http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:scratchmark&section=today deviantART RSS for by:scratchmark en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:48:40 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/28458464/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/28458464/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:29 PST Forward Ho!

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/28443033/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/28443033/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:37:14 PST
WOW!

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/28254128/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/28254128/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:19:59 PST is a decacentric milestone for me-ok, ok so I am easily amused.
If you ARE the 10,000th viewer, be sure to leave a note somewhere- I will find some way to comemmorate the event.
cheers- Mark

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/27881680/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/27881680/ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:44:43 PDT A milestone for the deca-centric(count the fingers) I've got less than 400 to go! Semms like I ought to do something special to mark the event-
question is, what do you do for your 10,000th viewer? Offer to do a portrait? Give them a drawing? Guess I have time to come up with something appropriate.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/27790395/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/27790395/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:25:37 PDT And COLDER.
Fact is, the fall is a long ordeal of quiet resentment for me- usually lapsing into naked hatred when the leaves finally drop and winter kicks into high gear. As ever, I wish my Irish ancestors had been criminals, instead of merely poor and starving- then they might have been banished to Australia instead of emigrating to Canada.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/27494387/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/27494387/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:15:40 PDT
A note to those who view my pictures, the comments left behind, and the shot in the arm I get from each of them, every time somebody has something to say.
It is more encouraging than you can know.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/27115650/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/27115650/ Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:38:35 PDT sigh<
I've taken a small studio flat in a grubby shack of a place in Toronto's Annex district. The plan is to spend a few weeks working large for once, without the benefit of ctrl-z as the chicken switch... eventually some of the end product will land here no doubt, though it may take a few false starts to get accustomed to working big after-well, at least 5 years.
I want to try a few different things out as well, both in terms of mixed media and some new subject matter too...anything to break out of the small screen rut I have been in lately.
Pics to follow- stay tuned!

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/26664257/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/26664257/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:40:12 PDT Now if only canada could find a cure for winter..............

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/26272358/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/26272358/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:11:27 PDT be a high school sports team on the plane... I may have to get the earplugs installed permanently. Weird deja-vus being back in the old country, which I amplify by catching up with old friends and clan. Anyways, I'm back in broadband land, so I will post more material soon

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/26034109/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/26034109/ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:20:08 PDT
I sincerely miss having a language barrier- but discreet flesh colored earplugs help me tune out the canadian version of valley-speak that seems to spill (loudly) from every open mouth.

Oh, and everything is spastically expensive-spastically.
As in beyond reason, to the point of silly.
Eleven dollar hotdogs?
Gimme a break. Four more days and I'm outta here.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/25704230/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/25704230/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:01:25 PDT there's no snow to avoid, so I will drag my baggage back to canuckistan, and if all goes well, get back on a plane before the snow flies. Can't say I'm thrilled at the prospect of paying 12 bucks a pack for smokes, but thats western culture for you. Won't actually have completed a circumnavigation til I return to Prince Edward Island- more of a most of the way, then back, then go the other way, and sorta skip the atlantic ocean all together, even though I saw it from St Ives - oh well, plans are made to be altered, right? Ask Magellan.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/25385100/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/25385100/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:52:13 PDT
Best to all- Scratch

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24951081/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24951081/ Mon, 25 May 2009 20:35:05 PDT It rose from the ashes as a beach resort town and deepwater port for cambodias sea freight. The town itself is odd-spread out, the roadways are wide and the businesses and homes are spaced far apart, as if anticipating future growth that hasnt happened. The beach of course is peppered with shack bars and clubs, guest houses and beach shacks-preposterously cheap ones, all the way up to resorts in the 100 to 300 a night range.. given the economy of late though, tourism is way down, and there's a kind of desperation for that tourist buck...stand still on the street long enough to light a smoke, and you're surrounded by touts and tuktuk drivers doing an in your face pitch for whatever goods or services they provide.. the heat by day is stifling inland, less brutal along the shore, but being badgered by touts and beggars gets irritating- dare to shell out a dollar to one, and you almost get mobbed by others wanting a piece of the action- just hope 'swarming'never catches on here, or the place will be as deserted as acapulco.
You can get a decent room for as low as 6 bucks a night, and local food is cheap as hell too.
With nothing but leisure on my hands now, I am taking it as easy as humanly possible-for example, I flopped in a hammock and read a book- the whole thing, in 2 continuous sittings. I've been waiting a year for the chance to do just that.
Oh, and the tan has gotten so dark that my grey beard shows up as white by contrast- pass the grecian formula (or a black crayon).

