They made a movie out of one of my fables!
Just kidding, but the premise of the film is remarkably similar to one of my prose poems. Click here to read it.
I’ve just discovered the work of sculptor Patricia Picinnini and I’m excited to share it on this blog. She crafts three-dimensional modern fables that are also cautionary tales for an era of genetic tampering. Her Frankenstein creatures are posed in casual and intimate connection with lifelike sculptures of human children. The sculptures evoke opposing feelings [...]
I’ve always been attracted to the animated films of the 1930s. They came out of dark economic times and had a sophisticated adult sensibility–think of Betty Boop, Felix the Cat, and Popeye. The humor was subtle and subversive and the images were complex and full of magical realism. The landscapes came alive to dramatize whatever [...]
I’ve watched this incredible film by Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg at least 20 times. I’m in awe of it.
Firekites – AUTUMN STORY – Chalk animated music video directed by Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg. Music available from Spunk Records
There are writers that I like, writers that I love, and writers that I worship. Simic and Kafka fall into the latter category, so imagine how thrilled I was to find these two fables–one by Kafka, the other by Simic–which I read as dual explorations of a similar dystopian insight.
A Little Fable
by Franz Kafka
“Alas,” [...]
Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d post a modern fable about love. Here is one of my favorites, by Alan Ziegler from The Swan Song of Vaudeville. © Zoo Press. To hear Garrison Keillor read the poem, visit “The Writer’s Almanac.” Here is the full text of the fable/poem.
Love At First Sight
It was [...]
The Birds by Marie Hines, 2003
Marie Hines combines a modern fable with a traditional Art Historical theme to create this provocative take on the annunciation. Hines’ composition uses familiar tropes: flowers, intense color, a winged messenger, and a pregnant Madonna. But Hines updates this classic theme by combining the ages-old story with a modern fable [...]
I was chatting with a man in the obstetrician’s waiting room when suddenly I realized that he was pregnant too. “I’m due in September,” he said, smiling proudly and rubbing his belly.
I should have been polite. Should have just said congratulations and left it at that, but instead I blurted, “But, you’re a man. [...]
Bones were discovered in my crawlspace, and police arrived to investigate, sifting the dirt for clues. When they learned that the remains were centuries old, they closed the case, and archeologists were brought in. “She was a woman about your size,” they told me, “probably one of the early settlers in the region.” The entire [...]