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kip to content home about film reviews oil on canvas paintblogs and other essays recorded noise the autobiography project monthly archives january 2008 standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 23 2008 posted under painting comments 3 comments paintblog 2008 a chapter three well last week we saw the insidious riddler laying a deadly trap for batman and robin and the dynamic duo were caught unawares only seconds away from being crushed by the giant squid batman hatches a desperate plan oh sorry actually this is just another paint blog update sorry if you were all up for reading about batman batman s not here man lat time around we ended up with an image that was in the last update the last update is almost directly below this one so you can go down there to see if you like are you back now oh good so now we made the hand on the far right more elaborate and we added legs to the thing in the upper left more elaboration and another leg legs on the other side of the upper left guy and a leg on the other side of the center top right guy also some red marks at the bottom right why i don t know the reason for that we then gave the legs on the center top right guy some lighter highlights because his legs were clashing with the legs on the upper left guy the red blobby thing got another tentacle he also got another tentacle after that and some areas of variety in terms of light and dark and after that he really started to expand including some perhaps overly subtle expansion on the right the slightly darker area that got expanded and highlights were added suddenly the crustacean s elaborate right hand got even more elaborate and his far left hand got a bit of fringe the middle hand too got some spines and things far right hand got even more um elaborater and some of the red material started climbing up the right side leaving us finally with what lies beneath well so far so good i think when i look at this though i m not exactly sure what it will end up becoming in the end of course i never am most of the above by the way was done while an anime series called rahxephon was playing in the background i don t think the two are related but one never knows the subtle pressures that the senses place upon the working brain thanks for stopping by tune in next time for the next thrilling chapter or not so thrilling you never can tell can you standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 21 2008 posted under entertainment and culture comments 2 comments cloverfield so as mentioned in the previous entry i bought a ticket for cloverfield a week or so ago fandango cool and last night i sat in the theatre which was nearly empty sunday night showings cool in accordance with what i d heard about motion sickness i was at the far edge of the first third of the theatre seating wise the short version is i liked it as i ve said to many tedious degrees i was worried about the quality of this film for one reason only the release date what studio in its right mind releases a film in the middle of january mid january is dumping time when those films that won t win awards or set fire to the box office are released to wrestle over the tiny post holiday scraps that folks still have in their wallets maybe the success of this film 41 million opening weekend will change that it would be nice to have an entire year to look forward to rather than the obvious highs summer pre christmas that the studios typically target in a sense i can see the logic of the studio s thinking here s a film that s very low budget around 30 million with no stars and no big names behind the camera other than co producer j j abrams they had little to lose again by their logic by releasing it when the competition would be somewhat sparse and uninspired what they didn t count on i think was the incredibly clever marketing that really pushed the film into the public eye the advertising for the film seemed designed to intrigue rather than mystify or annoy and it avoided the sure fire gimmicky nature of say snakes on a plane i knew i wanted to see this film as for the film itself as everyone no doubt knows by now the film borrows a page from the blair witch project in that all the footage seen comes from a singe camcorder wielded by the actual characters rather than a separate director of photography this lends a huge amount of verisimilitude to the story as well as a certain level of frustration at the lack of professional choice a number of times i kept wishing the cameraman would focus on something he d rapidly panned past what was that rather than the faces of his friends or whatever random image he chose instead still this is his documentation of what s happening to him and his friends so his choices were understandable admittedly like the blair witch film students we simultaneously have to admire the willingness of our amateur cameraman to keep shooting despite the chaos and death all around long past the point in other words when you and i would have tossed the camera aside in order to concentrate on gettin our feets a movin but i certainly wouldn t have minded a little more footage of the monster but don t worry the monster gets enough screentime and he s entirely satisfying because he s almost always in motion lurching between and through buildings it s hard to get a good grasp of exactly what he looks like but there are a number of good shots of him and if you ve seen the film you know there s one extremely good look at his face from the worst possible vantage point of one of our heroes so yes i liked it and i m glad to see someone was able to wring another variant of the blair witch system it makes me think that there still are some creative minds in hollywood who can see the possibilities inherent in an idea that at first blush seems unrepeatable more fool me for thinking it could not be so what s nice is that there s a lot less idiot plot than there was in blair witch yes there is an extremely questionable decision made but