May 2013
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writing a little bit of intro for the masks...
long!
really hard to not make it sound too fine-arty/ could write so much bullshit. the interaction between high-end and low-end cultures, the vernacular media used to recreate the objects of worship, the fact that they are almost like living cartoons, like toys, etc etc
what i’ve come up with is this:
‘This project is related to cargo cults: religions of tribal societies who...
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so today was a good day. got my books printed, talked to sue about portfolio
came home, realised that the wooden things are gonna need varnishing. the primer rubs right off. huh. better get painting them tomorrow then!!!
13/05/13
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still todo
done the primer layer. should be dry enough to paint details on tomorrow, primer is on pretty thick …
biggest weight on my mind right now is 666. wanna sort that out. on monday. all work is done, apart from a couple of scans I need to do today. hope indesign works out. hope it’s not a retarded idea to print it between a3 and a4 … i typed in a pretty arbitrary size
1000 word...
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more exhibition
need to make it more to scale.
can probably fit more building drawings onto the wall. from other places, america, edinburgh, barcelona etc.
for projecting + drawing: what will you use? a brush? probably.
not india ink or permanent marker.
posca brush pen? emulsion paint?
meanwhile I am correcting the hands and polishing 666 pages up on photoshop. the plan is to paint wooden models w/...
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talking exhibition w/ rachel
need to make a scale version of my plan. above is what it looks like atm
need to make a shelf and paint a model. to literally see what it looks like.
need wires for planes. hooks for the planes?
because i’m projecting, then drawing straight onto the wall, as well of the weight of the shelves, i’ll need a bit of real wall not a board.
Glyn sez: do some contingencies in case it don’t...
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crit w/ chris gibbs & sue
“great work on the comic! well done. some great spreads. cover? - design this well, keep it simple.
watch the drawing - especially hands!
show - is there a chance to draw onto the wall - via projection?”
my thoughts:
glad they liked it. was worried I’d done all this work and they’d be all about changing everything around. but they liked it … apart from the hands....
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April 2013
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doing some ancestor research
story Grandpa told me about his great uncle Willy gettng lost in the bush in australia, and grandpa’s Uncle John going out to look for him, joining the ANZACs, fighting at Gallipoli and coming home, has stuck with me. wanna ask him more about it. really fascinating.
apparently Willy arrived in Australia around 1904. and worked on Canberra House … did he mean the old parliament house?...
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
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get rid of first person
“this extended essay will explore …”
make it into a question!
trim quotes!
congo can lose a lot of material if necessary
dates in chapter titles
and when they were originally published
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tintin and i quotes
“I don’t like talking about myself. I instantly build a wall around myself.”
Sadoul: “the books were about much more thant the intent to entertain children”
Sadoul: “in Tintin, Herge distilled 50 years of politics, wars and daily life”
He described his Catholic upbringing as “very hard to overcome. Just look at the concept of sin, which haunted me until not very long ago”
He admitted to Tibet’s...
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watching Tintin and I
really sick
his two favourite drawings are the one in crab with the golden claws, of the arab getting up and running away,
and the one of haddock coming ashore in red rackham’s treasure
he likes them because they both tell and entire story.
about the second one: “it has it all. it’s almost constructed in a triangle. it’s a conscious construction. it’s not...
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cut out of essay
Outline of other chapters
Chapter 2: Hergé the idealist
Everything changed with the Blue Lotus. Hergé’s political awakening came with researching the book, and his meeting with Zhang Chongren, fictionalised as Chang. The Blue Lotus sensitively and stylishly addresses the Japanese annexation of Manchuria.
Next, Hergé passes comment on wars for oil and the international arms trade in...
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As a nation of free men we must live through all time or die by suicide.
Lincoln
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Mussolini
Americans never quit.
MacArthur
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
MacArthur
Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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crit w/ CHRIS 09/04/13
“wood absorbs paint - test sealing paint with various substances to see what works for you - visually, financially etc
will you seal the paint? if so yacht varnish.
could you cut into the objects, lowering levels, as well as raising them.
can colours be relevant, informative even?
the interactivity is great (propellors) could this be used more perhaps”
pretty good crit. Chris...
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reminder
apply for ELCAF
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some bibliography
http://www.theroyalarticles.com/articles/34/1/Belgian-Royal-Question—-the-Abdication-Crisis-of-King-Leopold-III-of-the-Belgians/Page1.html
March 2013
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apostolides
crab w/ the golden claws:
the move away from reporting real political events was ‘an indication of defeat’
introduction of Haddock
‘Tintin plays the role of the good angel in Haddock’s life’
gets weird and psychoanalytical
