I have just stumbled upon this video created/directed by Em Cooper. I’ve been freaking out over it for about an hour now. MUST. FIND. EVERYTHING EM COOPER HAS MADE.

Here are her films: Films by Em Cooper (from her website)

And here is Em talking about creating the I’m Only Sleeping video.

By the way, the video has been nominated for a Grammy (2024) for Best Music Video. In my mind, it’s won it already.

“It’s not about making something fast and quick. It’s about doing something that you love”.

An illustrated presentation on graphic travelogues by Lucy Knisley. I’ve been meaning to buy her books. Finally ordered her first book “French Milk” yesterday. Very excited for it to arrive. I’m thinking I could buy her books in chronological order, like my Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Work In Chronological Order project :]

Updated (17 June 2022): French Milk arrived yesterday! I read it before bed last night and I’ve got 30 more pages to go. I know, I can’t even afford my own habit is my verdict.

In other news, I used Lucy’s method of prepping her travel sketchbook from the video above (use paper you like, punch holes in them, bound them together using binder rings, add hardcovers etc) for our trip to Barcelona last week and I loved it! This setup got me real excited to wake up in the morning and draw draw draw. Such a relief cos I had been kind of hating my drawings for a few months, let’s be real. You can see several pages from Barcelona in the Sketches page.

Karin Mamma Andersson is one of my favourite painters. Here are two videos that I keep coming back to: