Strycher wrote:I like this one. Her hair is so perfectly feminine and child-like, but without impeding her ability to build the tower.
Strycher wrote:Martin L. Shoemaker wrote: And if you've read any of my stories, you can guess that this piece is my absolute favorite. If I had a spare $2,000, a print of that would be hanging on my wall.
Sell some stories and use the money to buy yourself something pretty.
I like this one. Her hair is so perfectly feminine and child-like, but without impeding her ability to build the tower. I also like the weightlessness in this one. And also this one.
Thanks for sharing.
Jess wrote:At first glance, I thought the woman in the second one was pulling the clouds away on the planet below. (See how the path of her left hand is free of cloud cover?)
(Though i do luv my tom petty!) 
http://www.quora.com/His-Dark-Materials-book-series/Where-did-Phillip-Pullman-get-the-idea-for-daemons
[Philip Pullman] explains that when he was writing the first book, he was hit with writer's block until he wrote the line " 'Lyra and her daemon' ", and in a burst of what he describes as " 'automatic writing', " (qtd. in Andronik 42) he suddenly " [...] realized that everyone in Lyra's world had a daemon; and at first, all the daemons could change form from one animal to another" (42-43). It was his further refinement of the characterization of daemons, the fact that they eventually would " 'settle'," that solidified his concept and " '[drove] the story' " (43). Initially,Pullman claims he had no idea where the idea of daemons came from, but further investigation reveals a bit of inspiration in the form of a work of art.
Once, in Poland, Pullman saw a painting by DaVinci of a young girl holding an ermine, and the connection between the two was so evident, that he envisioned Lyra and Pantalaimon. He describes, " 'And while she [the girl in the painting] is dressed much more elegantly than Lyra would be, if you made a few small alterations--yes, she could be Lyra' "
Oh....wow....that beetle typewriter...that must have been Edgar Allan Poe's. I swear, the dark creepy would just POUR out of my fingers if I had that kind of inspiration under them.
soulmirror wrote:
Today we have an impressive sci-fi short film called R’ha which has been getting a lot of attention despite being online less than 24 hours. It’s a solo project written, directed, and animated by Kaleb Lechowski during his first year of studying animation and digital film, and follows a member of an alien race who is being interrogated and tortured by a machine.
http://filmonic.com/short-film-r%C2%B4ha
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