Showing posts with label David Lynch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Lynch. Show all posts
Sunday, May 4, 2025
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Recently Read: Cozmic Taco Volume 1, by Joseph Morris
Joseph Morris' Cozmic Taco Vol. 1 features nearly 200 pages of some of the best and most fun cartooning being produced today. Taco is only one of the strips Morris has written and drawn over many years and its influences are wonderfully apparent, some of which are: David Lynch, Vaughn Bodē, Jack Kirby, Buddhist philosophy, H.P. Lovecraft and the early 20th century works of Floyd Gottfredson, E.C. Segar and the Fleischer brothers.
This shouldn't imply that Morris isn't his own artist. The collection, encompassing several full-length stories and various shorts and ruminations, are personal, even autobiographical, both cosmic and intimate, whimsical and at the same time profound. The variety of characters (some pulled in from some of his other projects, Quixote Coyote and the Dolphin Bros) are drawn in an imaginative, seemingly carefree style, useful for fast efficiency and emotional expression. Like the best cartoonists, you can practically feel the emotions and energy of the creator drawing the work on the page.
Like all Morris' work, this collection is highly recommended.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Recently Read: Room to Dream by Kristine McKenna and David Lynch
Journalist Kristine McKenna and director David Lynch's 2018 biography-memoir Room to Dream utilized a novel approach: each of McKenna's well-researched, fact-based chronological chapters are paired with Lynch's memories, observations and anecdotes. I approached this book with a slight trepidation, believing that the work of great artists (and, by extension, the greatest artists) is best served by no explanations or commentary by the creators. After having finished the book, I still think the same. Simply put, art not stripped of its mysteries and origins is more magical. As Stanley Kubrick asked, wouldn't we enjoy the Mona Lisa less if Da Vinci had explained why she's smiling?
Having said that, I couldn't put Room to Dream down. Lynch's working process and his idiosyncratic (and often hilarious) ruminations are highly entertaining. For those who want more details about Eraserhead, Lynch's painting exhibitions,Twin Peaks, aborted projects and music collaborations I didn't know existed - it's all here. Dichotomies of human nature exemplified in his work are also here: in one paragraph Lynch will describe the peace inherent in Transcendental Meditation and in the next offer an offhand reference to another love interest (or wife) he left for someone new, not seeming to discern a contradiction in the two.
Room to Dream is liberally supplemented with unusual photographs and a complete, chronological appendix of works.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
New David Lynch Album
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Wicked Cool Woodcuts
Check out these great woodcut prints of David Lynch, Brando and Steve Buscemi by Loren Kantor.
Loren has many more cool prints available on the Woodcuttingfool blog: http://woodcuttingfool.blogspot.com/
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