#Great Artist Series

[fredfilmsblog]

FredFilms ♥️ Horace Silver!

FredFilms Postcards Series 4.6

It’s almost impossible to sum up the 60+ years of Horace Silver’s professional life as a pianist, band leader and composer in a blog post. Suffice it to say that he walked the line of being a sophisticated, acclaimed musician, while at the same time releasing a whole bunch of accessible and popular records, primarily on the BlueNote record label.

(For you yacht rockers, you should compare Steely Dan’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” from 1974 with Horace’s 1964 classic “Song for My Father.”)

“Great Artist” indeed!

PS: And let’s not forget the ‘great artist’ who shot this photography (and another in our series), Blue Note Records co-founder and photographer, Francis Wolff.

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From the postcard back:

Congratulations! You are one of 125 people to receive this limited edition FredFilms postcard!

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FredFilms Great Artist Series

Horace Silver "The Jody Grind" Recording Session November 2, 1966 @Van Gelder Studio Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Photograph by Francis Wolff

Series 4.6 [mailed out November 22, 2023]

[citree]

I just want to start a flame in your heart~ 🔥🧡🔥

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[snekky-arts]

"one does not simply shoot down a dragon-" "well that was a lie"

also this is a reminder that these illustrations are now available as prints in my Inprnt shop!

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

[upon-the-snow]

a crossover absolutely nobody asked for!

[captin-azoth]

X-Babies!

I am absolutely LOVING X-Men 97 right now, currently rewatching the 92 series and AAAA

[princema-k]

so draw your blade, you wretched fiend and let's you and i fight like the dishonourable dogs we are savage, violent, yet free and when the curtain calls, let me put you out of my misery

[salamispots]

rare time where I end up drawing things out traditionally haha

[neerons]

Emma & Chevalier 🌹

Another illustration on its own, from another meme video. Excuse my poor coloring and anatomy. My brain isn’t trained enough to know how proportions and the body work 😅

I’m starting to like making these even if they take time and require me to draw difficult things (it’s good practice! 💪)

I want to pull my hair a little more and more every time I have to add details to Chevalier’s outfit though. But see how I still finished this without crying? Very mindful. Very demure.

[julialametta]

one a day 366/223

"driving" / Wales / UK / ©Julia Lametta

[cocksley-and-catapult]

Make a comic in paint.net and see if it looks any different. If you want. It's mainly funny because it means you get to use gradients and distortions and stuff that can be used one single time for a gag and probably never again.

ISSUE 895: also its the first day of chanukah

07 december 2023

[fredfilmsblog]

FredFilms loves Carla Bley!

FredFilms Postcard Series 4.5

Over the course of my life, I’ve learned from all kinds of artists. Animators and illustrators, sure. But also writers (natch!), engineers (they’re artists too) and, most of all, musicians.

Composers Carla Bley and Michael Mantler were my first creative bosses. First, when they had the audacity –and necessity!– to start their own record labels and distribution non-profit when no other place would give them a break. They hired me as a flunky, but boy did I get a lot from that gig. Where else would a young man meet Phillip Glass or Jimmy Garrison and learn about the breadth of artist produced music of the era? I was in heaven. And then, when 20 years into her composing career, Carla decided to take a big band out on tour, I was the sound guy and assistant road manager. As I’ve said before, a great chance to meet a bunch of misfit geniuses.

Carla (”jazz composer and provocateur”) passed away at 87 while this postcard was already in production. I was so honored to learn from her.

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From the postcard back:

Congratulations! You are one of 125 people to receive this limited edition FredFilms postcard!

www.fredfilms.com

FredFilms Great Artist Series

Carla Bley November 2015 Lugano Jazz Estival Lugano, Switzerland Photograph by Caterina di Peri

Series 4.5 [mailed out October 28, 2023]

[thebrainrotsreal]

Love alternate realities, love diff dimensions, love thinking about all the different types of evil Mark there can be! I just had to design some ideas for it! :D It ended up being how subtle or not subtle I can nod to Nolan's design, haha, which was fun. btw: If you see any spelling errors: nuh uh, there aren't any and you can't trick me.

[pandadrake]

More things should have canon chibi animal mascots for the main characters.

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This was basically my vibe for Case 2-4, like damn Asougi chill.

[daisythornes]

speedrun of things that cause me agony in the wondla tv series trailer:

whyyy did they have to make the sanctuary so sterile and minimalistic? the book sanctuaries had this charming clunky 70s sci-fi design to them – they were blocky and durable and Eva's was tangibly lived-in, even worn in some places, because that was the point! they were an experiment that outlived their usefulness, but people kept living in them & they felt like it. this feels like Kim Kardashian's creepy white torture house.

