tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81239992024-03-13T16:05:20.427+00:00Nakamura's PlaceDaily ramblings with SKETCHES, MOVIES, MUSIC and general AWESOMECarla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-6806865678113297842010-04-29T18:50:00.002+01:002010-04-29T18:53:50.992+01:00Iron ManYou know what movie opens in theaters this week? Yeah yeah, Nightmare on Elm Street, but not in Portugal, so think about another movie. Done? Then you know what I drew! Here's a sneak peek:<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9hyTSmrE6GKrTBBco3h24b6_5ZtBDeWQZY-ziVR1htZExsRaY-fH_Pt5323EfmAJSBLuVwWiQSDHuQu5UWZmMNimUHzlwFUX9SlZZwkYlecUztTovAkZIje-seQTRZjQSYY0/s1600/Iron+Man+by+cool-slayer+excerto.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 336px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs9hyTSmrE6GKrTBBco3h24b6_5ZtBDeWQZY-ziVR1htZExsRaY-fH_Pt5323EfmAJSBLuVwWiQSDHuQu5UWZmMNimUHzlwFUX9SlZZwkYlecUztTovAkZIje-seQTRZjQSYY0/s400/Iron+Man+by+cool-slayer+excerto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465618929744040370" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to see the full drawing, just head on over to my new blog, or click <a href="http://carlarodriguesart.blogspot.com/2010/04/iron-man.html">here</a>. Don't forget to follow me there, so you won't miss all the goodies!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-55174211912666254972010-04-23T17:09:00.003+01:002010-04-23T17:13:26.692+01:00Kick Ass sneak peek<div style="text-align: justify;">Well, I'm hoping to see Kick Ass over the weekend, so I took a little time this week to do a really quick piece of fan art. Here's a sneak peek:<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZnxwtkk6HUW2O_sVQ1Ei0cb1uLZa6Hrkyd6mosL7x1CNzcTDBBMiH8wsHP4R72Xcninn_WYUH4x84n3XNXWBTGGKsN8p_a0Q-NozxCMIBZXgMFRzcRO0mbmGFP43ecs1vVPB3/s1600/Kick+Ass+excerto+by+cool-slayer.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZnxwtkk6HUW2O_sVQ1Ei0cb1uLZa6Hrkyd6mosL7x1CNzcTDBBMiH8wsHP4R72Xcninn_WYUH4x84n3XNXWBTGGKsN8p_a0Q-NozxCMIBZXgMFRzcRO0mbmGFP43ecs1vVPB3/s400/Kick+Ass+excerto+by+cool-slayer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463366067418784034" border="0" /></a>What? You forgot I have a new blog AGAIN? Well, I have this picture fully posted there, so I recommend you go check it out <a href="http://carlarodriguesart.blogspot.com/2010/04/kick-ass.html">here</a>. It's now the home for my drawings (well, that and deviantart, and a couple of other places... but definitely, on the blogspot platform, that'll be where I post all my drawings) so keep an eye on it.<br /><br />I'll do my best to update this soon with some reviews. I have been watching movies, you know? :)<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-90022491651699821842010-04-08T18:59:00.004+01:002010-04-08T19:06:29.228+01:00Sketchcard 4 - Lion-O<div style="text-align: justify;">Greetings and salutations, my fellow bloggers! I just got done posting my progress shots of the fourth and final sketchcard I drew for Comics for Cures on my new blog. It's Lion-O! Who didn't like the Thundercats? Here's a little peek at the card for you:<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqbwyKANBRVxamomc98HBX1zDCrNwMaqMIjZ9QBRuuQU76DdsBoFHlTPYZLuVIEp4yefzYTQNit-aUHmTKQahoazeT2ED9j8mSHPX6h_fWNNSpTaR63T_Q4HA__fs4l7d72PIE/s1600/20100303_05_small.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqbwyKANBRVxamomc98HBX1zDCrNwMaqMIjZ9QBRuuQU76DdsBoFHlTPYZLuVIEp4yefzYTQNit-aUHmTKQahoazeT2ED9j8mSHPX6h_fWNNSpTaR63T_Q4HA__fs4l7d72PIE/s400/20100303_05_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457828493559431634" border="0" /></a>If you want to see more photos, head on over to my new blog <a href="http://carlarodriguesart.blogspot.com/">here</a>, and check out the Lion-o post <a href="http://carlarodriguesart.blogspot.com/2010/04/sketchcard-4-lion-o.html">here</a>. Don't forget to follow me there if you follow me here as well, everyone is welcome. Some of you are over there already, helping me make the place even cooler! I'll post a lot more goodies at the new blog instead of here from now on, so keep your eyes open for it!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-31192254626241032212010-04-06T11:44:00.002+01:002010-04-06T11:48:56.028+01:00Usagi Yojimbo on the Covered Blog<div style="text-align: justify;">Hello everyone! The piece I did for the Covered Blog found it's way into the interwebs yesterday.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0Hh0rK3KntoOS3JPC5OwKlS-DTwMh-gcCrMcWh7JZh7KDOUhTXgjY_2NAlITqeIY5XTdAf6x9WXYb7BmGvIk-RcULM0hvnTiuXEXJYCiFLyFI-ufa4Z7GnXSNgWI2BfuGT2i/s1600/Usagi+on+Covered+blog.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 336px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0Hh0rK3KntoOS3JPC5OwKlS-DTwMh-gcCrMcWh7JZh7KDOUhTXgjY_2NAlITqeIY5XTdAf6x9WXYb7BmGvIk-RcULM0hvnTiuXEXJYCiFLyFI-ufa4Z7GnXSNgWI2BfuGT2i/s400/Usagi+on+Covered+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456973906290146642" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, it's Usagi Yojimbo, because it's a super cool comic. You can go check out my version at the <a href="http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/carla-rodrigues-covers-usagi-yojimbo-37.html">Covered blog</a>, or have a better look at it on my new blog!<br /><br />What? You forgot I have a new blog? Awww, you. I'll refresh your memory: it's <a href="http://carlarodriguesart.blogspot.com">here</a>. And the Usagi post is <a href="http://carlarodriguesart.blogspot.com/2010/04/usagi-yojimbo-on-covered-blog.html">here</a>. Check it out and let me know what you think, don't forget to follow me there too!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-6606552884707208802010-03-30T16:17:00.003+01:002010-03-30T16:22:15.816+01:00New Blog!<div style="text-align: justify;">Hello, everyone.<br /><br />So I went and created a new blog. This one is getting pretty cluttered, after many years of existing, and with plenty of things that aren't related to art or to what I do. I want the new blog to be exclusively about art! Since I've only now created the new blog, I'll probably upload some work that I already posted here, but I'll start uploading new stuff and gradually "moving" from here to there. I'm not saying I'll end this blog, I'm not planning to - but I'll keep most of my artwork in the other one. So, if you want to stay up to date with drawings, sketches and doodles, please come follow me at <a href="http://carlarodriguesart.blogspot.com/">The Art of Carla Rodrigues</a>!<br /><br />See you there!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-48506776797203158022010-03-30T15:54:00.003+01:002010-03-30T16:13:42.799+01:00Sketchcard 3 - Bobba FettAnd now, another post dedicated to a sketch card. This time, it was Boba Fett's turn! I had never drew Bobba Fett before, but since so many people like this character, I thought it would be a good pick for the card. After all, if you draw popular characters, there's a higher chance that people will buy them, and the whole point of this is to raise as much money as possible for charity.<br /><br />Here is the inked version. As with Lobster Johnson, I forgot to take photos of the pencils, so we're jumping straight into the inks.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjfsxyRhDc9f9z4St-aSLnvHLXSgDMf_p6Fx3Vj2w3h3FOnU7c4OlQqLLtXYnpv_AtMrDiLqBPUZy66OMru_bOMGRAjUo6prx37X0HeLxVikyYzaezecGguDqpN5OubByH0Iv/s1600/20100227_07_small.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjfsxyRhDc9f9z4St-aSLnvHLXSgDMf_p6Fx3Vj2w3h3FOnU7c4OlQqLLtXYnpv_AtMrDiLqBPUZy66OMru_bOMGRAjUo6prx37X0HeLxVikyYzaezecGguDqpN5OubByH0Iv/s400/20100227_07_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454443284689319954" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Next, I started laying down the colors, using colored pencils (like I did before). This photo didn't turn out great, I apologize for the weird lighting.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUcmpzRg0Pu43j8_qzzblhW_SLRPNWmcI8c6ACAs9CQNXdiirypipZll7M7TrPlsq0xPYEZ5LnNhD1gWR1twoeDo30J87AbU38TlMGPw3SDEPdkaylSAZPg-Va2RpKnUv83TWk/s1600/20100303_13_small.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUcmpzRg0Pu43j8_qzzblhW_SLRPNWmcI8c6ACAs9CQNXdiirypipZll7M7TrPlsq0xPYEZ5LnNhD1gWR1twoeDo30J87AbU38TlMGPw3SDEPdkaylSAZPg-Va2RpKnUv83TWk/s400/20100303_13_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454443287828584466" border="0" /></a><br />And here's the end result! Used a simple colored background, like I did before.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4YkzHb0Mw5kulT59UD9WzUP2qMnBlS9rjCe4WmRfDC7d139MvvRcnJTVhQj9jkmfrP1zJkbw1aTWPZZ4XPsb9XTcHa1Pj4-c3PsgX2y7a3zXU6aDmssRr7fZgfoUEPLjbbLe-/s1600/20100303_16_small.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4YkzHb0Mw5kulT59UD9WzUP2qMnBlS9rjCe4WmRfDC7d139MvvRcnJTVhQj9jkmfrP1zJkbw1aTWPZZ4XPsb9XTcHa1Pj4-c3PsgX2y7a3zXU6aDmssRr7fZgfoUEPLjbbLe-/s400/20100303_16_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454443290874494770" border="0" /></a>I hope you enjoy yet another post dedicated to a sketch card. There's still one more to go, so expect that one soon!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-6714574674051453252010-03-25T21:32:00.004+00:002010-03-25T21:39:44.235+00:00Scott PilgrimAlright. I'm sure all of you know that the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World trailer was released today, and in case you're one of those poor souls that haven't watched it, go <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/scottpilgrimvstheworld/">here</a> and make your day.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8bvz3fqDfN2xAHrTIUdG7r4Q4FcPtdrbm9Ud5A1PlWCuM4a7Ab9-DRY9XQbqX141fzvfJXLG8120EeHR_C79z7W9VC36pLLT_AxgrIHAE24eMBt5jaTtJWTGsnLwp_d1UVyJ/s1600/sptrlr41.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8bvz3fqDfN2xAHrTIUdG7r4Q4FcPtdrbm9Ud5A1PlWCuM4a7Ab9-DRY9XQbqX141fzvfJXLG8120EeHR_C79z7W9VC36pLLT_AxgrIHAE24eMBt5jaTtJWTGsnLwp_d1UVyJ/s400/sptrlr41.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452688195688957634" border="0" /></a>I've seen it, and I loved it. I can not wait to see this movie. I know a lot of people are still unhappy with the choice of Michael Cera for the role of Scott, but I grew to embrace the choice and I think he did a pretty good job, from what I see in the trailer. Well, I could take more of the action and less of his whiny voice, but I'm sure the final product will be awesome. Since I loved it this much, I couldn't help but putting pencil to paper and coming up with a quick drawing of Scott to mark today's release of the trailer. Here is the quick piece I've done, hope you enjoy it!<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPZ8OqkOSmqKPfTq8FnDCKOa7KcHeToyX5MZ852srpfA7LbRU21YIG6zHyUfPc2GjLkhPi48xLLaGp7reoC0KQVnwHAGFWSJM6xY-Q6ukA9bpRVH5LS3rP_5ZO9UzP3fg-QhV/s1600/Scott+colors+by+cool-slayer.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 418px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPZ8OqkOSmqKPfTq8FnDCKOa7KcHeToyX5MZ852srpfA7LbRU21YIG6zHyUfPc2GjLkhPi48xLLaGp7reoC0KQVnwHAGFWSJM6xY-Q6ukA9bpRVH5LS3rP_5ZO9UzP3fg-QhV/s400/Scott+colors+by+cool-slayer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452688191928497106" border="0" /></a>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-45245476033938868372010-03-17T20:45:00.003+00:002010-03-17T20:55:31.590+00:00Sketchcard 2 - Lobster Johnson<div style="text-align: justify;">One more peek at another of the sketchcards I produced to benefit the American Cancer Society. I hope it's not a boring idea and that you guys get a kick out of this instead of just seeing the finished product.<br />Well, this next card features Lobster Johnson, who's not an actual lobster - he's a character from the Hellboy world that I had never drawn before. I don't have as many photos of Lobster as I had of Terry Bogard, so we're jumping directly into inks. Or we can pretend I drew this with a pen, straight up, because I'm cool like that.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjSXEpM5_Xxsu0jMrgYlDz69On05Vv4quWFAuNeBix_zd3cevWQBr7MH3A0DSdt2CSLcllYqFWTzWpOD-b-5YuvSBaTRBr6MqPnvdPHXjiXVFfc_gUeeVLAcOKdnlumGCxJnv/s1600-h/20100226_03_small.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEjSXEpM5_Xxsu0jMrgYlDz69On05Vv4quWFAuNeBix_zd3cevWQBr7MH3A0DSdt2CSLcllYqFWTzWpOD-b-5YuvSBaTRBr6MqPnvdPHXjiXVFfc_gUeeVLAcOKdnlumGCxJnv/s400/20100226_03_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449707964984550162" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">So here he is, looking a bit pouty. I wanted him to look "intense", but turns out he looks more pouty than anything.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXkTJDnfYrHWFHp0X6KBTqETCL2TJJcpQUfqJf_XO0B929cqXF1QpCpiywde4kBmRiZszcug4JOHyE9cLqUjOaYPZGly0CJUnUxy56tW4LiSAGqhljWDOFdHW-g9lrSQ-lF9v2/s1600-h/20100303_07_small.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXkTJDnfYrHWFHp0X6KBTqETCL2TJJcpQUfqJf_XO0B929cqXF1QpCpiywde4kBmRiZszcug4JOHyE9cLqUjOaYPZGly0CJUnUxy56tW4LiSAGqhljWDOFdHW-g9lrSQ-lF9v2/s400/20100303_07_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449707978333305266" border="0" /></a>Started laying down the colors. As with the previous card, I used colored pencils. I'd love to try out prisma markers sometime, but I have no idea where to get them here and I've been too lazy to hunt for them online. Also, I'm scared they'll be super expensive.