Interview with Zdenko Basic, part 2: A word or two on material tangibility
This is the second part of the interview with Zdenko Basic… Read the first part here: Scopes of lucidity in illustration and animation
Photo of Z. Basic by Filip Filkovic Philatz (c)
Interview with Zdenko Basic, part 1: Scopes of lucidity in illustration and animation
For a very long time I’m planning to detain for an interview Zdenko Basic… practically from the beginning of my blogging… Somehow other topics and other people entered into life of this digital creature called Body Pixel…
During this year’s edition of Animafest – World Festival of Animated Film, Zdenko was detained in the quarters of the festival and examined about his crime: illustration and animation. This verdict is announced: life sentence to be served in the deepest part of the fairy land with a working obligation of doing only moving pictures and illustrations. The execution sentence starts now!
Zdenko Basic and one of his Elves (c)
Photo of Z. Basic by Filip Filkovic Philatz (c)
Murakami on running and blogging… opss… writing
Since very recent I realized that I’m distinguishing my blog posts as short races and long races, like in athletics. Personally, I’m not a runner… but kind of impressed with the kinetics and the way our body lives its own life, very often behaving slightly different then we had planned in our head.
So, when I heard last year that Haruki Murakami, writer and runner, has published a book entitled ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running‘, I knew that I really had to grab this book. I’m indescribable Murakami admirer (yeah, I admire too, the other Murakami… Takashi Murakami. Who can possibly resist their art?!)
Ladies and Gentlemen, fasten you seatbelts, please… Because Komikaze are landing into your backyard!
One of the coolest comix collective coming from Croatia and, what I call, Balcanica Vulgaris Region, absolutely without a proper competition are = Komikaze. Dunno when it happened exactly that I got attached with their, as critics like to say, ‘brut’ art aesthetics… I think it’s connected with my passion for printed fanzines and magazines… read more …