My Recommendations and Review of Film for 2010

Finally, 2010 Movies Year in Review. I consider myself somewhat of a film geek among other things so I may be able to enlighten on a few things you haven't heard about. I'm not going to do the same old Best of List, this is more of a recommendations list, from what I have seen anyway.

My Most Disappointing movies of the year 2010
Jonah Hex
Last Airbender
Tron: Legacy (Beautiful effects, but what a snoozer. I fell asleep, and I wasn't tired)
Machete (should have been so much more fun than it was)
Iron man 2 (still liked it, but man could it have been better!)
Most Fun Movies of the year
Scott Pilgrim
Pirhana 3D
Red
Exit Through the Gift Shop
McGruber (stupid fun all the way)
How To Train Your Dragon (You messed up if you didn't see it in 3d!)
Despicable me
Movies You may have not seen, heard of or thought weren't good, but I highly recommend
Mother (its subtitled, but I'm telling you it is an AWESOME thriller)
Social network (My #1 film of the year)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (just watch it, guarantee you will be intrigued)
Pirahna 3D (not for the kiddies!!)
Splice (weird and just wrong in the best way)
Mother and Child
Frozen
Scott Pilgrim vs the World (SHAME on you for not seeing it!!)
127 Hours
Best Performances of the year
James Franco (127 Hours) (He's going to lose the Oscar to COlin Firth, but he deserves SOMETHING!)
Jesse Eisenberg (Social Network)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Andrew Garfield (Social Network) Huge Oscar SNUB fr best supporting actor!!
Annette Benning (Mother and Child)
Naomi Watts (Mother and Child)
Noomi Rapace (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
Tom Hardy (Inception)
Vincent Cassell (Black Swan)
John Malkovich (Red)
Worst Performances
Everybody in Last Airbender!
Jessica Alba (Machete)
Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li (Expendables)

Lil Dude and Rooney's Black History Pt 1

I watched a documentary on KET yesterday that got me interested inh a man I had never heard of but was immediately interested in. His name is Eugene Jacques Bullard and he was the first black Fighter Pilot. During the time of WWI we all know the poor treatment of blacks, even the ones serving in the military. It was thought that blacks weren't intelligent enough to be able to fly planes and weren't given the chance. Having travelled the country via a entertainment comedy troupe he ended up in Europe which is where he actually fought. There were lots of black soldiers living and serving in the military in France at the time because they were treated much more fairly than in their native U.S. Corporal Bullard earned his wings and fought in many battles fo the french before being severly wounded. There will of course be a follow up to my black history book from last year. It will be bigger and better and these posts will help me brainstorm and reference what I will be covering in the book.

The Cover of the Christmas Book

This is late obviously. But I worked hard on this book and to make it what I believe is the best I could, it took longer than I wanted. I thought about just waiting until next year to tell anyone about it but I thought again and said, NO WAY! I'm proud of it so I will put it out there. Hey, a good christmas tale is good any time of year. So let me know if you are interested in a copy.

Another sample of the christmas book

Work in progress. In the final stages of clean-up, scanning and lettering.

The New Book

I am hard at work still on the latest Lil Dude book. It is a christmas book and I unfortunately was not able o get it done in ti,me for christmas seeing as it has just passed. But, I am still going to get it done. And I will still show it to whoever will look. here is a half of a page, no words, no gray scaling, it is in the rough lineart scanned version. But I have been dying to show something from what I have been working on.

My contest Entry

One of the websites I frequent is the parka blogs. It is a blog that is dedicated to posting reviews and images of art books that come out for movies, specific artists, etc. If you know anything about artists and illustrators, you know we loooove art books like the art of How To Train Your Dragon, or the Art of Toy Story, etc. Well I love the site. Anyways, they had an art contest in honor of the christmas holidays. The theme was Kung Fu Santa. So I was dying to win an art book of my choice, which was the prize, but I did not win. I put everything into my little image, but hey, those are the breaks. Luckily, the site posted all of the entries. My name is listed under mine. There are some really creative entries. Check it out at the link:

http://parkablogs.com/content/results-drawing-contest-4-kung-fu-panda

I beat a video game!!!! Yay

I get to play games like 5 times a year nowadays it seems like. Well twoo weeks ago I had a couple of free hours. (Well I had a couple hours where the rest of the family was sleep and I didn't feel like doing anything constructive) and I beat God of War 2! I know right, the games years old but its a big deal to me! It only took me about a year and a half! I love the game and the design. I just love that mythology stuff. Inspired this quick sketch in regular ol' ballpoint pen.