Scott Burroughs

Scott Burroughs
http://scottburroughs.blogspot.com/
http://www.scootertoons.com/

Dmitry Oivadis

Dmitry Oivadis
This artist work was featured in International Artist magazine 71 (Feb/March 2010). His brushwork and colours reminds a little of The Brothers Hilderbrant.
http://oivadis-art.com/

The Doll Squad

The Doll Squad (1973)
The Ted V. Mikels movie starring Francine York as Sabrina Kincaid.
It "inspired" the TV series Charlies Angels.

IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0069986/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OLpIUgDGLM

Rod Filbrandt

Rod Filbrandt
Vancouver artist Rod Filbrandt

http://chowderheadbazoo.typepad.com/
http://7deadlysinners.typepad.com/sinners/rod_filbrandt/

The Dolly Sisters

The Dolly Sisters, Rosie and Jenny Deutsch, were born 1892-10-25 in Hungary, and the twins emigrated to the United States in 1897. Managed by their uncle, they perfected a single-sex "tandem" dance act under the name of 'The Dolly Sisters' that began earning money in beer halls as early as 1907. (From Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Sisters

http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2dolly1.htm

http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/marie-claire/features/life-stories/article/-/5874123/the-dolly-sisters-double-trouble/

Nic Klein

Nic Klein

Website: http://www.nic-klein.com/
Blog: http://nicklein.wordpress.com/

Sara Ray

Sara Ray
Kustom Kulture artist
http://www.sararayart.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/sararayart

Kutsuwa Edwin Pencil Case

Kutsuwa Edwin Denim Top Loading Pencil Case - Black
http://www.jetpens.com/product_info.php/cPath/159_633/products_id/3931

See other Edwin pencil cases here
http://www.jetpens.com/index.php/cPath/159_633

Quotes

Some a quotes i have heard recently.

Illustration

Quality and deadlines don't mix.

Good, fast, cheap:
A client can choose two out of the three but never have all three.
If you do something Good and fast then it won't be cheap.
If you do something Good and cheap then it won't be fast.
If you do something fast and cheap then it won't be good.

Don't get precious over insignificant details.

Writing

Melodrama is between men and things. Tragedy is between men and Gods.

Melodrama is about the powerless.

Getting On

Getting On
Getting On is a satirical British sitcom based in a present day NHS hospital. It is largely ad-libbed by its cast, who also wrote the series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_On
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lpnr4

Dan McPharlin

Dan McPharlin
Adelaide artist Dan McPharlin. His landscapes remind me a lot of Roger Dean and Rodney Matthews. Beautiful work.
http://www.danmcpharlin.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmcp/

Annette Stroyberg

Annette Stroyberg
Danish-born actress and socialite Annette Stroyberg (aka Annette Vadim), best known for having married director Roger Vadim died of cancer on Dec. 12 2005 in Copenhagen. She was 69.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/dec/22/guardianobituaries.film

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883006/

Goldie and the Gingerbreads

Goldie and the Gingerbreads
Goldie & the Gingerbreads was an American female rock band from 1962 to 1967. They were the first all-female rock band signed to a major record label.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldie_&_the_Gingerbreads
http://www.genyaravan.com/

Maryse Guy Mitsouko

Maryse Guy Mitsouko
Eurasian strip tease artist and actress mostly billed as Mitsouko. She is best known for playing a minor Bond girl Madame La Porte in Thunderball. She committed suicide in March 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryse_Guy_Mitsouko

Software

Celtx
Free software for writing screenplays, scripts for comics and making storyboards.
http://celtx.com/

color palette generator
http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/

Artage 3
http://www.artrage.com/

Painter 11
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/au/en/Product/1166553885783#tabview=tab0

Control

Control (2007)
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_%282007_film%29
http://momentum.control.substance001.com/

Sweet Sugar

Sweet Sugar (1972)
Woman in prison film. Stars Phyllis Davis, Terminal Island, as Sugar a hooker framed and sent to a tropical island prison to cut sugar cane.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069336/

Review: http://mondo70.blogspot.com/2008/11/sweet-sugar-1972.html

Review: http://mmmmmovies.blogspot.com/2010/01/sweet-sugar-1972-or-my-mojos-working.html

Review: http://www.prisonflicks.com/reviews.php?filmID=80

Check out the cat attack sequence here
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUzc2wJYsDs

Composing pictures

Composing pictures by Donald W Graham
Soon to be re-printed (maybe February 2010)

Composing Pictures lucidly explains the principles and approaches of how pictures are put together, and covers all factors that affect composition in traditional and contemporary art, in both still and moving pictures. A wide range of topics are covered with insights to drawing, color, power of borders, surface, symbol, dark and light, space in nature and space in pictures. It goes into the difference between movement and action, multiple station points, drapery as manifestation of forces, and the screen as a graphic surface among other topics in the section on film graphics.

