#Suehiro gari

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Nakao Masaki and Sato Ryuji attending Musical Touken Ranbu "Suehiro gari" together on 20 September 2023

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Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Sidney Deane: Wesley Snipes Billy Hoyle: Woody Harrelson Gloria Clement: Rosie Perez Rhonda Deane: Tyra Ferrell Robert: Cylk Cozart Junior: Kadeem Hardison George: Ernest Harden Jr. Walter: John Marshall Jones Raymond: Marques Johnson T.J.: David Roberson Zeke: Kevin Benton Dwight ‘The Flight’ McGhee: Nigel Miguel Willie Lewis: Duane Martin Self: Bill Henderson Self: Sonny Craver Self: Jon Hendricks Tony Stucci: Eloy Casados Frank Stucci: Frank Rossi Duck Johnson: Freeman Williams Eddie ‘The King’ Faroo: Louis Price Himself: Alex Trebek Reggie: Reggie Leon Etiwanda: Sarah Stavrou Tad: Reynaldo Rey Lanei: Lanei Chapman Real Estate Agent: Irene Nettles Tanya: Torri Whitehead Alisa: Lisa McDowell The Bank: Dion B. Vines Malcolm: David Maxwell Tournament Announcer: Bill Caplan Tournament Referee: Richard James Baker Big Guy’s Girlfriend: Amy Golden Little Guy’s Girlfriend: Jeanette Srubar Sponsor: Zandra Hill Sponsor: Fred P. Gregory Pickup Truck Driver: Carl E. Hodge Ruben: Ruben Martinez Oki-Dog Businessman: Gary Lazer Yolanda: Donna Howell Jake: Don Fullilove Jeopardy! Announcer: Johnny Gilbert Dr. Leonard Allen: Leonard A. Oakland Rocket Scientist: Allan Malamud Dressing Room Staffer: Jeanne McCarthy Cop: John Charles Sheehan Leon: Gregg Daniel Gambler: Carl A. McGee NBA Announcer: Chick Hearn NBA Announcer: Stu Lantz Ballplayer: Ronald Beals Ballplayer: Joe Metcalf Ballplayer: Mahcoe Moore Ballplayer: Mark Hill Ballplayer: Eric Kizzie Ballplayer: Chalmer Maddox Ballplayer: Leroy Michaux Ballplayer: Joseph Duffy Ballplayer: Pete Duffy Ballplayer: Gary Moeller Ballplayer: Daniel Porto Ballplayer: Lester Hawkins Ballplayer: Jeffrey Todd Film Crew: Producer: Don Miller Director: Ron Shelton Producer: David V. Lester Editor: Kimberly Ray Director of Photography: Russell Boyd Editor: Paul Seydor Costume Design: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck Production Design: J. Dennis Washington Art Direction: Roger G. Fortune Executive Producer: Michele Rappaport Casting: Victoria Thomas Unit Production Manager: Ed Milkovich Set Decoration: Robert R. Benton Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gregg Rudloff Makeup Department Head: Stephanie Cozart Burton Hair Department Head: Sterfon Demings Makeup Artist: Patricia Messina Hairstylist: Kenneth Walker Second Assistant Director: Robert J. Metoyer First Assistant Director: Richard Alexander Wells Sound Editor: Patrick Bietz ADR Editor: Barbara J. Boguski Sound Editor: Robert Bradshaw Sound Re-Recording Mixer: David E. Campbell Sound Editor: Larry Carow Foley Editor: Bill Dannevik Foley Editor: Michael Dressel Supervising Sound Editor: Gordon Ecker Supervising Sound Editor: Bruce Fortune Sound Mixer: Kirk Francis Foley Editor: Leslie Gaulin Sound Editor: Howell Gibbens ADR Editor: Holly Huckins ADR Mixer: Doc Kane Sound Editor: John Kwiatkowski Sound Editor: Kimberly Lowe Voigt Sound Editor: Anthony Milch ADR Editor: Michele Perrone Sound Re-Recording Mixer: John T. Reitz Foley Editor: Steve Richardson Sound Editor: Steve Schwalbe Foley Editor: Shawn Sykora Sound Editor: Richard E. Yawn Stunts: Gary Baxley Stunts: Simone Boisseree Stunts: Mike Johnson Stunt Coordinator: Julius LeFlore Stunts: Scott Leva Casting Associate: Jory Weitz Costume Supervisor: Betty Jean Slater Camera Operator: Mike Benson Steadicam Operator: Michael Meinardus Gaffer: Patrick Murray Grip: Mark Pearson Grip: Ty Suehiro Grip: Clay H. Wilson Grip: Edmond Wright Movie Reviews:

