Posts tagged “music”
Thank-you, Brian Fukushima. Now I have a personal theme song.
I got an e-mail out of the blue inquiring if my album art warm-ups were available as prints. Just about anything is available as a print if you e-mail me about it. I think these look pretty decent as little posters; maybe I should add them as permanent items in my shop.
Oh, and a reminder that my half-off moving sale is still on. Order with the code CRAZYTALK and I’ll take 50% off your order.
Nick Lowe on style
I’ve been using Huffduffer to bookmark found audio into a custom podcast. Tonight I re-listened to an interview with songwriter Nick Lowe. His thoughts on developing a style—and how affectations eventually meld together into something original—apply to any creative endeavour, cartooning included.
Obviously, like everybody, your first efforts are really just rewrites of your heroes’ songs. It’s basically the same song with a couple of words changed. And you get very keen on somebody. And then you use them up. You sort of rewrite all their stuff, and you move on to somebody else, and do the same to them—rewrite all their stuff. And somebody else comes along, and you do it them.
And then one day, you’ll put a little bit of the first person, whose songs you all rewrote, into your latest fad, and you have a little touch of these two things going on. And then maybe a third element will come in on a song you’re writing. So you’ll have three different influences in there. And then the more you do it … ‘Cause it’s all been done. It’s all been written. There is nothing new under the sun, especially nowadays. Absolutely nothing. But what IS new is the way you tell it, and eventually, you have so many influences in a song, that it just turns into a new style.
