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August 13th, 2005
Around the world in Music and Comics
August 13th, 2005Around the world in Music and Comics
From Pete Radio, been enjoying sounds of Sufjan Stevens. He has the intention of doing one album for each State of the USA.
Maybe that would be fun, do a short comic story regarding each province of Cambodia. I’ve already got material for Siem Reap, Preah Vihear, Battambang, Kompong Speu… jeez, it wouldn’t be hard. It’s nice to have a sort of …structure, to hang your ideas on.
This ambitious 50 states recording project is reminiscent of Trondheim and Sfarr’s ‘Donjon’ series in France. Take on a big project, half in jest, but you find that it’s a real challenge that stretches your skills.
(Michael, maybe you could do a comic for each province of Canada? There’s considerably less.)
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Another idea I had: an ‘ABCdaire’ of Cambodia (ABC book) – utilizing one page per consonant.
Came up with this idea in my work with the Nou Hach Literary Journal.
After I heard that there were over 50 ‘meters’ in which poetry was sung, I thought: “Hmm, maybe I could do a comics/poetry book, that illustrated these obscure meters”. (In the present day, people tend to use the same eight or so meters.)
Unfortunately the number of Khmer letters in the alphabet doesn’t quite match the number of meters. I could add in the vowels but they wouldn’t quite match.
Maybe this is a project for a later time (and with a corresponding grant proposal!). I’d probably need to work with a Khmer musicologist to track down the obscure meters, and do a corresponding CD.
One thing at a time.
Misc links
August 9th, 2005courtesy Black River Digital:
Mickey Mouse and the air pirates comic all put online (click on the cover)
http://img151.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=airpirates1013nw.jpg
Guardian story on Daniel Clowes
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,6000,1536970,00.html
http://www.gibson.co.nz/Television/Documentary/Cartoonists/Cartoonists.pdf
http://img151.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=airpirates1013nw.jpg
Guardian story on Daniel Clowes
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,6000,1536970,00.html
http://www.gibson.co.nz/Television/Documentary/Cartoonists/Cartoonists.pdf
Webcomics: Interviews with John Allison & Jeph Jacques
August 7th, 2005Webcomics: Interviews with John Allison & Jeph Jacques
Not the ususal DIY indie fare I read, but entertaining eye candy.
Plus they produce daily, what a grind!
Plus they produce daily, what a grind!
Paintings @ Phare
August 7th, 2005
While Lisa is typing up her ‘Masterclass’ proposal for next year, Srey Bandol invites me to take a look at his latest paintings. I have no idea what’s in store until I see the pile of paintings.
He’s done over fifty HUGE boards utilizing dirt and sand, truly multimedia. They are the story of his life as a child in the refugee camps. The text is written in sand, it’s very… tactile.
It’s taken him over a year to do this, in the evenings when he hasn’t been teaching at Phare.
There is an exhibition slated for later this year (October), more news when I hear of it!
And the boards will probably be accompanied by a publication.
As I goggle over the art and the effort involved, Bandol and his friends discuss the idea of taking the boards on the road when he goes to France. (The big problem: transportation and wear. What if the sand rubs off?)
Absolutely stunning. Lots of geometric imagery from ‘youn’, local good luck charms. And he’s mulling over doing a comic later of his experiences as well.
This is all you get to see for now, the full size art will blow you away! OK, this is a book I really want to read. Time to knuckle down and continue studying my written Khmer.
