Two Days, Five Pages

[tealin]

Friday's Sketchbook - Drawn after watching Copenhagen. I always regretted missing Copehnagen when it was performed in town recently, so when I heard there was a film adaptation and that it was going to be on TV this Friday, I made sure to watch it.* And:

WOW!

It was fabulous! It was theoretical physics, history, headology, and character interaction all wrapped up in one attractive and compact package! The only elements missing from my mental list of Things That Are Cool were paleoanthropology and plot structure ... okay, and fairy folklore, but it would have been really hard to fit that in. On top of that, it had Stephen Rea (a.k.a. Mr Finch; my drawings are mostly trying to figure out his perpetual cringe) and Daniel Craig (a.k.a. Evil Guy From Road to Perdition) which made it even cooler (and also amusing, for me). By the end, I tell ya, if I were a more demonstrative person I'd have been writhing on the floor in throes of sheer ecstatic wow.

Anyway the sound quality was really horrible (the first thing to go is always the consonants, and they're the most important thing) so I thought I'd check out the DVD, but alas! Neither library system has it. Woe!


*We'll just pretend that I remembered what it was I wanted to watch and didn't just sit down in front of the TV at 8:00 thinking 'I know I need to watch something on Channel 5...' and only remember it was Copehnagen when I saw the promo. I've been busy with work, capiche? Work can be distracting.

SATURDAY'S SKETCHBOOK
Page One - At the bottom are notes for my sister's animation assignment, but on top is evidence that every so often, a slightly less derivative idea will pop into my head, probably lost on its way to someone else's head and asking for directions. Okay, here it is: there's this manatee, right? And, you know, manatees like to kind of ... drift along ... but this one manatee, he wants to go FAST! So um, he starts hanging out with these dolphins but they're all smarter and faster than him ... and that's about as far as I got. If anyone wants to take that and run with it (I'm looking at you, disneyboy), you're welcome.
Page Two - A ferret in a top hat and tails, balancing on a ball ... more notes for my sister's [future] animation assignment.
Page Three - A couple of bus people and some attempts at Eli the Barrow Boy, neither of which work well past the shoulders.
Page Four - A bus person and some possible progress on Vorbis.

Comments

[lumosart.livejournal.com]

Looks great! I love the ferret ;)

[rebekah-weasley.livejournal.com]

Your bus people are a lot more interesting then mine...
Vorbis is from... Terry Pratchett's Pyramids?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

From Small Gods actually. Similar to Dios, who's in Pyramids, but a little more extreme and, er ... evil.

I only draw the interesting ones.

[aysquid.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Your artings are amazing. Do you mind if I add you? :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Go right ahead. :)

[chinchilla82.livejournal.com]

Your icon makes me soooo happy.

I'm sorry I'm late...it seems I have the plaaague. Right, I'm going home to find a job with a drill.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

I SQUEEEE! YOU SQUEEEE! WE ALL SQUEEEE FOR MANATEES! :D

I love those fat tubs of lard an duckweed!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Ha! That makes at least as much sense as the lyrics from the original song ("Boola Boola! Saspiroola!"???).

[rawrsie.livejournal.com]

very smike-like barrow-boy.. i should hyphen-everything that doesn't need-it.

hehe, the eagle reminded me to watch colbert to see if there's an update on the baby eagle the sf zoo is going to name after him.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, really, if anyone was going to play Eli, it'd have to be Lee Ingleby. I immediately pictured Smike when Tula first played the song for me...

Wow, they're really going to do that? The eagle thing?

[trashcanbaby.livejournal.com]

haw! i remember that episode.

[chinchilla82.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw Copenhagen when it was in the city. My mom and I were trying to get into one of the big blockbuster plays, but that was a no go, and we saw this sign for a play called Copenhagen and said "What the hell? Let's give it a try." What a delicious surprise. ^_^

Here's a link to something that shows how they did the play. (http://www.aip.org/history/newsletter/spring2000/copenhagen.htm)

And ferret in a top hat!!! Love it. ^_________^

[chinchilla82.livejournal.com]

ps- By the way, let's hope that Disney, Pixar, and Toys'R'Us never form an alliance. Dixarus, get it?

I really need to get my mind out of the gutter...