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgar5U_V6p1ySnFQJ86X7izCmepUR4Rzq-zwX6MIp6-JnKLiV2f6FCksA7k0eRaeiigJswVBukCzxOrvuThJV7see_0jRsHDejSmWpQzaOKNDNKhV9duppr9b4lp3AOYoUXvd3c/s1600-h/20100303_09_small.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgar5U_V6p1ySnFQJ86X7izCmepUR4Rzq-zwX6MIp6-JnKLiV2f6FCksA7k0eRaeiigJswVBukCzxOrvuThJV7see_0jRsHDejSmWpQzaOKNDNKhV9duppr9b4lp3AOYoUXvd3c/s400/20100303_09_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449707987707532130" border="0" /></a>The colors are pretty much finished here. Added a simple background to make Lobster pop a little more.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2paWZCc5Ex6c7k1j9szQJz-i2q8KT5q8fOEsJaOGgHMykjBorCbwwcMVCMuPLx4kxbv1sx_93WXBoHJzEFiomdCswxsU1YHJfdolCA4bmjg7YV2jl1ejEBbXCMNhinS3uEtM-/s1600-h/20100303_25_small.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2paWZCc5Ex6c7k1j9szQJz-i2q8KT5q8fOEsJaOGgHMykjBorCbwwcMVCMuPLx4kxbv1sx_93WXBoHJzEFiomdCswxsU1YHJfdolCA4bmjg7YV2jl1ejEBbXCMNhinS3uEtM-/s400/20100303_25_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449708006922383442" border="0" /></a>Ta-da! Lobster is finished, and here he is next to Terry. It looks like he's disapproving of Terry being so smiley. Lighten up, Lobster. You'll make money for a good cause.<br /><br />Hope you enjoyed this once again. If you did, I'll keep posting these!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-20847519396659739222010-03-11T17:28:00.004+00:002010-03-11T17:56:41.326+00:00Sketchcard 1 - Terry Bogard<div style="text-align: justify;">This year I had the pleasure of creating a small set of 4 sketchcards for <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.comicsforcures.com">Comics for Cures</a>, to benefit the American Cancer Society. Artists donate sketchcards for the show. The sketchcards will then be part of a gallery show, and after that they're put on eBay, and all proceeds from the auction go to the American Cancer Society. It is pretty awesome, and whenever I have the chance of helping out with my scribbles, I'm glad to jump at the opportunity. The auction was supposed to go live on April 3rd, but I was just told that the date was moved to May 22nd, so it'll still be a while before you can bid on those cards.<br />Anyway, I've posted the cards over at deviantart, but I promised I'd post some progress shots over here. So, in an effort to put this blog to better use, here go some shots of the first card I did, Terry Bogard:<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LhLi9zpxgIbsWjUKo2YeN41XdLKSz2Hus8i8d_7jtHpODUyauccB6JrkSNt3_iKqFPaP8xn-ku0w_-MY-OYr7TYRDJHA3T3IaTBz5IbllwlG02bWi0veG1ke9714lqAHhX2Q/s1600-h/20100224_01_small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LhLi9zpxgIbsWjUKo2YeN41XdLKSz2Hus8i8d_7jtHpODUyauccB6JrkSNt3_iKqFPaP8xn-ku0w_-MY-OYr7TYRDJHA3T3IaTBz5IbllwlG02bWi0veG1ke9714lqAHhX2Q/s400/20100224_01_small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447435009047537970" border="0" /></a>First, here are the penciled lines. Why did I go with Terry Bogard? Well, I love the game series King of Fighters, and Fatal Fury too, where this character is from. He's not one of my favorites from either game, but I had never drawn him before so I figured I'd give it a shot. Also, I think he's a popular character and so his card will probably sell well in the auction (I hope).<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9CtvMO5Eo2GRB-viXe-MZiYAD3moOzQSS3DHL4C03n0153MoB8noRH7JjmQ-kvX3rRJOjpd8b-fkb__sjvZuMkjd4EbyoZzQGq7nxadtKXZTeMMrdC7OWV0TldpxDgTGWViZ/s1600-h/20100226_06_small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9CtvMO5Eo2GRB-viXe-MZiYAD3moOzQSS3DHL4C03n0153MoB8noRH7JjmQ-kvX3rRJOjpd8b-fkb__sjvZuMkjd4EbyoZzQGq7nxadtKXZTeMMrdC7OWV0TldpxDgTGWViZ/s400/20100226_06_small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447435014638515474" border="0" /></a>Here I've moved on to inks. I kept it pretty clean and simple. The cards are relatively small (about 6x9 cm.) and I'm not really used to drawing small, so the pose isn't very original or fresh, but I tried to make up for it.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzN6Gh8EpZH97lqHx3ea97A4MVIPBU6qLZRSbUHqhdDjFCBKA7u9TiT8OYIl5HrxEaRZgGg16wQRqHiogpJEO89_FRjjVo3tpQ6sA5n54WFL13ouy_YYijQeRpczk8r_1b3YC7/s1600-h/20100303_19_small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzN6Gh8EpZH97lqHx3ea97A4MVIPBU6qLZRSbUHqhdDjFCBKA7u9TiT8OYIl5HrxEaRZgGg16wQRqHiogpJEO89_FRjjVo3tpQ6sA5n54WFL13ouy_YYijQeRpczk8r_1b3YC7/s400/20100303_19_small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447435019112794898" border="0" /></a>Started laying down the colors with my mighty colored pencils. Well, I say mighty but in reality I hardly ever color with colored pencils. The scanner destroys the coloring and that made me almost quit coloring pencils a long time ago. But I enjoyed the practice, and I think I might have to keep going at it. I love the organic feeling of coloring traditionally as oposed to digitally.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8up4uX8gzoKkxjUJb1DxEcBKEsX_LSOUcmiToyh2Tau8KtI90X1AVVr6Vy-f5gMuqubTluHfN1jyT_qxwRY2Wg7h4Ob9CssW9uO3YMFD4WnREkMdwXmS-y-df3nGzFTrnNruW/s1600-h/20100303_21_small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8up4uX8gzoKkxjUJb1DxEcBKEsX_LSOUcmiToyh2Tau8KtI90X1AVVr6Vy-f5gMuqubTluHfN1jyT_qxwRY2Wg7h4Ob9CssW9uO3YMFD4WnREkMdwXmS-y-df3nGzFTrnNruW/s400/20100303_21_small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447435021323118882" border="0" /></a>Ta-da, the card is done here! Just added a simple background that makes Terry pop out a little more. As you can see it's a fairly simple process, and a lot of fun. I hope this card raises a lot of money for the good cause. Stay tuned, I may do similar posts of my other cards!<br /><br />Hope you enjoyed this!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-39116638048388820312010-03-09T13:40:00.006+00:002010-03-09T14:51:23.460+00:00Release party of Zona Fantástica at Central Comics<div style="text-align: justify;">Last Saturday, March 6th, the release party for Zona Fantástica took place at one of the local comic shops, <a href="http://www.centralcomics.com/">Central Comics.</a> We weren't the only book being released, there was also "As Incríveis Aventuras de Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy", a widely anticipated comic made by the collaboration between portuguese writer/producer Filipe Melo and 3 artists from Argentina, so we were in great company. The afternoon flew by, once again drawing and signing books, chatting with my fellow artists and with Filipe Melo (which was very cool, because I really admire him - he produced the first (and only, so far) portuguese zombie movie, which makes him pretty much the awesomest person around). This time the paparazzi was my lovely <a href="http://cosmic-rocket-man.deviantart.com/">Cosmic-rocket-man</a>, who took loads of cool photos, some of which I'll share on this post.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTN2OVnKqtczLZTHy6XUDUUNe2D2Ql6hjpETgj7F9hTz-TfCcxHn0bBRzxZ47XH010hhJwksf3NV36_omfTQ-t4dicACJ5duIngG-E6e5_K7hie6YlZOW1FTMk7pe6-ABoAkeV/s1600-h/20100306_02_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTN2OVnKqtczLZTHy6XUDUUNe2D2Ql6hjpETgj7F9hTz-TfCcxHn0bBRzxZ47XH010hhJwksf3NV36_omfTQ-t4dicACJ5duIngG-E6e5_K7hie6YlZOW1FTMk7pe6-ABoAkeV/s400/20100306_02_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446630549018216466" border="0" /></a>Can you spot Zona Fantástica there? This is the store front of Central Comics. I felt pretty excited to see a book with my cover there, I can't deny that. It was a good feeling.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmthaXjHce3_GCuv03GYzKxcrr0EpNE3rQcmHKwBbhmXOOKa-oC0xQjs1G6eT543BSfO5yLWaZDKjofTfiu0dY7d5Q3H6Oq45CbBgf222_EnoCUumP2zbHKCWorax6I4OlsfC/s1600-h/20100306_04_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmthaXjHce3_GCuv03GYzKxcrr0EpNE3rQcmHKwBbhmXOOKa-oC0xQjs1G6eT543BSfO5yLWaZDKjofTfiu0dY7d5Q3H6Oq45CbBgf222_EnoCUumP2zbHKCWorax6I4OlsfC/s400/20100306_04_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446630553933931474" border="0" /></a>The announcement of the two release parties taking place that afternoon. Hey, Green Lantern, stop stealing my thunder!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn3ktv7xuR2TPhOMI6RpddlHbHacgzzbYhXwQeWB6irBKbbClfMl9_w3WXbj68EhHWN8y10jI_ONtBv8Sycb1ts2k5pEN9766Vj6JWld77lRHZXuB9VeQRlAvVE21JVnDjffve/s1600-h/20100306_13_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn3ktv7xuR2TPhOMI6RpddlHbHacgzzbYhXwQeWB6irBKbbClfMl9_w3WXbj68EhHWN8y10jI_ONtBv8Sycb1ts2k5pEN9766Vj6JWld77lRHZXuB9VeQRlAvVE21JVnDjffve/s400/20100306_13_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446630556088601346" border="0" /></a>Here's the book for sale. Me and the rest of the gang signed all of these and plenty more.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKccFNaEm_yZ2Q3gBaFswboKPzcMTPogZQyPLi08Ydab4K4TVRgJayzMkcxe0YsGoYsD8zKBGnb9bYKj9bMYdpXcMwFVDLTWC8MfLvcm-rTuzzzUnBgh0o7TwdIjSgM5-zMUh/s1600-h/20100306_16_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKccFNaEm_yZ2Q3gBaFswboKPzcMTPogZQyPLi08Ydab4K4TVRgJayzMkcxe0YsGoYsD8zKBGnb9bYKj9bMYdpXcMwFVDLTWC8MfLvcm-rTuzzzUnBgh0o7TwdIjSgM5-zMUh/s400/20100306_16_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446630563641193474" border="0" /></a>This is me drawing on Central Comic's honor board. Whenever they host a special book release, they have the authors draw something on this board, and then they hang it in the store. It's pretty cool, especially since before I used to always look at the honor boards and admired the work on them, and now I have my very own drawing there too.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJqh0NLxgqoZrnPjHpwI7Uf-JW16BlO-48DNEwZX9WGT-BM6BId3hjmvB-jLNQB6PwSeMGnt07zS1mMfzEx3gnge32reeRhlLJoFatFl_M-4m0WlqhPm1pT150W-Iz0RFBVZ8/s1600-h/20100306_20_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJqh0NLxgqoZrnPjHpwI7Uf-JW16BlO-48DNEwZX9WGT-BM6BId3hjmvB-jLNQB6PwSeMGnt07zS1mMfzEx3gnge32reeRhlLJoFatFl_M-4m0WlqhPm1pT150W-Iz0RFBVZ8/s400/20100306_20_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446630566389080882" border="0" /></a>This is me, <a href="http://filbd.blogspot.com/">Fil </a>and <a href="http://jackolta.deviantart.com/">Rui Alex</a> drawing. I wasn't signing a book at the time, I was drawing on that kid's moleskine per request. It was cool!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgybSzIQm1DUzxmKEGhpV-mK0O7mg-nSviUo8Lfw4UHa1eD5eac_D4JK4iJUjfcetM_TH6szq3tBdVrf0BwASxCju84TzMKBY3xYOZNmPrfIXcqHlO9O1gX0c3a_KTsbpQxZCnF/s1600-h/20100306_21_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgybSzIQm1DUzxmKEGhpV-mK0O7mg-nSviUo8Lfw4UHa1eD5eac_D4JK4iJUjfcetM_TH6szq3tBdVrf0BwASxCju84TzMKBY3xYOZNmPrfIXcqHlO9O1gX0c3a_KTsbpQxZCnF/s400/20100306_21_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446632370827120370" border="0" /></a>Still drawing for the kid. I drew a zombie, which I hope didn't scare him or anything. It was a nice zombie, it wouldn't bite anyone.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeuJAzy5EryE3J4guA7PV-rx9zTSy-uildMHCjr9FiiJA8RrsdO3SaNK4XeLdKhXCynbAOI5qsA7VKuOZXFsXrjtCS5CWHQwaPme6JAJtuuFPMlXGl_X2a-Dh2VNm5SoYidO-/s1600-h/20100306_23_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeuJAzy5EryE3J4guA7PV-rx9zTSy-uildMHCjr9FiiJA8RrsdO3SaNK4XeLdKhXCynbAOI5qsA7VKuOZXFsXrjtCS5CWHQwaPme6JAJtuuFPMlXGl_X2a-Dh2VNm5SoYidO-/s400/20100306_23_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446632377258230450" border="0" /></a>Still drawing, and joined at the table by <a href="http://full-of-void.blogspot.com/">Diogo Campos</a>. Hey look, it's the Walking Dead!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjju25iDmLrbuN0eT1_FuUoUdvV3tZqW6Rj2zAbfh0x_IRrF0rf9qHxacym8SU-sweYCMIbrdyGdH1wUPypCqwJUgI1P87vgYZwUHn-FtCAX0OY0VyRvJbPQMeV1cQYUELRloDl/s1600-h/20100306_26_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjju25iDmLrbuN0eT1_FuUoUdvV3tZqW6Rj2zAbfh0x_IRrF0rf9qHxacym8SU-sweYCMIbrdyGdH1wUPypCqwJUgI1P87vgYZwUHn-FtCAX0OY0VyRvJbPQMeV1cQYUELRloDl/s400/20100306_26_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446632384038584050" border="0" /></a>Chatting with Filipe Melo, who we had the pleasure to meet! I got to draw him a nifty zombie. Wish I had had more time to really draw something kick ass, but Filipe still had to go to his book's release at Fnac, and so was short on time. He was a super cool guy.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeaEQJLAJoH42eHOpLy3KK-gDfauUoE7GvCU19dDhJ8aSDA29W5vJakKIVaI-UandIHQdln8wX8fqSkmbZGdy3e0TGA3wYqc4sZrmjflPMsn77dXIVNiSpoDFC1Yx3wMKZiC4/s1600-h/20100306_30_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeaEQJLAJoH42eHOpLy3KK-gDfauUoE7GvCU19dDhJ8aSDA29W5vJakKIVaI-UandIHQdln8wX8fqSkmbZGdy3e0TGA3wYqc4sZrmjflPMsn77dXIVNiSpoDFC1Yx3wMKZiC4/s400/20100306_30_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446632389818121858" border="0" /></a>Still drawing and chatting with Filipe. Ignore my stupid face, I don't know what was going on.