Understanding how a picture is made, rather than a discussion by dissection method, is thoroughly explored stressing how graphic forces work in pictures. Seemingly ordinary topics are met with new and insightful approaches.

The book contains hundreds of diagrams as well as many works of great artists spanning almost all historical ages, cultures and styles. It is designed to be easily used with graphic content accompanying related text on each page.

From http://www.donaldwgraham.com/book.html

Amazon link

http://onanimation.com/?p=1509

http://www.donaldwgraham.com

Wonder Women

Wonder Women (1973) starring Nancy Kwan
Alternative title: The Deadly and the Beautiful

An evil woman makes a good living by kidnapping famous athletes, chopping them up and selling their remaining viable parts to the elderly riche until an insurance detective catches on and saves the day in this horror thriller. Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps some of the world's greatest athletes. She is able to transplant any body part, so she uses the athletes for spare parts to sell to the world's richest men

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0070926/
http://www.j4hi.com/page8/page74/WONDER-WOMEN-dvd.html

Ewa Aulin

Ewa Aulin
Ewa Aulin is a Swedish actress who appeared in a number of Italian and some American films in the 1960s and 1970s. She is best remembered for playing the title character in the cult film Candy (1968). from Wikipedia

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Aulin
Photos: http://glamouragogo.blogspot.com/2009/09/icon-ewa-aulin.html

Glory Annen Clibbery

Glory Annen Clibbery is a Canadian actress. She was the star of the Australian film "Felicity" (1978)

Unofficial website: http://gloryannen.tripod.com/
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0030327/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Annen_Clibbery
Review of Felicity: http://10kbullets.com/reviews/felicity/

Walter Wanderley

Walter Wanderley
Walter Wanderley was an organist and pianist, best known for his lounge and bossa nova music. He was the master of the Hammond B-3 organ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wanderley
http://regalameestanoche.blogspot.com/search?q=Walter+Wanderley

George and Lynne

George and Lynne is a comic strip that has appeared in the British tabloid The Sun since 1976.

The Sun, 18.02.2005

George & Lynn ace dies
The creator of The Sun’s saucy George and Lynne cartoon strip has died aged 93. Artist and journalist Conrad Frost wrote the racy series for 35 years until an eye condition meant he had to stop in May 2003. Many, including Conrad’s wife, thought the characters were based on people they knew.

George and Lynne always enjoy a healthy sex life and Lynne first appeared topless in the bedroom under a sunlamp in August 1976. In 1984 George finally displayed his bottom after thousands of female fans complained to The Sun that they did not get to see enough of his body.

Conrad died of a stroke after being taken to St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey, Surrey. His widow Patricia said: "George and Lynne was the thing he was most proud of. Conrad was a gentleman and the world will be a sadder place now he has died." The strip is now drawn by Spanish artist Gual.

http://georgeandlynneexplained.blogspot.com/
http://www.georgeandlynne.com/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/
http://www.josepgual.com/

Rosa Filippello

Rosa Filippello
Rosa Filippello is the Victorian Latin dance champion.
She will complete with her dance partner Arkady Bakenov at the USA championships in 2010.

http://www.myspace.com/rosa_filippello
http://www.dancesportinfo.net/Couple/Arkady_Bakenov_and_Rosa_Filippello_49364/Photos.aspx

Mathieu Lauffray

Mathieu Lauffray Illustrator/Concept designer.

If you have seen the movie Le pacte des loups - Brotherhood of the Wolf(2001) you would have noticed that the hero Fronsac apart from being a naturalist and martial arts expert is also a wonderful draftsman. I wondered if i could find out the artist behind these beautiful sketches which appear all too briefly in the movie.

My french is non-existent but the credits do state "Croquis Fronsac par Mathieu Lauffray" (Croquis means sketch). The artist Mathieu Lauffray works in concept design, illustration and comics. Most of the wolf sketches are on his site. His work is amazing.

Website: http://www.lauffray.com/
Blog: http://lauffray.blogspot.com/
Lambiek: http://lambiek.net/artists/l/lauffray_mathieu.htm

Giallo Goddesses

Barbara Bouchet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bouchet
http://www.fanpix.net/gallery/barbara-bouchet-pictures.htm


Rosalba Neri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalba_Neri
http://www.cultsirens.com/neri/neri.htm

Amuck!

