limbolo

percy mayfield

2012-01-26T19:08:00.002Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRzTFLNqKKs

shopping

2012-01-06T20:09:00.002Z

north 2

2012-01-02T17:02:00.002Z

the season's greetings...

2011-12-22T23:44:00.000Z

...to all who pass this way.

running

2011-12-12T18:18:00.001Z

shipping

2011-11-22T17:51:00.000Z

parking

2011-11-07T18:53:00.002Z

Monster in Paris 4

2011-11-07T18:49:00.001Z

Le Monstre

2011-11-04T17:11:00.000Z

The design of characters was not my concern in this movie. But I did these sketches of the monster anyway. The cognoscenti will notice a steal from Picasso in here.

Monster In Paris 3

2011-10-31T18:29:00.000Z

Monster In Paris 2

2011-10-26T19:04:00.000+01:00

Paris in the rain.

Monster In Paris

2011-10-25T12:09:00.000+01:00

Here are some atmosphere sketches I did for Bibo Bergeron's "A Monster In Paris" which opened recently in France.
I will post more shortly..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnCJTv5Az4A

corner

2011-10-12T20:16:00.000+01:00

prom

2011-10-07T19:25:00.000+01:00

north

2011-09-13T19:28:00.000+01:00

south

2011-09-12T19:48:00.000+01:00

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2011-08-06T13:21:00.000+01:00

I think I heard that blues before...

2011-08-02T18:53:00.000+01:00

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2011-07-27T11:13:00.002+01:00

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2011-07-10T18:19:00.000+01:00

suburbs

2011-07-04T20:05:00.000+01:00

...,

2011-06-10T11:59:00.000+01:00

...

2011-06-02T13:41:00.001+01:00

thoroughly modernist minotaur

2011-05-22T18:17:00.001+01:00

tsunami

2011-05-10T19:44:00.001+01:00

joombie war

2011-04-28T15:06:00.000+01:00

..2

2011-04-01T19:30:00.001+01:00

.....

2011-03-12T11:03:00.000Z

old time

2011-03-07T20:27:00.000Z

tinkerbell

2011-03-03T19:04:00.000Z

autoroot

2011-02-27T19:18:00.000Z

tiger too

2011-02-17T19:17:00.008Z

In the 1950's Edward Hoagland was a roustabout for Ringling Brothers' Circus.
He based his novel 'Cat Man' on his time as servant and jailer to the big cats.
40 years on he revealed, in an essay in Granta, the extent to which he would go to satisfy the passions of lady tigers.
(New meaning to the term 'vagina dentata')

Dreamtiger

2011-02-15T20:13:00.000Z

Day

2011-02-03T18:19:00.000Z

Night

2011-01-31T19:09:00.000Z

Date

2011-01-04T19:22:00.000Z

mother & child

2010-12-15T19:18:00.000Z

metropolis...

2010-12-11T15:44:00.000Z

and in the north

2010-12-10T19:10:00.000Z

L'aubre

2010-11-16T19:58:00.000Z

Seymour Chwast

2010-11-02T19:55:00.000Z

Armentier 'Bo' Carter

2010-11-02T19:53:00.004Z

He made romance from raunch.

Mary Kingsley

2010-11-02T19:52:00.002Z

She was fond of the Fang.

George Orwell

2010-10-13T19:36:00.002+01:00

I doubt that he ever appeared on a cigarette card.
In the background there's the Isle of Jura where he wrote 1984 and got some fresh air.

Here's to George Orwell. He's been gone a long time now but still he speaks to us in a clear, wise voice.

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2010-10-01T20:08:00.000+01:00

.......

2010-09-30T19:20:00.000+01:00

Farming Today

2010-09-13T18:58:00.000+01:00

dear old southland..

2010-09-01T19:24:00.006+01:00

Where Bonaparte once ate an egg.

Gare de Barreme.


Distant farm.

Gaugin's friends at the Musée de Lodeve.


Vallée des Trois Asses.

More Door

2010-08-28T16:26:00.001+01:00

Humbaaba

2010-08-28T16:20:00.000+01:00

Xoxo asked to see a bigger image of this one. Here it is.
Also 2 alternatives of the same shot.
The 'door' is a photo of a tiny terracotta medal from Sumer showing the face of Humbaba, the monster in the labyrinth from the Epic of Gilgamesh.

