Meryl Streep as commissioned by filmsnakk.com:
I did several other winners as well, not to mention the logos seen in the background of the shot – head over to filmsnakk.com to check them out!
http://filmsnakk.com/2012/03/24/vinnerne-av-gullpapegoyen-er-endelig-karet/
http://filmsnakk.com/2012/03/25/flere-stolte-gullpapegoye-vinnere/
http://filmsnakk.com/2012/03/25/disse-skuespillerne-vant-gullpapegoyen/
http://filmsnakk.com/2012/03/25/denne-filmen-far-gullpapegoyen-for-beste-film/
For a while now, the image stream artige.no has been trending in Norway, showcasing more or less funny and inane pictures from around the web, often put in relation to popular memes all in the spirit of age-old internet cradle 4chan.org (visit at own risk).
A lot of the images that crop up are variations on the original rageguy comic posted on 4chan /b/, conveying a problem most humans can relate to in the beautiful MS Paint style:
This has lead to a certain open source copy-paste comic industry, in which the good attributions stick and stay, and the bad ones fade away. It’s survival by demand - natural selection applied to crude renderings of facial expressions.
Here is where I take a professional interest; a large part of illustration and art in general is about inking human emotion or intention in a way that makes people relate to it.
This is a paiting by the brilliant Italian master Caravaggio. It features Abraham being told by an angel that his obedience to God has been proved, and he won’t have to sacrifice his son Isaac after all. As many a comedian has pointed out, the story proves God is a massive asshole.
Righteous blasphemy aside, Caravaggio chose to highlight the dramatic turning point of the tale, and shows us a detailed image of Abraham, a man who just before this moment took place, was determined to kill his own son in obedience to his Lord. As he is told that it was all a test, Caravaggio could only imagine the array of emotions struggling to get a hold of Abraham’s mind. Relief and joy, of course, but also confusion and emptiness, pride, lingering regret and sorrow, anger and hatred… all can be spotted in the seemingly expressionless face in this picture.
This is the opposite to the rage comics, and to a certain extent it leads me to think that the less detail you use, the purer the emotion.
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Here is the same story in rage comic format:
Graphically, it is a terribly unappealing collage. With regards to communication, it’s probably the fastest way to tell the story, perhaps omitting the biased commentary at the end and including “everything went better than expected”.
So how can we improve our drawing skills by looking at this archive of off-the-rack comic art?
It may seem counter-intuitive to kick off this blog about my endeavours in the design and marketing business with the title above, but as I’ll keep writing about whatever I find interesting on this page, you better get used to it. This time it’s a little piece about the power of complaining.
Kingston-upon-Hull © Copyright Paul Glazzard
I recently came over a copy of an incredibly popular and proportionally controversial series of books from UK magazine the Idler called Crap Towns. Now do not let your brains fool you – that’s exactly what it is: a collection of towns and cities deemed the most dreadful places to inhabit across the islands (deemed worst of them all was Kingston upon Hull, but that’s hardly relevant).
In the wake of the book being launched, came the outrage. Some were sad to have their precious homes ridiculed in such a way, but most were furious that the editor had not included their town!
It takes a certain special something to drive people so mad they actually pen down a complaint to a publisher. Claims that some other city was suffering more than you were, proved to be a strong incentive. A sort of reverse coolest dad dispute.
Four Yorkshiremen and their increasingly humble beginnings.
In the end, I think it all comes down to vanity. The idea of promoting your persona as this successful in spite of the disadvantageous surroundings, makes us feel less guilty of our own flaws, and hopeful that others will appreciate our mediocrity as hampered genius.
Me? I wouldn’t dream of crap marketing. My father taught me that every night when he sliced me in two with a bread knife.
Pretty impressive, right?
If you’re browsing with Internet Explorer, or without a decent Adobe Flash Player, you probably won’t agree. I am aware of the still vast numbers of issues with the site, but doing a website design from scratch is a new experience to me.
This site will, once properly cooked, serve as the platform from which I attempt to make a living out of freelance graphical design and illustration. It will host both my private thoughts and endeavours, as well as the portfolio I am in the process of making. I expect to accompany most posts with a sketch or two, so if you’re interested in drawing, or design in general, check back once in a while to stock up.
In the meantime, regard this site as a taste of what is to come. I will be back!
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