Mike Carp

I haven’t posted at all this month.  What’s up with that?

I’m not feeling particularly wordy today, so this will be some sub-par pontificating.  At any rate, you should probably check out some paintings by  Kevin Cyr.  The bummer part of his website is there aren’t any thumbnail galleries of his paintings, so navigation isn’t the greatest.  Anyway, if you pull down the drop down menu for ‘Paintings’ at the top and click around, you’ll see some awesomeness.  A few that I liked:  Johnson, Kool Man, and Berry.

Here’s a post with a whole bunch of words:

Now that Robo Bandito has officially launched, I just realized that I actually mentioned it way back on January 4, 2008.  Yep, in the inaugural post for this blog, I carefully explained that mikecarp.com would not be an illustrated blog, but rather a personal blog of information for my family and friend-ish type folks.  Robo Bandito was going to be the illustrated thingamajig.  It seems that it only took a handful of posts before this blog succumbed and returned to it’s sketch blog origins, while Robo Bandito just chilled for months (and months) on end with nothing more than a static image.  Huh.  I guess it all worked out?

While I’m following up on old posts, back in July I professed a little skepticism regarding plans to make Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs into a CGI animated movie.  Well, the trailer for the movie has been released.  You can watch it and judge for yourself.  I’m not really going to say much about it…I want this blog to be a happy place.

Meanwhile, the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are has also been released.  Maybe it isn’t right to make comparisons here since the source material is markedly different.  And we’re talking about two-minute trailers and not the finished products.  But, that being said, I have to say I’ve watched the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are, like, 10 times today.  I give the movie extra points for using tall people running around in costumes as opposed to CGI.

I may sound a little anti-CGI in this post, and I’m not.  But for Wild Things, I think making the monsters au naturale was the right move.  Overall, it looks like it has some depth and complexity, and some pretty crazy visuals.  We’ll see how it all goes down in, erm, October.

Last item of business: Leontine May Greenberg.  I like her stuff.  I just came across her site(s) earlier this week, and posting links to stuff I like is something I will probably be doing more of in the future.  She does these delicate, interesting watercolors, and a lot of them have birds that are much more polite than the birds that I draw (see below).