Author Archives: Jonathan Lyons

I was in a pretty lit­tle book store in Point Reyes, Cal­i­for­nia and I found some inter­est­ing books for artists. I chose to buy “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon. Mostly because it was cheaper than the other one … Con­tinue read­ing →

This short isn’t sup­posed to be funny, but I think the stop motion ani­ma­tion is excel­lent. Misha Klein spent sev­eral years work­ing on it between jobs. I’ve been there myself, and he deserves a tip of the hat. Fred from Misha … Con­tinue read­ing →

While perus­ing my library for blog mate­r­ial, I picked up Char­lie Chaplin’s One Man Show, by Dan Kamin.   For study­ing Chaplin’s phys­i­cal per­for­mance, you can’t find a bet­ter book.  But the pas­sage that caught my eye isn’t specif­i­cally about … Con­tinue read­ing →