(Warning: This is an epic-long post.) Today marks exactly one month before my little bro and I will be embarking on an epic return to Asialand. First to Korea, to meet with the lovely Kathy Ma, fresh from her own whirlwind tour around Indonesia….
Mister Forgettable will be shooting some pickups over the next week or two, but the footage is more-or-less in the can. And, as someone who has seen the dailies with my own eyes, it is looking utterly fantastic! The production photographer captured some great images…
It’s the Friday before thanksgiving, so I thought I’d go out with a *bang*!This one’s from the summer. I had to wait a couple months before being able to show it off, to avoid conflict with the client’s own release schedule. The following is…
It’s the GREAT KOREAN SKETCHBOOK DUMP, now with ten percent more kimchi! (Above: Kathy, at the royal palaces in Seoul) Below: Top: Samantha Ronson. Bottom: 해녀(woman free-diver) on Jeju Island, from an article in the Jeju Weekly. This sketch was…
I kept a map on my wall in Jeju where I marked out all the territory I had covered on my motorcycle. The island is roughly 100 km end-to-end, and is crisscrossed by a few large, modern tourist highways and thousands of labyrinthine farm roads. …
These sketches were done in the Jeju Natural History and Folklore museum (check out their site!) during my Christmas break last year. I have to say, as far as the richness of their displays goes, Korean museum put their canadian counterparts to shame. And the admission…
THE GREAT KOREAN SKETCHBOOK DUMP! In the fall of 2010 I was invited for a radio interview with Arirang, as representative of the ‘TaLK’ English teachers living in Jeju. A fellow guest on the program, a catholic cleric who operated a support network for immigrant…
Recently I did some concept art for an ‘urban fantasy’ that was in the beginning stages of development and in need of some brainstorming. One of the concerns was budget (practically nonexistent). The filmmakers wanted to achieve a reasonable scale to the production without the…
An inspirational notebook inside cover for Christian Yetter, writer-in-exile on Jeju Island.