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Scenes from Comic Plays [one of a pair], Hanabusa Itchō, c. 1710, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

Subjects 1.Suehiro gari 2.Suminuri 3. Akubo 4.Yoneichi 5. Makura mono kurui 6.Yao 7.Tsuri gitsune 8.Shido Hogaku 9.Ukon sakon 10.Ino yamabushi 11.Senji mono. Size: 13 1/4 in. (33.66 cm) Medium: Ink, color, and gofun on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/9473/

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hey!! it’s been a while since i’ve done something like this, so here’s a serious shipping call. this is for specifically romantic relationsips! if you’re interested in shipping with any of my muses, it’d be really nice if you could like this post, but please have some muses in mind before you do!

under the cut, for convenience, i’ll be listing off my muses based on age and how available for shipping they are. if you’re curious about a certain muse but don’t want to ask where they fall on this list, just ask!

not available for romantic shipping/singleship and taken: topaz/karma, dogra magra, rayscent crazyrabbit, lan wangji, a-qing, yumeno kyusaku, ookura teruko, victor frankenstein, the watcher, nice holystone, isaac dian, esperanza c. boronal, czeslaw meyer, rail

CURRENTLY closed for shipping, but willing given proper development: huckleberry finn, amelie lacroix, berga gandor, roy maddock

conditional: jacuzzi’s gang (ask about individual members!)

singleship and not taken: maiza avaro

minor muses (will only have ships with muses close to their age): fukidashi manga, sendagaya tetsu, minami kenjirou, yuzu, amajiki tamaki, fukase, jack frost, yuri beletsky, KT, lizzie hearts, ootori kyoya, kagami tsurugi, nathaniel kurtzberg, luka couffaine, tsukishima kei (pre timeskip), miyazawa kenji, darling charming, charon walken, 

highly selective (requires a lot of plotting, may be slow burn, the muses are VERY picky as to who they ship with): andre gide, dazai osamu, jack frost, KT, lua klein, ladd russo, huey laforet, victor talbot, sham, charon walken, maiza avaro, kalia gandor

selective/semi-selective (muses are picky with who they ship with, but may or may not require plotting): suehiro tetcho, natsume souseki, edgar allan poe, lena oxton, niccolo carpediem, nie mingjue, fukase, claire stanfield, miyazawa kenji, gabriel barsotti, sonja bake, melvi dormentaire

open (muses aren’t very picky and won’t necessarily require plotting): mark twain, margaret mitchell, nikolai gogol, edogawa ranpo, mushitaro oguri, ayatsuji yukito, motojirou kajii, howard phillips lovecraft, tayama katai, shibusawa tatsuhiko, agatha christie, lucy maud montgomery, ochi fukuchi, akutagawa ryunosuke, shimada genji, kanou momiji, tobita danjurou, tsuchikawa ryuko, fukidashi manga, roland fortis, all of love, the mother, kamiya tsurugi, belkia, sendagaya tetsu, neugear hatifelt, minami kenjirou, lee seung-gil, shirogane kei, marie sakamoto, tatara, haruhito kijima, aizawa cecila, KR, soujiro seta, kinjo, alibaba saluja, ren koumei, jin zixuan, john steinbeck, elizabeth ashe, amajiki tamaki, tsukimitsu iori, mo xuanyu, monika, yuri beletsky, lizzie hearts, ootori kyoya, kagami tsurugi, nathaniel kurtzberg, luka couffaine, herbert george wells, george eliot, maria barcelito, donatello abbate, dallas genoard, rachel, christopher shaldred, cassandra, tsukishima kei, francis scott key fitzgerald, jae-eun kwon, sergei kazarin, darling charming, chaini, luck gandor, graham specter, maiza avaro, ronny schiatto, jacuzzi splot, daishou suguru, ramona royale, james patrick march, percival king, tinker bell, silvermist, nemesis sudou, RGB, gary goldstein

taken in mainverse but still open to ships in other verses/polyamorous: mark twain, suehiro tetcho, kamiya tsurugi, marie sakamoto, alibaba saluja, lena oxton, nathaniel kurtzberg, claire stanfield, maria barcelito, lua klein, francis scott key fitzgerald, sergei kazarin, ladd russo, jacuzzi splot, kalia gandor, daishou suguru, james patrick march

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Everything I Read in 2016

For the third year in a row, I logged every novel, short story collection, poetry compilation, graphic novel, and collected edition of monthly comics I read, excluding individual monthly comics (on which I continued to fall catastrophically behind) and anything I read (and reread, and reread again) for my day job. My only big change? A lot of these books were read on my iPad Mini. And a good number were for my gay book club (you can guess which ones). 

