Of course, I tell people to email me and then my site and my email goes down.
For commisions or comments email me at
Nekokaiju@aol.com
until further notice.

If you have emailed me at Paul@nekokaiju.com in the last week, please try again at my aol address. Sorry.

As you may have noticed, I have decided to update my blog more often. Unlike LiveJournal, I don't have a comments section, so send me an email sometime. Just so I know that someone is reading this, thanks.

Fascinating Harry Potter "book" binding by
Artomic.


Read on Dark Horizons, that Ridley Scott is looking into doing a film version of Monty Python alumni; Terry Jones story His Dark Materials, could be interesting. (wow, what a run on sentence.)

Also read somewhere that "Moo kari makka?” is how you greet people in Osaka. It means: “How are you doing, making money?” Glad I don't live in Osaka right now.

Here is a detail of some clouds I'm working on for an avation print.



I've heard that if you sing someone lyrics it will stop running around in your head, I wonder if it works by posting them.

"There's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home, and you cry
and you want to die

When you say it's gonna happen "now"
well, when exactly do you mean?
see I've already waited too long
and all my hope is gone

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does"
-The Smiths


My Magic Cookie story coming tomorrow.

Darth Maul with Thai Headdress

Fascinating online gallery, the sculptures of Isabel De Obaldia




Rest in Peace Rerun, your red beret will be missed.

Green Vader, and yes he goes with Grumpy Obi and Angry Luke. I am making my version of the cover of Marvel Comics Star Wars #1



I find myself also asking, Why is Vader green?

A lot going on right now. Big news on the horizon. More in depth post soon.
But here is a taste!


A doodle for my upcoming online comic. A nostalgic Science Fiction cliffhanger for nostalgic prices, just 10 cents weekly!

Stay Tuned.

Just got back from the nighttime harvest parade. It's sponsored by the farm bureau so there were lots of people in cow suits, chicken suits, and pig suits. Very odd. I was expecting someone to come by and hit them over the head for food. Then it started to rain...Little did I know, they make plastic rain covers for Shriner Fezs. And one last thought, If your school mascot is a bluish purple bulldog, it still
looks like Barney even without a dinosaur tail.

Anyone see KillBill already? Send me an email, I really liked to hear some opinions about it. Hopefully I'll see it soon.

And here is grumpy Obi-Wan, He goes with the angry Luke sketch I showed a couple of days ago. And yes, I know his eyes need some work.

Well I know I keep promising it, but I'll have a recap of my trip to Baltimore and Atlanta this weekend, plus some thoughts on the business of showing my portfolio.

Recently I did a photomanip teaser for a friends website, click Halloweengirl.net

to see it.

The other night saw an episode of NOVA on the death of the Red Baron. It rekindled in me all sorts of excitement about early aviation. It'll be interesting to see where this all leads.

Along with NekoKaiju, Moxnix, The Tarot Project, and numerous little projects, a few of you might know I'm working on a 30's type pulp serial proposal for Bitpass


Okay that article has a registration, if you don't feel like dealing with that, just go to www.bitpass.com to understand what I'm talking about.

Anyway, what made me mention that was, I came across this great 50's/60's pulp site. Very exciting, nice animation trailer. I hope I can come close to the quality and adventure of
Daring Planet!

Picture of the security at a Rugby match in the UK. Looks right out of Gilliam's Brazil....

And I thought the origami x-wings at Dragon*Con were cool, check out this origami yoda at destroy all monsters.com


Luke sketch for a Star Wars painting I'm working on. I'd like to give the final to my friend Luke who inspired me. If you are reading this blog, send me an email.

I know around this time of year, you are thinking about how Chamberlain brought "Peace in our Time" by appeasing a dictator and sacrificing the Sudetenland.
Well okay maybe that's just me.
Even if you are not, check out these photos by Czech photographer Vilem Kriz

And sadly, goodbye George Plimpton

Almost recovered from sickness, tornados, hurricanes etc.. will post soon.