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQHINT7Ht-rsI7R4yvX6Jrw54_48II8tihSV91pXaIczjzBpwtuudXYkMFv0DK2qv1-_JLF3pxp-eAJ14RZn7Hfn7He-7MFUrPyYxv8Ib73x0tmxfIWn23nBhIwMYjKHF4iqi/s1600-h/20100306_32_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDQHINT7Ht-rsI7R4yvX6Jrw54_48II8tihSV91pXaIczjzBpwtuudXYkMFv0DK2qv1-_JLF3pxp-eAJ14RZn7Hfn7He-7MFUrPyYxv8Ib73x0tmxfIWn23nBhIwMYjKHF4iqi/s400/20100306_32_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446632398624346722" border="0" /></a>Moved tables, got joined by <a href="http://darkbirth.blogspot.com/">Pedro Nascimento</a>, and continued drawing. It was an amazing afternoon. Drawing for hours, signing books and chatting with the people in a comic shop... could there be something cooler to do? I don't think so!<br />If you'd like to have a book, you can always go to the <a href="http://zonabd.blogspot.com/">official blog for the project</a> and order one via e-mail. Hope you enjoyed the photos!<br /></div></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-49031277691006775732010-03-05T12:11:00.006+00:002010-03-05T12:40:16.479+00:00Release of Zona FantásticaAs you know - because I've posted about it earlier - yesterday was the release of the comics/illustration project Zona Fantástica, as part of Fantasporto - Oporto's International Movie Festival. It went very well and it was fantastic to hang out with all the artists and the people that went to the release! I drew a lot of zombies in a lot of books, predictably. I have to find something more fun to draw than zombies, quickly. Since I had my friend Mário take some photos, I'll take this chance to post a few of them.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAb_oONzUItQg84LBP8lat6IHkURXwZ27P8V59SQkgFYItPQbfeScfVkkE__RBn7sACkpesC8iryeIiS8Kfem1iJ84gYT2ZGvHmImXBkchvJFllLWrB8k-UdiyBN1QOCXCQLbd/s1600-h/20100304_04_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAb_oONzUItQg84LBP8lat6IHkURXwZ27P8V59SQkgFYItPQbfeScfVkkE__RBn7sACkpesC8iryeIiS8Kfem1iJ84gYT2ZGvHmImXBkchvJFllLWrB8k-UdiyBN1QOCXCQLbd/s400/20100304_04_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445122810836238498" border="0" /></a>This was the selling stand. You can see the book that was released, Zona Fantástica - as well as official t-shirts - and also the previous volumes, Zona Zero and Zona Negra.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2iFZaI6VFDfghoisgwDJ3S4uWqLL2_SykIOVIZlOXJetZvIC1eT-yIpd-X-J_jXp9sX0Mtu5_7Wb1JjB30vlE3I8wKFYRpBHKli9WjJ2mNnc6941y67wp-9QZWDfRNqdfRdn4/s1600-h/20100304_05_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2iFZaI6VFDfghoisgwDJ3S4uWqLL2_SykIOVIZlOXJetZvIC1eT-yIpd-X-J_jXp9sX0Mtu5_7Wb1JjB30vlE3I8wKFYRpBHKli9WjJ2mNnc6941y67wp-9QZWDfRNqdfRdn4/s400/20100304_05_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445122812783674642" border="0" /></a>This is me on the table. Next to me are <a href="http://justsketching.blogspot.com/">Joana Afonso</a> and <a href="http://andreoliveirabd.blogspot.com/">André Oliveira</a>, and we can see the back of <a href="http://full-of-void.blogspot.com/">Diogo Campos</a> :)<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYvcZiOERDZeKxUbIo-msAFafI0-uzFpCjYhtp6iAjr_eUHMhdX32NGWTAw8gbm_DA2Cz0hcgEw2NEmCjPTWfMyRXqZbz6hXsOpmz7q9CEKWl2R4gjqONMO9FXZNfuoRe3Q5ZU/s1600-h/20100304_06_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYvcZiOERDZeKxUbIo-msAFafI0-uzFpCjYhtp6iAjr_eUHMhdX32NGWTAw8gbm_DA2Cz0hcgEw2NEmCjPTWfMyRXqZbz6hXsOpmz7q9CEKWl2R4gjqONMO9FXZNfuoRe3Q5ZU/s400/20100304_06_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445122817269335442" border="0" /></a>Another shot of some artists at the table, this time with our "srs business" face. Left to right, you've got me, Joana, André, the Fantasporto presenter that made the opening speech, and <a href="http://filbd.blogspot.com/">Fil</a> (who unfortunatelly got half-cut from the pic).<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2TX1AGHfFIH7cPKS7qgBV_v3cT3AYyN4DH4gWhppx39yuh6Jbek76EfsPWsAjVDijBBWfZ_r_3VMj6xboew54xrOHLjRkPAILTu3LnWBw9S9EKQ9UW3wwQDxt6dP5PkrRq2Q/s1600-h/20100304_09_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2TX1AGHfFIH7cPKS7qgBV_v3cT3AYyN4DH4gWhppx39yuh6Jbek76EfsPWsAjVDijBBWfZ_r_3VMj6xboew54xrOHLjRkPAILTu3LnWBw9S9EKQ9UW3wwQDxt6dP5PkrRq2Q/s400/20100304_09_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445122820988087730" border="0" /></a>The lighting was not the best for photos, but here André and Fil were talking about the Hammer Killer, which was my comic. Look, there's my name on the wall!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHc0CBqVitgJts5Z1WE7pQOwk1S3MYvpX5nB4fQuiIzAmbqrooNAYO1lIGlOS8_AhRbTOg8Ift6c16t7UDKSx5uAnV_lLwyYFVjudjj_0oXgGzfxVTtZL3t20EreTaJ4tS53t6/s1600-h/20100304_17_FB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHc0CBqVitgJts5Z1WE7pQOwk1S3MYvpX5nB4fQuiIzAmbqrooNAYO1lIGlOS8_AhRbTOg8Ift6c16t7UDKSx5uAnV_lLwyYFVjudjj_0oXgGzfxVTtZL3t20EreTaJ4tS53t6/s400/20100304_17_FB.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445122828329046882" border="0" /></a>This was at the end, when we were autographing and drawing on books. Clockwork from me are <a href="http://htx-manga.blogspot.com/">Hugo Teixeira</a>, Diogo Campos, Fil, Pedro Nascimento and Raz.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOc_Vnvc4dz64XHhDaOFSg-1JyIyvtDmsuVCn1fGzmAs2swjHpjnB16PVanLe_FnTjr8KFcxkJhcNZKWLRLK-s-_k-yLvIfFN_iF3k3e3Kq_5MOKogaqxA7so4nxqu2_TAvVIi/s1600-h/25281_1237075050375_1334195754_30518391_799789_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOc_Vnvc4dz64XHhDaOFSg-1JyIyvtDmsuVCn1fGzmAs2swjHpjnB16PVanLe_FnTjr8KFcxkJhcNZKWLRLK-s-_k-yLvIfFN_iF3k3e3Kq_5MOKogaqxA7so4nxqu2_TAvVIi/s400/25281_1237075050375_1334195754_30518391_799789_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445126916111406802" border="0" /></a>And this photo was snapped by Joana, it's my very own <a href="http://cosmic-rocket-man.%20blogspot.com">Cosmic-Rocket-Man</a> and André!<br /><br />All in all, it was a great end of a day. Not only were we all happy with the book, it sold well, we drew a lot, and people also seemed to enjoy it. Another plus was hanging out with each other, since we all live pretty much scattered all over the country and don't get many chances to hang out.<br /><br />I hope you enjoy the photos, and in some time I'll post the Hammer Killer I drew for this.<br />Keep rocking!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">PS - Quem não pôde aparecer ontem, pode aparecer amanhã, dia 6, na Central Comics, depois das 17h, pois vamos ter uma festa de lançamento da Zona com alguns dos autores presentes (entre os quais eu) para sessão de autógrafos. E se quiserem apareçam ainda mais cedo e apanham o Filipe Melo e a festa do Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy!<br /></div></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-84647165265341654392010-02-24T14:40:00.003+00:002010-02-24T14:47:31.622+00:00Brian the Artist<div style="text-align: justify;">So<a class="u" href="http://cosmic-rocket-man.deviantart.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> my boyfriend</span></a> is awesome and gave me the 3 disc collectors' edition of Spaced, and we've been having a great time re-watching the series. I tell you, it is brilliant. Of course all this Spaced watching we've been doing had to end in me doodling something from the show, so here is Brian the Artist, Tim and Daisy's cheerful neighbor. The speech balloons are actually his reply in the first episodes, whenever someone asks him what he paints. I was informed that I misspelled "aggression", so I'm sorry about that mistake.<br />This is little more than a glorified sketch, but I wanted to update the blog with something. I really need to update this more, especially with art instead of movie reviews of craptastic flicks. Well, I hope you guys like it! And if you don't know Spaced, hunt it down and give it a watch. I promise it's awesome.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwz7HaajqtVREsJ9rUaeMtI2Hl0i7TDxhJg7yqdvi8aqZZHNzZhL-V7EWRrl89mlaCdLa3m6Jim3E4xnSQcNgPP4FBbcDRQt0rQzSACqyLGRxHmUEDdKgjyn0n7BOMDRfr-KYq/s1600-h/brian+the+artist+by+cool-slayer_small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwz7HaajqtVREsJ9rUaeMtI2Hl0i7TDxhJg7yqdvi8aqZZHNzZhL-V7EWRrl89mlaCdLa3m6Jim3E4xnSQcNgPP4FBbcDRQt0rQzSACqyLGRxHmUEDdKgjyn0n7BOMDRfr-KYq/s400/brian+the+artist+by+cool-slayer_small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441821165265619938" border="0" /></a>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-29667747209047202592010-02-10T15:49:00.004+00:002010-02-10T16:02:50.415+00:00Zona Fantástica<div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, it has been a while without news, but now I'm here with some cool ones. I was lucky enough to participate on the most recent installment of the Zone! comic and illustrations project, called Zone Fantastic. I was responsible for the cover and I did a 3-page comic. Well, I can't show you the comic just yet, but I want to promote the project, so here's the cover:<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNb2AAxiYN7USaJnXZnVfglBoP33rfWNjP9hE5WyqdXf80SK_LShcTgli0I7Q9gjFHXPVftLbf8GwFYWOXUlNvGf8ZimQppO4wgiqCsduayOGmq_gCjyw-Cx2_LxQkXWebLHv7/s1600-h/ZonaFantastica-capa-porCarlaRodrigues.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 480px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNb2AAxiYN7USaJnXZnVfglBoP33rfWNjP9hE5WyqdXf80SK_LShcTgli0I7Q9gjFHXPVftLbf8GwFYWOXUlNvGf8ZimQppO4wgiqCsduayOGmq_gCjyw-Cx2_LxQkXWebLHv7/s400/ZonaFantastica-capa-porCarlaRodrigues.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436643841944046850" border="0" /></a>The characters in the cover (one of them is mine) are characters you'll also find on the inside of the book, on comics or illustrations. I tried to give it an old, almost grindhouse poster style - since the book will be released in a movie festival mainly dedicated to horror and the fantastic, it seemed fitting. Here's a little introduction to the project:<br /><br />"Zona Fantástica (Zone Fantastic) is an alternative magazine dedicated to the world of comics and illustration, the third of a project that has generated also Zona Zero (Zona Zero) and the Zona Negra (Zone Dark) (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.zonabd.blogspot.com/">www.zonabd.blogspot.com</a>), both released in 2009. This issue, devoted to "fantastic fiction" will be released in the Fantasporto 2010. It is the largest and most ambitious fo far: 80 color pages with the participation of 34 authors.<br />The aim of this project, almost fully developed through collaborations over the Internet, is to feature the work of new authors, as well as to promote the development of arts in Portugal. Thus, Zona Fantástica emerges as an important step that represents an increasing willingness for change in this context. "<br /><br />You can visit Fantasporto's website on www.fantasporto.com<br /><br />I will update you with news about the release. I know many of you are from far away, but if by any chance any of you guys are in Oporto on March 4th, at 18h30, you can drop by Rivoli, check out the book and talk with some of the authors! Good times will be had, I promise. But I'll keep pestering you about that.<br /><br />Hope you like the pic!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-67827241774229468232010-01-28T16:52:00.009+00:002010-01-28T19:06:23.075+00:00The Room (2003)Oh hi, internet.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Last weekend I saw a movie. It wasn't a regular movie, you see. This film has been called everything, from "The Citizen Kane of bad movies", to "the best worst movie ever made", and let me tell you, the people who called it that are probably right. Never before has a movie so awful got etched so deep into my mind that I can't stop quoting it, I can't stop thinking about it, and I need to exorcize that, so I'm writing this review. I need to get it out of my system.<br /><br />That movie, my friends, was Tommy Wiseau's <span style="font-style: italic;">magnum opus</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Room</span>.<br /><br />Tommy Wiseau, a man with hopes and dreams of breaking through in the movie business, managed to somehow gather 7 million dollars and actually direct a movie from a script he wrote himself. He not only wrote and directed this movie, no, Tommy, as a true jack of all trades, also starred, produced and executive produced. Where he spent the 7 million dollars filming this turd is what I'd like to know, because this movie looks worse than most of the low budget horror movies I watch, and those are made with a few thousand dollars at best. This one was made with 7 million. It baffles me.<br />Another interesting thing about Tommy Wiseau is that no one seems to know exactly where he's from. He claims to be American, but his accent is as thick as they come (someone described the way he sounds as " like Borat trying to do an impression of Christopher Walken playing a mental patient" and that pretty much hits the nail in the head). Some people speculate he's actually from somewhere in Eastern Europe, but no one knows. The man is a mistery!