DRIFTWOOD CH. 8 P. 27-28
Read Driftwood ch. 8, p. 27-28
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87 down, 0 to go. V`(oo)´V
Now isn’t it just like me to do exactly as much as required and not one single page more or less. Conclusions will follow in the next post!
5. Tagtool Session at Café Wendel
Andreas Dzialocha talked me into doing some live drawing with the tagtool at Café Wendel, where they have a regular event (once a month) that brings together tagtool artists and musicians for improvised sessions.
Both me and Karotoons, who did the animation, had only used the tagtool maybe once before, and none of us had ever worked together or even met before, so it was really totally extreme improvisation. And lots of fun!
Getting started with the setup with Andreas Dzialocha and Roman Hagenbrock.
(All photos here were taken by Eija Elmgrén.)
There had been some problems with the tagtool box and tablet recognition, and my tablet didn’t work either, but one of the two backup tablets Andreas brought did. Phew! However, it lost the pressure sensitivity just before the performance begun. I figured I could just adjust my style to that …
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24h Comic – ENGAGE!
Okay, so last year I pledged that until the next December 9th I would draw 87 pages of comics. Right now I have 61 down, 26 to go. Obviously the best way to fulfill my pledge is to do a 24h comic.
Unless the weather will be terribly cold and she won’t have the heart to leave her poor half-feral cats alone in the cold, my mum will come visit me next weekend. So maybe it’s a good idea to do the 24h comic before she comes. Thus, I’ll be doing my best to draw 24 pages of comics in the 24 hours between 15:00 on December 1st and 15:00 on December 2nd.
If you are a crazy sick person you can stare at me all the time while I do it in this webcam stream. There is even a chat function so you can ask stupid questions and maybe I will answer if I feel like it.
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Okay, I finished my 24 page comic at 11 AM. Whee, 24 pages in 20 hours! Big thanks to all the sick people who came by to stare at me as I struggled in front of the empty pages mocking me.
After I eat and sleep and maybe go out and play in the lovely snow I’ll scan the comic and we’ll se how it turned out. It seems a bit weird to me now, but my consciousness is also a bit weird from Club Mate overdose, so who knows.
Hmm, part of me actually thinks it’s a total waste to stop drawing now when I’m in such good drawing shape … :3 But I do think my health, albeit mortal, has to go before immortal Art. Because without Mortal Health, there can be no Immortal Art. Yes. I have not slept in 26 hours. But that’s not the longest I’ve ever gone without sleep.
DRIFTWOOD CH. 8 P. 25-26
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60 down, 27 to go. V`(oo)´V
My deadline is coming closer. But before it is upon me I will do a 24 hour comic by myself. Crippa who works at the comics library suggested I do one for their 24 hour comic anthology for this year, so there is no escaping that I will reach my goal, whether I like it or not. V`(oo)´V
I’m thinking of streaming my 24 hour comic day live (through Ustream or something). So my mum can watch me while I draw.
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P.S. I just donated 500 SEK to the Palestinian Hip Hop band DARG TEAM, who are right now stranded in Denmark because Egypt refused them entry when they tried to go back home to Gaza. That’s 1/8th of what I usually make per month, but maybe I still feel dirty after getting paid to layout Joann Sfar’s Zionist bullshit in his afterword ramblings in Klezmer book 3 …
