So I'm blogging directly from the Nassau computer labs.
I'm procrastinating on my Photoshop project before I have to head in to work at five. I figure I'll be here a while hoping to finish off the general layout of my perspective project so why not.
The main thing I wanted to talk about is books I'm interested in looking into. In the process of looking for inspirations for my project on yahoo, I ran into a blog by an author named Danny Gregory. The latest entry was of him talking about a book he had just completed called;
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers
which holds 266 pages of a... plethora of sketchbook and journal pieces from artists, illustrators and designers all around the world. The video on his blog shows a flip-through of the pieces and artworks which has me more than interested in the book. I'm definitely looking into this one!My curiosity has also been dragged into Persepolis.
I hadn't heard much about it until my friend Moho brought it up in a conversation of upcoming films based on graphic novels and after I had finished reading his copy of Watchmen around early October or so.
Which reminds me to get my own personal copy of that book!
I don't entirely know much of what the book is really about -
Don't tell me either! I'd rather find out for myself thanks.
but I've been running into the book a lot. Reading and hearing random people talk it up and what not. So I'm definitely looking into it also as soon as I clear up my dinner plate of projects... and after my bladder stops acting up because of the medium cup of coffee I drank before my finance test today that I managed to spill with my earbud headphones...
But yes those are the two main books I'm really interested in looking into thus far. I also want to buy myself a book on Plato, but there are too many Plato books written already that I don't even know where to start with it. I just want a general book on his philosophies. So if any if you taking the time to read this far into my blog can suggest a good version of Plato, please don't hesitate to tell me. Otherwise I guess I'm on my own.
Okay, now to get started on that project!
2 comments:
oooh persepolis!
after you finish reading it, we should rent the movie (and rent a gay movie too) and then watch it one friday at your place. it's done in the style of the graphic novel, too, so that's great.
i definitely need to get into reading more often too. that "lostronaut" story in the new yorker has really inspired me as a writer. but i want to get in on the graphic novel scene, too. superhero comics are boring me incredibly. aside from the sexcapades in uncanny x-men right now, and i guess the blood and gore of x-force, everything's just so boringggg.
but yeah, we need to watch art house movies and read graphic novels for a week straight. spring break!
those sketchbooks look amazing.
oh and yes we so need to watch movies in your basement.
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