<br /><br />Now, on to the movie itself. The Room is a filme about a saintly man called Johnny (played by Tommy Wiseau) and his beautiful "future wife" Lisa (they never use the word fiancée, it's always "future wife" or "future husband"). Johnny is beloved by everyone, he is the kindest of men, has a successful career (something about the bank business... it's never really clear what exactly is it that he does) and showers his future wife with gifts and attention (saintly as he is though, I bet you'll be creeped out by him. His strange accent, hulking figure, and face that is a mix between Fabio and the melting Nazis from Indiana Jones, all blend together to form an avatar of creepiness that you'll start seeing in your nightmares). Lisa, for some incomprehensible reason, decides she's had it with Johnny and procedes to seduce his best friend Mark (don't worry if you don't get he's "Johnny's best friend" right away, they'll remind you of that fact every 5 minutes). This treacherous back-stabbing sends them, and everyone they know, into a spiral of drama, nonsense and hilarity so incredibly poorly acted, scripted and directed that you'll wonder just what the hell you are seeing.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfDgzX38Aosus1XqfQiQfc9Bo9_r39FdQQrY2lhP9P_kFIh9aXCOI4SDfgFUmyGDs6zodIVggVpt1emDMDKEAvp-4AZiOHMX7Alj_aKnbzNhVN2VvyWYF_QzzS47BMbQopzcT/s1600-h/the+room3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfDgzX38Aosus1XqfQiQfc9Bo9_r39FdQQrY2lhP9P_kFIh9aXCOI4SDfgFUmyGDs6zodIVggVpt1emDMDKEAvp-4AZiOHMX7Alj_aKnbzNhVN2VvyWYF_QzzS47BMbQopzcT/s320/the+room3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431863570185562354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Johnny and one of his many gifts for Lisa.<br /></span></div><br />Don't worry, that's perfectly normal. At first you might think "Oh my god, I am definitely going mad, no movie can possibly be this bad", but no. I reassure you, your sanity is untouched. The movie really is astoundingly bad. Let's break down some of the things that are deeply wrong with The Room:<br /><br />- Tommy Wiseau is easily the worst actor I've ever seen in a movie (and keep in mind I did see that abomination with Britney Spears). It's not just because of his accent and his haunting face - his delivery is unbelievable! He chuckles at the end of almost every sentence. He even laughs after his himbo best friend tells him the story of a girl who got beat up so bad she ended up in the hospital (something that shouldn't be funny at all). Also, he (and everyone else) seem to greet everyone as if they were LOLcats. When someone comes in the room, it's "Oh hi Lisa!", "Oh hi Mark", "Oh hi Denny", and so on and so forth (there's even a bit where he greets a dog by saying "Oh hi doggie!"). He has the most hilarious line in this film, the line that everyone knows, which is "YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!!". In this scene we see how badly this man wants to show emotion, and how much he fails.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs49/f/2009/225/6/a/the_room_by_FernandoLucas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 356px;" src="http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs49/f/2009/225/6/a/the_room_by_FernandoLucas.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Art by <a href="http://fernandolucas.deviantart.com/">Fernando Lucas</a></span><br /></div><br />- Lisa, the female lead, is always being called "beautiful", "sexy" and generally being worshipped as some kind of beauty goddess, but she's average at best. I mean, I'm not one to talk, but it's so exxagerated that it becomes hilarious. She has her hair colored in this unnatural shade of blonde, yet her eyebrows remain dark brown, and her neck seems to have this weird bulge sometimes when she talks. She's definitely a strange character. When engaging in conversations, Lisa commonly brings up subjects that, when asked more about, she claims to not want to discuss. It's always "I don't want to talk about it", or "It'll be fine". Lisa's mother drops by every god damn morning to have annoying quick conversations that never lead anywhere. The most famous part is when she does what would normally be a shocking and life-altering revelation, when she tells her daughter: "Well, the test results came back - I definitely have breast cancer". Lisa doesn't even bat an eyelid, says "It'll be fine", and the subject is never adress AGAIN.<br /><br />- Denny, Denny, Denny. Denny is a huge enigma in this movie. He's sort of Johnny and Lisa's man-child neighbor. We know he's an orphan and that Johnny, angel on earth that he is, got him an apartment right next door and is paying for his college tuition. What a kind heart! Despite the fact we are told that Denny's in college, it's open for discussion if he has some kind of mental problem or not. He certainly looks and sounds as if he has one - he acts like a 5 year, despite being 18 or over - but we're never <span style="font-weight: bold;">told</span> anything that leads us to believe that. One of the creepiest moments of the movie is right at the beginning, after Johnny comes home from work with a new red dress for Lisa. She tries it on, and who should drop by but jolly boy Denny, who claims she looks very sexy. Johnny and Lisa then try to kick him out so they can go practice the horizontal tango, but Denny apparently can't take a hint. He sticks around, picks up an apple, and then sneaks into Johnny and Lisa's room, jumps in the bed with them and then, when try to kick him out again, he drops this bomb: "I like to watch you guys!". Way to go, sleazy perv Denny. Instead of being disgusted and horrified, Johnny and Lisa just laugh and push him out the door. And then... oh god, then...<br /><br />- The soft-core sex scenes. Yes, there are 4 unnecessarily long, incredibly cheesy, horrifiyingly shot sex scenes in this movie. They are the worst thing I've ever seen. Afterwards I felt like washing my eyes with soap. Naked Tommy Wiseau is quite a vision. He's strangely muscular, but he just looks frightening, like Frankenstein's monster. I don't know if it seems that his muscles are in all the wrong places or what, he's weird. And then there are prolonged shots of his naked ass when he's humping what's, apparently, Lisa's belly button (all I know is he's not doing it in the right place). Terrifying. As if this wasn't enough, all the sex scenes have this horrendous R&B soundtrack. These are the cheesiest damn songs you'll ever hear and they'll make you want to vomit, be warned. The sight of Tommy Wiseau's ass combined with the gut-churning R&B songs is a spirit crushing experience, but hopefully you'll be at least laughing hard enough to muffle the sugary disgust of the R&B tunes. There's also a highly amusing sex scene between Lisa and Mark on a spiral staircase. Comfortable! I can't help wondering how she felt with the edges of the stairs lodged between her ribs.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdu3LVAjg4roew1-rT6weZf8c2PlipLgI1m6XPyk38OaI6DHkcbs7rGJB8P19VyXiYK4BQxF2J27f-lsk9o8ymVoHbjWAiyKWemy3GvKIkHI5VwNgkmjFC-Jj-x07HneREuAuU/s1600-h/the-room_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdu3LVAjg4roew1-rT6weZf8c2PlipLgI1m6XPyk38OaI6DHkcbs7rGJB8P19VyXiYK4BQxF2J27f-lsk9o8ymVoHbjWAiyKWemy3GvKIkHI5VwNgkmjFC-Jj-x07HneREuAuU/s320/the-room_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431866067499290754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Tommy Wiseau learned how to frame his shots in the best soap operas.</span><br /></div><br />- The dropping of subjects. This movie is constantly bringing up problems and issues that never see any kind of resolution and instead are immediately dropped. I understand that Tommy Wiseau probably wanted to adress a lot of society's bigger problems now a days, - like cheating, drugs, cancer, job issues - but he just didn't know where to go with any of it. I already mentioned the cancer bit, but another famous instance is when Denny is bullied by a drug dealer of sorts (who I think was the best actor in the movie). This guy, Chris-R, points a gun at Denny and demands some money, but of course he's quickly subdued by our hero Tommy and his sleazy backstabber "best friend" Mark, leaving Denny to face the wrath and circular dialogue of Lisa's mother. Really, I swear, it's 5 minutes of the same dialogue just going back and forth. She asks what "that horrible man" wanted, Denny says he bought some drugs off him, she asks "WHAT KIND OF DRUGS?", Denny says it doesn't matter, she asks again, Denny says it doesn't matter again, and it goes on <span style="font-style: italic;">ad nauseum</span> until Denny screams "You're not my fucking mother!!", which is a great line in this movie. After this, they all just go to dinner or something, and Denny and his drug problem are never heard from again.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLGJSLny0S393KR38W73rzd6mKLcH2lIZ2NHwFg6NgHR949StbvVKd_OrGOwcyNKOXqree5Uzv1FcaagYtslkZd-GcBr0M_LPKDfva9-IQGxfNOu9ueHjG8hZE8fjizCEcB7S/s1600-h/the+room2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 193px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLGJSLny0S393KR38W73rzd6mKLcH2lIZ2NHwFg6NgHR949StbvVKd_OrGOwcyNKOXqree5Uzv1FcaagYtslkZd-GcBr0M_LPKDfva9-IQGxfNOu9ueHjG8hZE8fjizCEcB7S/s320/the+room2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431864607347716962" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">I forgot to mention that there's some rooftop scenes which were very clearly shot with a green screen.</span><br /></div><br />- The downright "WTF" moments, like the tuxedo football - in this one scene, Johnny and all his friends are shown dressed in tuxedos. You'd think it's Johnny wedding day - after all, why would they all be dressed like that in the same day - but it turns out it's not. Apparently the whole gang just likes to tux up once in a while and go out to play football. Yeah, they go to a dirty back alley to throw a football back and forth while dressed in tuxedos. Not to mention this one guy trips, falls and never appears on the movie again (so it's not only subjects being dropped, entire characters disappear suddendly). Also, why are there framed pictures of spoons on the Wiseau household? Why is the tv behind the couch? Why does Lisa's neck bulge? All these are questions left unanswered, and as such will haunt you for a long time.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwQlKlv8Ixo1S6iouz21zydUQ50r0VbAuoLzx_GkJ-2BO7rgAlejajWfOFdknLQfheG6moj-JnsHEMjHGgaz0Fv9SgQOUENGI100A9WzTv69Ku74Orlts0ikU9Ev-iAl_wjXRZ/s1600-h/the+room.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 343px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwQlKlv8Ixo1S6iouz21zydUQ50r0VbAuoLzx_GkJ-2BO7rgAlejajWfOFdknLQfheG6moj-JnsHEMjHGgaz0Fv9SgQOUENGI100A9WzTv69Ku74Orlts0ikU9Ev-iAl_wjXRZ/s320/the+room.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431864138611357794" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">It's "Tuxedo Thursday" in San Francisco.</span><br /></div><br />Well, this is already a pretty long sum up of what goes on in The Room. The movie is incredibly bad, but what's truly astonishing about it is how Tommy Wiseau managed to create not just a mind-bendingly awful movie... but a hilariously entertaining one. You'll be laughing from beginning to end. Tommy is now marketing this movie as a "Black Comedy", but there's no doubt in my mind that he only chose to do so after attending many screenings where he watched people crying with laughter - it's clear when you see the movie that any comedy that's happening is unintentional. Poor Wiseau, he set out to do a deep study of human nature and interactions and ended up with a laugh riot. Well, it's better than nothing, since the movie now has a widely recognized cult status and enjoys several screenings all throughout the USA every month, always with an emphasis on audience participation (it's common to see people throwing plastic spoons at the screen, throwing footballs around, and screaming "YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!!"). Its popularity just keeps growing, and amongst its fans are people like David Cross, Paul Rudd and Jonah Hill.<br /><br />I recommend, no, I <span style="font-weight: bold;">urge</span> you to see this movie if you have a good sense of humor. If not, you should stear clear, but if you're the kind of person who enjoys the "so bad it's good" kind of movies, you'll have a blast with this one. Trust me.<br /><br /><br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-55576438716893524792010-01-21T19:20:00.005+00:002010-01-21T19:28:23.887+00:00Zombie PaintingIn my quest of experimenting with acrylics, I made a painting of a zombie today. Yes, I broked the mold of my pixel paintings, I just felt like doing something different! And here's the little guy:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8PfO6bmC8wWRMgrP1-MEF6IwZF1dYd1t_zN0AznJB9W8C_0FqqqM4j2qnXW_T9HSnSocUh_Yge85glFbqjRBWMKHZT2BvX4nC6km0CenL1RYhE4m8EBhgQ-zaNK4chv0Yi0Zg/s1600-h/201001210010.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8PfO6bmC8wWRMgrP1-MEF6IwZF1dYd1t_zN0AznJB9W8C_0FqqqM4j2qnXW_T9HSnSocUh_Yge85glFbqjRBWMKHZT2BvX4nC6km0CenL1RYhE4m8EBhgQ-zaNK4chv0Yi0Zg/s320/201001210010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429276627817296770" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqPNkgKo-IeDNEVqWmWJjytv8wDfrxpd0gvMbOZ8D77PmpM8zWC8vK8XDhxHNCa5zpb1JC25_YtpIzwuimgxXlpPyuDedNsjvaJIKHgvGtOOiXp1NfEWCN_eIwzllKYXGJHWa/s1600-h/201001210017.