August 27th, 2010 / 10:48 pm
Behind the Scenes
Mark Leidner
Behind the Scenes
Chapbook City
Tags: animation, chapbook city, Webcomics
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Meta
Every book is a book of words.
Mark–this is my favorite strip of yours yet. The gritty noir horn helps. The passing cars help. Next one in 3D, please.
YES BUT ONLY IF THE 3D CAN BE INVERTED BACK TO 2D SOMEHOW
lol, thanks gabe. if only i could think of a joke that was more than 1D
word up ted
Every book is a book of words.
Mark–this is my favorite strip of yours yet. The gritty noir horn helps. The passing cars help. Next one in 3D, please.
YES BUT ONLY IF THE 3D CAN BE INVERTED BACK TO 2D SOMEHOW
lol, thanks gabe. if only i could think of a joke that was more than 1D
word up ted
love these every time
dude was serious when he said “YOU’VE TOLD ME” haha… good stuff
love these every time
dude was serious when he said “YOU’VE TOLD ME” haha… good stuff
yeahhh, and the tragedy is that his seriousness won’t save him
anyway thanks chris
<3 chapbook city deeply deeply
The books look like pillows and the buildings look like books. I dig it.
Unrelated to the chapbook video, but check out this yelp.com review of a gyno visit written as a poem: http://www.yelp.com/biz/jessamine-county-health-department-nicholasville#hrid:hQsZtyiNJDTSGvtM6sr8jA
good example of a poem that is ultimately dull but initially shocking
thank you emily, pillows, books, and buildings are definitely geometrical bedfellows
ha, nice music choice
I used to live in Chapbook City.
yeahhh, and the tragedy is that his seriousness won’t save him
anyway thanks chris
Why does xx have a shotgun for a mouth?
This short makes me appropriately sad, Mark.
<3 chapbook city deeply deeply
The books look like pillows and the buildings look like books. I dig it.
I had this conversation last night.
Maybe the night before.
I didn’t hear the cool horns.
I heard drunks going by yelling.
Well.
I liked this a lot.
Unrelated to the chapbook video, but check out this yelp.com review of a gyno visit written as a poem: http://www.yelp.com/biz/jessamine-county-health-department-nicholasville#hrid:hQsZtyiNJDTSGvtM6sr8jA
good example of a poem that is ultimately dull but initially shocking
thank you emily, pillows, books, and buildings are definitely geometrical bedfellows
ha, nice music choice
I used to live in Chapbook City.
Why does xx have a shotgun for a mouth?
This short makes me appropriately sad, Mark.
I thought it was a strong second stanza.
amen to that, miles davis is the mighty ocean upon which these crude images bob and hiccup like tiny dinghies
lol, and you may again
lol , maybe he’s so cool livin in brooklyn for 2.5 yrs and all, writing chapbooks about nothing, he only has the energy to open half of his mouth
anyway thank you, owen. happy or sad, “appropriately” is the only feeling that matters, right?…
it’s all strong on a first reading, even kind of haunting and powerful – indicting, scary, honest, wise, naive – but i can’t find much interesting on a second read. like how some movies are okay if they keep you in suspense until the end, but once you know the ending, the whole build-up isn’t much fun to re-watch
but some movies are great and every single scene is so gorgeous and complicated that they reward unlimited rewatchings
thank you jon, sorry about those drunks, society should do something to replace drunk people with cool horns
but if you like that music you should seek “ascenseur pour l’echafaud” it’s noirtacular
I thought it was a strong second stanza.
amen to that, miles davis is the mighty ocean upon which these crude images bob and hiccup like tiny dinghies
lol, and you may again
lol , maybe he’s so cool livin in brooklyn for 2.5 yrs and all, writing chapbooks about nothing, he only has the energy to open half of his mouth
anyway thank you, owen. happy or sad, “appropriately” is the only feeling that matters, right?…
it’s all strong on a first reading, even kind of haunting and powerful – indicting, scary, honest, wise, naive – but i can’t find much interesting on a second read. like how some movies are okay if they keep you in suspense until the end, but once you know the ending, the whole build-up isn’t much fun to re-watch
but some movies are great and every single scene is so gorgeous and complicated that they reward unlimited rewatchings
thank you jon, sorry about those drunks, society should do something to replace drunk people with cool horns
but if you like that music you should seek “ascenseur pour l’echafaud” it’s noirtacular
like the last part, when the guy says, “you’ve told me,” and his mouth is open for as long as the trumpet hits that note.
