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2013/01/01

WIP Frankenstein's Castle

Ballpoint Pen on A2 size watercolour paper.

I started this last Christmas. Its part of drawings for me trying to master ballpoint pen. I did the outlines in pencil that day. And I started with the inks on December 30. It took 10 hours to do all the inks of the 2 darkest layers in the foreground. The background sky I did today in a little under 2 hours in. The Subject in the drawing is the castle from Young Frankenstein.

2012/11/24

The Mummy: Boris Karloff

The Mummy(1932)

Boris Karloff born (William Henry Pratt) November 23, 1887

"... working at UNIVERSAL PICTURES in the Spring of 1931(Frankenstein) was a forty-two-year-old bit player named Boris Karloff. The thin, swarthy Englishman had endured twelve years in movies, waiting for a role that would lift him from the ranks of the occasionally employed. In 1926, one of his worst years, Karloff had almost given up..."

excerpt from HOLLYWOOD HORROR From Gothic to Cosmic by Mark A. Vieira

2012/11/17

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker is the Irish novelist best known for writing the gothic-horror and part romance, Dracula.

2012/06/17

Review : Prometheus

I loved this movie. No ratings, no stars, I just love it. From director to cast. I don't really have that much of a problem with Lindelof because I never finished Lost. With all the vitriol he's getting on the internet I do fear for the future of another franchise hes penned. He seems like a nice guy on The Nerdist Podcasts.

I did not see this in 3D, and having seen it twice now, I wish I had. I could see the intention of the technology used, just like How to Train Your Dragon. *sigh*

I have never seen the original Alien on the big screen. The first time I saw it may have been on TV. Lately I've been rewatching it on my computer. That's not really the best way to see it especially with the ships trying to look heavy, and the landing scenes. "All the excitement of parking." Did I mention I've been rewatching it with Rifftrax? That's probably not good too.

But seeing the original with my limited knowledge of the craft I could see, again, intention. I may never get to experience what most of you got when you saw it for the first time, in the theater, in colour. So when Ridley Scott comes back to not only a genre, but a franchise he helped create I was on board and rode that enthusiasm to the cinema.

David stole the show, every time he was on screen I just knew he was going to do something, probably on orders or on his own. Hello HAL is that you?

And who would anyone here pick to take out to dinner; The Ice Queen(Vickers) or The Nun(Shaw)? This was really the toughest question on my mind after the movie.