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqPNkgKo-IeDNEVqWmWJjytv8wDfrxpd0gvMbOZ8D77PmpM8zWC8vK8XDhxHNCa5zpb1JC25_YtpIzwuimgxXlpPyuDedNsjvaJIKHgvGtOOiXp1NfEWCN_eIwzllKYXGJHWa/s320/201001210017.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429276623222041762" border="0" /></a>The photos are a little blurry, and I apologize. If any of you guys would like to have it, it's for sale! Just drop me a comment or an e-mail and give this poor zombie a nice home (and a nice set of brains for him to munch on).Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-47417694757209162792010-01-20T18:28:00.003+00:002010-01-20T18:33:46.722+00:00The Amazing Joy BuzzardsI'm back to being lazy in what concerns writing for this blog, and since it's been a while since I updated anything art-related, here is a finished piece I did the other day, a pinup of The Amazing Joy Buzzards - an extremely fun comic created by Hipp and Smith.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6ASKfksO0HrwSRyvpQrBdOJLE4zD37QYvkM7HCXus1r53TAshCS7-d5sSmoOvcibeKMbbMZIKVcDBTzAn_jgL6lG-_RT-lpWIKu66_xBg4WPjJN3RVlnk0ovbZDlyVMX31sF/s1600-h/AJB+by+cool-slayer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 341px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6ASKfksO0HrwSRyvpQrBdOJLE4zD37QYvkM7HCXus1r53TAshCS7-d5sSmoOvcibeKMbbMZIKVcDBTzAn_jgL6lG-_RT-lpWIKu66_xBg4WPjJN3RVlnk0ovbZDlyVMX31sF/s320/AJB+by+cool-slayer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428891725601402306" border="0" /></a><br />Enjoy, and give AJB a try!Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-14947566395813468202009-12-30T20:21:00.009+00:002009-12-31T13:23:56.652+00:00Top 20 Favorite Horror Movies of the DecadeThe end of the year is fast approaching, and that means it's time to make some tops. I've pondered about what kind of top to make for a while, and finally decided to make a Top 20 favorite horror movies of the decade, with the help of my brother, since it's by far our favorite movie genre and we watch a ton of horror movies. Notice this is not a list of the best movies, merely our favorites.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Making a top is kind of a tricky business, and so there are a lot of movies we ended up leaving out, for a variety of reasons: we decided not to include horror-comedies that relied more on humor than on horror (and so we were forced to leave the likes of <span style="font-style: italic;">Shaun of the Dead</span> - which I love dearly - and <span style="font-style: italic;">Zombieland</span> out), to only include movies we had both seen (so a lot of movies that are potentially great, like <span style="font-style: italic;">Ils</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Orphanage</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Á L'interieur</span> or <span style="font-style: italic;">Martyrs</span> don't fit the list, simply because we didn't get to see them yet), (and to try to stick to a more specific definition of horror, leaving out movies like <span style="font-style: italic;">Cloverfield</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Battle Royale</span> or <span style="font-style: italic;">Pan's Labyrinth</span>, that despite having horror imagery or moments, are not straight up horror). Still, we did this just for fun, so check out the top, and let us know with what you agree or disagree.<br /><br />20. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Eye - Gin gwai (2002)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB3kwexnhvXk9rDhXfGIgbtfRJZyuC-QhCCKvk9IeaBNNtLomVkFH3ygI3fqwOY2ETmS7GYlRRz3fdBDPRP9NMI2C8YmNboXYPIHutjb1JPE8V0JsO2hMaPd9T4J1_5GodOmdl/s1600-h/20+The+Eye.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB3kwexnhvXk9rDhXfGIgbtfRJZyuC-QhCCKvk9IeaBNNtLomVkFH3ygI3fqwOY2ETmS7GYlRRz3fdBDPRP9NMI2C8YmNboXYPIHutjb1JPE8V0JsO2hMaPd9T4J1_5GodOmdl/s320/20+The+Eye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129223181787698" border="0" /></a>The original, of course. It probably suffered from being another one in a wave of ghost movies that were popular in the early 00s, but it's an intensely atmospheric and creepy tale that definitely deserves to be watched.<br /></div><br />19. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Last House on the Left (2009)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggmsuZ-M-gXjTHDqpezq1zCwkV3zJeuGxQZtdPzuEIGovMegQwN8KbevmL49T_YHmiOrNetDaL-BfV9iUt2zJjGs9v8sotqepLvXYjsSPl1BKlg3N09NjiJtYdSgZitcPcnaYF/s1600-h/19+LHOTL.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggmsuZ-M-gXjTHDqpezq1zCwkV3zJeuGxQZtdPzuEIGovMegQwN8KbevmL49T_YHmiOrNetDaL-BfV9iUt2zJjGs9v8sotqepLvXYjsSPl1BKlg3N09NjiJtYdSgZitcPcnaYF/s320/19+LHOTL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129231351118514" border="0" /></a>One of those remakes that are actually good. Tense, dark and violent, the movie is well-acted and crafted, and deserving of a place on this list.<br /></div><br />18. <span style="font-style: italic;">Wrong Turn (2003)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuM1qzbfzmCckCYApidc9XAsCUZ0PPY3M6hu8ad8_xca9Ztj_8l97W-xWcUIq281siE3TD1PLTPZOnt7fGAT2NvOeEimuCuzm0aZSo0tI9wtBs0fpJIl-_46ZRWcEfhzBXtDm/s1600-h/18+wrong+turn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuM1qzbfzmCckCYApidc9XAsCUZ0PPY3M6hu8ad8_xca9Ztj_8l97W-xWcUIq281siE3TD1PLTPZOnt7fGAT2NvOeEimuCuzm0aZSo0tI9wtBs0fpJIl-_46ZRWcEfhzBXtDm/s320/18+wrong+turn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129234890335682" border="0" /></a>Yes, we've all seen the "canibalistic inbred mountain family" movie made more than once. But a solid cast, tense atmosphere, and grisly deaths make this one a little better than most. It's not groundbreaking, but it's almost guaranteed it'll deliver horror entertainment. We can forgive it for having spawned sequels, the last of which is downright unwatchable.<br /></div><br />17. <span style="font-style: italic;">May (2002)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHCvrliLbBqCNUhk1kzaiTuO7LEnhc9eA6E18M3cavjQRjqYJwOKMg1HcBb8BDHPb9yRJr4sTuAka4YNLE-CF30vTqnlfvlQ4aJbzyfsghSCnrwhR9mSpHK7Bned9NOI8iKSGw/s1600-h/17+may.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHCvrliLbBqCNUhk1kzaiTuO7LEnhc9eA6E18M3cavjQRjqYJwOKMg1HcBb8BDHPb9yRJr4sTuAka4YNLE-CF30vTqnlfvlQ4aJbzyfsghSCnrwhR9mSpHK7Bned9NOI8iKSGw/s320/17+may.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421368278742890402" border="0" /></a>Definitely one of those gems that deserve to be discovered by a bigger audience. Good story, great performances, especially by the lead, Angela Bettis, who manages to keep her character sympathetic even at the craziest parts of the movie. It's really best not to reveal too much about it, because it'll enrich the experience of watching it. Rent it, buy it, just make sure you give May a chance.<br /></div><br />16. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Others (2001)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc3ykDPbMnaMF_mylLKCLq6i6Y1Gq75EwPmtmKBrEqy9wvKX853CAaH70bHZfArGNfsCK6uPeWdi1xlEvHjKipIsK5UxhfMd7fZBLoRL72-A5MR7PuKQvo8Rxd9tMQVBqeV0L0/s1600-h/16+The+Others.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc3ykDPbMnaMF_mylLKCLq6i6Y1Gq75EwPmtmKBrEqy9wvKX853CAaH70bHZfArGNfsCK6uPeWdi1xlEvHjKipIsK5UxhfMd7fZBLoRL72-A5MR7PuKQvo8Rxd9tMQVBqeV0L0/s320/16+The+Others.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129246063229682" border="0" /></a>This is an extremely atmospheric movie, beautifully shot, and very creepy. It's also very subtle, and it will unsettle you without ever showing much.<br /></div><br />15. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTj1KFjaZio1_kqwTVefq8_BRmGtVwpvKnzhLq9Gys1Y2wbQ28YJoloIFFD_NTZpGKa9TNxxE0vzRnfLegMYVOdFhZpsbr557ufp_x70YIYGb99CXt3diI757TV21PmzO1IJbb/s1600-h/15+TCM.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTj1KFjaZio1_kqwTVefq8_BRmGtVwpvKnzhLq9Gys1Y2wbQ28YJoloIFFD_NTZpGKa9TNxxE0vzRnfLegMYVOdFhZpsbr557ufp_x70YIYGb99CXt3diI757TV21PmzO1IJbb/s320/15+TCM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129482832392674" border="0" /></a>A remake of the 1974 classic. A bit torture porn-ish at times, it does have some strong performances, especially by R. Lee Ermey, who plays the deranged sheriff, and all in all managed to be entertaining all throughout.<br /></div><br />14.<span style="font-style: italic;"> The House of the Devil (2009)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTz3mWgvIcGd7A6vs5NAmbLQJl8-zOSfDM-itb5NnzDI5gMkHODlzzpQdMyPbhP8kbtpQtQJ1Y9NeIKfn735KSNjQlCzvVzDz7cpU3_4Ghs-JVnzNAQE09iNhoSYW031udFGh/s1600-h/14+The+House+of+the+Devil.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTz3mWgvIcGd7A6vs5NAmbLQJl8-zOSfDM-itb5NnzDI5gMkHODlzzpQdMyPbhP8kbtpQtQJ1Y9NeIKfn735KSNjQlCzvVzDz7cpU3_4Ghs-JVnzNAQE09iNhoSYW031udFGh/s320/14+The+House+of+the+Devil.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129490872013890" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To me, this was one of the surprises of 2009. A highly atmospheric movie that is a throwback to 70's/early 80's horror. It's a slow burning movie that suffers from a rushed ending, but that didn't detract from the experience, and I highly recommend it (besides, I love all the posters for it). Maybe it should be a little higher on the list, but it does get tougher and tougher to pick favorites.<br /></div><br />13. The Mist (2007)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd_Cckuk4JJbSybaGTACiITOD7bp75bEqX4r7Lga9E8Lglk3zL2C1kPfaRgcR8Roscq_ntAJ4FkMumJajSGLieftQtbp7Wo8m5IR6RnPZo29XOqoPvvDef4Lgwjz-hXyVwNASb/s1600-h/13+The+Mist.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd_Cckuk4JJbSybaGTACiITOD7bp75bEqX4r7Lga9E8Lglk3zL2C1kPfaRgcR8Roscq_ntAJ4FkMumJajSGLieftQtbp7Wo8m5IR6RnPZo29XOqoPvvDef4Lgwjz-hXyVwNASb/s320/13+The+Mist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129495350642978" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A big-budget adaptation of a Stephen King story, The Mist had a strong cast and a very compelling script. I was totally immersed in this story and I was quite fascinated by the behavior of the group of people stuck in the supermarket.<br /></div><br />12. <span style="font-style: italic;">Saw (2004)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUBr1s794rOqkzHGcO1oGehDGJkE5Cf68wkibLcy7YcUssJgugG1Tb0mZ9V_GJPfsD7daUDe0Ig-P981MrGxxbhhx_nFBWFCxpmOSfRUjFy3pYiGu0d-SKjCzV_qp0OxYEJEn/s1600-h/12+Saw.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUBr1s794rOqkzHGcO1oGehDGJkE5Cf68wkibLcy7YcUssJgugG1Tb0mZ9V_GJPfsD7daUDe0Ig-P981MrGxxbhhx_nFBWFCxpmOSfRUjFy3pYiGu0d-SKjCzV_qp0OxYEJEn/s320/12+Saw.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129498944778226" border="0" /></a>I don't care what anyone says, the original Saw is a solid horror movie, which managed to both scare me and surprise me. Forget about all the sequels (most of which are horrendous), the first Saw definitely deserves a place on this list.<br /></div><br />11. <span style="font-style: italic;">Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09YRP6wOL5274-Htw_vEjtrEIC2Huu93X09IU6fF3aiyTybc8WUygMtGZux3K8G4X0D2giYRkPvR-5knm8kQ_Sa2fbnPm4fjaLCjE8S5uhwU7ICNBg1bSdOEdoSRzz6l-c2mF/s1600-h/11+Behind+the+Mask.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09YRP6wOL5274-Htw_vEjtrEIC2Huu93X09IU6fF3aiyTybc8WUygMtGZux3K8G4X0D2giYRkPvR-5knm8kQ_Sa2fbnPm4fjaLCjE8S5uhwU7ICNBg1bSdOEdoSRzz6l-c2mF/s320/11+Behind+the+Mask.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129502189807362" border="0" /></a>A very entertaining dissection of the nooks and crannies of the slasher genre, anyone who is a horror fan should enjoy this. It does have some comedic elements to it, but it doesn't fully rely on comedy, so it was still able to make its way onto the list.<br /></div><br />10. <span style="font-style: italic;">Dawn of the Dead (2004)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZFIdNLZ41zRsQBKaYL_qjiffpqoA4jEdJcdWeAjRbPQiGfDzpYIS6HTwEZU6nHKtSxG_Z_xFkwSruJ2laJFol5IzuaEJ0RHJjd2EzkoC1BijlAqCOIxf5E0gfM53NdB5LUzU/s1600-h/10+Dawn+of+the+Dead.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZFIdNLZ41zRsQBKaYL_qjiffpqoA4jEdJcdWeAjRbPQiGfDzpYIS6HTwEZU6nHKtSxG_Z_xFkwSruJ2laJFol5IzuaEJ0RHJjd2EzkoC1BijlAqCOIxf5E0gfM53NdB5LUzU/s320/10+Dawn+of+the+Dead.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129833090320802" border="0" /></a>Even with the fast zombies (that I know a lot of people don't like at all), this was a solid zombie movie that, despite being a little more focused on action than on scares, pleased a lot of horror fans worldwide. It was energetic and fast-paced. It was also a good remake, that never wanted to outshine the original material, but instead gave it a different spin. The opening scene remains one of my favorite openings of any horror movie.