Amuck! (1972) Alla ricerca del piacere
other titles: Hot bed of sex (UK), In search of Pleasure (USA)

I remember seeing this as part of a double bill in the late 1970's at a cinema near Trafalgar square, London.

Stars two Giallo goddesses Rosalba Neri & Barbara Bouchet.
http://eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/amuck!.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068206/

Dan O'Bannon R.I.P

Dan O'Bannon
September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_O%27Bannon
Interview: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/7576/the_den_of_geek_interview_dan_obannon.html
work on Star Wars: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/188053/pictorial_dan_obannon_and_the_tactical_displays_in_star_wars.html

Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson
This Punisher cover caught my eye today. Somehow it has a very 1960's feel reminding me of the early work of Boris. The artist is Dave Johnson. His comic book covers have a strong graphic design element to them.

http://devilpig.deviantart.com/
http://www.comicartcommunity.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=81
http://www.comicvine.com/dave-johnson/26-5983/

PITT oil base pencils

PITT oil base pencils
These are great drawing pencils.

Black Pencil - Oil Base No. 1 - Extra Soft
Black Pencil - Oil Base No. 2 - Soft
Black Pencil - Oil Basd No. 3 - Medium
Black Pencil - Oil Base No. 4 - Hard
Black Pencil - Oil Base No. 5 - Extra Hard

Review: http://www.penciltalk.org/2009/08/faber-castell-pitt-oil-base-pencil
Faber Castell site: http://www.faber-castell.us/17328/Products/Art-Graphic/Monochrome-Pencils-Pastels/index_ebene3.aspx

More

More (1969) Directed by Barbet Schroeder
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064694/
Saw this at ACMI today. An alternative title for this film could be "set the controls to the heart of the sun" since this is a tale of two lovers who are destroyed by drugs on the island of Ibiza. Very slow moving but beautifully photographed. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd.

Starring Mimsy Farmer as Estelle Miller
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002069/

Edwige Fenech

Edwige Fenech
http://www.cultsirens.com/fenech/fenech.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271763/
http://cosmobells.blogspot.com/2008/01/edwige-fenech-in-la-poliziotta.html

Messiah of Evil

Messiah of Evil - Dead People (1973)
Messiah of Evil or Dead People is a horror movie made in 1972 by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, the husband and wife team that wrote American Graffiti and later made the Howard the Duck movie.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071396/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_of_Evil
Review: http://mmmmmovies.blogspot.com/2008/11/messiah-of-evil-1973-or-hell-be-comin.html

Youtube Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1HsndCVP5w
On Dvd: http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2009/10/messiah_of_evil_on_dvd.php

Stars the lovely Anitra Ford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anitra_Ford

Sakura Pigma Brush Pen

Sakura Pigma Brush Pen
http://sakuraofamerica.com/Pen-Brush
http://www.jetpens.com/index.php/cPath/221_511

Brush pen reviews
http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/02/02/my-pocket-rembrandt/
http://www.nemu-nemu.com/2008/12/03/brush_pens_review.php

Tombow Dual Brush-Pen
http://www.dickblick.com/products/tombow-dual-brush-pens/

Consuming Passion

Consuming Passion: 100 Years of Mills and Boon
Brilliant 90 minute drama which tells the story of Mills and Boon via the lives of three women. Starring Olivia Colman and written by Emma Frost (Shameless).

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5071915.ece

Kustom Kulture magazines

Hot Rod Dexule magazine http://www.ckdeluxemag.com/
Rodz magazine http://www.olskoolrodz.com/
http://www.kustomink.com.au/index.html

Komaneko

Komaneko - The Curious Cat
Written, designed, and directed by Goda Tsuneo, Komadori Eiga Komaneko (Komaneko - The Curious Cat) is a 60 minute animation about a cute little cat who happens to be an aspiring stop-motion animator herself.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O07eqRilzMk
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/cool/07-03/cool070302.html

Sam Staggs

The Directors suite DVD of Douglas Sirk's Imitation of life features an excellent interview with author Sam Staggs. He has written a behind the scenes book about this great film called Born to be Hurt. His other movie books include About All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard and A Streetcar Named Desire.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/samstaggs
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Be-Hurt-Untold-Imitation/dp/0312373368/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

Books

Here are two books I would like to check out. The first is by Ken Auletta who writes for The New Yorker. He covered the Microsoft trial a few years ago. In this book he goes behind the scenes at Google.

Googled: The end of the world as we know it by Ken Auletta
http://www.kenauletta.com/


The other one i heard about on the New Dimensions radio program. It's about how to deal with change.
Adaptability How to survive change you didn't ask for by M J Ryan
http://www.mj-ryan.com/

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/newdimensions/
http://www.newdimensions.org/