the reasons given are valid no one acts like an idiot because the movie would be over otherwise there are also some definite echoes of blair witch i m thinking particularly of a pair of shots toward the end you ll recognize them there are also apparently a number of little things that happen to the side of the image at important moments not necessarily plot points but things to think about i missed one of them in the final shot but caught a number of others what s interesting is that these things are tossed in more as food for thought as a way to keep the story open ended than as story elements though they contribute as well it s up to the viewer then to watch the camcorder footage and try to decide what to focus on much as our heroes had to do this is definitely something i ll want to watch again when it makes its way to home video if for no other reason than to place all the puzzle pieces into a narrative but even if you just want to watch a movie and not worry about puzzles and pieces it s still a pretty good film and a very good addition to the giant monster genre one of the best of those in fact if for no other reason than camp is conspicuous by its absence highly recommended standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 20 2008 posted under painting comments 4 comments paint blog 2008 a chapter two since our last thrilling chapter diego found the hidden treasure map but was betrayed by warren who as it turns out was working for mister redfield the entire time meanwhile patricia discovered a hidden room in the attic with a lock that the key from the kitchen just happened to fit as she turns the lock slow shuffling noises come from inside actually none of that happened sorry i hope you weren t expecting to find out what happens to diego now let along roger who got left out of the update no we just did some more work on a painting a step forward a step back then some more steps forward just to try and do something with it i took some red and white and a bit of burnt sienna and played over the canvas with more or less random marks we ended up with this i didn t like it so i grabbed more paint and covered it over so we were again more or less back at square one then while semi watching 42nd street i decided to try some more with white burnt sienna and raw umber i could still see some of the marks beneath the latest layer of paint so i decided to play with them while doing so i happened to turn the canvas to a horizontal position and i thought i liked it more that way the next series of images shows how the work that evening happened to end up on the canvas i m thinking this is more successful than the last version at least i can look at it and not think that s all wrong so that s where we stand as of today i ll probably do more on it this week i have more buzby berkeley musicals to watch after all probably not tonight though tonight i m going to see cloverfield thanks for visiting again and see you soon maybe next time we ll find out what happens to diego eh standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 7 2008 posted under painting comments 1 comment paint blog 2008 a chapter one well it s a new year so how about a new paint blog series to be honest i ve semi lost track of how many we have in rotation now though i believe it s just paint blogs ii and iv along with telephone girl who need to be finished up the problem with most of these is that the era of discovery is over and we re now in the era of refinement well refinement is kind of dull because all you re doing is detailing what s already been placed before you this you may have noticed is my main failing in creativity the big initial idea is great getting it into presentable shape is less great in fact it s work and i tend to put things like work off until they re unavoidable anyway where were we oh yeah a new paint blog well since this is 2008 and i really don t want to hunt through old posts so i can find out what number to give this one we ll call it 2008 a this one started because i had some paint on my palette and i wanted to do something with it that didn t involve details and tiny brushes so we started here with raw sienna patterned on there next we used alizarin crimson burnt umber white and a bit of yellow barely noticeable and got a nice pattern then we spread this to the edges of the canvas next you ll see we pretty much got rid of anything interesting as we spread the pigment evenly over the canvas the paint in the previous image interesting though it looked was simply too thickly applied to work with easily so we smoothed it all out and made it duller that s okay though because usually the preliminary interesting stuff is the interesting stuff that doesn t stay interesting not all the time mind you but largely so finally we ended up with this here s a shot showing a more severe angle to eliminate as much of the glare as possible where will it end up i have no idea i suppose the two of us will find out together as this year begins to shape itself more later as it happens and thanks for visiting standard posted by beckoningchasm posted on january 6 2008 posted under painting comments 2 comments secret santa part ii first off happy new year and all that so far five days in 2008 has been okay here s the second of two secret santa projects this one wasn t secret so i m not sure if it counts or not but here it is anyway i m hoping to have more regular content as the year lurches into orbit see ya around and thanks for stopping by search recent posts happy part 2 july 2026 june 2026 may 2026 april 2026 recent comments sorialpromise on june 2026 beckoningchasm on june 2026 sorialpromise on june 2026 beckoningchasm on may 2026 sorialpromise on may 2026 archives august 2026 july 2026 june 2026 may 2026 april 2026 march 2026 february 2026 january 2026 december 2025 november 2025 october 2025 september 2025 august 2025 july 2025 may 2025 april 2025 march 2025 february 2025 january 2025 december 2024 november 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