Blog'en with Little'en and Big'en: Grindhouse

Monday, April 30, 2007

Grindhouse

Grindhouse
Watched at the AMC Cantera 30 in Warrenville IL on 4-14-07

I count myself very lucky. Coming of age when I did, I encountered much discussion on storytelling. It was the vogue of the time. I did not listen to artists discussing if a particular story was good. No, I heard artists discussing the art of storytelling. The making. The working. Each artist had their own take on the matter but it all boiled down to same thing. The true artist explores his own personal mythology. You find the hidden archetypes within the stories you love. For in those things you respond to, good or bad, are indicative of elements in your own psyche. Storytelling is not about writing the coolest dialogue or the most balls to the walls fist fight. You need those archetypes. They are the power behind a story. You pare the stories you love to the archetypical elements. The seeds of the story. You plant the seeds in the soil made from the detritus of your life. To do otherwise is failure.
-Jason Arcand
www.littleenandbigen.com

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About Suzanne Arcand

"Raised in the wild suburban jungle that constantly threatens to devour the Windy City, Suzanne realized at an early age that her brother’s action figures and comic books were more interesting than the dolls her mother was buying her.

Unlike her classmates, who all caught cases of cynicism and pessimism, Suzanne emerged into college with a deep love for animation, sci-fi, and comic books.

While at college she earned two degrees, a BFA in fine art and a BFA in animation, before marrying Jason Arcand in 2004. (Their first date was to see Starship Troopers.) Now expecting her first child, Suzanne works in the Little’en and Big’en studios on her animated movie and comic strip."
-from the About Us page at www.littleenandbigen.com

About Jason Arcand

"Jason Arcand as a tot enjoyed drawing his master pieces on his body and his brother’s. Later he experienced an eureka moment when introduced to the renewable source of material that is paper.

Jason was introduced to his first art class at the age of eleven. He would go on to produce the most amazing paintings of the TMNT to ever grace the canvas. Almost as captivating as his first story book, Y-Mouse goes to the Grocery Store, written at the tender age of six.

What would this prolific child master do next? Follow the path of past Renaissance men. Adventure like a ninja turtle. NO. The world would soon learn this child had a goal to rule the world of science...MAD SCIENCE!

Lucky for us it’s expensive. More expensive than being a comic book artist. So due to shallow pockets and artistic ambitions, Jason Arcand was created in the mad scientist lab of Jason Arcand’s mind as JASON ARCAND : MASTER OF JASON ARCAND COMICS AND JASON ARCAND DESIGNS!"
-from the About Us page at www.littleenandbigen.com