If you don’t yet keep track of your reading, you should start in 2017. It’s your best bet for hitting a reading goal, and for folks like me who read a ton, it’s a nice way to recall books that otherwise departed your memory.

For the tl;dr crowd, here are my Top 13 for the year, in the order in which I read them:

On Writing, Stephen King

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor

The Girls, Emma Cline

I Am a Hero Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, Kengo Hanazawa

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Hero: Book Two, David Rubín

Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (I read an ARC)

A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli

Habitat, Simon Roy

Prez Vol. 1, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, Domo Stanton

Bones of the Coast, edited by Shannon Campbell, Jeff Ellis, Kathleen Jacques

(New X-Men Omnibus was a re-read, or it would be up here.)

The rest is below the jump!

I don’t really feel like dumping on anything this year. I definitely got burnt out on comic anthologies, and I hated A Little Life, but the good outweighs the bad. Below is the full list, divided by month, followed by a few statistics and an evaluation of my 2016 reading goals as established last January. 

[A note on comics: I feel guilty that I’ve left off colorists and inkers, as they contribute so much to a book, but I defaulted to cover credits while logging my reading and don’t have most of these books on-hand to fix it now.]

January

The Amazing World of Gumball: Fairy Tale Trouble, Megan Brennan, Katy Farina, Jeremy Lawson

Adventure Time: Masked Mayhem, Kate Leth, Bridget Underwood, Drew Green, Vaughn Pinpin, Meredith McClaren

Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland, Kim Newman, Maura McHugh, Tyler Crook

On Writing, Stephen King

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, edited by John Joseph Adams & Joe Hill

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson

February

Planet Hulk, Sam Humphries & Marc Laming

Future Imperfect, Peter David & Greg Land

Hail Hydra, Rick Remender & Roland Boschi

House of M, Dennis Hopeless & Marco Failla

Marvel Zombies, Si Spurrier & Kev Walker

Old Man Logan, Brian Michael Bendis & Andrea Sorrentino

The Girls, Emma Cline

The Gilded Razor, Sam Lansky

March

Civil War, Charles Soule & Leinil Francis Yu

New X-Men Omnibus, Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Phil Jimenez, Ethan Van Sciver, Igor Kordey, Marc Silvestri, Keron Grant, Chris Bachalo, John Paul Leon, Bill Sienkiewicz, Leinil Francis Yu

The Eye of the Cat, Elejandro Jodorowsky & Moebius

All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders

Beyond Anthology, edited by Sfé Monster & Taneka Scott

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Patricia Lockwood

April

 I Am a Hero Vol. 1, Kengo Hanazawa

The Nameless City Vol. 1, Faith Erin Hicks

Ody-C Vol. 1, Matt Fraction & Christian Ward

Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff

Husk, Rachel Autumn Deering

New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, edited by C. Spike Trotman

Chainmail Bikini: An Anthology of Women Gamers, edited by Hazel Newlevant

Broken Frontier, edited by Frederik Hautain & Tyler Chin-Tanner

Love in All Forms: The Big Book of Growing Up Queer, edited by Serafina Dwyer

Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1, Grant Morrison & Yanick Paquette

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Hero: Book Two, David Rubín

The Girl With All the Gifts, M. R. Carey

Regular Show: Noir Means Noir, Buddy, Rachel Connor, Robert Luckett, Wook Jin Clark

Night Air, Ben Sears

Revenger: Children of the Damned, Charles Forsman

Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link

May

Dark Engine Vol. 1, Ryan Burton & John Bivens

Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird, Brandon Seifert, Karl Moline, Filipe Andrade

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender

Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire

Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Charles M. Blow

Revival Vol. 1, Tim Seeley & Mike Norton

The Fireman, Joe Hill

Colder: Toss the Bones, Paul Tobin & Juan Ferreyra

The Fly: Outbreak, Brandon Seifert & Menton3

Faker, Mike Carey & Jock

What If? Infinity, Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson, Riley Rossmo, Mike Norton, Jason Copeland, Goran Sudžuka

