ONE WE MADE EARLIER...

Just in from the hospital and good news is that Amy Louise was born yesterday at 4.40pm, at 6lb and 10 ounces, and after a few initial scares both Julia and Amy are doing well and should be home in the next couple of days. She's already taking after her dad with sleeping all day and staying awake all night. Either that or she's auditioning for the Lost Boys sequel.

Obligatory cute baby picture:



Once they're both settled at home I'll be catching up with people and work shortly.

BY CROM

CURRENT SOUNDTRACK: CONAN THE BARBARIAN OST, Basil Poledouris, 'Anvil of Crom'

As you may have heard, I've been asked to join the Comics International team as Production Editor to help get the mag back on schedule (http://www.comics-international.co.uk/news.asp?ID=12). You'd be forgiven for seeing the slight irony in this considering its been over a year since the last issue of REDEYE when its supposed to be a quarterly, but there you are.

Raising finance to get RE7 done has been frankly a slow painful process, but it is still ongoing. I've been developing it along side the Rough Guide and aiming to get it out by the May Bristol convention, but nothing is definite at the moment.

Both REDEYE and the Guide are still needed I think for the UK scene. There's been a lot of new faces joining the community, from Oli Smiths http://londonundergroundcomics.com/ venture and at least three new must-bookmark sites: http://www.comicsvillage.com/ under Craig Johnson, http://www.indiereview.co.uk/ under Hassan Otsmane Elhaou and http://www.comicbitsonline.com/ under Terry Hooper. Matt Badham's Overspill series of interviews on http://tysdiorbad.blogspot.com/ are essential reading. There are new titles, companies and creators emerging every week. And REDEYE should be there covering it all.

Last night I just finished compiling a PDF version of RE6, which will be added to the site shortly as a download. When I can reconstitute the earlier issues they will be added too; but it got me thinking of the sustainable future of the magazine. Until I work out a better distribution and printing system, it may be more beneficial to offer REDEYE Vol 2 as a PDF version, keeping better uptodate with events and more importantly, attracting more international readers who find the costs of postage prohibitive. Subscribers in the meantime would get their print version with extra features not available in the PDF. When we have a better system in place, we can go back to printing non-subscriber copies.

I'd like to hear peoples ideas on this...

OWWW. OW.

CURRENT SOUNDTRACK: THE PIANO, Michael Nyman; The Promise

I split my tooth on a piece of chicken. Go figure.

I'm not sure how or why, but the sharp pain and subsequent flashes of colour in my eyes made sure I knew about it. So besides spitting bits of tooth out, it feels like a shard of glass in the inside of my mouth, and I have to wait three weeks for a dentist, expecting the rest of it to come out in bits in the meantime. And I have nightmares of breaking teeth. Marvelous.

In other news...

Some photos from a recent recce of a shooting location:





Custom Sketch Up model of same location:





And a storyboard sequence:

TALES FOM THE DRAWING BOARD... SKIMMER DESIGN

CURRENT SOUNDTRACK: Garth Brooks, No Fences: 'Unanswered Prayers'

One of the many designs I'm doing for the second part of SECRET GODS. This one, a two man patrol vehicle similar to present day patrol choppers, is involved in an intricate chase scene. The general design is utilized with variations for all the emergency services in the story's timeframe.

CURRENT SOUNDTRACK: Jamiroquai - High Times - The Singles 1992-2006 (Special 2 Disc Edition); "Corner of the Earth"



To one and all.

CURRENT SOUNDTRACK: Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill OST: "The Wait"

Falling behind again. Must post.

Had a go at colouring on the tablet. Getting used to it slowly. Sure there's loads I can do with it given a few months and a handbook. Instead tried colouring an old cartoon of myself.



Had an interesting weekend exploring the location for a horror film I'm doing storyboards/concept art for, the kind of place I could happily spend days taking photos of peeling paint, rusted beds and long empty corridoors. I'm a frustrated urban archaeologist (bit like my friend Mr Meadows). Looking at starting preproduction in January.







Can't beat some broken slates and tall chimneys.

POST 101

CURRENT SOUNDTRACK: Crowded House, Live on Earth: MEN 29/11/2007: "Hole in the River"

Just realised my last post was my hundreth. Huzzah.

Things are changing in the World Of Baz it seems. And we now know what gender Baz Junior will be....



Yep its a girl. Can't you tell? ;) Cue the debate over names. Abigail Louise or Amy Louise... cast your vote now.

It's bizarre but I knew from the beginning it was a girl. I've somehow managed to predict right each time for about 11 pregnancies. Annoyingly that amazing precognition fails everytime I buy a lottery ticket.