music and tales
Two days ago i officially began the composition of the 4th and final act. Before i get too far ahead however, it’s good time to do the final character background. So let’s talk about Priscilla. Priscilla McAlistair is the daughter […]
The very first actual comic strip was printed in 1837 in Switzerland by artist Rudolph Töpffer. It was clearly a series of drawing telling a sequential paneled storyline and was the only thing of its kind until 1895 when Richard Outcault began drawing The Yellow […]
My post yesterday on Little Nemo In Slumberland got me thinking about early comics and hence, the very first ones. While the first official “comic”, that is, sequential graphic storyline as we know it is The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck” […]
It is one of the greatest comic (graphic story if you will) masterpieces of all time and is actually on display in the Louve and has been shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (I personally would kill to have […]
Today we’re going to listen to some songs from a dreamy, downtempo album i made (as Mocha Lab of course) called Subduction. (this first one is My Dream Of You, but some awesome person i don’t know took the song […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, i present you Lori Nix’s photos of The City: I would add, she does not digitally manipulate the photos at all. She builds these scenes then photographs them. “As a ‘non-traditional’ photographer (I construct my subject matter […]
Since i am banging my head against the wall trying to write this 2 persony song (sometimes called a duet i believe), i figured i’d make a post spotlighting some completely awesome duets. Maybe it might help me. My problem […]
Robert Darnton, Professor and director of the Harvard University Library has been delivering a number of “cabaret lectures” in which he discusses how in mid 18th century France, information and political opinion was spread throughout the street of Paris through pop songs. He […]
One old genre of theater i am absolutely fascinated with is the old Italian and French Commedia Dell’arte, where travelling theater troupes went town to town performing improvisational comedy plays before the crowds. Instead of the written comedies of the Greek and […]
After WWI, Germany entered the Weimar era, an explosive era of creativity rarely seen in any culture at any time. Amongst the incredible artistic forays was film making, still a relatively new art form. One of the Weimar era takes on this […]