Really Cool People Who Aren’t Me: James Kuhn
Welcome to the first installation of Really Cool People Who Aren’t Me.1 Today’s post features James Kuhn: artist, drag queen, former nudist, born-again Christian2, and–most spectacularly–face painting genius. James says, I love to paint on anything, including flesh! James did his own version of the 365 photo project: 365 Transformations. He painted his face differently each day of the year, and then kept going! And, even better, there’s video: The complete collection can be found on his flickr page. And also...
read more ->Goldenhair (and it’s all Cinderella’s fault)
Sick of me writing about books you don’t have access to? Well, this week’s reading, “Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources”, is online and free! You lucky dog. (It’s even in several places.) There were many things that struck me about the selections I read from this book, but one of the most immediate was the complexity of the stories. Not only is there a quest, but the quest has three parts. And then there’s a secondary quest, and that one is usually even more challenging.1 I’m not sure...
read more ->Leftover Sketches
I draw on everything. Really, everything. And the drawings are usually bizarre.1 I’ve scanned a few scraps from notebooks and calendars, just for you. Ready? Be bold, be bold, but not too bold.2 – On a page of story ideas: A toad’s eye: A cartoon man with an oversized tie standing on someone’s closed eyelid: Brainstorming page for a poem: Random face: Linguistics notes: More linguistics notes, and a Very Hairy Man: Mermaid, and other observations: An imagined doll outfit: Someone you may recognize,...
read more ->Dancing and War
This week’s reading for my individual study was Black Swan, White Raven, an anthology of fairy tale retellings. As is generally the case with anthologies, some stories were stronger than others, but the ones that really struck me tended to recontextualize the source material in a wholly unexpected way. We’re used to retellings from the villain’s point of view, excusing his or her actions. We’re also used to feminist reworkings of popular stories like “Sleeping Beauty” and “Cinderella” in which...
read more ->San Francisco, Day 6
Cartoon Art Museum and photo adventure with Topher in Golden Gate Park. Strawberry ice cream in the evening from Ghirardelli. Share...
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Writer, illustrator, musician, rogue librarian, explorer, ill-fated baker.