"this... is me." has this line not become extremely passé in trailers, like almost to the point of parody?

that is NOT Muthr. idk who that is, but she is not mothering. it's like they took her book design and stripped away anything that may have been even slightly challenging to the cocomelon-smoothed zeitgeist of current animation. she's just so... nothing. she doesn't even look like a robot so much as like.. the lame soul design from pixar's soul. book Muthr looked WEIRD, but you can see the ways in which she's literally a synthetic + superhuman recreation of a Mother Figure: her head shape mirrors the beehive hairdo, her big eyes are saccharine sweet, she has four arms bc she always needs to do a million things at once, etc. i get that this version of Muthr was probably way easier to animate, and i don't even think they had to stick to the original design 100% as long as they still did something interesting for her, but. they didn't.

rip Eva's sick as hell hairstyle. :( seriously, her complicated braids were so important. bc 1) they were an homage to Dorothy's braids in the wizard of oz, the book to which the whole trilogy is a love letter. 2) they immediately gave her a unique visual identity as a character. 3) they contributed to the world of Wondla feeling genuinely strange and foreign to our current one. 4) they subtly spoke to things like Eva's boredom and loneliness and all the time she had to herself.

the paltry mini braids and single low bun they gave her instead are WEAK. again, they didn't have to follow the books to the letter, but. they did kinda need to give us something more memorable and distinctive than this.

i mean... there is ofc the obvious question of why'd they make her 16 instead of going on 13 like she was in the books? but also, perhaps even more crucially, why does she look like a whole ass adult woman? wondla is very much a coming of age story, and it's really good at capturing the messiness of that experience in every way down to its character design. this Eva doesn't look messy, she looks like an influencer. also i hate that current disneyesque cgi character design.

her outfit's like... fine. but it was so fucking cute in the books. cute and ultra utilitarian, and unlike anything i'd ever really seen before. can't a girl have a vest with a funky collar, cool billowy balloon sleeves, and scrunchy knee socks? do yknow how many kids would want to be Eva for halloween if they simply gave her an outfit that looked cuter? they're leaving money on the damn table.

she wasn't done with her training for life on the surface in the books, and that was important. :/ not that anything could've really prepared her, but the fact that she was so young made her terror and anger all the more palpable. i guess i don't think it's inherently terrible for her to be a bit older in adaptation, but idk, at least let her retain that trial by fire/still kind of a scared kid quality that's integral to her arc.

the placement of the 'wondla' letters on the page makes no sense. it's meant to be the wonderful wizard of oz (or the wonderful wizard of oz by l. frank baum. i forget which, but ONE of those for sure), so by all accounts the l and a shouldn't be right next to each other like that, there should be more space between those two letters.

now i don't fully remember, but i super don't think that 'Eva find me' note was in the books. Eva would've been way more obsessed with it if it was. in the books, she doesn't know the 'wondla' page was actually left for her, it's just this strange anomaly she finds that gives her hope, but she sort of creates that hope herself. its origin is an honest to god mystery until the second book, and therefore, the meaning that Eva gives it is what really comes to define it.

it's not just that no one had seen a human in a long time, most aliens on Orbona had never seen a human at all until Eva came along. that's a big difference! though, this audio does sound chopped up from multiple sentences, so maybe disregard this.

i don't like that they gave away the 'Orbona was once Earth' twist right off the bat. i know it's not a wholly original trope in sci-fi, but this is a middle-grade/family series, and it straight up blew my mind to see as a kid that hadn't ever really read true sci-fi before. and Orbona is SO bizarre, and Eva is SO desperate to find other humans, that the reveal is extra jarring and bleak, and it creates such powerful tension. why give the impact of that away in the trailer?? why not just let people think she's stuck on an alien planet until they get the full emotional gut punch when they actually watch it for themselves?

where's the lake in Lacus? :/ that was... kinda the basis of Lacus' culture and design and all. like ok i see some water, but Lacus should be almost more water than village.

Otto's design!! why god why.

why is Otto furry, why are his eyes Like That, etc.

nooo, don't show the ruins of New York in the trailer, that's for the audience to discover in horror along with Eva.

also why does Otto (i think that's him talking at least?) sound like that? thumbs down.

what are the. uh. shark tale-looking creatures running on water. they're very shark tale-looking (derogatory). they don't look like they belong in this series?? like did this footage just get misfiled?

egads it's coming out at the end of this month. i'm gonna watch it of course. but the whole time i'll be thinking about what could've been. and i'll reread the books, too. >:|

[alchemicalwerewolf]