NEGATIVE SPACE: Once Upon A Close-Up
This is my contribution to the Close-Up Blog-a-Thon at The House Next Door. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the first episode of Directorama!
NEGATIVE SPACE: Stunt work
This may or may not be the last Negative Space cartoon, at least for a while. I’m going to try and focus on a new film-related project: the webcomic DIRECTORAMA. (See my previous post.)
NEGATIVE SPACE: Bye bye, Bergman
Greedy bastard, that Grim Reaper. As if the Swedish master wasn’t enough, he had to take Antonioni on the same day. If there’d be some pie left, I’d throw it in his pale face…
NEGATIVE SPACE: Happy Birthday, Ingmar
A big Thank You to David Hudson and Edward Copeland for the inspiration!
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UPDATE JULY 30th:
Just heard the news today that Ingmar Bergman has passed away.
I´m speechless…
When I was in the process of coloring this cartoon (yeah, it didn´t take too long this time around), I wrote an email to a friend that jokingly referred to Bergman´s impressive age: “I just hope I can finish this bloody cartoon on time,” were my exact words. Honestly though, who could see this coming? Bergman was one of cinema´s greats and he’d been around for so long that I was starting to believe he would never leave us. (In fact, I´d already planned a second cartoon for next year. It would´ve had exactly the same setting, only the Grim Reaper would groan: “Good grief, not pie again…”)
I promise I´ll come up with an appropriate follow-up post soon. Just have a little patience, because I´m currently on vacation in Denmark and I’m not sure when (or if) I’ll be able to upload something from my laptop.
Take care,
Peet
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UPDATE JULY 31st:
I’ve put up a follow-up post here.
NEGATIVE SPACE: Letters from Paris
(Click on the image to see this cartoon slightly larger.)
Any which way you look at it… the girl ain’t worth the look.
NEGATIVE SPACE: Home theatre
You think I’m making this up? Check out Jim Emerson’s post on the Landmark multiplex in Los Angeles. If this doesn’t signal the slow death of the collective theatrical experience, I don’t know what will.
NEGATIVE SPACE: Stuck in La Mancha
(Click on the image to see this cartoon slightly larger.)
NEGATIVE SPACE: A titanic discovery
J.C. may be his initials, but the world wasn’t ready for a new Messiah. I guess it would take a bit more than a silly documentary to sink Christianity…
NEGATIVE SPACE: Dante’s peak
Dante Spinotti will never shoot an ugly frame, but in recent years his choice of projects has been unfortunate, to say the least. I can forgive a D.P. of his stature for taking on a project that stars Salma Hayek in bikini (that’s the reason I rented the bloody movie), but why bother polishing uninspired fare like The Family Man? As His Royal Badness once put it: “I just hate to see an erection go to waste.”
NEGATIVE SPACE: Sparky goes to Hollywood
Check this link for the full backstory.
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