June

Hawkeye vs. Deadpool, Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Jacopo Camagni

Outcast Vol. 3, Robert Kirkman & Paul Azaceta

Lady Killer Vol. 1, Joelle Jones & Jamie S. Rich

The Fiction, Curt Pires & David Rubín

The Amazing World of Gumball Vol. 2, Frank Gibson, Tyson Hesse, Paulina Ganucheau

Arcadia, Alex Paknadel & Eric Scott Pfeiffer

Black Market, Frank J. Barbiere & Victor Santos

Dream Thief Vol. 2, Jai Nitz, Greg Smallwood, Todd Galusha

Contest of Champions Vol.1, Al Ewing & Paco Medina

The Infinity Gauntlet, Dustin Weaver & Gerry Duggan

The Amulet, Michael McDowell

The Dark Half, Stephen King

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Steve Moncuse & Art Adams

Steven Universe: Too Cool for School, Ian Jones-Quartey, Jeremy Sorese, Asia Kendrick-Horton, Rachel Dukes, Josceline Fenton

Bob’s Burgers: Medium Rare, overseen by Loren Bouchard

Bob’s Burgers: Well Done, overseen by Loren Bouchard

Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates

Kare-Kare Komiks, Andrew Drilon

Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

The Witcher: House of Glass, Paul Tobin & Joe Querio

X-Men: No More Humans, Mike Carey & Salvador Larroca

Cold Moon Over Babylon, Michael McDowell

July

Black Hand Comics, Wes Craig

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay

B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: The Devil’s Wings, John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, Lawrence Campbell, Joe Querio, Tyler Crook

B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: Flesh & Stone, John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, James Harren

Abe Sapien: Sacred Places, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fiumara, Max Fiumara

Abe Sapien: A Darkness So Great, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fuimara, Max Fiumara

Hellboy & the B.P.R.D. 1952, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Alex Maleev

Lobster Johnson: Get the Lobster!, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Tonči Zonjić

Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case

The Witcher: Fox Children, Paul Tobin & Joe Querio

Children of the Night, John Blackburn

Frankenstein Underground, Mike Mignola & Ben Stenbeck

My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Grady Hendrix

August

The Well, Jack Cady

Angel Catbird Vol. 1, Margaret Atwood & Johnnie Christmas

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

September

Fellside, M. R. Carey

The Twilight Children, Gilbert Hernandez & Darwyn Cooke

Veil, Greg Rucka & Toni Fejzula

Negative Space, Ryan K. Lindsey & Owen Geini

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 1, Alex De Campi, Chris Peterson, Simon Fraser

Bitch Planet Vol. 1, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV

Ody-C Vol. 2, Matt Fraction & Christian Ward

Tampa, Alissa Nutting

Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror, compiled by Stephen Jones

The Missing, Sarah Langan

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 2, Alex De Campi, Federica Manfredi, Gary Erskine

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 3, Alex De Campi, R.M. Guera, Chris Peterson

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 4, Alex De Campi, Mulele Jarvis, John Lucas

Audition, Ryu Murakami

Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show, Suehiro Maruo

In the Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami

October

Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier

Anya’s Ghost, Vera Brosgol

One Week in the Library, W. Maxwell Prince & John Amor

A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

I Am a Hero Vol. 2, Kengo Hanazawa

The Beauty Vol. 1, Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley

The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo Vol. 1, Drew Weing

November

Gerald’s Game, Stephen King

Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman

Invisible Republic Vol. 1, Gabriel Hardman & Corinne Bechko

Roche Limit Vol. 1, Michael Moreci & Vic Malhorta

What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell

Roche Limit Vol. 2, Michael Moreci & Kyle Charles

Roche Limit Vol. 3, Michael Moreci & Kyle Charles

One-Punch Man Vol. 9, ONE & Yusuke Murata

One-Punch Man Vol. 10, ONE & Yusuke Murata

Habitat, Simon Roy

December

Beowulf, Santiago García & David Rubín

The Oath, edited by Audrey Redpath

Star Wars: Tales From the Far, Far Away, Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, Ryan Cady, Phillip Sevy, etc.