<br /></div><br />9. <span style="font-style: italic;">Splinter (2008)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRwuOhqoQerN5Wq7Zvpe_opqrqBrHSUdKUj6OcYIRXrCAeYG5M4Qy99RDd_Xf8Upl3GfX1fIU7dm3p0mVoWOSJQP2X20jZskgricc0ioAqM39Whjd6AjjOh3vlhSXLnGqPZBOd/s1600-h/9+Splinter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRwuOhqoQerN5Wq7Zvpe_opqrqBrHSUdKUj6OcYIRXrCAeYG5M4Qy99RDd_Xf8Upl3GfX1fIU7dm3p0mVoWOSJQP2X20jZskgricc0ioAqM39Whjd6AjjOh3vlhSXLnGqPZBOd/s320/9+Splinter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129839201985666" border="0" /></a>Some may disagree with this movie being in such a high position, or even in the list at all, but we greatly enjoyed it, and it serves as a testament how sometimes straight-to-DVD movies are better than big-budget, theatrical release horror (as was the case this year with movies like <span style="font-style: italic;">The Haunting of Molly Hartley</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Unborn</span>, which were beyond bad and still got significant theatrical runs).<br /></div><br />8. <span style="font-style: italic;">Trick 'r Treat (2008)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSJDWvcPKrUh5q6C2Wi2NrYXyBhKn3Fl1HDg-AziYQGhL6rjUBIBW4OcUbdymSd3lVUz7339lcZdMNuFk5FA1hcejDCSnsGiP3Zj8qhuz-UtT_Fk4J8aOlgngwe3MMuJ91RCR/s1600-h/8+Trick+r+Treat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQSJDWvcPKrUh5q6C2Wi2NrYXyBhKn3Fl1HDg-AziYQGhL6rjUBIBW4OcUbdymSd3lVUz7339lcZdMNuFk5FA1hcejDCSnsGiP3Zj8qhuz-UtT_Fk4J8aOlgngwe3MMuJ91RCR/s320/8+Trick+r+Treat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129845447003986" border="0" /></a>Another movie that I honestly don't understand why was kept under wraps for so long, never seeing a theatrical release. It's been a while since the last horror anthology film came along, and Trick 'r Treat is a very solid revival of that sub-genre, in which all tales intertwine and play along with the various traditions of Halloween. Bound to become an Halloween classic.<br /></div><br />7. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Ring (2003)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZxuxHoopCvG0lzUZklfiAqPo-ONDZf3zZF6WhoHndh7wpD2-TLGftsG_Pr_cd1JiFXnXnvLT_bCJhwB9XT9QbCQNgS4mhdCm4EoPNraO9XheKhk_oPsauhb8Onv3dpbSMb8P/s1600-h/7+The+Ring.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZxuxHoopCvG0lzUZklfiAqPo-ONDZf3zZF6WhoHndh7wpD2-TLGftsG_Pr_cd1JiFXnXnvLT_bCJhwB9XT9QbCQNgS4mhdCm4EoPNraO9XheKhk_oPsauhb8Onv3dpbSMb8P/s320/7+The+Ring.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129852307548450" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the rare cases when we prefer the remake over the original. It was tense, it was unsettling, creepy and scary. And on top of that, it was elegant and mature. It may have spawned a landslide of J-Horror remakes, but to this day it remains the best re-telling of the original story, and a modern horror classic.<br /></div><br />6. <span style="font-style: italic;">Dead End (2003)</span><br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIAz4RKVg0vYM67VHdOL5ANXGQiWVAwEoZ_0hmbIDcexrl1unHU3pRdnugzhQfT6y9myS8BN0NnC6-hC_GSouPbe9m_vHNDZjqz0q4zhQQlQtpQdfNgO-whV03aOpZA7tdbQ9d/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 338px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIAz4RKVg0vYM67VHdOL5ANXGQiWVAwEoZ_0hmbIDcexrl1unHU3pRdnugzhQfT6y9myS8BN0NnC6-hC_GSouPbe9m_vHNDZjqz0q4zhQQlQtpQdfNgO-whV03aOpZA7tdbQ9d/s320/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421129854782903634" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A family on their way to Christmas dinner decide to take a short cut. That's the premise of this movie, and that might get you thinking you've seen it done a hundred times before, but this is actually a pretty original take on the "wrong way" movies, with a hint of Twilight Zone, a solid cast, and gripping plot. The ending and the way it relies on twists was a bit disappoint, but the ride there was great.<br /></div><br />5. <span style="font-style: italic;">28 Days Later (2002)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBwZmIaLtoJKCZ7j270JUmbWQ-VScToCHqGusBuFUtiARae24IA2FnHmKr7GdttqWAkLhO2ZCVRxapz7OieC4sMMSuY0lUOnDhE0dMrqXrikP5xT6sEgbPZz-QJokJWNNRxaL/s1600-h/5+28+Days+Later.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 172px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBwZmIaLtoJKCZ7j270JUmbWQ-VScToCHqGusBuFUtiARae24IA2FnHmKr7GdttqWAkLhO2ZCVRxapz7OieC4sMMSuY0lUOnDhE0dMrqXrikP5xT6sEgbPZz-QJokJWNNRxaL/s320/5+28+Days+Later.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421130555858651730" border="0" /></a>While technically speaking this is not a zombie movie (it's more an "infected" movie), this compelling flick marked the return of the zombie sub-genre, and, not only that, still remains one of the best entries on it. Unrelenting, vicious and a fantastic horror movie.<br /></div><br />4. <span style="font-style: italic;">Drag me to Hell (2009)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja_mzKl7EVb1PtgWH_Mi2zjeMztYdwoskb_qei_21036SQjw9UHdfEcFWi29oB8B_2mot5mTTMx2qBPKiNJgXHGTL30JYBbdorDeqUjASB3q6LUPKjPIupM5lgLOwg3sdGgX6D/s1600-h/4+Drag+me+to+Hell.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja_mzKl7EVb1PtgWH_Mi2zjeMztYdwoskb_qei_21036SQjw9UHdfEcFWi29oB8B_2mot5mTTMx2qBPKiNJgXHGTL30JYBbdorDeqUjASB3q6LUPKjPIupM5lgLOwg3sdGgX6D/s320/4+Drag+me+to+Hell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421130560565562690" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Hands down my favorite horror movie of 2009, Drag me to Hell marks the return of Sam Raimi to the horror genre. His directing style is almost like a character in the movie. Raimi combines horror and gross-out humor like almost no other (I wish Peter Jackson would also return to his roots!), and the result is an amazingly fun movie that makes us laugh and gag in turns.<br /></div><br />3. <span style="font-style: italic;">Paranormal Activity (2007)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvBTp7KCG5mU1TzkxkvQbZU7EP3VjM3nbyPacB-t5YIyaIHHb9DUWI3f-D3o1v7lsw75A95BSQVV9yZDxGqYvslOPUgl8DrX9xKX6fMUBGd1dtpOCUahChrT-wWM-mJYT_pdZ/s1600-h/3+Paranormal+Activity.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 185px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvBTp7KCG5mU1TzkxkvQbZU7EP3VjM3nbyPacB-t5YIyaIHHb9DUWI3f-D3o1v7lsw75A95BSQVV9yZDxGqYvslOPUgl8DrX9xKX6fMUBGd1dtpOCUahChrT-wWM-mJYT_pdZ/s320/3+Paranormal+Activity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421130561666554130" border="0" /></a>I already discussed this movie at length so I won't do it again. All I will say is: this movie scared the bejeezus out of me, and so it definitely deserves to be on this list.<br /></div><br />2. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Descent (2005)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-i4L8taC4NZtIPJE6sEILsO_RUgKCXqaqbMl-FkJLoFq58qoDdSAu0OffNpf3yKcVmPRZfGegGGv73cdtgATUS3X3tkhsqal_PYuIyGQSa5A6Q5LYpMsVSzArTFrdviZ53Ru2/s1600-h/2+The+Descent.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-i4L8taC4NZtIPJE6sEILsO_RUgKCXqaqbMl-FkJLoFq58qoDdSAu0OffNpf3yKcVmPRZfGegGGv73cdtgATUS3X3tkhsqal_PYuIyGQSa5A6Q5LYpMsVSzArTFrdviZ53Ru2/s320/2+The+Descent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421130566368345778" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the most claustrophobic movies I ever saw. This movie manages to be tense and scary at almost every turn, it literally keeps you in the edge of your seat. Filled with dread and very unforgiving, this is horror at its best, from this, or any, decade.<br /></div><br />1. <span style="font-style: italic;">[REC] (2007)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11zOhaGbuKvWun8-JWEEKrmF2MQTS2LR9E4ojy7tyDkWfZ_KVec8LX9VqY_DI4QOh0h_NziPKIu0FQTa0v972gj8NsLGfE_4HingF40JQV9kdQ9zTaq4PhUP5r7W-1uUgyBq6/s1600-h/1+REC.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11zOhaGbuKvWun8-JWEEKrmF2MQTS2LR9E4ojy7tyDkWfZ_KVec8LX9VqY_DI4QOh0h_NziPKIu0FQTa0v972gj8NsLGfE_4HingF40JQV9kdQ9zTaq4PhUP5r7W-1uUgyBq6/s320/1+REC.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421130572805367538" border="0" /></a>If the hand-held camera style was ever used to its full potential, this movie was the one that did it. It throws you right into the middle of an apartment building where a zombie outbreak is taking place, and the acting is so good that it's easy to forget you're watching a movie. From then on, it doesn't stop. It may not be the most thought-provoking movie, but it's incredibly visceral and, most of all, it is scary and it'll stay with you long after it's over.<br /><br />And so we conclude this list. Like I said in the beginning, there are some movies that didn't make the cut for one or other reason, but there are plenty other horror movies that were good this decade. Let's hope the next brings us more of the good, and less of the bad!<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Happy New Year to everyone!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-15387284370333365882009-12-09T10:36:00.004+00:002009-12-09T13:09:21.806+00:00Paranormal ActivityAs you know, I don't really like reviewing most current movies I see in my blog. I think there are far better writers and reviewers out there that undertake the task of tackling the newest box office hits, and so I don't really need to do it. I prefer to write my occasional review on old or poorly known movies that people may enjoy knowing about.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, sometimes I feel like breaking the cycle and this is one of those cases. What caused it? The much hyped and talked about Paranormal Activity.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sitedomau.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/paranormal552x817_thumb2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 355px; height: 526px;" src="http://www.sitedomau.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/paranormal552x817_thumb2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I already mentioned, this movie was super hyped. It reminded a lot of people of the Blair Witch Project, a comparison pushed even further by the hand-held camera style that most of the movie was shot on (although, in my opinion, the publicity for Blair Witch was a little more complex - the directors even created a documentary totally separated from the movie, created all these websites and basically bet a lot of resources into tricking people to believing the events they would eventually see on camera were real). But, to be honest, I disconnected from a lot of the hype. I'm not one to jump in bandwagons, and when I start hearing about a movie left and right I get really turned off to it most of the times. Especially when the movie gets branded with labels such as "scariest movie of all time", like this one was. It pretty much just makes me want to dismiss it as a bag of bullshit. I didn't even see the full trailer. Still, when the movie opened in theaters in Portugal and opinions started rolling in on twitter, I got curious again. A couple of people there mentioned how they thought the movie could be more effective if watched at home... and that, coupled with me being a little sick, led to me watching this movie at home, in the dark. I was pretty torn about it, because I knew the version I had featured a different ending from the current version, but curiosity just spoke louder, so I settled in with my boyfriend in the bedroom and we popped in Paranormal Activity.<br />I think most of you are probably familiar with the setup: Micah and Katie are a young couple who started living together a little while ago. They start experiencing an array of weird events in their house and, since Katie reveals that she has suffered paranormal experiences on and off since she was a kid , Micah decides to go out and get himself a camera to document whatever is happening in their house. He gets a full set up together in the bedroom, not just the camera but devices to capture EVP and all sorts of gadgets like that. What we see is what they got on camera over the course of about 3 weeks.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gointothemovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/still-from-paranormal-activity.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 203px;" src="http://gointothemovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/still-from-paranormal-activity.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>You guys know I love horror movies, and I watch all sorts, from every subgenre out there, old, new, doesn't matter: I watch them all, I watch a LOT of horror movies. Not that much scares me anymore. But Paranormal Activity managed to scare me. Maybe it's because I'm a little bit of a scaredy cat in real life, when it comes to weird noises around the house and stuff like that. That door creeking, those faint footsteps you can't really place, that bump you think you hear... all of that freaks me out. I mean, I'm not really a believer in paranormal things, but it freaks me out and I actually love to read books about it, or watch documentaries, whatever I can get. I guess I like being scared. Well, along with me, I think a lot of people share the same deep-rooted feelings of being alone, freaked out in their house by unidentified noises, and that's where I think Paranormal Activity comes in as effective. The things you will see will make you wonder , deep down, if it has ever happened to you but you just don't know about it because you didn't set up a camera in your bedroom to record it. That, and the unseen, are the biggest things playing in favor for this movie. It was effective for me, it might not be for other people but to me it was.