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Friday, February 04, 2011

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:33:02 GMT

TO DO:

1) apologize for prolonged absence. X

2) offer explanation: i've been writing a screenplay. X

3) give context: in partnership with the small production company of Robert Zemeckis. X

4) writing?: it's hard. fortunately, a good story and a good painting seem to share the same DNA. X

5) conclude: the first draft is done. they seem excited. X

6) get back to drawing, which I miss.

7) do laundry

listening to: Crystal Castlezzzzz

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:06:47 GMT

Hide and seek

for the Moonshine show at Nucleus Aug 14.

heylp.

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:48:33 GMT

friends,

my laptop went die. hard drive clicking noise bye forever.

Alas, I don't backup my stuff very well. So along with whatever else, i lost all my emails since 2005. If you please, and are my friend/coworker/acquaintance/sister, can you send a quick email (blank even) to:

cappelhans@gmail.com

Then we won't forget each other and I can start the long process of rebuilding my digital existence.

thanks you
chris

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Monday, March 22, 2010

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:09:58 GMT

rest in peace, Norm. :(

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:15:49 GMT

Dear Supreme Court,

WTF is wrong with you?

Yours Truly,
Chris

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:04:46 GMT

Le Fox Fantastique

Hi. Sorry. It's been a while. Things have been busy, reaaally busy. There's a new film coming out in a few weeks, The Fantastic Mr Fox, that I did some work on a long time ago. Here be some artworks from that:

I didn't have much say in the final character design, the basics came from Wes' brother's drawings...

There are more, but I can't find them. Anyways, I don't know how the film turned out - the script was really really good - but hopefully everyone will go see it and enjoy :)

p.s. Is xanga totally dead? Should I be moving to blogspot?

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:59:10 GMT

Finally uploaded some Coraline art to my website. Particularily pleased with Shadi's magical webpage for the Postage Stamp Film. Try it on your iphone. Things have been too busy lately. I feel like doing this for a while.

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listening to: Neil Young

Friday, February 06, 2009

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:27:34 GMT

So this weekend there's a little film called Coraline. You should go see it. If you read my blog, you're either related to me (so you better go see it) OR you're a bit of a weirdo (in which case you'll love the film). Either way, I think it's a pretty darn good movie and I'm really hoping it does well it's opening weekend...

Also, there's a panel at Nucleus on Saturday where myself and several far more talented artists will be showing our stuff. Shane Prigmore, Shannon Tindle, Dan Krall, my domestic partner Jon Klassen - all will display there awesome artworks...

Coraline Artist Panel

Anyways, here's a couple of my things from the film - I'll try to put the rest up next week if I can find them:

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listening to: Flying Lotus

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:51:57 GMT

for some reason, maybe my extremely advanced age, I've taken to listening to Chopin as I fall asleep every night. It must be slightly unnerving for Jon, as he passes my bedroom with his midnight snack of Dr. Pepper and Chips Ahoy - to find me lying on my bed, hands folded on my chest, Fantasie Impromptu intoning from my speakers.

Either way, I've been tinkering with little Chopin-esque tunes of my own:

Nocturne Midnite

Best listened to whilst falling asleep in your darkened bedroom...

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Monday, January 19, 2009

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:58:04 GMT

hi my friendyfriends,

a couple of movies are coming out in the next few months, movies I did some work on waaay back when, the year of
'07. here's some of the art for one of them - the glorious Hotel For Dogs What's it about you ask? I totally bet you can guess.

sometimes you work on film just because it means you get to draw Bernie Mac. RIP Bernie. :(

up next - Coraline and The Story of The Secret Closet Into Another World Which Looks Nice But Is Actually Evil There You've Seen The Trailer Why See The Whole Movie

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listening to: Lindstrommmm