Marie Davidson ( @mariedavidsn ) – ‘Work It ‘ (2019)

The original was perfect and this takes it somewhere else. Marie Davidson (Tw,Sp,Ig,Fb). | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Our Planet now on Netflix

Our Planet, the natural history series we at BDH have been working on with Silverback has fully dropped on Netflix. Here is a, slightly erroneous, review of the series from the Guardian. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“All The Names They Used For God” by Anjali Sechdeva

Beautiful, terrible, rebellious, dreamlike. A lovely collection of short stories vary from the good to the very excellent. Recommended if you like your realism magical. I found this quote by the au… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

680A Sad Not so Sad Is Rainshine – From Rainday on a Rainy Day — Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1970)

#transautomatism | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Notepad 2019 Weeks 11-12

A weekly round up of links, music, items of interest, news and mediadiet. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“If you genuinely want to make make films, then write screenplays” – Akira Kurasawa

found via Dharma Bhagalia | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

The Making of “Roma” – VFX Breakdown

From Mr.X via iamag | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

365 – Buses and Bus Stops, the first of many, perhaps.

aka: INTERMITTENTLY REGULAR #365 SKETCH PROJECT UPDATE 208-211 208/365 Attempt to draw the inside of the bus on a very bumpy ride and with a short pencil found in the bottom of a coat pocket.(… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Brexit’s gone to shit. Time for a rethink. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Jim Henson and @TheFrankOzJam talk to Russell Harty about The Dark Crystal (1983)

Had vague memory of a TV show where Jim Henson & @TheFrankOzJam were interviewed and some of the actual creatures from the film came on stage. I searched YouTube and there it was! | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

‘La paresse’ by Felix Valloton 1865-1925, Lausanne, Switzerland.

via Nesa Wake   | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Dick Dale and the Del-Tones – “Misirlou” (1963)

RIP | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

NOTEPAD-2019-WEEKS-10-11

Weekly update of links I find interesting and stuff. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Drawings of dodo’s (generally assumed from to be life) by Joris Joostensz Laerle (1601) & Cornelis Saftleven (1638)

“Compilation of the first depictions of dodos (Raphus cucullatus) on the island Mauritius (Indian Ocean), made during the voyage of the VOC Gelderland in 1602. The caption says “These b… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Paul Thomas Anderson on Why He Dropped Out of Film School

via Cinephilia More in film making: | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“Brexicuted” by Chris Shepherd (2018)

My old college friend and prolific animator and mentor, Chris Shepherd made this short film last year about the political issue currently dominating British politics at the expense of literally eve… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

We did go see this yesterday and it was very good 🐈 💥 🚀 | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

NOTEPAD-2019-WEEKS-09-10

A weekly round up of links, music, items of interest, news and mediadiet. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Lanthimos on Tarkovsky

Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favorite” was definitely my favourite from the recent awards season’s batch of films. I truly had never seen a film like it, all the performances were… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

New commute. Interesting places.

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@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Rapper and author Akala: ‘No correlation between tougher sentences and reduction in crime’

Visit the post for more. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

NOTEPAD-2019-WEEKS-08-09

A weekly round up of links, music, items of interest, news and mediadiet. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Last weekend looking across to Moorend.

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@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

The Schrift-Landschaften drawings by Herbert Pföstl

“The Schrift-Landschaften drawings are composed of a single text-fragment, written in Herbert Pföstl’s distinctly small script, inscribed upon a page from a nautical traverse table. One is re… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Dostoevsky: the drawing as writing

 “Indeed, Dostoevsky was not content to “write” and “take notes” in the process of creative thinking, he moved in the space and time of the particular artistic universe of his notebook, where the m… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle #6) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Once I had a handle on the alternating chapter timeline structure, and that I had started on the last book of the sequence, I thought it was great. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Margaret Macdonald, “The White Rose and the Red Rose”, 1902

“She exhibited with Mackintosh at the 1900 Vienna Secession, where she was an influence on the Secessionists Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. They continued to be popular in the Viennese art … | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“Takver looked at him with mistrustful curiosity…”

“She was four years old. She had a round head, a round face. She was round.” — The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

NOTEPAD-2019-WEEKS-07-08

Being a weekly-ish round up of collected news, music, things seen and heard. I do these, then I stop, then I do them again. It feels good to me to turn the ephemeral into a more permanent daybook I… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Jaws (1975) – The Indianapolis Speech Scene

I recently caught Jaws on the TiVo and watched it through a few times. I hadn’t seen it through in decades. I had it on VHS as a teenager and it was one of those films I would turn to again a… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“The Chain” by Anna Calvi (2018)

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@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

”The Eyes of Orson Welles” by Mark Cousins (2018)

Just caught up with the Mark Cousins film, “The Eyes of Orson Welles”…. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Mastodon gives you an RSS feed?! I did not know this! | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

A Mississippi Roll: Coloney & Fairchild’s Ribbon Map of the Father of Waters (1866)

found via Kottke “Coloney and Fairchild’s patented apparatus required that the single sheet be cut into strips, attached end-to-end, mounted on linen, and then rolled inside a wooden, metal, … | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

I was planning on doing a talk at my old college at @UCAAnimation (formerly WSCAD) in Farnham today but the snow said “no”. Hoping we can reschedule at some point in the future, have a … | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“Snood Weasel” by Oddbod Creations (2018)

Incredible weirs by OddbodCreations via Nick Herbert. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

2018 Mediadiet

These are quite long lists. So find them after the jump. I only kept a record of the films and TV I was watching from June onwards. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Ernest Jones’ 1909 “Live-Map” navigator

“Under its guidance the most muddling twists, turns and corners melt away behind you,” read the advertisement. “It is better than a Human Guide because it is always doing its work to the exclusion … | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“For 25 years, I have handcrafted very strange little tales made of motion, color, light and shadow…and in three precise instances, these strange stories, these fables, have saved my life.”

“Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the … | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“Fractals (Truth 2)” by Jessica Moss (2018)

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@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Comics Are Everywhere – LA Strips – Jaime Hernandez

via nearsightedmonkey | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

On The Shoot

In my line of work I don’t get out of the office much. So when I do it’s quite the occasion. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Feed Update

As I have ceased using Tumblr as my proto-microblog I have shifted its Feedburner RSS over to the microblog on this site. If you subscribed to my tumblr on Feedburner you will see a reduction in th… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Feed Update

As I have ceased using Tumblr as my proto-microblog I have shifted its Feedburner RSS over to the microblog on this site. If you subscribed to my tumblr on Feedburner you will see a reduction in th… | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

❤️🎅🎄💚 | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Angrily sharing articles, after only reading the headline and not the content is strong #internet2018 | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

Charcuterie à gogo!

One of the great legacies of Tumblr was this huge international friendship group we’ve built. Here is a picture of the excellent @jacquelinedear holding up a serving tray with my drawing “One Hour … | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago

“Adam” by Evelyn Jane Ross (2016)

[Mature] Director: Producer: Writer: Evelyn Jane Ross There is an interview with the film maker here. | Continue reading


@paulgreer.net | 5 years ago