Brian Kolm
Author's posts
Oct 12
Cinema Insomnia
Cinema Insomnia is a syndicated TV show that features old B movies. It’s host is Mister Lobo, the exocentric host. The show is featured on PBS-public access stations across the US. Here in the Bay Area its on the KTEH 54/17 PBS station. Their moto: There not bad movies, just misunderstood! Who is Mr. Lobo? …
Oct 11
BTGC update 10-10-05
I spent the weekend at Silicon 2005 where I has a table in the artist alley and hosted two panels, one on Self-Publishing Comics and one on drawings fantasy characters. Both panels had 5 folks, which is fine, and went off with little incident with the exception of me worrying my pants off. But I …
Oct 11
Silicon 2005 Illustration – Knight
As an artist who was in artist alley for Silicon 2005, we were expected to create art as we sat there. I produced two pieces, this is one of them: Can be seen bigger in my gallery HERE NOTE: I just realized that I have been labeling my posts for Silicon as 2006, but I …
Oct 10
Silicon Panel follow up – LINKS
I was thrilled to have my first to convention panels at Silicon 2005 this weekend. Both of them where great successes and I had a great time talking to folks who are interested in comic books and graphic novels. If you where at any of my panels and would like to see more/diffrent stuff next …
Oct 10
nanowrimo.org
nanowrimo.org is the official home of the National Novel Writting Month. To tie in to the book: No Plot-No Problem. Here is a blurb from the official site: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by …
Oct 10
FIRE AT AARDMAN ANIMATION!!
At the heels of Aardman’s hit film Wallace and Grommet: Curse of the Were-Rabbit comes the sad news that there was a fire at the studio that destroyed most of everything in their archive. I found this out at Cartoon Brew that has a link to more news from CNN. The report that there “Whole …
Oct 10
The Observation Deck
The Observation Deck by Naomi Epel is an excellent tool. I discovered it back when I worked at Time Out For Fun and Games at Jack London Square many years ago. It is one of those amazing products from Chronicle Books that is there to help you get over writers block. When you are stuck, …
Oct 08
"Chaos Costuming"
At Silicon they are going to have a panel about “Iron Costuming” sorta Iron Chef but with bolts of fabrics a sewing machine, and a limited amount of time. This is based of “Chaos Costuming” that is popular in the UK: …This is an opportunity either to add the finishing touches to a costume you’ve …
