I didn’t plan for this extended hiatus but somehow in the last few months I’ve had the worse time keeping up with any internet tasks. Even answering emails has become difficult. I’ve been busy but that’s not it, been busy before and still kept at blogging. I think it’s a little different this time, I’ve hit a point where it’s hard for me to find the mind space to do much blogging or surfing. I’m good and my family healthy, in fact Fio is growing beautifully, it’s a wonder every day … I guess it’s just that’s there’s not much internet power in me lately. I wouldn’t want to quit this, but I think you might continue to see some sporadic blogging from me. I still do keep up with SketchCrawl though … and two weeks ago on November 21st, we held the 25th World Wide SketchCrawl. Be sure to check out some of the amazing results from all around the globe at the forums!! Cool, see you around!
Wow! The japanese trailer is an epic all onto itself, it might be showing a little too much of the movie here and there, but still made me choke up a little. The title is as usual a little more descriptive: “Ka-ru Jiisan Sora Tobu Ie”. “Old man Carl’s flying house”.
Remember the exibition Tadahiro, Ronnie and I had at Galerie Arludik in Paris this past february? Here’s a little video interview from that night that finally found its way online. Some photos here too. Boy is it hard to watch and listen to yourself. Ah well …
Ponyo is opening this weekend in the US … hope people out there will enjoy the movie. Fio loves watching the DVD, she loves the driving scenes especially. "brooom brooom" she goes every time the car shows up. Very cute.
By the way, here’s an interesting post regarding Ponyo on Anipages Daily. A good read. I like his in depth take on the film.
Hah, if only I could make it down to Gallery Nucleus in LA this weekend for their Tree House exhibition! Alas a little too far for me. But if you’re able … don’t miss this show, the list of artists participating is amazing. Our good friends Tadahiro Uesugi and Yoko Tanji are among them and they both have new original works for sale! Look at the amazing watercolor below! Dang. I want Teletransportation already!!!
The 24th global drawing marathon day has been set to Saturday September 19th, mark your calendars! The World Wide SketchCrawl movement is almost five years old! At end of november we’ll have to celebrate our 5th anniversary, it’s in fact on November 21st 2004 that we put out a call to the world to come out and draw. I met with artists in Kyoto that day. Great memories. As for this 24th crawl, I’m looking forward to drawing in San Francisco again, I missed the last couple of crawls here. Where will you be sketching?
Enrico Casarosa is a storyboard artist living in San Francisco, working in Animation by day, publishing artbooks and comics by night.
Forever stuck between the gravitational pulls of Italy (his home country) and Japan (a cultural passion).
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reading: Realworld by Natsuo Kirino. done reading: What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami.
