hub stories.
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Visiting
Oedipus Schmedipus
It’s all fun untill…
I made this cartoon while watching the first season of Mad Men on DVD. Seems all they do is drink and smoke, so I guess that’s how this came about.
Map of The World
Much of my plotting and planing on Hub seems to relate to this map my father drew. To understand it, watch this. My mom dug it up for me and I thought I’d share it with you.
Thinking of Airplanes
I spent a lot of time last night watching Bergman films and thinking about a visual sequence for the first hub story. I think of this first story as a small test beta to see if it is worth doing the whole hub memoir in Sophie. It has to do with flying and landing and the little bar that I went to in Paris that seemed like the center of things and was called hub and gave me the title. So maybe this first story is like a title page… or title sequence… or preface, or preamble, or something. I would pause the film (Smiles on a Summer Night) and story board a few frames and then press play, etc. I am imagining the visuals based off an old gif animation I did two years ago. It popped into my head after I watched the video below. I think my sequence could really take advantage of the layering possibilities in a Sophie book. We’ll see.
Flying from Sam Fuller on Vimeo.
Hamlet
I keep nudging this painting that I started painting two summers ago. You can actually see the start of it in a time lapse I used in this video.
When I Paint Over My Masterpiece
Folk Song
Made this little gif to cheer myself off to the polls. History awaits.
Screaming Guitar
Saturday after Halloween was an H day: Hung over we ate Hamburgers and watched Horror movies… Today it’s back to Hub and working on the preface part which I started writing late on halloween night a bit haunted by wine. It’s kind of a violent death haunted period I was writing on and it sort felt right to commune with those ghosts on all Hallow’s eve. Naturally today I deleted everything I wrote and started over, but the genearl map I’d left myself at 1:30 a.m. Friday was indispensable. Here’s a painting on a toy guitar that I’ve been working on for a few weeks.
Ghosts
There was supposed to be a closing party for reading room last night, but turn out was slim and I got stuck in the beauty that is Park Slope on Halloween. It’s the one Holiday we can all agree on. God bless the dead, etc. We went as an unfinished painting.