Artist and animator Paul Michael Johnson spent four years worth of weekends animating this truly amazing short film that hearkens back to the style, detail and shading of classic 1980s anime that blew me away as a youth! My storytelling was and is molded by those shows and Star Wars, so I was overjoyed to... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: T-Rex Zord by Greg Semkow
Click the picture below for full-size. On Art-Tastic Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may... Continue Reading →
Epic Music Monday: E.S. Posthumus – Kuvera
I love epic music! For me it is a perfect combination of the classic orchestral scoring, chorales and electronica music that I have enjoyed for decades. This stuff inspires me, and is a great companion as I write away on an exiting piece of fiction. Therefore, on Mondays I share a new piece by various... Continue Reading →
Photo Finish Friday: The Towers of Greenland by Max Rive
Click the picture below for full-size. On Fridays, I feature a selected piece of landscape photography that I have come across. I find that real-world photography can be just as inspirational to my imagination for crafting story settings as any piece of fantastic artwork that I might share on a Tuesday. I present these without... Continue Reading →
Happy Thorsgiving!
Thorsgiving... Because what could a Viking not love about Thanksgiving? Feasting? Aye! Drinking? A mighty aye! Clan Bonding? Aye! Clan Feuding? Say that over here pig-dog! Enjoying Violent Contact Sports? (Viking hits you with turkey leg...) Restful Odin-Sleep Afterwards? Zzzzzzz! Plotting Raids to Seize Loot from the Merchants the Next Day? Rarrrrrrrr!!!! Happy Thorsgiving Everyone!
WIP-it Wednesday: November 25Th, 2015
Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! Not only did I meet my personal goal of revising and adding to the first chapter of my unfinished novella, Oo-De-Lally, but I was able to do the same to its prologue and second chapter as well! Getting this done... Continue Reading →
Art-Tastic Tuesday: Gladiators by Alexandr Komarov
Click the picture below for full-size. On Tuesdays I feature a selected piece of visual art that I have come across. These are pieces that have inspired my writing or beautifully frame some concept or another that I have already written or want to write about. I present them without commentary so they may inspire... Continue Reading →
Epic Music Monday: Goran Dragas – Endgame
I love epic music! For me it is a perfect combination of the classic orchestral scoring, chorales and electronica music that I have enjoyed for decades. This stuff inspires me, and is a great companion as I write away on an exiting piece of fiction. Therefore, on Mondays I share a new piece by various... Continue Reading →
Photo Finish Friday: Chulyshman, The Altai Mountains by Albert Belyaev
Click picture below for full-size. On Fridays, I feature a selected piece of landscape photography that I have come across. I find that real-world photography can be just as inspirational to my imagination for crafting story settings as any piece of fantastic artwork that I might share on a Tuesday. I present these without commentary... Continue Reading →
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