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Month: June 2008

  • ZuneJourney.net

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    I have never been a fan of Microsoft, their approach to software, their “squash the little guy” business practices or their design and interface choices. Just a personal point of view, of course, but I think their years of market dominance in computer operating systems and their huge corporate bureaucracy have made them complacent and…

  • Bill Watterson

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    I’m not going to attempt to write an appreciation of Calvin and Hobbes here, I don’t have the time or the room. I’ll simply say that if, for some bizarre reason, you’re unfamiliar with the greatest comic strip of the last quarter of the 20th Century (and one of the best for that entire century,…

  • John Singer Sargent

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    Wow, that guy could paint! This was essentially my response when I first encountered the work of John Singer Sargent back in my art school days. I was disappointed, though, to find that the art history books treated him with less regard than I expected. “Facile”, “highly skilled” and “renowned portrait painter”, seemed to be…

  • Drawing Day 08 (June 7, 2008)

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    You may have heard the term “Web 2.0” bandied about in the last couple of years. Steming from an O’Reilly Publishing conference a few years ago, “Web 2.0” is a rather nebulous term referring not to actual changes in the technology, but to a shift in the way information is disseminated and accessed using the…

  • Into the Woods

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    Gallery Nucleus is a gallery in Alhambra, California that places a particular emphasis on illustration, commercial art and graphic narrative (e.g. comics). I’ve mentioned them before in the course of posts about artists who were exhibiting there. The gallery has a new exhibit opening on June 14th called Into the Woods, with a group of…

  • Mary GrandPré

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    Mary GrandPré is another of those illustrators whose work you have undoubtedly seen, even if you don’t know her name. GrandPré is best known as the illustrator for the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter books; which was just another assignment at first, as the books were not yet the phenomenon they would become; an…