NEGATIVE SPACE: Stunt work
This may or may not be the last Negative Space cartoon, at least for a while. I’m going to try and focus on a new film-related project: the webcomic DIRECTORAMA. (See my previous post.)
Lousy cliches and big promises
Yes, I’ll admit it: it’s been quiet around here lately. During my vacation in Denmark I’ve been online sporadically, and ever since I came back (a little over a week ago) I’ve been taking it easy. Apparently, I needed the rest… Meanwhile, the comment section of Negative Space #26 stimulated some great responses on the [...]
NEGATIVE SPACE: Sheet rule
NEGATIVE SPACE: Bye bye, Bergman
Greedy bastard, that Grim Reaper. As if the Swedish master wasn’t enough, he had to take Antonioni on the same day. If there’d be some pie left, I’d throw it in his pale face…
NEGATIVE SPACE: Happy Birthday, Ingmar
A big Thank You to David Hudson and Edward Copeland for the inspiration! ____________________________________________________________________ UPDATE JULY 30th: Just heard the news today that Ingmar Bergman has passed away. I´m speechless… When I was in the process of coloring this cartoon (yeah, it didn´t take too long this time around), I wrote an email to a [...]
NEGATIVE SPACE: Imax 3DD
Embarrassing Movie Posters #12
Peet’s Friday Screentest
Every Friday, a cold shiver ripples through the blogosphere: Whose turn is it to be screen tested? I’m talking about DVD Panache, of course, the award-winning blog where Adam Ross hosts an on-going series under the name Friday Screen Test. Each week, someone from the film blogging community is asked to answer ten questions. The [...]
NEGATIVE SPACE: Letters from Paris
(Click on the image to see this cartoon slightly larger.) Any which way you look at it… the girl ain’t worth the look.
In defense of Mickey Mousing
This is my contribution to Damian Arlyn’s Film Music Blog-a-Thon at Windmills of My Mind. ___________________________________________________________ A catchy negative term can do a lot of damage. As far as film criticism is concerned, just consider the massive abuse of a phrase like “style over substance,” a knee-jerk “yeah, right” to instantly smother a filmmaker’s poetic [...]
