Friday, June 6, 2008

More Colors Than the Rainbow

SPEED RACER

Strokes of genius:

1. Pop's wrestling ring.

2. Racer X keeps his "anime" voice.

3. Car combat. Duh.

Weak:

1. Asian men are all sell-outs.

2. That kid. Ugh.

3. Corporate (re: all of the) subplots coulda been truncated.

Consensus:

Yeah, so there's no point of reference between what's considered mundane and spectacular in this movie-universe's physics. Who cares? It's an easy hump to get over if you retain any semblance of that thing from your childhood called "a sense of wonder." Much better than Indy 4.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Pug of Ages


 


This is my attempt at doing a "Yacin the Faun"-type narrative (thanks to Derek for introducing me!). For now I'm calling it "Pug of Ages." It is about a giant pug/pachycephalosaurus hybrid that tends to a flock of sheep, in case you can't tell what those weird shapes are in the above painting.