Card Duel Video

Card Duel is a short video made from slides I shot for a art assignment back in my  art school days.  I don't remember which class the assignment was for.  But I remember having fun making the playing card characters.  Enjoy.

Sunday Music Muse Day Father's Day

I started this Father's Day with some Pat Metheny music. The "Trio" and "Quartet" CD's were a great way to start the day.

King's Drum and Ekun and Opolo Go Looking for Wives - Filmstrips

This past week I posted videos of two children's filmstrip I illustrated back on the '70's and '80's.  Both, "The King's Drum" and "Ekun and Opolo Go Looking for Wives",were based on African folk tales.  Read the description on the video post for the story summary. Also, in both cases I lost the original soundtrack and narration, so I added sound new background music.  In the case of The King's Drum I used a track by the jazz group Weather Report titled "Jungle Book".

Below are some concept art for Ekun and Opolo, and storyboards for King's Drum.  With Ekun and Opolo I was attempting a different style.  It was more cartoony than I usually drew on other filmstrip assignments.  I think I used Higgins's or  Penguin colored inks  and added colored pencil lines on the figures to give them a graphic look.  For King's Drum I started using Dr. Martin's dyes, so the colors are more intense. 

I still have one more filmstrip I plan to upload, but I'm hoping to find the narration, first.  Until then, enjoy.

Space Ghost Desktop

My good friend Larry Houston emailed this Space Ghost pic done by Jerome Moore. I liked it, so I made it my desktop pic on my iMac. Sometimes when I switch over from another user the screen flip looks like Space Ghost is flying toward you. I get a chuckle out of it.

Here's the original show action pack opening,  much like the Hanna-Barbara Jonny Quest animation show.

 Enjoy.

Sunday Music Muse Day - Steve Khan

  Today I picked out a guitar duo CD featuring Steve Khan and Rob Mounsey to enjoy with my Sunday morning breakfast of waffles and bacon.  Afterward I followed that up with some of Steve Khan's other CDs (actually I owned several on albums, first).  I must admit I didn't like Steve Khan's very first album when he was doing sort of standard Rock/Fusion stuff.  But starting with "Eyewitness" and "Casa Loco" he found a unique style and musical direction.  I grabbed the tune "Guy LaFleur" from Eyewitness as an example cut from youtube.  Also the album cover art by  Jean-Michel Folon was very cool.  The "Let's Call This" and "Got my Mental"  CDs are nice Jazz trio outings with tunes by Thelonious Monk, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter and others.  Very tasty stuff.

Check these album out if you get the chance.  Enjoy

Call of the Wild - Filmstrip 1975

  I posted another another children's filmstripon Youtube, that  I illustrated back in 1975. It's an adaptation of Jack London's classic book "Call of the Wild". This is Part 1 of 2. I think this is the longest filmstrip assignment I did, about 170 illustrations. I almost didn't post this when I finished my first edit because the soundtrack sounded so bad as a result of the cassette tape being stretched out, making the narration drag. But I sped up the track by 10% and everything was fine.

I'll post Part 2 in a couple of days. Enjoy

Sunday Music Muse Day - Mother's Day

  Another Sunday Music Muse Day.  It's Mother's Day, so I picked some mellow tunes for background music as the boys and I made breakfast for their Mom, and my wife, Lisa.

  First up was the Tuck Andress - Reckless Precision.  I'm not a big fan the Tuck and Patti duo CDs, but this solo electric guitar outing has some nice tunes on it.  it worth a listen.  I followed it up with the anthology CD, Utltra Chilled 03.  I used to troll the CD racks at the old Virgin Megastore  that was near the Warner Bros building Sherman Oaks, when I worked at WB.  Before iTunes, the Chilled CDs were (and still are)  a great way for an old fart like me to keep up with some of the new groups out there.  Enjoy. 

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