That's short for situation report, which is what this post is intending to be as it's been over a week since my last post, which is well naughty of me. Where am I right now? Well, smack bang in the middle of a bunch of ideas. I recently bought a capture device for the Xbox - plan is to record…
I have previously reviewed one of Stephanie Pui-Mun Law's books, Dreamscapes Magical Menagerie. It's all about legendary creatures and characters rather than fantasy creatures and animals this time around, and that means more human-like subjects. Some are based around astrological themes such as the Sun and Moon, some around folk-lore such as tree-spirits, tricksters and witches. The legendary creatures featured…
I'll try and keep the spoilers to a minimum, I won't ruin endings or anything. As I said a few days ago, I felt like a traitor. From what I've heard, the Superman movie is good in a Summer blockbuster type way, but not faithful to the source material. Particularly, Superman shouldn't kill. Ever. Anyway, I had also heard that…
I was just reading the search terms that people had used to find my little blog, as you do from time to time, and this one jumped out at me: christopher hart bad artist I am absolutely appalled by this statement. I'm hoping it was a question that the person typed in the hope of being swamped with information to…
What is it with all these Nerd, Geek, Dweeb and Dork t-shirts about at the moment? And why do I feel like 90% of the people wearing them are not nerds, geeks, dweebs, losers or dorks? The majority of them are teenage girls, and look quite up to date with their fashion. They do not look like the kind of people who could follow the plot of Game of Thrones, get a Killing Frenzy in Halo or explain why Klingons didn’t have knobbly foreheads in the original series of Star Trek. If they were really nerds, wouldn’t they wear t-shirts that look like random, normal t-shirts but are actually subtle references to nerdy TV shows or videogames or bands or comics that only fellow fans of nerdy TV shows or videogames or bands or comics would understand? For example, I have a t-shirt that is yellow and green, and has a Japanese symbol across the front of it. If you didn’t know about Jet Set Radio Future, you’d think it was simply a yellow and green t-shirt.
Tourists, the lot of them.
Anyway, that pre-ramble is to set the scene for what deeply disappointed me yesterday afternoon. There was a kid who was in shopping with his Mum, Dad and sister, he was about 12 I’d say, and he was wearing one of these slogan t-shirts. I saw him from the side at first, I noticed it ended in “t”. I had a little think about what it could be, tried to work it out in my head, but I would never have got it in a million years. After about five seconds of me thinking, the kid turned, and I saw the word which was emblazoned across his chest in 500pt bold type.
If you hadn't guessed by the title, I watched the incredible film Life Of Pi recently. I loved the book, and while the film was a little slow to start, the delightful Richard Parker more than made up for it. Although he was CGI, he was very life-like, and behaved how I would imagine a tiger would behave on a…
A mini to-do list, combined with stuff I have done and random thoughts. * I need better hours at Asda, ones that suit me and the lifestyle I want. Must grow balls and speak to manager about it. * MUST STOP SMOKING * And start running. * Knuckle down and draw more. Just draw. Anything. It's all good practise. *…
Bryan Hitch is a name I am very familiar with, but I'll admit, I had to Bing his name, just to be sure it was the same guy. Who knew he'd go from writing and pencilling my beloved Action Force and Transformers comics that were released in the UK in the '80s, to being the marquee artist on many of…
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