Meanwhile, more Star Wars graphitti spotted, this time on the streets of
London



A little history of the Electrolux. Includes my pet, the Model L 1968
Electrolux

I have a teaser up for my new website.
NekoKaiju.com


Opening on Halloween.
It's a pretty big graphic, so click on the link and then go make some tea and come back a couple of minutes of later relaxed...it should have loaded by then.

Feeling a little under the weather....better update soon.

Museum removes
'killer' Christ icon
Piece of art's 'energy field' allegedly causing death of staff

Dragon*Con report and a new sketch coming tomorrow morning

Dragon*Con: Day 3

Sunday was a pretty quiet day for Dragon*Con.
went to a panel on the audio drama Rise of Nobility. (Created by former Moisture Farmers).
Then went to a slideshow on Paleolithic art
by William Stout
The big winners of the Masquerade event (hosted by Sulu and Checkov)
were these giant engineered creatures from Where The Wild Things Are and PacMan....it was
chaotic costume craziness
too tired to write.... I'll have a D*C recap soon.

The second day of Dragon*Con began with a voice over the intercom
"Will the large green creature by the doorway please move his tail out of the flow of traffic"
The surrealism was just beginning. Shortly there after a biker gang of Klingons on Harleys rode by, their biker babes, showing off their saggital crests, some must have had implants.
Then marching down the road, in cadence, a squad of Cobra commandos. Ready to kick some Gi-Joe butt. It made me wonder about the pc-ness of reenacting a terrorism group, no matter how fictional, but boy did they look cool! So I guess that's what really cancels out any political conflicts...fascist fashion.
Then it was back to work, meeting with art directors. All very positive. Very exciting. Even my White Wolf portfolio review went well, despite me being very nervous, waiting in a line with many others struggling to break in.
I also ran into some people that post on the Conceptart.org forums, nice to put some faces to the names.
The rest of the day consisted of the usual, showing my portfolio, having conversations with Barbie Jedi, and the hilarious Mr. Star Wars contest(with it's wonderful judges). Yup, the usual.

oh by the way, It was cool meeting you Smitty. send me an email some time.

Well the first day of Dragon*Con is upon us. It started out by sharing an elevator with David Carradine. In complete silence. All I could think of saying was something about grasshoppers. Fortunately, I held my tongue.
And then off to show my portfolio. Lots of positive coments...
Lots of potential future jobs. An extremely productive day. I waited in line to see and thank Larry Elmore for all the years of enjoying his art for Dungeons &Dragons and beyond. After telling him how he's influenced me and all the fantasies of dragons he helped create in my mind, he basically told me to shut up and show him my art (though this was said very politely)
I obliged and then he proceeded to compliment me on my images.He liked my dragon, my female pilot, but was floored by my Salome piece. For a fanboy, who grew up looking at his art since he was ten years old, it doesn't get much better than that.
The rest of the day was great also. Met Brom, what a nice guy.
Greg Horn, who does digital work for Marvel, was impressed on how organic my work looks
and talked to Dan Brereton about Nightmare Before Christmas.

Other than the girls in latex school outfits and acccidentally bumping into Lou Ferrigno and worried about geting him angry, not much else happened. But it was a good day. Now it's off to see Voltaire...

On the road to Dragon*Con!

Interesting graffiti artist, Check out Chetrooper (the tshirt in the thread section would make a great gift...;) and DJ-D2 (at least that's what I call him)

Here is a link to a 14th month calendar with various portraits of Tori Amos, by artists David Mack, Ken Myer, Christopher Moeller, Dave Dorman, Tony DiTerlizzi, and more.... 100% of the proceeds from the calendar will benefit RAINN and the National Sexual Assault Hotline.

Ever wonder what happened to that baby from the Nirvana album cover? No, he didn't drown.
Click Below...

More of a doodle than a sketch.... female shaman with antler and tusks headdress.






here's a link to some wedding headdresses from Glasgow. Now you can celebrate that special day with emu feathers in your hair. When you think love ....think emu.




http://www.headdress.co.uk/

Be careful with bacon, because you never know who will see the art
that you made in AFO.