i thought it was all terrible. there wasn’t a single interesting or imaginative or clever thing said.
cool opinion, man
This one is good too: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-sock-man-new-york#hrid:VSq369cUFgICNjFQAjTbKA
you can’t be condesending
and sell socks.
Someone publish this person.
lol yeah @ that moment he turns into a grumpy trumpet muppet
I loved how you would just keep cutting back to the coffee cups on the table. Hysterical!
Anxiously awaiting the next installment!
like the last part, when the guy says, “you’ve told me,” and his mouth is open for as long as the trumpet hits that note.
Yes. Exactly.
i thought it was all terrible. there wasn’t a single interesting or imaginative or clever thing said.
cool opinion, man
This one is good too: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-sock-man-new-york#hrid:VSq369cUFgICNjFQAjTbKA
you can’t be condesending
and sell socks.
Someone publish this person.
lol yeah @ that moment he turns into a grumpy trumpet muppet
I loved how you would just keep cutting back to the coffee cups on the table. Hysterical!
thankyou city
awesome jen, thank you. i think it’s going to have nudity
Anxiously awaiting the next installment!
Yes. Exactly.
Mark: I disagree completely on this one. I like this stuff very much. Thanks for the link, d!
thankyou city
awesome jen, thank you. i think it’s going to have nudity
a fool and his opinion are soon united!
j/k! but seriously
what do you like about it? i’m curious… plus we’re running up the comment count
so good. glad i saw this tonight.
Mark: I disagree completely on this one. I like this stuff very much. Thanks for the link, d!
a fool and his opinion are soon united!
j/k! but seriously
what do you like about it? i’m curious… plus we’re running up the comment count
I watched this thinking it was a book trailer. I was shattered when I saw it was not a book trailer.
Please please someone get this from mark and make it a trailer for your chapbook.
so good. glad i saw this tonight.
Is the guy with eyes very angry when he says, “Youve told me”?
It looks like he’s shouting a little.
I watched this thinking it was a book trailer. I was shattered when I saw it was not a book trailer.
Please please someone get this from mark and make it a trailer for your chapbook.
thank you bryan @ 5x magnification
lol igor, i watched my whole life thinking it was a book trailer
he’s trying hard not to show emotion but cc is a taut noir vise slowly grinding around him until he explodes
Is the guy with eyes very angry when he says, “Youve told me”?
It looks like he’s shouting a little.
Mark, before this video I was unaware of your existence. I want to give you a hug.
This reminded me of Coffee and Cigarettes. It was better than the vignette with the white stripes twins.
this may be the best thing i’ve ever seen.
thank you bryan @ 5x magnification
lol igor, i watched my whole life thinking it was a book trailer
he’s trying hard not to show emotion but cc is a taut noir vise slowly grinding around him until he explodes
have never seen either so this comment is like a starting pistole and i’m off to the youtubez
lol lily, fueling my noircissism with beautiful hyperbole… but thank you
hug accepted and returned
Mark, before this video I was unaware of your existence. I want to give you a hug.
This reminded me of Coffee and Cigarettes. It was better than the vignette with the white stripes twins.
this may be the best thing i’ve ever seen.
Check out the vignettes: “Cousins?” (with Steve Coogan) and “Strange to Meet You” (Benigni).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggqrEMtA3TU (skip to 1:36 because of the credits, or you cab be stoic and embrace them).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNyafL1cm4
have never seen either so this comment is like a starting pistole and i’m off to the youtubez
lol lily, fueling my noircissism with beautiful hyperbole… but thank you
hug accepted and returned
Check out the vignettes: “Cousins?” (with Steve Coogan) and “Strange to Meet You” (Benigni).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggqrEMtA3TU (skip to 1:36 because of the credits, or you cab be stoic and embrace them).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNyafL1cm4
I’m not sure. I’d have to go back and put some thought into it, and I’m not really in the mood right now to do that.
