Month: March 2006

  • Haunted Hacienda – The Art Of The Mexican Horror Film
    May 5th – June 10th

     
    This looks like something we might be interested in   More details here.
     
    And more cool events:
     
     
    Lucha Libre – Life Behind The Mask.  Rich Walton’s revealing documentary about Lucha Libre in and around Los Angeles, is playing at the Antelope Valley Film Festival on Sunday April 23rd
     
    Ettore Sottsass exhibition at LACMA. Cool furniture designs!
     
    BunnyJam in San Francisco. Driving up on the weekend of April 15th and looking forward to meet with our new Killer Watts friends.
     

     
    Lili: Totally non-sequitar, but I’m sharing it anyway. A  “joke” that my (Chinese) Dad forwarded me this week:

    A Chinese and an American are seated next to each other on a flight from New
    York. The American asks if he would like to play a fun-game.

    The Chinese, tired, just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and
    rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.

    The American persists and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun.
    He says, “I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me
    $5, and vice versa.” Again, the Chinese declines and tries to get some
    sleep.

    The American, now worked up, says, “Okay, if you don’t know the answer, you
    pay me $5, and if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $500.” This gets the
    guy’s attention and, figuring there will be no end to this torment, agrees
    to the game.

    The American asks the first question, “What’s the distance from the earth to
    the moon?” The Chinese doesn’t say a word, reaches into his wallet, pulls
    out a $5 bill, and hands it to the American.

    “Okay,” says the American, “your turn.” So the Chinese asks, “What goes up a
    hill with three legs and comes down with four?”

    The American thinks about it. No answer. Puzzled, he takes out his laptop
    computer and searches all his references. No answer! He taps into the
    air-phone with his modem and searches the Internet and the Library of
    Congress. No answer.

    Frustrated, he sends e-mails to all his friends and coworkers. Checks the
    input. All to no avail!

    Finally, a long time later, he wakes the Chinese and hands him $500.

    The Chinese thanks him and turns back to get his sleep.

    The American, more than a little miffed, stirs the Chinese and asks, “Well,
    what’s the answer?” Without a word, the Chinese reaches into his wallet,
    hands the American $5, and goes back to sleep.
     

  • ML Fan Art for the day…



    by Shampoo Neko


    Weekend Activities!

    Vasquez Rocks by Eddie

    The site of many a Star Trek episode, Western, and Biblical epic, Vasquez Rocks is an awesome Californian experience.  I spent the day gathering photo reference and getting visions of Captain Kirk fighting that weird reptitilan creature in the ‘Arena’ episode.

    To get there from Los Angeles; Take the 5 North, then the 14 North and exit at Agua Dulce.  It’s about a 40 min drive, all up.  Some more pics…



    Saturday night was the “Hate The Living” Frankenstein-themed art show at the Victory Tattoo Studio in Studio City. We went to show our support for Dale Sizer, whose glittery piece – “Friend, Frankie and Stein” is pictured below.


    © Dale Sizer


    Eddie, Mike, Lisa and Dale

    Lili: The UPA Tribute at the Egyptian on Sunday night was amazing. I don’t remember which of the panellists said that UPA Animation exemplifies “Maximum meaning through minimum means”, and I couldn’t agree more. Thanks so much to ASIFA for organizing this inspiring event. It was great to see some of the cool designs on Cartoon Modern come alive!

     
    pic via CartoonModern. From “Man Alive” (1952)

  • Fwak! Jukebox

    Playlist no.8 is up.  More twisted tunes to swivel in your chair to…

  • FMLL yesterday afternoon (with
    Mil Mascaras and Canek as the main event.) FMLL is California’s leading
    Lucha Libre promotion, and always has a great atmosphere, with plenty
    of kids bouncing up and down in the ring between matches!  We were
    trying to take reference photos of the audience to create character
    designs from… a bit of an awkward task with people staring … but I
    think we got some good pics!

    The Original Gangstas were awesome, and our new favorite Lucha tag team! Here’s one of them:

    Lilita y Original G



    And here’s something totally wild! A 2D + 3D Mucha Lucha “Slammin Donuts” clip sent to us by animator Sam Leyja (Atlanta) Whoa!

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  • Dragon Rojo Jr & Rayo X*

    *Updated

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    Dragon Rojo Jr


    Rayo X

    Custom figures of our new lucha characters, by Tom Rebello. 

    How did he do it?  You’ll have to ask him

  • gocco1


    Last year I was on a group mailing list for Save Gocco …which was the first time I had heard of PrintGocco. From what little I know, it’s a super cool DIY printing kit (cards, tshirts etc.) that has been discontinued by the manufacturers in Japan. And so, when I saw a PrintGocco kit at my nieghborhood art store this year I was compelled to buy it. I haven’t had time to do anything with it yet, but I have found some simple online tutorials, HERE and HERE. There’s also a flickr group of Gocco art and Mizna Wada’s gocco prints (blogged about previously) are always inspiring.

    Have any of you used Print Gocco? I would love to pick your brains….

    Linkitos:


    An interview with Keith Rainville

    Gabe’s brand new blog

    Cool illustrators: Nate Williams and Dwellelephant

    (What am I still doing up at this hour pottering away on this computer? I am sick. I should be in bed.) – Lili