Lisa Dempster wrote a cool article about achieving your dreams. I just want to provide a short rebuttal. 1. Know what you want I know what she means. I want lots of things. Often it’s tempting to grab low-hanging fruit because it’s close by (the very reason Sarah and I leave fruit in random places…
Author: David
Parasitic Rebranding
No doubt you’ve seen the great new marketing tactic known as PARASITIC REBRANDING in action recently! This is where a consumer product is temporarily rebadged using the name of a much more popular object or concept, hoping that you will associate its wonderful qualities with the product. For example: THE ENTERPRISORS, an exciting para-media cross-digital…
It’s a popularity contest
Seeking a valid quantifier by which to judge your personal and artistic progress and likelihood of finding a method by which to support yourself in the arts? Stupid internet contests may not be it! I’m conditioned for minimisation and self-deprecation. I don’t like talking big about my work. I’m very uncomfortable with the idea of…
The Stanleys 2011
or, What it is to be a cartoonist Cartoonists don’t travel through physical space, only through time. Even when the cartoonist looks, to an observer, to be travelling; on a plane, say, or a train – they are bent over their Spirax #534 pad, scratching away at a sketch of a fellow passenger. Desperately trying…
A helpful animation tip!
Teasers for two new shows.
Holy what-do-you-know! Some tops people helped me make TWO entries for Movie Extra’s Webfest contest. Prize is $100,000 to make your show, so I figured, “yep”. Arran is a cartoonist, actor and all-round happy chappy, so I cast him as a gangster’s aide who is secretly an undercover cop. Aidzee is a comedian, comedy producer…