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second shift meanderings
May. 14th, 2005 04:49 pmYep. Second shift. :-P
Ah well, it's really not so bad. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about dinner, though. Ah well, something will present itself, and we've got bagles in the meantime. I'm watching My Fair Lady on TCM. It's a bit of an old favorite, watched it for the first time in English Lit when we were reading The Pygmalion. Not really on topic, but I wish they'd play more pre-code stuff. I've been particularly interested since reading a book on feminism in Hollywood around that time. I'd like to see more of Norma Shearer's earlier films. I hear they were pretty racy even for these days, not so much in the actions but the morality they expressed.
I'm working on a new painting, and it's being stubbourn. A very pale girl with black butterfly wings, standing on a desert cliff.
I look at the work of people like Brian Froud and Ian Daniels, and the thing I love about it is that it portrays the Fae as their own species, it dares to make them look inhuman and unearthly. So many others just make them look like humans with pointy ears and wings tacked on. And they do it in a way that's unmistakably /theirs/.
I want to find my way of capturing that unsettling beauty.
Ah well, it's really not so bad. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about dinner, though. Ah well, something will present itself, and we've got bagles in the meantime. I'm watching My Fair Lady on TCM. It's a bit of an old favorite, watched it for the first time in English Lit when we were reading The Pygmalion. Not really on topic, but I wish they'd play more pre-code stuff. I've been particularly interested since reading a book on feminism in Hollywood around that time. I'd like to see more of Norma Shearer's earlier films. I hear they were pretty racy even for these days, not so much in the actions but the morality they expressed.
I'm working on a new painting, and it's being stubbourn. A very pale girl with black butterfly wings, standing on a desert cliff.
I look at the work of people like Brian Froud and Ian Daniels, and the thing I love about it is that it portrays the Fae as their own species, it dares to make them look inhuman and unearthly. So many others just make them look like humans with pointy ears and wings tacked on. And they do it in a way that's unmistakably /theirs/.
I want to find my way of capturing that unsettling beauty.