<br />The movie develops pretty slowly. In the beginning you kind of think "Well, that's not really that scary", but things definitely take a turn for the worse and it becomes increasingly terrifying, in a very effective way. Katie becomes desperate and Micah becomes borderline idiotic, making bad decision after another. I almost wish his character wasn't as full-blown alpha-male as he was, but well. They were believable to me, they may not have been the best actors ever, but they mostly came across as a believable couple. Katie's friend, for example, didn't work well for me at all, and whenever she was on screen she kind of took me off the movie - fortunatelly she was only there for a short time.<br />The filming style worked very well for me. I know a lot of people have problems with the hand-held camera, but I honestly believe if this movie was made any other way it wouldn't have been as effective. There's not a lot of shaky cam because plenty of times the camera is set on a tripod, so you get a stable shot. And, when the characters are carrying the camera around the house, you're actually scared again by what could appear when the camera is swiping left to right, to the dark corners of the house. The camera didn't detract from the movie at all, in fact it contributed a lot to the feeling of reality of the movie. I can tell you that watching it with my boyfriend, in a set up pretty similar to that of the movie, in the dark, it almost felt voyeuristic, almost like we were really watching a lost home movie from a real couple. It made it all feel very palpable, very real. And very creepy.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thisguyoverhere.com/horror/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/paranormal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 248px;" src="http://thisguyoverhere.com/horror/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/paranormal.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />You know those internet games that were pretty popular a few years back, where you were asked to focus on a photograph, or look for something, or listen to a song very attentively, just to stand there like a jackass for 30 seconds and then have something jump at you? That scared the shit out of you, didn't it. Yeah, it scared the shit out of me too. A lot of parts in this movie reminded me of that - especially the parts at night, in the bedroom. The director managed to create such tension, you're just there thinking "oh my god, something's going to happen right NOW", but then it's never a cheap jumpscare, like you'd expect. It's just continuing tension, and anxiety. You're bracing yourself for that scare, but then it's never what you think. It really gets on your nerves and you only imagine how those people can even sleep in that fucking room, I know I wouldn't be able to sleep. There is some fantastic, I mean <span style="font-weight: bold;">fantastic</span> creepy imagery here. Things so simple that you think for sure someone must have used this before - but no one did, and it works perfectly. I won't say what it is because I don't want to spoil it, you'll have to see it and try to guess what I mean.<br />There were a few things that I didn't like all that much. To everyone who's seen it, the "Diane" plot point and the way it's shown in the movie was overkill for me. That took me right out of the movie - up to that point everything felt pretty real to me, but that didn't look real to me and it made me think of another movie, which is not good, when you're reminded of a movie that is superior to the one you're watching. But that's probably all I can think of, off the top of my head. I've heard people mention pacing issues, which I can understand, but to me it worked perfectly, I wasn't bored for a second.<br />The movie ending I saw was the original one, not the Paramount/Spielberg cut, though I have now seen both endings. Both are good - but I don't know if it's because I saw it first or if it's geniunely better, but I lean towards prefering the original ending. They're both good, shocking and very bleak.<br />All in all, I really, really liked this movie. I don't know if it lives up to the hype, but it comes damn close and it sure deserves the recognition that it's getting. It's pretty remarkable that a movie made with only 11.000 dollars is getting a worldwide distribution, and I hope it continues succeeding at the box office, because it's probably one of the best horror films to have come out this year, or in the last 10 years for that matter. It IS scary. Watch it in the dark, try watching it alone, in your house, and see if it doesn't stick with you. You'll be wanting to sleep with the door closed. 4 out of 5 stars from me.<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-19955280073275400522009-11-04T16:01:00.005+00:002009-11-04T16:23:50.501+00:00Geocaching T-shirt<div style="text-align: justify;">Do you like Geocaching? Do you like cool t-shirts (and, hopefully, the show LOST)? Well, that's awesome, because this t-shirt is now available for pre-order:<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD4DmOhxygXrHi4WfqF08wGan-sks7WE-1DcexIhaAgl0aLMQi30I5rK4RlDSKkqUn_v7LqTNOOu_gEW7zdCezr19DinRMWOyB6PhsXEr1mfL4iKRO_iTkSJf9vnPc04tXtEyX/s1600-h/40724131.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 366px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD4DmOhxygXrHi4WfqF08wGan-sks7WE-1DcexIhaAgl0aLMQi30I5rK4RlDSKkqUn_v7LqTNOOu_gEW7zdCezr19DinRMWOyB6PhsXEr1mfL4iKRO_iTkSJf9vnPc04tXtEyX/s400/40724131.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400280269103192354" border="0" /></a>Good ol' Jack is not lost, contrary to everyone's beliefs, he's just having some fun geocaching. Created by me and <a href="http://kasovitz.deviantart.com/">Kasovitz</a>, this t-shirt will be available in sizes S, M and L, and stay tuned for a girl's version of this tee. The price is 10.90€, plus shipping, and if you'd like to order one, you can leave me a comment right here, e-mail me at shirakawa_otori@yahoo.com, or go to <a href="http://multitudo.blogs.sapo.pt/">this page</a> or e-mail ferreiranet@msn.com.<br /><br />Hope you like it!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-84971181199423378422009-10-30T15:14:00.005+00:002009-10-30T15:53:55.479+00:00Halloween Picks 2009 - Splinter (2008)<div style="text-align: justify;">A lot of horror films are released directly to DVD these days, and most of them are a heaping pile of crap. It's tough to search through all these movies and find one that is remotely well done and worthy of your time, but there are certainly some gems out there that deserve to be found, and last year's Splinter is one of those movies.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgha-__xmt1AixNYYDFRv1qVIVy3L75uuzjU8XQSOK3l0meIVfGZKrCVe7QsUCuybNpBjpDxiR8MGHzb0-qXgjmYLFpe8HYzLknKPT0qJjdRoKbnQNJc8VoH8zGLAb9dJ1iodCQ/s1600-h/splinter-horror-movie-poster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgha-__xmt1AixNYYDFRv1qVIVy3L75uuzjU8XQSOK3l0meIVfGZKrCVe7QsUCuybNpBjpDxiR8MGHzb0-qXgjmYLFpe8HYzLknKPT0qJjdRoKbnQNJc8VoH8zGLAb9dJ1iodCQ/s400/splinter-horror-movie-poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398414674256840562" border="0" /></a>Directed by Toby Wilkins, Splinter starts with a sympathetic couple, Seth and and Polly, who are celebrating their anniversary with a camping trip. Since this is a horror movie, you know things have to start going wrong, and they do, when Seth and Polly are carjacked by Dennis and his cokehead girlfriend Lacey. Turns out that being crajacked really ruins the mood, and, obviously, having two armed robbers in your car is enough to disturb your focus on the road. They end up running over a dog. They stop to check on the animal, but what they find is more of a mangled mass of hair and blood, with black splinters sticking out of it. Unfortunately, contact with this dog gets one of them infected with the spikey-like thing (turning into a sort of zombiefied, violent, bloody, walking sea-urchin) and, soon, they have to barricate themselves on a gas station and try to avoid getting infected by the splinters.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWw73BJtnvTam2PH4SzBR-ixzqs8nas4idhGhvZsR-gXyR2k1hMgcJF39GcmycQ-ObYeVohfRd4q9TV4TrBU-JHvUdQDQT1wABqEZlX1ukjdU3OeyJnqlZBU5p3E9OOsOMTEAs/s1600-h/splinter-movie-560.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWw73BJtnvTam2PH4SzBR-ixzqs8nas4idhGhvZsR-gXyR2k1hMgcJF39GcmycQ-ObYeVohfRd4q9TV4TrBU-JHvUdQDQT1wABqEZlX1ukjdU3OeyJnqlZBU5p3E9OOsOMTEAs/s400/splinter-movie-560.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398414675205853682" border="0" /></a>The movie starts out pretty slowly, but once it gets going it doesn't stop. Since the story is set mostly in a gas station, with only a handful of characters, it could get pretty boring, but the characters are actually interesting and well developed enough to keep you interested. They also don't make stageringly dumb decisions, like so many horror movie characters: their ideas make sense most of the time, and they really work with all they've got to keep the monster at bay. The setting is also effective, because imagining yourself alone, in a gas station in the middle of nowhere, trying to keep a splinter monster from killing you, is pretty scary.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Effects-wise, the movie is a low budget, but pulls off the gore really well. When a person is infected with the parasite, you'll see bones break, joints bend in ways they weren't meant too, bodies cracking, and it'll make you squirm in your seat. All of that is really well achieved, especially keeping in mind this is an indie, low-budget film.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yB4xKoAyAX0t9SXfESol4XTcNesIbsodQJloVlJdgXLo7C6cRyQgZeTGz1PGhAmsTyAQ-Kk8CVsW23wt1kV91G6mIal12bGG_l0gfmLwYToCRlydm0Nu6JDyE1w2ZqKoPSFj/s1600-h/splinter-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yB4xKoAyAX0t9SXfESol4XTcNesIbsodQJloVlJdgXLo7C6cRyQgZeTGz1PGhAmsTyAQ-Kk8CVsW23wt1kV91G6mIal12bGG_l0gfmLwYToCRlydm0Nu6JDyE1w2ZqKoPSFj/s400/splinter-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398414677570976066" border="0" /></a>To sum it up, Splinter is a great indie effort, and deserves its praise. With so many washed up horror remakes coming out these days, it's refreshing to see an original horror movie that, although it has its flaws, manages to present solid characters, a suspenseful story and a disgusting monster. It gets 3.5 out of 5 Splinters from me.<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-73205853117346406352009-10-28T21:57:00.003+00:002009-10-28T22:19:20.986+00:00Halloween Picks 2009 - Wild Zero (2000)<div style="text-align: justify;">Asian cinema is a wonderful thing. When you think you've seen it all, asian cinema comes around and kicks you in the ass with all kinds of weird stuff you never thought you'd see in this lifetime. I've had plenty of "WTF" moments related to asian cinema - notably with Takashi Miike's trilogy Dead or Alive, or with any of Takashi Miike's movies, for that matter - but I don't think any of those were as much fun as Wild Zero.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://hallucinet.free.fr/IMG/random/wildZero.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 335px; height: 475px;" src="http://hallucinet.free.fr/IMG/random/wildZero.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This movie is just unbelievable from start to finish. It's a rock and roll movie with zombies, aliens and everything else in between. There's no real point in explaining the plot, because that doesn't really matter. Guitar wolf and his band just basically walk around being the coolest, most bad-ass guys ever. Besides, this movie is so over the top that it's not constrained by vague notions of plot. It laughs in the face of good editing and logical continuity. All you need to know is that this movie has loud music, cheesy acting, zombies, aliens, exploding heads, guitar swords and shuriken-like guitar picks. To quote a reviewer from Spill.com: " It honestly doesn’t get better than this! It’s like watching Rock 'n Roll High School if the filmmaker was on acid while directing". It is stupid, yes, but the good kind of stupid. It'll make you laugh and it'll make you wonder just what the hell you're seeing. And that's why I recommend it - while it's not a horror movie, it has horror elements (the main element of the "plot" is a zombie plague, after all) and it's pretty hilarious and crazy, so it's a guaranteed good time. I give it 3.5 out of 5 guitars.<br /><br />ROCK AND ROLL!<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-78520057878923444322009-10-24T14:07:00.006+01:002009-10-24T14:35:17.883+01:00Halloween Picks 2009 - Demons (1985)<div style="text-align: justify;">Well, it's that time of the year again. The temperature drops, the leaves fall and you start feeling an uncontrollable urge to watch horror movies. Yes, Halloween steadily approaches, and, seeing as last year my Halloween Picks section was somewhat successful, I decided I'd do it again this year. Except I'll just make one recommendation per post - time is a precious thing, and this days I haven't had a lot of it free to spend blogging. So let's dive right in into the first recommendation, which is...