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

did you see all my goofy ideas for Disney/Pixar combos? Some were at least that crass - probably more; it's hard for me to resist a play on words!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Really cute manatee (Give me some time to think about that story idea - at least until I'm back at work and I can think with a pencil...right now I'm thinking he/she wears a cone on its nose to look like a dolphin? or somehow attaches an outboard motor to its back? Or tries going on a slimfast diet? Or finds a weight machine that fell off a boat and tries to work out? Or maybe he tries using old anchors for dumbells...Or he could ride a jet ski? Maybe it wants to be fast like the dolphins because it's trying to outrun motor boats - you know, with those dangerous rotor blades? - and it sees how the dolphins can swim circles around them...wait, how ironic would it be if, by some wacky circumstance, he ended up being a stunt waterskier in an aquatic show? So he'd be above the water, above danger - and part of the problem for other manatess! Hmmm...)
What is your sister's future animation assignment? the guy looks interesting...
Woo - tough-looking bus people! That sketch of Eli looks different than your typical style! Can't put my finger on it...but I like it! The stuff below the shoulders looks OK to me - maybe you could put him more in mid-step so he'd be more off-balance and a little more dynamic.
Love how you're modeling Vorbis on a bald eagle - very scary, and appropriate (a scavenger that looks like a dangerous predator)! More Brutha sketches? They're adaorable. Like the jolly bus-girl too!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Ok, you know what I was saying about Eli looking "different" for you? That goes double for whom I assume is Stephen Rea in Copenhagen. What are you doing differently? Very interesting! Anyway I read that link about the show - sounds like it could be really interesting, but it could be a real challenge to keep the material from getting too cerebral and talky, keeping the audience from becoming confused, diseangaged, bored, etc. (I'm talking about your average theater-goer here - not brilliant intellects like yours and mine, naturally:)). But from your reaction, it sounds like they kept it pretty clear and dynamic. I'll have to check it out! Oh, and I love your happy brain ("This is your brain on Copenhagen. Any questions?")!!!

People hi !

[(Anonymous)]

Hi there! Tealin, I just adore your drawings! Nice to see so much Remus' fans here. Is it ok if I use one of your drawings for my avatar?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Which one?

[fairy-gany.livejournal.com]

Remus, when he talks about the Dementor's kiss...
Pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaase...

[soapdinosaur.livejournal.com]

Is there a reason you draw in blue? (ferret on page two)

[ledygrey.livejournal.com]

You have inspired me to do one of these thingers. Is it okay if I friend you? I've been watching your journal for a while, and, truth be told, I actually went back to the very first post to start reading and ... now you're creeped out... Your work is fantastic.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Friending is totally OK, and thanks for the compliment!

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

The talking happy brain was very, very cute. And very, very smart.

I liked also the performing ferret. And Vorbis was my favorite. He looks both scary and yet very dignified. It seems that he does resemble an eagle a lot- kind of nice symbolism considering how the eagle was tormenting Om when he was in his tortoise form. (Just like how Vorbis is abusing the religion of Omnianism).

Your drawings gave me a nice little lift at work. We had emergency preparedness training today. It was very interesting but very intense, heavy subjects that are not easy to talk about. After viewing lots of videos of plane crashes and interviews with people involved it was a bit heavy. I am really glad for the seminar, though. Your pictures cheered me up a lot, so thanks for that!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

kind of nice symbolism considering how the eagle was tormenting Om when he was in his tortoise form. (Just like how Vorbis is abusing the religion of Omnianism)
Duuuuuuhhh - how did I miss that? Yes, that's brilliant symbolism! (and such poetic justice when the Tortoise crushes the "eagle"!)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ummm... this whole Vorbis=Eagle thing is pretty explicitly stated in the book... I never would have come up with it myself. Next time I read it I'll wrangle some quotes.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

(groan) That doesn't surprise me. It was probably really obvious even in the podcast, too (at least it seems obvious to me now, in retrospect)...I'm just...kind of really dense...sometimes...:(

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that! I guess all those years of English literature in high school and college paid off for me after all! :-)

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

The word 'manatee' is a surprisingly large amount of fun to say. I concentrate too much on word that are fun to say when I really should be doing my Computing homework.