I was supposed to have done this weeks ago, but I am a slothful and distracted person. I appreciate her patience and the opportunity to share the opening stage of this painting with her readers. So slothful and distracted am I that I still have yet to read one of her books! Historical fiction is […]
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I’ve been sitting on this for a bit, but I’ll be joining the team at Weird Tales as their art director. Clearly, this is very exciting. I’ve long been an admirer of the work that Stephen Segal has done to revitalize the magazine and look forward to continuing his work. Of course the rest of
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Have you ever had this nagging thing that you knew was wrong, but you couldn’t figure out what? For the last two years, I’ve known that the props work wasn’t satisfying, but I didn’t realize how much I missed the world of puppetry until coming down here this weekend. Some of it was performing, but
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Charlie Jane Anders at io9 asked me and three other SF writers to talk about their experiences in the arts. She’s got Audrey Niffenegger, Rudy Rucker and Stephen Stanley each discussing how their art intersects with their writing. It’s interesting to me to see how much we have in common and how much we differ
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UK-based photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten creates tableaus of miniature villages juxtaposed with teenage girls. Check out the full series, which is at once magical and at times disturbing.
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Sure, we’ve all written in the dust on the back of a car, but Scott Wade takes that to a whole new level. Check out his gallery and be amazed.
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Lisa Mantchev posted this video of You Think You Can Dance and I clicked on it because usually Lisa is smart about these things. At the 1:34 mark, the male dance did a move that I specifically teach new puppeteers to avoid because it is physically impossible. Let me repeat that. Physically impossible. He stands
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I arrived home today to a flurry of compliments about the art issue of Shimmer and a slip from the post office saying that they were sorry they’d missed me. Curses! Now I must wait still longer to see this issue. Sure, sure… I’ve been looking at the galleys and such, but it’s different when
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Folks, I have more work than I have time, which is lovely, but it means that some of my own projects are falling by the wayside. I need someone to set up a shopping cart for me. I know how to do it, but I lack the time and have hit the point of being
I’m starting by using a real skull for the dog head. I’d planned on just getting a resin dog palette, but lo! There’s Skulls Unlimited has a giant collection of dog skulls. Now, I’m not going to be using the Chihuahua skull in this picture, but had to share it with you. Does that not
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I dropped the moth off today and they loved it. As I was leaving they were having trouble with one of the other effects in the show. A key plot element revolves around a young man who has, um, trouble with his manhood becoming alert when he isn’t expecting it to do so. The member
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I just got the final art for Charles Stross’s book, Toast, coming out from Wyrm. I’d already done a preliminary layout using the rough draft of the art, so it was easy to drop the final art in place, make a few tweaks and send it over to Neil. The art is by the talented
I collect etiquette books, so if you ever need to know what kind of gloves to wear to an afternoon wedding in 1851 or the proper way to say goodbye to a guest in 1907, come to me. One of the prizes in my collection is The Jolly Book of Funcraft by Patten Beard in
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Obituaries: Publishers Weekly today has an obituary for Madeleine L’Engle. Author Madeleine L’Engle died last night in Connecticut, at the age of 89. Best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, L’Engle was the author of more than 60 books for adults and young readers, most of which
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