{"id":639,"date":"2004-10-23T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T10:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2020-09-25T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:39:56","slug":"hurry-up-and-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/blog\/hurry-up-and-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurry up and Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or \u201cThat Was Great! Could You Please Repeat It, But Louder This Time?\u201d<\/h4>\n

Back in the thick of the second documentary.
\nTalking about yourself is like handling a sharp sword – you can just as easily stick yourself with it as parry questions and strike deep to the heart of essential themes.
\nIf there is anything I\u2019ve learned since the days when nobody could care less what I might have to say, it\u2019s to NEVER really prepare a speech or an interview.
\nHow do you explain a choice of profession when it chose you?
\nHow do you explain how you work without running the danger of transforming an intuitive process into a recipe?
\nHow do you simply say anything you might not regret immortalizing mere minutes later?<\/p>\n

If pencils and brushes could talk, it would be much easier.
\nThey know what it\u2019s all about, but wisely remain mute.<\/p>\n

SAME PICTURES, DIFFERENT TITLE\u2026<\/p>\n

However, some things can do the talking for you\u2026
\nHere are a few pages from the new book, which will be out in a few weeks.
\nAnd, yes, that IS \u201cPreface by Viggo Mortensen\u201d…<\/p>\n

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The editor and I proofed the whole book earlier this week, and I think it will look good. Lots of new pictures, loads of sketches, some done literally a day before the layout was finalized (long live high-speed internet) and insights and texts from Robin Hobb, Claude Clement, Moebius, Patrick Tatopoulos and Miles Teves.
\nI\u2019ll post new pages over the next week or so.<\/p>\n

THE ABANDONED CITY<\/p>\n

Or the book a decade late\u2026 The Abandoned City has just been published by the Editions Casterman in Brussels. A few of the illustrations have already appeared in Myth & Magic, but the book is now complete, with Claude\u2019s remarkable text. We\u2019ll be signing at the Salon du Livre in Montreuil in November and unless I am mistaken, the originals will be on display at the Bibliotheque de St.-Gervais from November 4th . More on dates and times as I catch up with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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