May. 3rd, 2010

randy_byers: (thesiger)
Just been watching Fairbanks’ Thief of Bagdad again and am suddenly (and very belatedly) struck by W[illiam] C[ameron] M[enzies]’s very obvious influence on Dr. Seuss. Actually influence seems almost too small a word: Suess’ worlds seem direct caricatures of childhood memories of WCM, and the imagery in some of his books, the landscapes resembling impossibly vast stages, the wobbly parades, feathers everywhere, seven men to a gong, is pretty much identical. Golly!

-- Simon Kane in comments on the Shadowplay blogpost William Cameron Menzies is out of his mind, where we've been having a jolly good time discussing Menzies -- worth a look just for Jordan Benedict's little bomb of information about the Hungarian designer, Laslo Maholy-Nagy, who connects Things to Come to 2001: A Space Odyssey
randy_byers: (2009-05-10)
Okay, it's on! I've been given the time off in November, so I'll be attending Novacon 40 in Nottingham on 12-14 November and SFContario in Toronto the weekend after. I hope to fit in a beer-drinking expedition in Belgium before Novacon. Not sure how much other traveling I'll be doing in the UK, although I'm hoping to spend time in London at least.

I'm so stoked! Time to make the plan real!

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