http://cartoonmuseum.org/
This visit was actually a happy accident, which in itself is inspirational to me.
My plan for the day was to visit the British Museum, so I alighted at Holborn & followed the signs until I was hopelessly lost. First, I found a wonderful academic magic shop, not like the gimmicky ones, it a shop dedicated to the academic study of witchcraft, Wicca, Hellenism, Heathenism, Buddhism & various other doctrines (not enough Kemeticism for my taste but still wonderful). For some reason, I found myself talking about my life to the woman on the desk. She was very tolerant but I'm sure she was happy when I left. I am like Bridget Jones in the respect that I am prone to bouts of verbal diarrhea (that can't be the right spelling, I swear it's longer... dammit Yank-Blogger!) so I hope the lady wasn't too uncomfortable. I am truly sorry to everyone I have ever bothered with information they weren't interested in. I can be everso self-indulgent, it's something I'm working on. After all, if I want to make films that other people are interested in watching, I need to make them with audience in mind.
So, after I left the magic bibliothek, I once again embarked to find the British Museum. I really wanted to go, as the museum exhibits some gorgeous statues of my pantheon, so it is a very moving experience for me to stand in front of my Gods like that. I remember last time I went, there was a great statue of the Fearsome Lady Sekhmet & I was excitedly telling anyone who would listen the story of Ra sending Sekhmet to punish the humans for not worshipping, but She became blood-crazed & ate too many people. The resourceful Ra filled the Nile with beer & cochineal, so She thought it was a river of blood & promptly drank it dry & fell down in a drunken stupor. It was then that She was transfigured into the Blessed Lady Hethert (Hathor), goddess of love & tenderness. This feminine duality of war machine vs caring lover/mother is a fascinating aspect of ancient Kemetic culture. It is one of my dreams to create pieces of film which portray the great Egyptian mythological tales in a way which is both entertaining for non-Kemetics & devotional & holy for Kemetics.
THAT was not the point of the story. See what I mean about self-indulgent?
So, after much clueless wandering, I found the Cartoon Museum, a tiny treasure-trove tucked away in a corner. It really is small.Of course, size is not the main thing, 'tis what one does with it, & the Cartoon Museum is doing its best.
It was a curious little place full of old political cartoons from days before I was born, so a lot of it was lost of me, but some of the old adventure comics made me think of my favourite [adult swim] cartoon series. For anyone unfamiliar with [as] early output, the majority of the founding shows consisted of archive-Saturday Morning children's cartoons remixed & repurposed as surreal & satirical comedy for adults. I am referring here to classics such as Space Ghost Coast To Coast (made from SatAM show Space Ghost), The Brak Show (based on a villain from the Space Ghost original series), Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law (based on Birdman & The Galaxy Trio, partial inspiration for Birdman, the film), Aqua Teen Hunger Force (an almost nightmarishly strange send-up of children's capitalist mascots), Sealab 2021 (based on Sealab 2020, a children's environmental adventure cartoon) & a few others.These are some of my all-time favourite programmes & [as] is a company I would love to write & develop shows for one day, so looking at all these fairly obscure comic characters (such as Dan Dare, Jackie & The Wild Boys, Laura & The Legend of Hadley House & more) made me think of how wonderful it would be to reintroduce this kind of era of heroism with a satirical modern slant. Hardly original, I know, but I am passionate about old [as] content, so it struck a chord with me. Mike Milne showed us in a Contemporary Industry Practice lecture that only 1 in 10 of the top box office films of last year were based on original properties, which is telling of the popularity & profitability of tried & tested formulae.
This visit was actually a happy accident, which in itself is inspirational to me.
My plan for the day was to visit the British Museum, so I alighted at Holborn & followed the signs until I was hopelessly lost. First, I found a wonderful academic magic shop, not like the gimmicky ones, it a shop dedicated to the academic study of witchcraft, Wicca, Hellenism, Heathenism, Buddhism & various other doctrines (not enough Kemeticism for my taste but still wonderful). For some reason, I found myself talking about my life to the woman on the desk. She was very tolerant but I'm sure she was happy when I left. I am like Bridget Jones in the respect that I am prone to bouts of verbal diarrhea (that can't be the right spelling, I swear it's longer... dammit Yank-Blogger!) so I hope the lady wasn't too uncomfortable. I am truly sorry to everyone I have ever bothered with information they weren't interested in. I can be everso self-indulgent, it's something I'm working on. After all, if I want to make films that other people are interested in watching, I need to make them with audience in mind.
So, after I left the magic bibliothek, I once again embarked to find the British Museum. I really wanted to go, as the museum exhibits some gorgeous statues of my pantheon, so it is a very moving experience for me to stand in front of my Gods like that. I remember last time I went, there was a great statue of the Fearsome Lady Sekhmet & I was excitedly telling anyone who would listen the story of Ra sending Sekhmet to punish the humans for not worshipping, but She became blood-crazed & ate too many people. The resourceful Ra filled the Nile with beer & cochineal, so She thought it was a river of blood & promptly drank it dry & fell down in a drunken stupor. It was then that She was transfigured into the Blessed Lady Hethert (Hathor), goddess of love & tenderness. This feminine duality of war machine vs caring lover/mother is a fascinating aspect of ancient Kemetic culture. It is one of my dreams to create pieces of film which portray the great Egyptian mythological tales in a way which is both entertaining for non-Kemetics & devotional & holy for Kemetics.
THAT was not the point of the story. See what I mean about self-indulgent?
So, after much clueless wandering, I found the Cartoon Museum, a tiny treasure-trove tucked away in a corner. It really is small.Of course, size is not the main thing, 'tis what one does with it, & the Cartoon Museum is doing its best.
It was a curious little place full of old political cartoons from days before I was born, so a lot of it was lost of me, but some of the old adventure comics made me think of my favourite [adult swim] cartoon series. For anyone unfamiliar with [as] early output, the majority of the founding shows consisted of archive-Saturday Morning children's cartoons remixed & repurposed as surreal & satirical comedy for adults. I am referring here to classics such as Space Ghost Coast To Coast (made from SatAM show Space Ghost), The Brak Show (based on a villain from the Space Ghost original series), Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law (based on Birdman & The Galaxy Trio, partial inspiration for Birdman, the film), Aqua Teen Hunger Force (an almost nightmarishly strange send-up of children's capitalist mascots), Sealab 2021 (based on Sealab 2020, a children's environmental adventure cartoon) & a few others.These are some of my all-time favourite programmes & [as] is a company I would love to write & develop shows for one day, so looking at all these fairly obscure comic characters (such as Dan Dare, Jackie & The Wild Boys, Laura & The Legend of Hadley House & more) made me think of how wonderful it would be to reintroduce this kind of era of heroism with a satirical modern slant. Hardly original, I know, but I am passionate about old [as] content, so it struck a chord with me. Mike Milne showed us in a Contemporary Industry Practice lecture that only 1 in 10 of the top box office films of last year were based on original properties, which is telling of the popularity & profitability of tried & tested formulae.