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24810828/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24810828/ Sun, 17 May 2009 18:29:55 PDT And just like that- I'm done. Finished. Unemployed.
Raising my head from the burden that has been mine to bear, I see them in the street, the still employed... the exhausted security guard, trying to stay awake til the end of his shift... a squad of rice paddy workers on bicycles, wrapped up in scarves and straw hats on their way to a long day of hard toil in hot sun..the various vendors offering bright smiles to dazed looking tourists..the tuktuk driver, bored to a glassy stare even at this early hour..he likely slept in the gondola, his shower a jug of water over his head, his breakfast a bowl of noodles on the street... the motorcycles sputter and hiss and roar, sullen faces off to work on a day like any other, world without end...
Meanwhile, I have drawn my last fuzzy bunny for this year...its kind of a shock of realisation, since nothing is so different... now of course, my work and my lifestyle are extraordinary, I'm aware of that.
Globe-trotting with a laptop, drawing cartoons, single and unencumbered by the burdens of home hearth and honey, living this way for years with no desire for it to stop..But you finish a show, or to be more specific, your contribution to a show- (nobody makes a whole cartoon themself, unless they are masochistic monomaniacs) and you think... well, NOW what?
Mosquitoes circle my shoulder bag on the chair beside me- I have learned that they love dark holes to take cover in, and every time I grab the bag a small cloud of them rises...any one of them could be the beast that kills me, or I could put a drunken foot wrong crossing the street tonight and wind up a tangled string of dirty meat under the wheels of some vehicle... a thousand thousand ways to die, every day, so suddenly stopping work, another mission accomplished, it has a kind of resonance, whether you drive a hack, hawk wares to the tourists, or keep little kids amused for 22 minutes at a stretch with your funny pictures.
Its been nearly a year since I started this show...just a trickle of freelance oddjobs at first, then a downpour, then a relentless torrent of work that never seemed to go away, day after day, shift after shift, and while drawing is my greatest joy, drawing at the whim of others can be just as tedious a grind as any other job, at times.
Then it stops.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24645736/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24645736/ Fri, 08 May 2009 03:22:14 PDT I love it.
The real prize here, besides the marvel of the Temple itself, is a very nice hotel I found here, the Encore Angkor Guest House.. its a new hotel, run by a Khmer couple who lived in the west for many years- its elegant, clean, there's a pool and wifi and breakfast and air con, and joy of joys, a pool. They've gotten used to me as well, so its no fuss for me to sit in the forecourt and do a shift at the laptop- in fact, I have drawn a bit of business for them now and then, which they have rewarded with a decreased room rate. ( you couldn't rent a shoebox in canada for 15 US a night) and the room I am in is pristine.
Keep it in mind if you are ever coming out to see the Temple...just don't tell anyone else :-}

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24435069/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24435069/ Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:45:12 PDT ackage deal' rip off that would cost nearly 75 quid for the same bumpy ride plus a stopover in some vile hotel room, using the words 'hotel' and 'room' in their loosest possible sense- so I did the math and came back to Bangkok.
A hot shower and some air con later (first in 3 weeks) I find myself back on the Khao San Road, infamous as a hippy/backpacker magnet-though just now, for the life of me, I cant see why anyone would come here on purpose... maybe 25 years ago it held a certain charm, but thats been long buried by junk shops and beer joints.
Despite the hippy 'ethic of authenticity' (Charles Taylor, look him up) (the philosopher, not the war criminal) this place is like whats left of Haight Ashbury or Times Square of any other focal point of the human experience-overwhelmed, turned into a tawdry and grotesque caricature of itself.
'Cheap" was its original appeal for penniless backpackers, and the sleeping cubicles ('room' is a misnomer-most are windowless prison cells without the sincerity of bars) are still cheap- but you get ripped off, nickel and dime style, for every purchase on the street outside, from an overpriced cup of instant coffee to 'fresh' fruit that tastes like its been dipped in motor oil or something.. the beer is cheap, but then its cheap everywhere here.
Sure, nice to be clean again, nice not to have to string up a mozzie net to sleep, but other than that- well shit, anything you can get on KS Road can be had anywhere else- which is where I am going.
If you ever do the thai island trekking thing, when you come back to BKK on your way home, skip Khao San Road- its a corpse, waiting for someone to declare it officially dead.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24435068/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24435068/ Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:45:09 PDT ackage deal' rip off that would cost nearly 75 quid for the same bumpy ride plus a stopover in some vile hotel room, using the words 'hotel' and 'room' in their loosest possible sense- so I did the math and came back to Bangkok.
A hot shower and some air con later (first in 3 weeks) I find myself back on the Khao San Road, infamous as a hippy/backpacker magnet-though just now, for the life of me, I cant see why anyone would come here on purpose... maybe 25 years ago it held a certain charm, but thats been long buried by junk shops and beer joints.
Despite the hippy 'ethic of authenticity' (Charles Taylor, look him up) this place is like whats left of Haight Ashbury or Times Square of any other focal point of the human experience-overwhelmed, turned into a tawdry and grotesque caricature of itself.
'Cheap" was its original appeal for penniless backpackers, and the sleeping cubicles ('room' is a misnomer-most are windowless prison cells without the sincerity of bars) are still cheap- but you get ripped off, nickel and dime style, for every purchase on the street outside, from an overpriced cup of instant coffee to 'fresh' fruit that tastes like its been dipped in motor oil or something.. the beer is cheap, but then its cheap everywhere here-
Sure, nice to be clean again, nice not to have to string up a mozzie net to sleep, but other than that- well shit, anything you can get on KS Road can be had anywhere else- which is where I am going.
If you ever do the thai island trekking thing, when you come back to BKK on your way home, skip Khao San Road- its a corpse, waiting for someone to declare it officially dead.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24369750/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24369750/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:12:02 PDT Still, i found a place to plug in the computer, I have breakfast by the ocean every morning (for about a dollar)
and the sweltering heat is a welcome change from London.
Got 5 days left, then I will try my luck with a daylong bus trip into the southern part of cambodia, another resort town called Sihanoukville... good time to avoid Bangkok, as you may have seen on the news.
More soon- Scratch

