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<br />James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-87472585374696588212014-03-31T23:14:00.002-07:002014-03-31T23:14:27.745-07:00Bay Area Graffiti Part 1<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="285" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9WS6_pvyuIo" width="400"></iframe><br />James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-76608853665078247062014-03-17T23:41:00.000-07:002014-03-17T23:41:44.186-07:00Kleenrz Concept Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-40420886921312103482014-02-13T21:05:00.002-08:002014-02-13T21:05:42.711-08:00Page 22 Volume #6 From Rough to Finished<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-57813371036468046172013-12-17T09:00:00.000-08:002013-12-17T15:35:32.448-08:00SkinIn 1988, a pair of comic artists, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Milligan">Peter Milligan</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McCarthy">Brendan McCarthy</a> released a one off graphic novel called 'Skin'. The story was an odd one, not only that the main character was a skinhead, but one whom was also a victim of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide">Thalidomide</a>. The nickname for these children with these defects was 'sealboys' and it just so happened , most of them were teenagers during the skinhead movement in England of the late 60's.<br />
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Out of print now, but copies are available online, it was a great one-off I wish they would've continued.James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-45443668153798182832013-12-10T11:27:00.001-08:002013-12-10T11:27:03.090-08:00Some Embarassing LogosSee the while list <a href="http://www.theuntappedsource.com/blog/best-worst-logo-designs/">here</a>:<br />
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<br />James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-56472548019785499272013-12-02T10:49:00.000-08:002013-12-02T10:50:20.349-08:00Creature FeaturesChannel 2 in the bay area (Oakland) was by far my favorite channel as 10 year old, growing up in the Santa Cruz mountains. I didn't always come in clearly (years before the cable-coup takeover) Primarily because this was where you saw <a href="http://<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JAtFCNZoxCo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>">'Creature Features'</a>, showcasing all of the best Roger Corman-esque B-moves you can think of.<br />
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Around this same time, my brother Joe had sent me a birthday gift which enclosed the card below:<br />
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A bit faded now, but the signature reads, <i>"Dear Jimmy, wishing you the horriblest of horrible birthdays and many nightmares to come!- John Stanley"</i> Also enclosed with this card was <a href="https://marvel.com/universe/Man-Thing">Man-Thing</a> issues 1-10. Possibly one of the best gifts I ever received.<br />
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<br />James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-29071403604977565722013-11-21T08:08:00.000-08:002013-11-21T12:37:49.124-08:00Don MartinI'm always struck about how little I hear about Don's work. For me, he had to be one of the biggest sole influences on my illustration. And you can't help but notice his style in <a href="http://www.hulu.com/the-simpsons">Matt Groening Simpsons</a> or Family Guy. His bean-pole characters along with their huge feet endured torture and humiliation alongside a slew of illustrated graphic sound effects, that were as fun to read as the comics themselves.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin#Early_years">Don</a> got his start as a printer typesetter, and later was hired by newly founded MAD Magazine in 1956. He ususally ran 2 or 3 strips in each issue, usually with benign titles, that resulted in their protaganist being mauled or beat up in some way.<br />
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Don went on to contribute to some various animation throughout the years including this rare and early VH1 promo from the 80's:<br />
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In the mid to late 60's, Vaughn Bode was a true pioneer of underground comic/illustration art. His work centered around 2 main characters: Cheech Wizard, an orange pair of legs with a gigantic wizard hat. And Puck, a simple minded lizard who acted as fall guy. <br />
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While this sounds pretty general, his work was some of the most imaginiative and detailed of any at the time. He often placed these characters in various stories and setting, including War Lizards, which involved his characters as soldiers in the Vietnam War. His work was incredibly detailed, and he would often include schematics to explain how his ships and vehicles would actually run.<br />
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He passed away in 1975, and his son Mark has kept his work going, as, he's adopted his fathers style and continued the stories rather successfully. His work has been influential amongst filmmakers like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_%28film%29"> Ralph Bakshi</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_creatures#Eopie"> George Lucas</a>.<br />
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I first noticed Vaughn Bode's work in graffiti art. Graff writers co-opted his characters into the art, and, they almost became mascots of the subculture. I've painted many Vaughn Bode characters,and, in creating the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RleIPAaAoyg">Quasimoto</a> video 'Bullyshit', as a homage to Vaughn Bode, I had a cameo of Cheech Wizard in the video.James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-90562373363399213562013-11-17T11:21:00.002-08:002013-11-17T11:27:28.748-08:00Musical PhilanthropyAmongst a rather ruthless and unforgiving business, you sometimes see great examples of a sort of 'Artistic' or 'Musical Philanthropy'. A good example of this came in the form of a <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/foodforfunk-v7n9">road trip Eothen Alapatt and Chris Manak</a> took back in 2000. Heading up the then fledgling label Stones Throw, the mission was to drive cross country and collect as many rare 45's for an upcoming, now classic, anthology, the Funky 16 Corners.