Prelude to Bruise, Saeed Jones

Grief is the Thing With Feathers, Max Porter

Tomie Deluxe Edition, Junji Ito

Krampus!, Brian Jones & Dean Kotz

Fantasy Sports Vol. 2, Sam Bosma

The Beauty Vol. 2, Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley, Mike Huddleston, Brett Weldele, Stephen Green

Prez Vol. 1, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, Domo Stanton

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe, Ryan Q. North & Erica Henderson

Love is Love, edited by Marc Andreyko

Joe Golem Vol. 1, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Patric Reynolds

Baltimore: Cult of the Red King, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Peter Bergting

Abe Sapien: The Burning Fire, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Max Fiumara, Sebastian Fiumara, Tyler Crook

Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire, Neil Gaiman & Shane Oakley

Bones of the Coast, edited by Shannon Campbell, Jeff Ellis, Kathleen Jacques

Total: 

140 Books (up from 128 in 2015 and 87 in 2014)

Breakdown:

39 Novels or short story collections (down from 43 in 2015 and 44 in 2014)

98 Graphic novels/collected editions of comics (up from 84 in 2015 and a measly 42 in 2014)

3 Books of poetry (triple the 2015 and 2014 counts!)

About 35 Books written or edited by female authors (up from 20 in 2015 and 16 in 2014; note that I’m only counting writers and editors, not artists, and I’m counting books, not unique authors)

Roughly 19 books by (known-to-be) non-white authors (down from 30 last year but up from 9 in 2014...but both this year and last were inflated by multiple entries from manga creators)

...and at least 16 books written or edited by queer and trans authors. 

So...any suggestions for 2017?

[jakecgraphicdesign]

Creating a Spring Board

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The spring board presentation is a video recorded presentation designed to help us explain and construct our premise for the FMP to the examiner. A spring board is a large sheet of board in which we decorate with images relating to our ideas - such as inspiration, drawings and designs we have created for the project as well as materials and anything which we can link into the concept of our FMP. This board of influence acts much like a mood board - it is a collection of ideas, concepts and imagery which inspire us so that we can ‘spring’ ideas from it. The boards purpose is to help us explain the direction of our project while filming, which was the main task of the presentation.

Gathering Imagery:

One of the main focuses of the spring board is to present imagery which inspire and influence us in some way. This could be primary photographs or drawings as well as secondary images such as the work of artists or other people we find interesting. To create a cohesive and organized presentation we were advised to split our springboards into 4 key groups. Deciding my 4 groups was fairly easy as i had already been looking at some separate themes - which very much linked into one another but were individual at the same time. Keeping a cohesive main theme is important through out the project, the theme i have chosen is Horror, which leads into many sub groups. My 4 groups were as follows:

Each of my groups were supported by artists imagery and other forms of research within the spring board, and while being different and unique in their own right, they all fit into the singular theme of horror and different ways in which horror can be interpreted and presented. I will now explain each of my groups and show the imagery and research which i provided within my spring board groups.

Sculpture:

Perhaps the most dominant section within my spring board is my sculpture imagery and influence research. This is perhaps the largest section because of the large amount of sources and influential artists i have been following for a while. I have tried to choose sculpture pieces which are each unique and separate in their own ways but are all joined under the similar theme of horror. Within the broad range of sculptures i have mainly focused upon the human form and human face, as well as sculptures/designs which are centered or based upon the human body. All of these pieces take the human form, distort and transform it into something new, unrecognizable yet familiar. It is this deformation of something so familiar which makes these designs so disturbing and grotesque. All of these sculptures take something normal and common, something we see or use everyday and transform them, making theme creepy and scary. For example, the artist Jason Kishell takes normal objects such as mugs and vegetables and then gives them life, distorting them by adding creepy human mouths. This combination of seemingly un - matchable features combines creates creepy, unsettling imagery which disturbs the viewer.

It is this reaction which i would like to cause through my designs, and, if coupled with an interactive element such as within Kim Ye’s work, i believe i can create a truly unsettling, creepy user experience. 

Illustration 

The main inspiration behind my horror theme has been the work of Junji Ito - his disturbingly detailed illustrations as well as the horrifying short narratives he creates are a great inspiration. Through Junji Ito’s work i have been lead to other influential and brilliant artists such as Mario Suehiro and Usamau Firiya, artist which Junji Itos cited as influences to him. I have heavily referenced these artists within my spring board, and featured some of my favorite illustrations they have created. I have predominantly been looking at Japanese horror artists, as they seems to have such an interesting and unique approach to the genre, especially body horror and the transformation of the human body is particular; themes in which i am focusing on heavily. All of the artists i have sourced also create comic book narratives and graphic novels - they use their illustrations to tell narrative, which links greatly to my other theme of user interaction. The reader becomes interested and gripped by the events, the characters and the plot of the stories and the horror aspect helps add a lot more tension. The reader should become almost mesmerized with the narrative and the illustrations, creating a story telling experience. 