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24268251/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24268251/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:46:30 PDT working still, but my new office has a hell of a view.

Thanks so much for the comments and faves.. when I am back in a real hotel, I will catch up and load up some new pictures..

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24086461/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/24086461/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:56:36 PDT taking off again. Think I got enough of Bangkok when I stayed here in September, so I am headed for one of the quieter, less populated islands tomorrow morning.
Said I wanted a lonely beach somewhere to the travel agent.
How about 'Lonely Beach' then? she says.
After the constant noise and urban chaos, a few days on a lonely beach sounds just about right...

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/23923888/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/23923888/ Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:11:57 PDT So, the job goes on...least I aint in blighty no more >sigh<

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/23552900/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/23552900/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:19:12 PST popped one over belgium, and didnt wake til I was over India, then made the connecting flight and I am back in Siem Reap, launchpad to Angkor Wat. Sleeping off jetlag, loving the heat and the food and all the friendly faces.
Couldnt be much happier

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/23423068/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/23423068/ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:49:40 PST With luck I will catch a local flight back to Siem Reap directly, but if not, I can easily spin out in Thailand for a week- or two. Found a great new hotel last time I was there, and it is in fact called the Encore, run by a charming Khmer couple- nice place, at a nice price.

[link]

Going back to the tropics will be a relief after several months of Old Blighty.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/23245779/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/23245779/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:02:29 PST its lying in wait, choosing a target and claiming a trophy, isn't it?


Travelling light these days means I scan the pages and generally ditch the originals, or leave them with friends or family (nothing heavier than books)
Havent done it much this round in London- too busy drawing other stuff- but I may get a day or two of it before I split.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22975294/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22975294/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:45:00 PST
[link]


... it has a few pertinent samples and my work history- have a look if you like, then come back here for a deeper dig when you have the time.

Cheers- Mark

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22857268/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22857268/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:16:27 PST
Liberty!
The verdict from on high- delays from above mean liberties below, and I am OUT OF HERE in two weeks!!!
Really oughtn't to be so chipper about it.. but a glance at the temperature here versus the temperature there sure
puts wind in one's sails. And then of course, there's the view...

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22856763/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22856763/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:28:01 PST the fiddlefaddle of media moguls I haven't even met.

These are the moments where being an adventurous type comes in handy..if I had wife kids and a mortgage, I'd be biting my knuckles and pacing the floor, waiting for the verdict... I don't, so a sudden change of plan just doesn't have any capacity to phase me.
I can get a ticket and saddle up in two days, and love it... its 31 degrees in Bangkok, and I look forward eagerly to shoving all these winter clothes into the nearest Oxfam box on my way to the airport, same as I did back on potato island in the fall... I can coast for months now, and may try getting serious about writing a book if I really have a long stretch of time off.
Or, my handlers may have some cunning plan for how best to make use of my services as a toontown 'gun for hire'.
But the delicious idiocy of it all is, I have absolutely no idea whats coming next. None.
Its downright invigorating.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22777686/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22777686/ Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:57:29 PST Oh well...
Angkor Wat has been there for over 1200 years, it will stay put for another 7 weeks.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22345990/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/22345990/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:10:17 PST Lots of people drop by, fave a thing or two, but certain others have become a kind of support group for me- it encourages me to update and submit regularly, whether with new drawings, or just old photos when I am too busy to draw for kicks. So, special shouts of thanks and praise to:

Malice Tear
Genna
Jsun
Slate Reaper
Hermux
Alchimichi
Perplexedness
xcardiac-arrhythmiax
random nothings
dunwich 7 (wherever you are)
wolf girl

thanks for keeping an eye out!
M

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]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21945256/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21945256/ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:32:43 PST my fry-up tomorrow, and you can make the comparisons yourself.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21868341/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21868341/ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:54:39 PST
Can you think of a close up of an object that just kind of says it all about where you are? I dont think this is exactly it yet..but I'm getting warmer

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21681435/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21681435/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:16:23 PST Enjoy.

(time to buy a new sketchbook)

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21510100/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21510100/ Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:23:45 PST Binall of America, and the many lectures and talks to be had on google video and youtube (though youtube clips tend to be too short)..

I dont watch them- I listen, since the eyes and hands are busy poisoning the minds of children around the world (mwa ha ha haaah...)

trouble is, I have listened to so many, that i have started burning down the sites I generally use.

So, this is a shout-out to those of you, any of you, who might do the same, in hopes you might send me a link to a talk I have never heard-

I need lectures of some duration, at least a half hour or more, and topics can range wildly- politix, philosophy, science, tech, documentaries, formal debates, uni lectures, just about anything... just dont send me anything about religion (I'm a born again heathen, praise Bob)

If you do send me something, I will be happy to respond in kind with links that are on similar topics.

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]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21096364/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/21096364/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:39:00 PDT I hate re-runs...good gig though.

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]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/20364207/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/20364207/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:02:58 PDT hot as hell, and a good thunderstorm or two every day, being the end of monsoon season...and yes, I am loving it.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/20238531/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/20238531/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:35:13 PDT Time to turn in my modem and get elsewhere! I will be offline for a while whilst I relocate to the other side of the planet. Thanks to one and all for the feedback and support over the last year.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/19665164/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/19665164/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:18:38 PDT That's plenty.

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[link]
a slide show of portfolio work


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Mark Marren
born 1962 CANADA
EMAIL- scratchmark@gmail.com
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Work Experience (most recent first):
Spider Eye Productions UK (freelance)2008
various storyboard projects

Studio B, Vancouver-2005/2007
Layout Supervisor, PUCCA (Flash)
Storyboard Artist, CLASS OF THE TITANS
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Trapeze Animation, PEI- 2004
Layout Supervisor, BG Design BAVE (Vietnam), MY SCENE (Flash)
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Time Lapse Pictures/Klasky Csupo 2003
Layout Artist, RUGRATS GO WILD
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Hahn Film, Germany- 2001/02
Layout Supevision, Storyboard, BG Design
various TV projects
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Nelvana Productions Toronto 2000/01
Storyboard Artist- CYBERCHASE
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Klasky Csupo Los Angeles 1999
Layout Supervisor/Workbook Supervisor
THE RUGRATS MOVIE 1
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Uli Meyer Animation, UK
co-director, LAMPIES
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DreamWorks Animation Los Angeles 1998
Location Design/Layout -EL DORADO
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Uli Meyer Animation, UK
Layout Artist/Design on
various projects, including
sequence layout on SPACE JAM
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DreamWorks 1997
Layout Artist/ Workbook Artist
PRINCE OF EGYPT
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Games Animation/Nickelodeon 1995
Layout Artist, Storyboard, Overseas Supervisor
the REN&STIMPY show
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FIL-Cartoons, Philippines 1992
Overseas Supervisor, DROOPY
Training seminar for new employees

Pacific Rim, Manila
Layout Supervisor, SUPER MARIO Bros

TFC Trickompany gmbh Hamburg
Layout Supervisor, FELIDAE
Layout Artist, OTTIFANTEN

Amblimation/Universal Pictures UK 1990-1994
Layout Supervisor FIEVEL GOES WEST
Layout Artist WE'RE BACK,
Location Design BALTO,
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HannaBarbera/Wang Film Taiwan 1986
Layout Supervisor FLINSTONE KIDS, POUND PUPPIES
Training seminar to upgrade skill levels of artists
for Disney TV's DUCKTALES series
(with two other Overseas Supervisors)
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Animation House Toronto 1885/86
Layout Artist/Storyboard Artist
various mixed media commercial projects

