Saturday, 21 August 2010
Sunday, 15 August 2010
comic book front cover (development)
I've developed the front cover a bit, to relate more to the story. It still needs some tweaking, but I'm happy with the way its going. Any suggestions are welcome!
Friday, 13 August 2010
"If this isn't nice, I don't know what is"
And now I want to tell you about my late Uncle Alex. He was my father’s kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, ''If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.''
So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ''If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.''
- Kurt Vonnegut
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Silly One
A wonderful and very inspiring past few weeks with my man, which included:
2 nitrate film screenings at the BFI - one technicolour nitrate, The Yearling, (which Dan explained is considered true technicolour film) and one black and white nitrate, Brighton Rock, which really glowed, and has stayed on my mind for a long time. It was a shame that more people didn't turn up to the screenings because this was a rare chance to see actual nitrate stock.
A documentary on Jack Cardiff followed by Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, and a stroll around Hyde Park, all spent with my dear friend Pip Chorley (who's work you can see here).
Original Beatrix Potter drawings from her first book The Tale of Peter Rabbit at the V&A
A thorough collection of Roman Cieslewicz' work at the Royal College of Art...(completely stunning, with not a weak piece in the lot).
A visit to the London Film museum, the White Cube and the BookArtBook shop.
Ozu's first talkie, The Only Son
A lovely day trip to Brighton, chips on the beach and lots of comic book buying (some David B, The Unwritten, and lots of TMNT for Dan)
A holiday in Morthhoe, Devon with lots of walks, rope swings, dips in the sea, jellyfish, jigsaws, tiny travel scrabble games, amusing sheep and cornish ale.
2 nitrate film screenings at the BFI - one technicolour nitrate, The Yearling, (which Dan explained is considered true technicolour film) and one black and white nitrate, Brighton Rock, which really glowed, and has stayed on my mind for a long time. It was a shame that more people didn't turn up to the screenings because this was a rare chance to see actual nitrate stock.
A documentary on Jack Cardiff followed by Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, and a stroll around Hyde Park, all spent with my dear friend Pip Chorley (who's work you can see here).
Original Beatrix Potter drawings from her first book The Tale of Peter Rabbit at the V&A
A thorough collection of Roman Cieslewicz' work at the Royal College of Art...(completely stunning, with not a weak piece in the lot).
A visit to the London Film museum, the White Cube and the BookArtBook shop.
Ozu's first talkie, The Only Son
A lovely day trip to Brighton, chips on the beach and lots of comic book buying (some David B, The Unwritten, and lots of TMNT for Dan)
A holiday in Morthhoe, Devon with lots of walks, rope swings, dips in the sea, jellyfish, jigsaws, tiny travel scrabble games, amusing sheep and cornish ale.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Say...
This is a poster I've been working on, for Alfred Hitchcock's Rope - a film about two men who kill another man with a piece of rope, hide him in a trunk, and then stage a dinner party using the trunk as the dinner table.
(It also features James Stewart's voice, which is quite fun to imitate...)
On the subject of Hitchcock, the BFI is currently trying to raise money to restore 9 silent Hitchcock films: http://www.bfi.org.uk/saveafilm.html
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Friday, 2 July 2010
The other day I sat outside in the sun with the typewriter, away from all distractions, and made myself write the first draft of the first chapter of my comic book. I wrote it with the images in mind, rather than any dialogue, and when I re-read it, bits of it came across quite funny: (click to enlarge)
Emma Ridgway (c) Copyright 2010
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Dorororororororororo
I'm back from Amsterdam again...as always it is painful to leave it behind.
We saw Joanna Newsom and Roy Harper play at Melkweg, which was incredible! We also spent lots of time reading Dororo by Osamu Tezuka, Mercury by Hope Larson and Prosopopus by Nicolas de Crécy on the bank of the canal in Wertheimpark, as well as a wonderful day spent cycling around the Amsterdamse Bos (a huge forest where we saw some goats and chickens). And we watched a lot of Ken Loach films, and the new Todd Solondz! It was blissful.
(And...rather geekily...I was very excited to try de Koninck beer [which the Quay Brothers named their studio after] for the first time, in Gollum)
I did a couple of little drawings in my sketchbook, but at the moment my computer is off for repairs so it might be a little while before I can scan them.
I am still working on my comic book, developing ideas slowly, writing the script and planning it with more of a focus on images than text. Maybe it will be wordless? I love how this little world is slowly coming together in my mind.
We saw Joanna Newsom and Roy Harper play at Melkweg, which was incredible! We also spent lots of time reading Dororo by Osamu Tezuka, Mercury by Hope Larson and Prosopopus by Nicolas de Crécy on the bank of the canal in Wertheimpark, as well as a wonderful day spent cycling around the Amsterdamse Bos (a huge forest where we saw some goats and chickens). And we watched a lot of Ken Loach films, and the new Todd Solondz! It was blissful.
(And...rather geekily...I was very excited to try de Koninck beer [which the Quay Brothers named their studio after] for the first time, in Gollum)
I did a couple of little drawings in my sketchbook, but at the moment my computer is off for repairs so it might be a little while before I can scan them.
I am still working on my comic book, developing ideas slowly, writing the script and planning it with more of a focus on images than text. Maybe it will be wordless? I love how this little world is slowly coming together in my mind.
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