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I am going to make you a participant in one of my recent projects: A comic strip titled "The Loneliness of Invisible Man".
I'm a big fan of Universal's classic horror movies (not to speak about Murnau's Nosferatu; the best celluloid vampire ever!), so, when I saw the funny figures of DKILLERPANDA's Monster Theatre series, I couldn't help to get them.
Playing around with them and my daughter (yeah, I'm a forty years old nerd boy. Check this kevinbolk wonderful strip about it: fav.me/d7jahr2 ), the idea pop out of my mind: Why not to photograph them in black and white, on a nice set, to homage those old horror movies? And why not to make them "speak", like in the silent movies? And...
But not everything was going to be doing silly with puppets (Well, mostly yes... ) First scripts came along naturally: To present the characters, as I imagined them. When I wrote them I could see there was a key concept shared by all.
The core script's idea is summed up in the title: An invisible man is the epitome of loneliness: In addition to the problems around each common person's communication ... well, he is invisible!
This idea will be developed, with a bit of irony, in the next strips, and will be seen that the other characters do not have it easier than Frankenstein's monster, each one castled in his role, and unable to leave it. A little metaphor for our society: non-nationalists and nationalist (current affairs with referendums in Scotland and Catalonia); politicians and citizens; men and women, parents and children ... We're all boxed into our roles, and not able to really listen and understand the others.
To put it in another way, this cold, grey society we live in sometimes alienate us, but only because we don't want, or we are afraid of, to break free. In the end, every individual is, in some way, a freak, a non-menacing monster, for the rest of his peers.
Possibly, reading Mary Shelley's Fankenstein this last summer also has something to with all of it: The (sym)pathetic monster's loneliness is, a little bit, our own loneliness...
As the poet said:
Seems I'm not alone at being alone.
A hundred billion castaways
Looking for a home
Hope you like.
I'm a big fan of Universal's classic horror movies (not to speak about Murnau's Nosferatu; the best celluloid vampire ever!), so, when I saw the funny figures of DKILLERPANDA's Monster Theatre series, I couldn't help to get them.
Playing around with them and my daughter (yeah, I'm a forty years old nerd boy. Check this kevinbolk wonderful strip about it: fav.me/d7jahr2 ), the idea pop out of my mind: Why not to photograph them in black and white, on a nice set, to homage those old horror movies? And why not to make them "speak", like in the silent movies? And...
But not everything was going to be doing silly with puppets (Well, mostly yes... ) First scripts came along naturally: To present the characters, as I imagined them. When I wrote them I could see there was a key concept shared by all.
The core script's idea is summed up in the title: An invisible man is the epitome of loneliness: In addition to the problems around each common person's communication ... well, he is invisible!
This idea will be developed, with a bit of irony, in the next strips, and will be seen that the other characters do not have it easier than Frankenstein's monster, each one castled in his role, and unable to leave it. A little metaphor for our society: non-nationalists and nationalist (current affairs with referendums in Scotland and Catalonia); politicians and citizens; men and women, parents and children ... We're all boxed into our roles, and not able to really listen and understand the others.
To put it in another way, this cold, grey society we live in sometimes alienate us, but only because we don't want, or we are afraid of, to break free. In the end, every individual is, in some way, a freak, a non-menacing monster, for the rest of his peers.
Possibly, reading Mary Shelley's Fankenstein this last summer also has something to with all of it: The (sym)pathetic monster's loneliness is, a little bit, our own loneliness...
As the poet said:
Seems I'm not alone at being alone.
A hundred billion castaways
Looking for a home
Hope you like.
Fire Island geomorphology
I have just submitted The Island of the Lizard King's map to my gallery.
It has been a nice small proyect: It has recalled nice memories for my late childhood, challenged some of my abilities, and entertained me in this days of isolation because of the COVID-19 (Damn it!).
Also, as geologist, I couldn't help trying to find geological sense to the main island's features, something quite risky and difficult in most of the fantasy maps, that are usually designed just for aesthetic purposes, forgetting all logic and laws of physics (A wizard, or a god, did it, didn't he?)
I was going to expose my conclusions in the pictures description, but th
And I came back to her
I wrote about expectations before, and how they tend to twist and surprise the artist. This happened with my first (and only! :crying:) Daily Deviation: A photo I judged not good enough by itself, and submitted to the stock folder.
In some way, something very similar happened to a couple of images of an angel statue (that I, prosaically, titled "Cemetery angel 1" and "Cemetery angel 2") I took some years ago: They are not DD's, but, even though I sentenced them to the stock folder too, little by little, they are among the most faved and praised of my gallery.
I now all the merit is hers (well, the sculptor's...): I just framed without much
Urban Landscapes Proyect Method Improvement
During the last months, taking advantage of the little spare time I had, I've been doing the Nikon School Online Grade. Now it's time to finish it, and for that I gotta do a final proyect, consisting of eight photographs on a common theme.
I've chosen Urban Landscapes: Probably it's the one I'm more confortable with, and, back home after holidays, it's the nearest field, apart of the portrait (but my models are mainly my daughter and family, and I'd never upload photos of them).
I want to focus it like a working project, so, early this morning I took the camera and spent several hours roaming the city... and think I gotta change the method.
Invisible Man is back!
So, 'ere we are again, after a (too) long hiatus.
Job issues took me away from nearly any artistic activity almost since last spring. We have not finished the project that has occupied me more than ten hours a day for the past nine months, but we begin to see the end of it, so I have the luxury of entering into this new equinox with a new Invisible Man misadventures' strip:
This time, idea came to my mind while listening Queen's greatest hits with my daughter some weeks ago. After that, it all started to roll again...
I know it was not very successful before, but I had to do it: I needed to think in something more than concrete, quality an
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