Bear Mask
Rick Bartow, Mad River Wiyot, United States (Oregon)
The National Museum of The American Indian
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Kermode Bear (Spirit Bear) - In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with white fur. Photographs by Paul Nicklen.
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Time Kills All Gods by AJ Fosik
Fosik’s surreal animal head totems make me envision chemically-induced meditations in the desert where one communes with gods who were never meant to be freed from their ancient stone trappings.
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(SOF Postcard Collection)
In May of this year, Pixar animator Austin Madison kindly hand-wrote the following open letter to aspiring artists, in a bid to inspire them through times of creative drought. It’s a lovely, eloquent letter, and in fact contains advice valuable to people in many a creative field. It was written as a contribution to the Animator Letters Project.
Transcript
PIXAR
May 17, 2011
To Whom it May Inspire,
I, like many of you artists out there, constantly shift between two states. The first (and far more preferable of the two) is white-hot, “in the zone” seat-of-the-pants, firing on all cylinders creative mode. This is when you lay your pen down and the ideas pour out like wine from a royal chalice! This happens about 3% of the time.
The other 97% of the time I am in the frustrated, struggling, office-corner-full-of-crumpled-up-paper mode. The important thing is to slog diligently through this quagmire of discouragement and despair. Put on some audio commentary and listen to the stories of professionals who have been making films for decades going through the same slings and arrows of outrageous production problems.
In a word: PERSIST.
PERSIST on telling your story. PERSIST on reaching your audience. PERSIST on staying true to your vision. Remember what Peter Jackson said, “Pain is temporary. Film is forever.” And he of all people should know.
So next time you hit writer’s block, or your computer crashes and you lose an entire night’s work because you didn’t hit save (always hit save), just remember: you’re never far from that next burst of divine creativity. Work through that 97% of murky abyssmal mediocrity to get to that 3% which everyone will remember you for!
I guarantee you, the art will be well worth the work!
Your friend and mine,
Austin Madison
“ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!”This has probably been seen by everyone on tumblr already, BUT the message is important to remember during those dark frustrating art block days. PERSIST! You can’t think you’re way out of a drawing block, you gotta DRAW your way out of a thinking block.
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What a child’s skull looks like before they lose their baby teeth.
Holy crap. that’s cool! Teeth continue to amaze me.
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I wan to know the original artist for these. ;A;
These are really nice and GOOD repeating patterns, repeating patterns is something I want to work with this year and get better at them. And they are Pokemon, of course I’m happy. :)
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And I buy in bulk too! DX
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I was in the lab for oh, almost 3 hours yesterday working. My arts are all nice shades of green, black, yellow, and white. One day it will come off. One day.
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