a flicker and sputter before i go out for a while ~

[lookingland]

i have been contemplating the wonder that is Edwin Forrest's hair. mostly because, in an era sans mousse and hair gel and various other "product", it is quite the tower of achievement.

also because it's more interesting than anything i have going on personally. don't believe me? take a look for yourself!


anyway, here's the deal. i started out the new year making a big important proclamation to the effect that i would not be making any big important proclamations this year: that i would just stick to my guns, go with the flow, and finish something, even if it was, to my thinking, mediocre.

but oh what a foolish wretched mortal i am. the intensity with which i have been focused on In Pursuance of Said Conspiracy has once again burned me to a crispy soulless husk. i made definite progress with it, but it's clear by the way i have stalled out since last week that i cannot get much farther at the moment. it's just too many details to try to keep track of for my wee, atrophying brain. every time i read the transcripts, i just get dizzy at the thought of trying to adapt them. so much so that i actually considered saying: ah screw it, i won't try to shape anything out of it, i'll just take Poore's transcript and use it entirely (yeah, all 1200 pages of it). immediately upon which one of my few remaining lively synapses sporked itself to death in desperate, horrified protest.

so you can see why Edwin Forrest's hair is so phenomenally interesting. no?

well here's the deal (always a deal, right?): i don't feel like i can quit with everything i have going on right now. Reconstruction updates today (it being monday and all), and i have about two weeks worth of pages left on the buffer before i run out (gah!). i have had a mighty battle this weekend with trying to decide whether to press on with it (at least to finish this one section), but it seems a long way to go ~ and it is. so i haven't made any decisions about it. what may happen is that i switch the style of the artwork midway through (to the annoyance of all). having written the dang thing about 80 times now, i wonder at the wisdom of rewriting it and adapting it into a new medium like this. it may well be the definition of crazy.

i leave you with death in cavalry boots, contemplating the absurdity of it all. my brother drew this last night because he wanted to draw death being contemplative and i said: put boots on him.

so there you have it. i love his knobby knees.

Comments

[sparowe]

Honestly, I'm not sure that it's possible to do a Major Project without side distractions and downtime. At least, not without making your brain go 'splodey. Of course, I am speaking from personal reference; YMMV.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oh 'splodey, amen. major 'splodey. i can hear it sloshing around in there now(which is an improvement over the rattling, i think).

hahahahahaha ~

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[akirad.livejournal.com]

He (the gentleman in the photo) reminds me a little of Kramer from Seinfeld.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

ha ~ ! you're right. I did not think of that.

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[msmcguire.livejournal.com]

That was the whole reason I clicked to comment. *Totally* Kramer.

Hang in there.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you!

and ha! great hair has precedence!

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[sb77.livejournal.com]

His hair reminds me of both David Lynch & Ereaserhead.

Cool drawing also, i like it very much.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

yes, he has an other-wordly quality indeed!

and thanks for the compliment ~ i will pass it along to my brother!

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[faynudibranch.livejournal.com]

...he scares me. Always. But you're right about his hair...and that's a fairly not-evil-looking picture.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

they must've caught him on a good hair day. he does look fairly sane, doesn't he?

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[cathellisen.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty super hair.

Don't be hard on yourself, lass. ***HUGS***

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thanks HellCat ~ i'm riding the mellow train, i promise.

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[minstrel-ivare.livejournal.com]

...wow. His hair is crazy but the real surprise is how sane Mr. Forrest looks! I'm so used to the pictures where he's snarling. What a nice change. =D

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

maybe putting all that energy into raising his hair tuckered him out. oddly, he definitely doesn't look like an "actor" in this picture. you're right!

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