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While they were scouring musty record bins in places like Houston and Tennessee, the shop owners would inform them that some of the original musicians still lived in the neighborhood. This would prompt a get together involving <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PjQVrg9lxk">Eothen</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmxeL54_rzM">Chris</a> with the shop owner, the musicians, and a 6 pack of beer. Then the idea came to them that, why not partner on the anthology, and have the original musicians actually own part of the record, as well as participate in some live promotional performances. It seemed to be a win win for all involved.
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I can't help but take away the idea that, as artists, we're here to not only help each other, but to possibly allow each other to thrive and to offer up opportunities what might not have been otherwise. Inspiring stuff!
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James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-43818102371349866532013-11-16T09:19:00.003-08:002013-11-16T09:23:25.754-08:00Milt Kahl Before DisneyA great <a href="http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-great-animator-that-drew-movie-ads.html">showcase</a> of some of the legendary animators work before he became one of the '9 Old Men' of Disney:
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Thanks to <a href="http://www.cartoonbrew.com/">Cartoon Brew</a>!James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-63636506051894143832013-11-13T16:12:00.001-08:002013-11-13T16:14:34.523-08:00Meanwhile At The El Nopal PressThe man himself <a href="http://elnopalpress.com/">Francesco Siqueiros</a>, proprietor of El Nopal Press. Much thanks to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=una3bIt2RkI">Robert Matsuda</a>:
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<br />James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-79710378597022725752013-11-04T18:15:00.001-08:002013-11-04T18:15:29.090-08:00Club Culture 1984A flier from waay back in the days. A Club Culture Classic. We'd all line up to get into this spot on weekend nights, and we were all barely 14.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntccydSTunGZS-0FwxG_5XGzKmiMN7Nsm8i_ayjntlrCL9NUHz16o7rZT5-KFeZ0Ef6c6jwda177fZsqqJ38wQR7R-y-hAQsbbBCxMWaux9K9APN2vJNyPLwXs1B061lNI-i1qJWAXeE/s1600/img289.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntccydSTunGZS-0FwxG_5XGzKmiMN7Nsm8i_ayjntlrCL9NUHz16o7rZT5-KFeZ0Ef6c6jwda177fZsqqJ38wQR7R-y-hAQsbbBCxMWaux9K9APN2vJNyPLwXs1B061lNI-i1qJWAXeE/s320/img289.jpg" /></a></div>James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-12245402184185892722013-11-04T10:55:00.000-08:002013-11-04T08:43:25.855-08:00Time BoyzProbably one of the most bizarre projects I 've ever worked on was an animated pilot, developed for MTV. We had an awesome character designer on board named <a href="http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=16099">David Preston</a>. Dave had been designer for King Of The Hill, so, it was interesting to see where he was going to take things.<br />
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We were 3 animators on he project, and our job was to take Dave character artwork, and 'clean them up', in Flash, in order to have them animate and lip synch correctly. One co-worker of mine <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Kossuth/1180308522">Joe Kossuth</a>, took this to a whole new level and made the characters even more insane.<br />
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The story involved to punk kids who get hold of a bicycle time machine, and all hell breaks loose. There were about 20 different characters they were throwing at this, and the scope of the story seemed to be sprawling at times, but offered a lot of opportunities for the animators. I was just starting to be comfortable with my abilities as the crew expanded to about 20 people or so. Most of whom came off of the Flash movie Booty Call (And who would eventually morph into the animation production company <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cts=1331318732785&ved=0CD8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsixpointharness.com%2F&ei=w09aT-O4KIWGiQL6oeHQCw&usg=AFQjCNFHjGfSdZ2Hddnb0Vti6XJ1PvcSyQ">Six Point Harness</a>).<br />
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All he while during production, the studio with whom we worked at was falling apart. Literally, people were being fired, and equiptment was being taken away. The director of the pilot left halfway during the production, and one of our fellow animators was appointed the new director. This went on for another couple of weeks, until we were all notified that the studio was closing and the project was being killed.<br />
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It was a shame that it had ended that way, but it was a major learning experience for me, and not only did I get to work with some <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-smith/a/85a/612">talented people</a>, right after it ended , I had just gotten some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzAxWPQaNlg">music video</a> work that I probably would have turned down if it'd stayed in production.James1http://www.blogger.com/profile/03032252595482086211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2067094856971441002.post-91456379107942853932013-10-31T08:55:00.000-07:002013-10-31T09:01:36.384-07:0041st Street ForeverHappy Halloween! There are endless reels of old movie trailers lurking around <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tfustudios">YouTube</a>.
Some of these are for movies I can't believe someone actually made but,
they do in fact exist. There's a great DVD series called '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/42nd-Street-Forever-Vol-1/dp/B000BLI5PU">41st Street'</a> in 3 volumes. Below are some of the notables.<br />
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