Round as a ball and New Links

I can barely move today. I feel blissfuly sedentary thanks to the awesome Colombian dinner prepared by my uncle on Christmas Eve and the Korean feast Alex cooked for us yesterday. I almost feel guilty of enjoying myself so much. Almost.

So I've started putting all the Vana Espuma, Idle Mist stuff in one place...
Check it out at...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idle_mist/

More personal pictures will still be available at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andres_useche/
I hope to find a bit of time to upload a bunch more soon. Feel free to visit either one and say hello.



By the way, I've just realized that just posting everything I did about the creation and aftermath of VE took much longer than the time I spent filming the darn thing!
Best,
Andres

Enjoying the Holidays

Hello Every One,
I've been having a great time with my mom and visiting family and have neglected posting for a while.
We are not particularly religious but these holidays are as good an excuse as any to enjoy one another's company. Any chance to party amongst our loved ones should be as good as taken.
I think the moral principles at the core of every religion are more important any superficial differences so whether you celebrate Kwanzaa, Christmas, Hanukkah, Dongzhi, Yaldā, Yule, Biikebrennen, Vesak, Rohatsu or the all-encompassing Winterval, I wish you the happiest of times.

Idle Mist and Waking Shadows: Precursors

These are drawings of some of the thinkers whose views I feel are connected to the philosophies behind Vana Espuma, Idle Mist and Waking Shadows.

Idle Mist: The 1996 Vana Espuma comic

These drawings are from two years before the storyboard below.

Idle Mist: Storyboards and Waking Shadows

These are the storyboards for an alternative beginning for the Vana Espuma/Idle Mist film. I enjoyed writing and drawing them because they offered a taste of what was to come and showed how these dreams were breaking into their waking reality. The killings depicted here made it into the film but I didn't use the framing device of Valeria writing, because back then it was a red herring. These glimpses of the murders were flashfowards that appeared connected to her writing, but turned out to be Cero's prophetic nightmares. The idea of Valeria writing what would happen stuck and was one of the forking paths that would lead me to write Waking Shadows.

If you have or download the free shockwave player you can see an animated version of these storyboards: (see the bottom of the post) Go to... www.wakingshadows.com , head to the Visions page and you'll find three oval buttons on the right... Click on the middle one.