I have no idea how these scenes look in the movie. I haven't seen it.

the PoP

2010-08-10T18:25:00.000+01:00

A couple of years ago I went to Marrakech to work on a movie which, on paper, was called 'The POP'. It was released this year as the 'Sands Of Time'.
Here's a couple of things I did, which I like. You can see more if you go to pages at my website beginning here.

and in the north

2010-07-30T17:16:00.000+01:00

a turn in the south (9)

2010-07-27T17:49:00.001+01:00

night & day

2010-07-14T21:38:00.000+01:00

people of dead babies' town

2010-06-24T12:57:00.000+01:00

Bolton wanderers

2010-06-12T16:02:00.000+01:00

remote town

2010-06-01T19:10:00.000+01:00

vol.2

2010-05-25T18:48:00.002+01:00

editions limbolo

2010-05-25T17:46:00.001+01:00

joombie town

2010-05-23T12:29:00.002+01:00

joombie hotel

2010-05-07T19:50:00.000+01:00

bedtime

2010-05-02T15:19:00.001+01:00

dinnertime

2010-04-16T20:47:00.002+01:00

easter i

2010-04-05T20:16:00.000+01:00

The Lion...

2010-03-09T16:51:00.000Z

thoughts on a man at a piano

2010-02-24T20:23:00.000Z

thoughts on 'girl at a virginals' by Vermeer

2010-02-23T19:25:00.005Z

for e.b.r.

2010-02-15T19:16:00.001Z

7eben

2010-02-08T19:37:00.001Z

Trio

2010-02-05T18:30:00.002Z

duo

2010-01-21T19:41:00.001Z

solo

2010-01-20T19:48:00.002Z

fals...

2010-01-08T19:37:00.002Z

editions limbolo

2009-12-22T19:01:00.004Z

Cachao - Israel Lopez.

Sakre

2009-12-16T17:55:00.002Z

The Old Way and the Wicked.

2009-11-03T19:12:00.010Z

The Admiral Benbow.

A few years ago Disney famously bombed at the box office with a Sci-Fi version of 'Treasure Island'. There's nothing wrong with the Sci-Fi angle. You could do it as a crime thriller, a western... The problem was: they didn't understand the story. It isn't a cheering, coming-of-age tale. It's a fable of lost innocence, treachery and Jim-lad is not the hero. He is a moral failure - a typical Stevenson protagonist.

The big problem with Treasure Island for contemporary audiences is the lack of the feminine. Disney turned the Captain into a woman. This is just the wrong character: only Long John Silver can be a woman. Who does the cooking, the kindness, the manipulation... Let's a man do the driving [Israel Hands, the story's true existential hero.)
It's not a part for a babe and forget about the missing leg. I would cast Whoopi Golberg. There were black women who were pirates in the 18th.C. And who can - plausibly - vanish into the islands. Who can go home?

for the cat of man

2009-10-19T20:22:00.009+01:00

Christopher Hitchens - one of our great contemporary troublemakers - has pointed out that if you feed a dog he'll think you're God, but if you feed a cat he'll think HE's God.
Check Hitch's remarks here on Obama getting the Nobel.

For a long time now I've had a visitor from the Isle of Mann. Who are you Manxmann?

The Repudiators will continue shortly...

مسحقونيا

2009-10-08T17:23:00.001+01:00

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2009-09-25T18:29:00.003+01:00

....

2009-09-23T20:26:00.002+01:00

bang...

2009-09-23T20:02:00.002+01:00

beatle bizness

2009-09-21T18:50:00.011+01:00

A few months ago I was asked to contribute to a Beatles thingumajig in production at Passion Pictures.
Here are some of the concepts I did. You will notice that there's nothing here to be seen in the finished excellent montage directed by Pete Candeland.
This sequence evoking the trippy period is out - too irrational, too sexual, too 'dark'... Too little time.
The background designs in the finished piece are by two incomparable artists - Daniel Cacouault and Alberto Mielgo.
You can see Alberto's here.

Daniel is likely to keep his under his hat.

blood count 1

2009-09-15T18:52:00.002+01:00

Provence Alpes: a sentimental journey.

2009-08-14T17:40:00.004+01:00

Digne, Senez, Barrême.

the fortunate traveller

2009-07-31T18:24:00.001+01:00

alpen

2009-07-23T18:35:00.002+01:00

summoned by bells...

2009-07-09T16:01:00.002+01:00

2009-07-03T17:40:00.001+01:00

they make a difficult crossing

2009-06-22T19:34:00.001+01:00

2 repudiators

2009-06-22T13:57:00.002+01:00

editions limbolo

2009-06-16T19:35:00.006+01:00

Djema al-Fna, Marrakech

2009-05-28T19:39:00.003+01:00

2009-05-22T15:25:00.000+01:00

à Tonton Emile

2009-05-12T19:00:00.002+01:00

dots...

2009-05-05T20:40:00.009+01:00

2009-04-27T19:21:00.000+01:00

mento

2009-04-21T15:45:00.003+01:00

kasbah

2009-04-03T16:04:00.002+01:00

salary rabbit

2009-03-30T13:07:00.001+01:00

girl with a guitar 2

2009-03-13T19:42:00.002Z