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“Kid, you’re stuck with us for life.” My giclee piece for Popzilla Gallery’s Tim Burton Tribute Show

I’ve only printed one and it’s sold out.

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It’s,,,, the boys

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I love this movie.

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I know everyone goes off on young Hermione reading Matilda–what with a genius girl who loves to read discovering she has special powers etc, and yeah I can get behind that. 

But what about a little Harry reading James and the Giant Peach–probably in school or hidden under the blankets of his cupboard so the Dursleys don’t throw it out. He reads about a neglected, abused little boy (whose name just so happens to be James Henry Trotter are you kidding me) with cruel, terrible aunts who force him to sleep in the attic and beat him for no reason, but who escapes with the aid of giant magical bugs and a giant peach and they go on adventures and fly across the ocean and find a new life. And even though he knows magic isn’t real–the Dursleys have drilled it into him enough through the years–he can’t help but think about what it would be like if a giant friendly magical person/creature of some kind were to come and take him away one day…

tl;dr–Harry Potter would have loved Roald Dahl and it makes me emotional fight me

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So I’m delighted to say that I had the amazing opportunity to meet one of my favourite film directors, Henry Selick, during the special screening of The Nightmare before Christmas (celebrating the film’s 20th anniversary) at the Montreal Stop-Motion Film Festival.

You guys don’t even know how nervous I was meeting this man, he is one of my biggest inspirations and influences. Not only that, but he has directed some of my all-time favourite movies; The Nightmare before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline. I just- like, I can’t even express what a joy it was meeting him. He is just so humble, and quirky, and friendly, I freaking love him. ugh. I gave him a drawing I drew especially for him [above], and he really loved it. You really have no idea just how much that meant to me. During the Q & A I asked “Jack, James and Coraline in a room together. How do you think they would interact with each other?” To which he replied, “I’m not sure, but I think that Coraline would kick both of their asses.” (After seeing my drawing, however, his opinion changed, haha, he now believes that they would all get along.)

I always get so worked up talking about him and how amazing of a director he is, because he really is underrated and under-appreciated. He doesn’t get nearly enough credit for his work, especially for The Nightmare before Christmas. Anyway, it was just really nice being surrounded by people who appreciate and love his work just as much as I do, and it really was a pleasure meeting him in person. Also, when I asked to take a picture with him he noticed how shy I was sitting next to him, and he insisted that we are friends and put his arm around my shoulder. No joke, nearly cried of happiness.

I was even more overjoyed when I waved goodbye to him at the end of the festival, and noticed that he had my drawing in his hand <3

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Roald Dahl book cover series I did in school :o

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Got my hands on a long awaited item: Lane Smith’s picture book version of Disney’s James and the Giant Peach. Smith, in case you didn’t know, is the illustrator of The Stinky Cheese Man and he was a designer for Henry Selick’s JatGP. And this is what I mean when I say “JatGP is not a Tim Burton movie”. Look at the style of this film! I don’t see no Burtony stuff here. Needs more giant eyes and unfinished drawings.

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James and the Giant Peach (1996)

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INVERTEBRATE JOKES

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This week’s theme is Live-Action/Animation combo movies. All of these include live-action and animation on-screen at once or going back and forth.

James and the Giant Peach: An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit’s only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.

Space Jam: Michael Jordan agrees to help the Looney Toons play a basketball game vs. alien slavers to determine their freedom.

The Pagemaster: A cowardly boy who buries himself in accident statistics enters a library to escape a storm only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real life.

Osmosis Jones: A policeman white blood cell, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.

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The film with the most votes will be streamed on Friday, March 14th, 2014 at 9:00pm EST.

You can cast your vote as an Answer here or by ASK.

If there is enough participation, it may turn into a double-feature.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents Lamb to the Slaughter. (1958) - YouTube

One of the best short films ever made. And it got to the point of Roald Dahl’s story.

“I’ve killed him. What do I do now?”  She is anxious and scared through this entire thing. 

The cops vaguely suspect something. Then she literally makes them eat the evidence. 

The way she giggles to herself at the end. She’s won. She knows she has.

As a child, this story terrified me.

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“I barely know you” That’s a good thing“

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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via books-n-quotes)

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you were my brother, anakin!