Out of practice so I practice drawing hands. After Shiele. Also some little men.

Image | February 22, 2018March 9, 2019 | Paul Greer

Is this episode going on the air live ?

Quote | August 2, 2015June 1, 2018 | Paul Greer

“No, Homer, very few cartoons go out live, it’s a terrible strain on the animator’s wrist.”

Slaughterhouse Five

Quote | February 17, 2015September 5, 2018 | Paul Greer

“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Chihiro

Quote | February 12, 2014August 31, 2018 | Paul Greer

“What made me decide to make [Spirited Away] was the realisation that there are no films made for that age group of ten-year old girls. It was through observing the daughter of a friend that I realised there were no films out there for her, no films that directly spoke to her. Certainly, girls like her see films that contain characters their age, but they can’t identify with them, because they are imaginary characters that don’t resemble them at all. With Spirited Away I wanted to say to them ‘don’t worry, it will be all right in the end, there will be something for you’, not just in cinema, but also in everyday life.”

— Hayao Miyazaki

H.P. Lovecraft’s Monster Drawings: Cthulhu and “an open slice of howling fear”

Image | April 20, 2013August 22, 2018 | Paul Greer

“On March 23rd, the manuscript continued, Wilcox failed to appear; and inquiries at his quarters revealed that he had been stricken with an obscure sort of fever and taken to the home of his family in Waterman Street. He had cried out in the night, arousing several other artists in the building, and had manifested since then only alternations of unconsciousness and delirium.”

via nearsightedmonkey

“Mountains featured several species of forgotten, intelligent beings, including the ‘Elder Things.’ The sketch on the right side of this page of notes (click here to view it in a larger format), with its annotations (‘body dark grey’; ‘all appendages not in use customarily folded down to body’; ‘leathery or rubbery’) represents Lovecraft working out the specifics of an Elder Thing’s anatomy.” That such things lurked in Lovecraft’s imagination have made his state of mind a subject of decades and decades of rich discussion among his enthusiasts. But just the body count racked up by Cthulhu, the Elder Things, and the other denizens of this unfathomable realm should make us thankful that Lovecraft saw them in his mind’s eye so we wouldn’t have to.”

from openculture