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Friday Favorites: Virginia Lee
(Inner Seasons, Spring. All images copyright Virginia Lee)
I have been sidetracked by trees. Yes, you read that right, trees. There was a moment in the movie Elizabethtown (which I loved) where Orlando Bloom is standing in front of the Survivor Tree in Oklahoma City and Kirsten Dunst’s voice is in the background saying something to the effect of “this is my favorite tree…and I love trees.” There is something in the inflection of her voice that resonates so strongly with me. I love trees as well. I get that.
My intention was to make today’s Friday Favorites post about Endicott Studios. Stealing an idea from the Winter 2006 issue of Faerie Magazine, I was going to include pictures of artists’ work who are part of The Endicott Circle with the text. To that end I chose Virginia Lee as the first artist to look at. And I became lost in the woods, enchanted, and thus today is all about this wonderful artist. (Endicott will be next week, early, I promise).
Random reminiscences
As it usually does, one book begets another. Shouldn’t there be book birth control or something? Having that taste of the first Fritz Leiber Lankhmar novel in Chaykin/Mignola’s graphic novel adaptation of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser made me want to read the rest of that story. So much so that I stopped by Barnes and Noble at lunch today thinking, “There’s no way they’ll have this anyway”. Lo and behold, they had the Dark Horse edition after all. After spending a few minutes together I realized we were a perfect match, so I signed the adoption papers and brought it home. I sure hope it is house trained…
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Exciting Once Upon a Time News
(art by Jeanie Tomanek)
Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never
saw before.
Say “please” before you open the latch,
go through,
walk down the path.
Spring into Monday
The weather is absolutely fantastic here today, spring is definitely in the air. Unfortunately it is one of those typical Mondays where the weather is beautiful and I have to work all day. So, to bring a little joy into my own day, and hopefully yours, here are a few bits of good news:
For those of you who took my advice and saw Night Watch when it came out in the theatres or on DVD, you have no doubt been anxiously awaiting film two in this Russian fantasy/horror/sci fi trilogy (and if you haven’t taken my advice, you really should. 🙂 )
Well my friends, the wait is over. Fox Searchlight has announced a June 1st theatrical release. The very cool trailer can be seen here (give it a bit to load).