Random wanderings for a Thursday night

So, a couple of photography links.

First:

Some fine young fellow using his flatbed scanner as a camera.

Then:

Mark Holthusen’s pictures for Roger Waters’ Opera, Ca Ira. (via BoingBoing)

The second pic is now the desktop for my reclaimed iBook. Which is named Tutosel, derived from “Tooting Ursula,” the night owl herald of the Wild Huntsman according to Hans von Hacklenberg. Which is almost certainly a note I took from The Lore of the Forest by Alexander Porteous, which I recorded in the first of three source/sketch books I filled before beginning Dicebox.

I was actually looking for the name of the Native American Maiden who laughed at a very inappropriate time and was therefore transformed into an owl. Haven’t found that note yet. Which is a double pity, because I really would have liked to renew my search for an extended version of that tale.

Then I wounded up sidetracked by those source books and got very nostalgic. Besides reading and story notes, they are filled with what I consider very bad drawings, though still the truest drawing of Donny Grae’s face–and Kari’s ankles, dammit.

I miss doing those source books, so very exciting and full of possibility and screwing around with flitting ideas. Nothing committed, nothing risked. Yet, I’m even more excited to be in the middle of Chapter 6, which at the time of this first source book (1995) seemed like a pipe dream. I can even overlook the fact that I despise half the art I’ve drawn to get to this point.

Still, I think I’ll start a new source book. After all, I have been re-reading From the Beast to the Blonde and plan to start Maps of the Imagination next. After all, I always do best with non-fiction books if I take notes and doodle.