<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAZ5R6E5z07CjWnFu-7dLs6mMTXG6D34mmk0FM9NPCnwhAKAlfqZUfEkBCNVfEGABZ27Wer8UH5RiymPRqweXb767hs6NsrCEXWjgq5ljxOr7LaQc18DwNOEQ0N1ZVSdFJwKBG/s1600-h/poster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAZ5R6E5z07CjWnFu-7dLs6mMTXG6D34mmk0FM9NPCnwhAKAlfqZUfEkBCNVfEGABZ27Wer8UH5RiymPRqweXb767hs6NsrCEXWjgq5ljxOr7LaQc18DwNOEQ0N1ZVSdFJwKBG/s400/poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396153332529387858" border="0" /></a>Dèmoni (in english, Demons) Lamberto Bava's 1985 classic.<br />The story is quite simple: a group of people go to the cinema to see a movie about a group of young adults that find a tomb and, with it, a prophecy to the end of the world. The catch is that what is happening on screen, soon starts happening in real life, and these people find themselves trapped in the theater, with more and more of them turning into revolting, violent demons (one bite, one scratch was enough to turn anyone into a demon).<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXOcS4M4DM_1kAMsTvR-T_TEpAWRd-vPeGbpChuGKTEyvWBtQLf7Bd67ZJvre0F3U3YPlL0fijW2MLC3oQ6HKMS1TRPkKBDu8H5w3B2ARk2DcPR3VxiywjvM9dTzHzP6JMXpZT/s1600-h/demoni_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXOcS4M4DM_1kAMsTvR-T_TEpAWRd-vPeGbpChuGKTEyvWBtQLf7Bd67ZJvre0F3U3YPlL0fijW2MLC3oQ6HKMS1TRPkKBDu8H5w3B2ARk2DcPR3VxiywjvM9dTzHzP6JMXpZT/s400/demoni_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396158801085058130" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Simple enough, and maybe that's why it works. We never get an explanation as to why these people turned into demons in the first place, what's behind the strange mask in the lobby or how exactly they got trapped in the theater in a matter of minutes - but none of that matters. The action on screen is so unrelenting that all this never crosses your mind. It's just craziness on top on more craziness. This is a splatterfest in the best sense of the word, the gore level is crazy: it's a rollercoaster of mutilations and gross-out moments, with pus and blood flying everywhere on screen. This movie preceded some of my favorite humorous gorefests, like Evil Dead 2 and Braindead, and it's easy to see that those movies drew some kind of inspiration from Demons.<br />The characters are an interesting blend of people: we get the somewhat likeable main characters (the two girls, Cheryl and Kathy, and the two boys they meet at the cinema) , and in addition to them we get such colorful characters as a bickering couple, a blind man and his cheating, shameless wife, and, my favorite, a pimp that I swear is straight out of a grindhouse movie. His acting and his lines were always delivered in such an over the top way that he was incredibly funny and I found myself rooting for him to stick around for longer.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWMQsI0ewM1qH3e6uZrR78dCbR5_8EupENYPkEBP4upRiclc9aW7etbK7CTCakMrL3KbTzo_qZ0hQhdA7odJ6eOB3Rmh2mwk_ZpR6Xb9wvBAprbn9rau8IBhIaE1JjWwkIdEq/s1600-h/demons-top-stairs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWMQsI0ewM1qH3e6uZrR78dCbR5_8EupENYPkEBP4upRiclc9aW7etbK7CTCakMrL3KbTzo_qZ0hQhdA7odJ6eOB3Rmh2mwk_ZpR6Xb9wvBAprbn9rau8IBhIaE1JjWwkIdEq/s400/demons-top-stairs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396158802874767698" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The plot is, of course, sort of ridiculous, but the movie is so repulsive, hilarious and exciting that it doesn't really matter. It's rare this days to see a horror movie so incredibly fun an entertaining (Drag me to Hell is the most recent example that comes to mind, despite it being fairly tame when compared to Demons), so this is a welcomed trip back to the non-sensical hilarity of the 80s.<br />If you like gore and 80s style horror - look no further. I guarantee Demons will be right up your alley. It gets 4 out of 5 Demons from me.<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-49313653014600538292009-10-08T21:05:00.006+01:002009-10-08T21:44:00.357+01:00(500) Days of Summer<div style="text-align: justify;">Last weekend me and Cosmic watched a total of 3 movies: <span style="font-style: italic;">Sexy Killer - Morirás por ella</span> on Saturday, <span style="font-style: italic;">(500) Days of Sum</span>mer on Sunday, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Dragon Wars </span>on Monday. While the first one was a nice little horror/comedy romp from the neighboring country of Spain and the third one was a senseless, ilogical turd with giant snakes and dragons, the middle one was just right. (500) Days of Summer not only immediately won a place in my list of favorites from this year, it is in my permanent list of favorites, period.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> In a time where Hollywood craps out counteless vapid, empty and stupid romantic movies a year, it's movies like (500) Days of Summer that remind you that some filmmakers do have a beating heart and actually know how humans act and feel. This movie was funny, moving, and above all, relatable. I think that anyone can see this movie and find something that speaks to them: be it the elation of falling and being in love, the pain of loss and unrequited love, and everything in between (I know this all sounds horribly cheesy and lame, but you couldn't be more wrong). The writing was fantastic, the acting was really good, with great chemistry between the leads (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel), and the non-linear way the movie is "told" works awesomelly well.<br /><br />I can't talk about this movie without mentioning the soundtrack, that is absolutely brilliant. I haven't stopped listening to it. With a mix of Regina Spektor, The Smiths, Wolfmother, The Temper Trap and Hall & Oates (yes, <span style="font-style: italic;">those</span> Hall & Oates) the soundtrack takes you on a journey through the movie again and again.<br /><br />This all being said, I needed to do a little drawing of this movie, so I quickly whipped this up.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNnnv7k551nggCJOsLoLm-bUKDmou-ZZHdV1y__bKTJrUb4eU0NXmfNlO4Vw3OjjwPQ7eZiykSm0DG0GlC2crg9LPl2_D4mpitoOZXf6DYE2IxDfnFpViESCTWDh4UaB5Qlayl/s1600-h/500+days+of+Summer+no+text.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNnnv7k551nggCJOsLoLm-bUKDmou-ZZHdV1y__bKTJrUb4eU0NXmfNlO4Vw3OjjwPQ7eZiykSm0DG0GlC2crg9LPl2_D4mpitoOZXf6DYE2IxDfnFpViESCTWDh4UaB5Qlayl/s400/500+days+of+Summer+no+text.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390329264541989858" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The likenesses are super-off, but I had to get it out of my system!<br /><br />All in all, (500) Days of Summer was a beautifully crafted, tender movie about love. I definitely recommend this to everyone, even if you're not convinced by my pseudo-review: this movie deserves to be seen and praised.<br /><br />And allow me to be cheesy now...<br />I love you, <a href="http://cosmic-rocket-man.deviantart.com/">Cosmic</a> <3 "You make my dreams come true!" :)<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-89475631124284319902009-10-01T10:24:00.004+01:002009-10-01T10:32:12.084+01:00D-9<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>I went to see District 9 last weekend.<br />The whole hype around the movie made me a little fearful. I thought that it probably wouldn't live up to its expectations and it would just ultimately disappoint. But boy, was I wrong. District 9 turned out to be a fantastic sci-fi movie, with a great story to tell and some of the best action sequences of the last years. More astounding even when you realize this movie was made with "only" 30 million dollars: the special effects are fantastic and really pull you into the movie. You actually get the feeling that these can creatures exist outside the screen, something that rarely happens with something created by CGI. I don't mean to write a full review, just say that I enjoyed it a LOT, and that I definitely recommend it. It was one of the best movies to hit the big screen this year, that's for sure.<br /><br />Since I liked it so much, I couldn't help to put pencil to the paper and do a little sketch. I know, it's a bit lazy... but it's all I had time for. Enjoy!<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5E92HwUhVVR8xazlzNyEMDihsVegqW_3LkwgIvC10BzxitLXsnYzFbq-cK_mzWKPut22oXGmPoz9oK6M7YkEpOKTHgrLQIluTXzbR63pFATxAkCXd8bmCHL-ctuvSpGq2-rw/s1600-h/christopher+by+cool-slayer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5E92HwUhVVR8xazlzNyEMDihsVegqW_3LkwgIvC10BzxitLXsnYzFbq-cK_mzWKPut22oXGmPoz9oK6M7YkEpOKTHgrLQIluTXzbR63pFATxAkCXd8bmCHL-ctuvSpGq2-rw/s400/christopher+by+cool-slayer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387561558329585714" border="0" /></a>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8123999.post-85305707701496397152009-09-19T00:14:00.005+01:002009-09-19T00:39:03.722+01:00Zona Negra @ MOTELxI know, I know, I've been abandoning the blog again. I don't mean to do it, but I've been so incredibly busy with college work that I can hardly breathe, let alone blog. But this deserved to be posted.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">On September 4th the official release of the illustration/comic project Zona Negra, in association with MOTELx - Lisbon International Horror Movie Festival, took place. I was very excited to be able to attend, and it surpassed my expectations. Not only did the presentation go very well, but I got to meet a fantastic group of talented people that were, on top of talented, extremely nice and fun to talk with. The whole experience boosted my will to improve myself, to learn more and draw better, so I can keep showcasing my work alongside other artists. I'm very happy to have contributed, and all I wish is to keep contributing to Zona in the future.<br /><br />Here are some photos from the event:<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLX6a6RkktOL7adsx_656pGwTo22AGVsEYBoOutgP_8ImvMxNLj7Jn_HFqHyaOkCXmf2dQe3VMJ-71U4Ay_CTeNlairpA55UEy7_AWrZ-NndTbhi_vjw7jA-GpicaDAA0Mj5ND/s1600-h/Pedro+e+Carla2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLX6a6RkktOL7adsx_656pGwTo22AGVsEYBoOutgP_8ImvMxNLj7Jn_HFqHyaOkCXmf2dQe3VMJ-71U4Ay_CTeNlairpA55UEy7_AWrZ-NndTbhi_vjw7jA-GpicaDAA0Mj5ND/s400/Pedro+e+Carla2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382952116162003906" border="0" /></a>This is boyfriend <a href="http://cosmic-rocket-man.deviantart.com">Cosmic</a> and me, paying attention to the speaker. Notice our geek t-shirts. I even look like I could do the truffle shuffle.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbMQSe-LAvoCJPLQtTo01sv8SC8wBab3hnLrJtC5Ka4SSpfVF7p8CKnX0ukLM3i0422qcdqx3jmlelpeHYUc2LzECBFwC6vTY-_PZL1muceDeh-GYH16TNQfeJdtJ9AqKMYop/s1600-h/apresentaZN-01-4-9-2009web+names.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbMQSe-LAvoCJPLQtTo01sv8SC8wBab3hnLrJtC5Ka4SSpfVF7p8CKnX0ukLM3i0422qcdqx3jmlelpeHYUc2LzECBFwC6vTY-_PZL1muceDeh-GYH16TNQfeJdtJ9AqKMYop/s400/apresentaZN-01-4-9-2009web+names.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382952104099117346" border="0" /></a>Unfortunately not all the authors could be present, but this was the group at the presentation. Fom left to right: <a href="www.razael.synthasite.com">Raz</a>, <a href="http://cosmic-rocket-man.deviantart.com">Cosmic</a>, <a href="http://cool-slayer.deviantart.com">me</a>, <a href="www.andreoliveirabd.blogspot.com">André Oliveira</a>, <a href="www.omde.net">Paulo Marques</a>, <a href="http://pleasepatronizeoursponsors.weblog.com.pt">João Maio Pinto</a>, <a href="http://filbd.blogspot.com">Fil </a>and <a href="http://www.comicspace.com/mariacareto">Maria João Careto</a>. Make sure you give them all a visit.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm0MyWTqt3CDgXejJkOwpvB9FmRYqm6JcN6OqKbDihXG1sNhdDev43z0niHbcsgavOZgvybJzCY2jCh6FUs7HsgZXsqyGWt3qg602bXjNAUlQ-ftCnEj_m0iBrVFLO7OOVVJ-s/s1600-h/Surpreendidos+por+um+paparazzi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm0MyWTqt3CDgXejJkOwpvB9FmRYqm6JcN6OqKbDihXG1sNhdDev43z0niHbcsgavOZgvybJzCY2jCh6FUs7HsgZXsqyGWt3qg602bXjNAUlQ-ftCnEj_m0iBrVFLO7OOVVJ-s/s400/Surpreendidos+por+um+paparazzi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382952120878861010" border="0" /></a>This is me (once again, looking about 1 second away from truffle shuffling), Cosmic and Paulo, holding proudly our Zona issue. Doesn't it look great?<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I'll finish by saying that if you want an issue for yourself, you can order one at the Zona blog, <a href="http://zonabd.blogspot.com">here</a>.<br />Thank to everybody who made this possible :)<br /><br />And I promise I'll try to update this more regularly. Maybe even with some sketches! (or is that wishful thinking? hmmm...)<br /></div>Carla Rodrigueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817593327190289016noreply@blogger.com3