All I’ll say for the moment is that her writings make me feel something. A kind of warmth, a kind of joy, a kind of something I can’t really immediately identify.
Lily: Although I like it very much: nothing beats the Teletubbies.
fair enough, but i think specificity is difficult because it is worth practicing. in addition to enriching conversation… if feeling something is the reason you read, the more you can identify and articulate the sources of those feelings, the deeper you will feel them
just my opinion though
There’s also always the risk of over-analyzing. It can just about kill a work of art.
The fact that you feel something is the most important thing about a work of art and the chief indicator that you’ve made a connection with it. Analyzing what that feeling, yeah: tends to be somewhat difficult, even bothersome.
Okay, so most of the stuff I guess I don’t really like. (In general I tend to dislike vernacular writing in literary art.) But a few of them I do.
But then, I also liked My Immortal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyq3jRhiM7M) — in fact I thought it was near-brilliant in the way it mocks lazy fanfiction.
Not that I have anything against fanfic in general. Honest. Even though I suppose somebody’s bound to attack me, now, for not hating fanfic.
I don’t know — now I’m getting curious… so you’ve made me want to go back and analyze the stuff . . . .damn you! Damn you to-
i like how all the cars look like hearses, and how xx looks like he’s dead. and how it sort of looks like it’s about a dead guy who keeps living b/c none of the hearse-drivers will pick him up, instead they just pass him by. and they do that because they are already full (of dead white men) &or they don’t notice him (even though he is in front of a big picture window (internet)) &or they don’t want to drive him because then they would have to hear about his chapbook, so that being boring is a lifesaver, sort of. but
that’s silly. all i meant to
say was good job mark
I’m not sure. I’d have to go back and put some thought into it, and I’m not really in the mood right now to do that.
All I’ll say for the moment is that her writings make me feel something. A kind of warmth, a kind of joy, a kind of something I can’t really immediately identify.
Lily: Although I like it very much: nothing beats the Teletubbies.
fair enough, but i think specificity is difficult because it is worth practicing. in addition to enriching conversation… if feeling something is the reason you read, the more you can identify and articulate the sources of those feelings, the deeper you will feel them
just my opinion though
There’s also always the risk of over-analyzing. It can just about kill a work of art.
The fact that you feel something is the most important thing about a work of art and the chief indicator that you’ve made a connection with it. Analyzing what that feeling, yeah: tends to be somewhat difficult, even bothersome.
Okay, so most of the stuff I guess I don’t really like. (In general I tend to dislike vernacular writing in literary art.) But a few of them I do.
But then, I also liked My Immortal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyq3jRhiM7M) — in fact I thought it was near-brilliant in the way it mocks lazy fanfiction.
Not that I have anything against fanfic in general. Honest. Even though I suppose somebody’s bound to attack me, now, for not hating fanfic.
I don’t know — now I’m getting curious… so you’ve made me want to go back and analyze the stuff . . . .damn you! Damn you to-
i like how all the cars look like hearses, and how xx looks like he’s dead. and how it sort of looks like it’s about a dead guy who keeps living b/c none of the hearse-drivers will pick him up, instead they just pass him by. and they do that because they are already full (of dead white men) &or they don’t notice him (even though he is in front of a big picture window (internet)) &or they don’t want to drive him because then they would have to hear about his chapbook, so that being boring is a lifesaver, sort of. but
that’s silly. all i meant to
say was good job mark
analysis only kills weak art and shallow emotion. no reason to fear it unless you’re happy
lol lovely analysis raych, currently swimming laps in that paragraph. thank you
analysis only kills weak art and shallow emotion. no reason to fear it unless you’re happy
lol lovely analysis raych, currently swimming laps in that paragraph. thank you
man. so good
man. so good