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Month: March 2008

  • 1,000 True Fans

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    For those who are drawn to the siren call of “creative” endeavors, whether it be in any form of “the arts”, the process of making a living is often one of struggle, compromise and at times even desperation. Artists of all stripes are notoriously not a group associated with business acumen and across-the board financial…

  • James Martin

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    Like his friend and fellow contributor to the Paintopolis group blog, Kevin Turcotte, (who has continued to add nice small paintings to that blog since my post last week), James Martin works in the animation industry. Martin works for Dreamworks, but aside from that I can find little information about him or his professional work.…

  • Daniel López Muñoz

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    Daniel López Muñoz is a Spanish born concept and visual development artist for the film industry now living in California. He worked for some time for Blue Sky Studios and now works for Pixar. His credits include Ice Age: The Meltdown and Robots, as well as a series of 3-2-1 Penguins titles. Muñoz has been…

  • Jean Frédéric Bazille

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    I think of Frédéric Bazille as the “lost” Impressionist, both in the sense that he is often overlooked in discussions of the principle figures in the Impressionist movement; and in the sense that he was lost to the Impressionists, and the world, when he foolishly joined Napoleon’s army at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War,…