One Happy Dragon
Today, Sir Peter Jackson revealed a special San Diego Comic-Con poster promoting his upcoming opus: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. That’s one happy dragon, isn’t it?
Emilio Alquezar’s “Un Lugar más allá / A Place Beyond”
Here’s a lovely song used for the opening of the film, El corazón del roble / The Heart of the Oak, released in Europe January 18, 2013, and released in the U.S. May 27, 2014 on DVD as Dragon Guardians. This is the third “Dragon Hill” movie, produced by Dibulitoon Studios in Spain, made mostly […]
How to Move Your Dragon
DreamWorks is boasting an innovative new process called “Apollo,” giving CG animators greater speed, ease and flexibility in manipulating their characters. Have a look: http://youtu.be/iepGUcvsWB0 See also the Bloomberg report here. And the Animation Scoop report here.
Emma Dryden: What Authors Ought to Know
The road to children’s book publishing has many twists and turns and obstacles along the way. Fortunately there are established authors, and editors, willing to help less-experienced writers achieve publication. Among them is Emma D. Dryden of Drydenbks, editor of nearly 500 children’s books and currently a freelance consultant. Recently she dispensed her advice in […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 12: The Pledge Fulfilled
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: Fellow-Citizens, our fathers have been faithful to them before us. When the little band of their Delegates, ” with a firm reliance […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 11: The Interest in Which the Declaration has Survived
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: The interest, which in this paper has survived the occasion upon which it was issued; the interest which is of every age […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 10: What the Declaration is Not
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: It is not, let me repeat, fellow-citizens, it is not the long enumeration of intolerable wrongs concentrated in this Declaration ; it […]
Part 9: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
John Quincy Adams, An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: In CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 8: Causes of Separation
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: Yet, Fellow-Citizens, these are not the causes of the separation assigned in the paper which I am about to read. The connexion […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 7: The just relation between sovereign and subject
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: It is a common Government that constitutes our Country. But in THAT association, all the sympathies of domestic life and kindred blood, […]