Boxcar Animation Toronto
Location Design/ Key Layout
For Better or Worse Xmas Special

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Nelvana Productions Toronto- 1984/85 1987/1989
Layout Artist/Supervisor, BG Dept Supervisor,
Overseas Supervisor on various TV series
including CARE BEARS, BABAR, DUCK TALES,
DROIDS, EWOKS
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Education
Sheridan College Oakville 1980-81
Classical Animation

Birkbeck College, London 1995
Introduction to Screenwriting

Toronto School of Art, Toronto 1989
Independent Figure Studies

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]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/19554985/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/19554985/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:24:30 PDT Maybe you can help me out by answering her Q&A 'espontaneo' rather than me tagging you?
Its actually pretty fun!

Rules of the game
* Choose a singer/band/group.
* Answer using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group.
* Tag 6 more people (let them know they've been tagged).


I'm going with Stevie Ray Vaughn

1. Are you male or female?
Stang's Swang

2. Describe yourself:
Wall Of Denial

3. What do people feel when they're around you? Rude Mood

4. How would you describe your previous relationship?
The Things (That) I Used To Do

5. Describe your current relationship:
Empty Arms

6. Where would you want to be now? Riviera Paradise

7. How do you feel about love? Couldn't Stand The Weather

8. What's your life like?
Tightrope

9. What would you ask for if you had only one wish? Pride and Joy

10. Say something wise.
The Sky Is Crying

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/19469203/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/19469203/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:19:36 PDT
Thanks for taking a look.

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By the way, if you want the same message in a much shinier wrapper, watch THE 11TH HOUR on youtube or google video. Very well presented.

Pages are posted randomly. and I'll sort them out then time allows.

There's never enough time, is there.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/18804007/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/18804007/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:22:29 PDT Hope they keep it up, and on the up and up, as usual. When they have finally scuttled the good ship Hubbard, I have a few suggestions for who they ought to take on next- and I bet you do too.
For now though, keep a weather eye on the 14th mates!




learn more:
[link]

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/18377976/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/18377976/ Sun, 18 May 2008 06:40:11 PDT
I've gone and gotten myself involved in this comic book see, and its proven to be alot of work-and way more text than I expected, so I still havent got any submissions to post- but when its done, I'll put the whole thing up here.

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Here is a song all about springtime in general, and in particular about one of the many delightful pastimes that the coming of spring affords us all...

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes every Sunday a treat for me.

All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Every Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park!

When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Everything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park!

We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon...

So if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park!
And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park!

We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strych'nine
We feed to a pigeon.
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park!

Tom Lehrer

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Kicks hell out of TV.

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Is this the environment for the Olympics? I dont think so.

Where are they going to hold them next, Zimbabwe?

The picture is from Reporters Without Borders. I doubt I will have to ask for their permission.

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...so I booked a flight to the caribbean! While I'm there, maybe I should talk to their embassy and request climate asylum... cuz this winter crap is cruel and unusual punishment. Seriously..humans don't belong up here in the snow belt, living in darkness for half the year..even a goose, with a brain the size of a peanut has the sense to fly south for the winter.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/17169737/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/17169737/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:16:06 PST It was a strange act, seeing them set up with a chair by the mike.
Larry told me the guitarist was blind since birth-and onto the stage comes this big pudgy kid with a blonde mop, blind as a bat, helped into his chair with the guitar in his lap.
And he plays.
And its WILD.
First time he gets up for a solo, he's so ungainly, guitar held upside down like that, hopping on the stage with that blonde mop flying, the bass player is sort of spotting for him and you thought, shit this kid is gonna fall off the stage any second, but he never did.
And he played.
Played? He Wailed.
That very night, he had played for some forgotten toronto music show, side by side with Stevie Ray Vaughn, a clip you can watch on YouTube now- and he had come straight from that gig to this one, same clothes and all.
By the time he got up for his last solo toward the end of the night, you weren't worried he might fall-you were on your feet with him, as was the whole club. One of the best nights at the Hall, and the launchpad for his career as a guitar prodigy.

]]> ~scratchmark http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/17148000/ http://scratchmark.deviantart.com/journal/17148000/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:37:11 PST It was an old wives tale I heard as a kid, 'If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb.'
And with the snow blowing and the wind howling outside, I ought to feel relieved.. the saying is supposed to mean that the weather will be mild and pleasant by the months end, and that spring will begin early.
Doesn't do much good for one's mood today, mind you... a good day to draw the blinds and hide. And with global warming to throw a spanner in the works all those old weather proverbs don't hold water like they used to.

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