If Hollywood is producing brightly colored, candy coated children’s cereal and serving it up in boxes decorated with dancing leprechauns, then independent film producers are producing dingy gruel, served up in a dented wooden bowl. It hardly looks the same as what the big boys are making, and worse yet; it’s probably being served [...]

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In the early going of their career, Metallica recorded a song called “Trapped Under Ice.” The band’s front man, at the time a brash twenty-two year old rising rock star, noted that “it’s not a song about the existential condition of the human soul. It’s about a guy trapped under [...]

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It’s morning in a generic airport motel room. The sky is dark, and only a bedside lamp suffuses the room with a lethargic orange light.
“It’s time”
Ruthless with its benign indifference, the cruel march of time is the heart, the raison d’etre to watch United 93. Movies are reliant on time to work their magic. [...]

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Gallery work has been a developing interest of mine for the past year or so, in an attempt to branch out in my artistic endeavors. So during one of my visits to www.illustrationmundo.com last December a post from The Uppercase Gallery caught my eye. The gallery, located in Calgary, Alberta Canada, was [...]

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What’s happened to the contemporary concept of the hero? In movies, our heroes used to be solitary, larger than life gunslingers like John Wayne, both bulletproof and impossibly noble. At present, gone is the boy scout optimism of Luke Skywalker. In the current cultural landscape, heroism comes with a hefty set of matching issues. [...]

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