Films

Another of the four groups i have included within my spring board are classic horror films, films which feature some form of body horror or grotesque visuals, such as a creature, Like in the film The Thing, which has been on of my biggest influences. Other influential films i have included are the classic Alien movie, which i have referenced earlier within my project, From beyond, one of my favourite cult classic horror films as well as a few other influential films featuring the use of practical effects to create disturbing and disgusting creatures, transformations and imagery. 

The use of physical tactile effects is my main influence within these films - the practical visuals create a much more believably terrifying atmosphere within the films and help to develop a more convincing and therefor scarier viewing experience. Not only this but i am greatly impressed and influenced by the brilliant craftsman ship and use of effect and materials used to create these un-natural, un-earthly creations. It is very interesting to discover that the majority of the time these disgusting visual effects were created by re-purposing everyday items such as Bubble gum and Oysters. 

Absurd Humour 

My Absurd Humour theme is the one which stands out the most, and it could be said connects the least to my theme of horror and viewer interaction/viewer experiences. However, i have created connections within theme and i feel like this section plays an important role. Within Absurd Humour i have been exploring the idea of how horror themes can be expressed or presented differently. In a lot of my sources in this section, such as the work of Gary Baseman, the horror aspect isn’t instantly apparent. In fact, Baseman's illustrations seem childish and naive, until you look closely and discover the darker and more sinister undertones in the imagery. This idea of almost hiding the horror and going against the viewers expectations greatly links to my theme of audience interaction and the idea of an audiences experience with the art. Instead of throwing the horror at you, like most of my other sources, my influences in the absurd humour section are more subtle and secretive when portraying horror. This is an idea i will be explaining and developing within the future. 

I feel like including another way to approach horror themes was important and it helps give my spring board, and my project as a whole, a lot more depth and variety. It also provides me with a lot more options and directions i could potentially take my project. Another reason i wanted to include this theme is because i find all of these artist very influential and i am a huge fan of their work, especially the illustrations of Joan Cornella and Gary Baseman, and i’ve been waiting for the chance to begin creating work inspired by theirs. 

Presenting my ideas

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The layout of the spring board is very important in communicating your ideas in an organized and understandable manner. Creating a good layout which presents a range of imagery while not being cluttered can be difficult, and i have tried my best to do this. 

For our spring boards we were advised to gather imagery for 4 key subjects which inspire us, so the obvious action was split the imagery  into 4 sections within the spring board, which i did and then titled to make it clear. because the 4 subjects i chose were each in different mediums and all visually unique, while still remaining under the overall umbrella theme of horror, it is easy to tell them apart. However, to exaggerate each section further i made sure to leave a small area of blank space around theme, separating them from each other. 

I was slightly worried that i may forget the names of the key artists i have included while filming my presentation, so to help myself out and also to show the viewer what artists had inspired me i included a list of the medias creators under each section. Here are the list i created showcasing the artists who i included within my spring board:

I have made the artists at the top of my lists italic. These are the artists which i planned to mention and talk about the most, i put them in italic to help me to remember to talk about them, as i feel they are perhaps the most important for explaining my ideas and influence. The italic text also communicates this fact to the viewer.

I also included colour keys for each topic as i thought it would be interesting to see how colour has been used in the different mediums and how the colours can be compared. Surprisingly, despite my project being focused upon horror and being heavily focused on disturbing, morbid themes the colour schemes for each topic were generally very bright and vivid. The colour schemes were all very similar, sporting bright colours mostly associated with joy, happiness and light hearted themes - instantly contrasting against the imagery and ideas of the pictures.

Presentation Review:

Now that i have filmed my Springboard Presentation i can look back on it and review the strengths and weaknesses of my performance. 

One key weakness which i often struggle with is the ability to communicate my ideas clearly and quickly - i often ramble on and take time to get to the actual point of what i am discussing. However, in this presentation i feel like i have improved on this; Before presenting i knew exactly what i wanted and i think this shows - i have tried to be straight to the point as well as clearly spoken and knowledgeable, to show that i know what i am talking about and how passionate i am about my themes and research. Aside from a few areas i feel like i have been able to keep the presentation short and to the point.

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I'm going to post the gifs I made of toumyu shows

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