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Favourite Fictional Felines

February 20, 2015October 5, 2017yggdrasille

1. Behemoth (The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov)

This list is not really in an order of preference, but Behemoth is probably my favourite fictional cat, and not just because I’ve read this book about 50 times over, in both Russian and English. He’s an enormous black cat who accompanies Satan on his visit to Soviet Moscow in the 1930s, and provides some of the novel’s best humourous passages. He walks on two legs, has a fondness for sarcasm, pistols and vodka, but is polite enough to offer to pay for the tram ride. What’s not to love?

Wild – Film Review

February 5, 2015June 16, 2024yggdrasille

Friend and I saw Wild at Classic Elsternwick, in the tiniest cinema I’ve ever been to – it felt more like a private screening room.

Smart Cats

February 2, 2015February 2, 2015yggdrasille

An illustration I did way back in uni for an annual report project. Mine was for a fictional cat food company called Smart Cat. See if you can spot the cat that’s clearly an impostor 🙂

Birdman – Film Review

January 29, 2015October 17, 2017yggdrasille

spoilers warning just in case

Saw Birdman with my Mum tonight. It’s nice to see a much-hyped movie that actually deserves the critical drooling, once in a while. We discussed it briefly once the credits got rolling, and both agreed that we’ve never seen anything quite like this movie.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Film Review

January 24, 2015October 17, 2017yggdrasille

The_Hobbit_-_The_Battle_of_the_Five_Armies Finally saw The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies last week.

This prequel trilogy has been a wildly uneven ride for me. I don’t think I’d ever care to watch the first film again in my life; it was three long hours of boredom, unnecessary story padding, pointless cameos and forgettable action sequences with far too many CGI characters. The Desolation of Smaug on the other hand was a pleasant surprise that made me feel like these films finally had a reason to exist. It still suffered from many of the same problems, most notably overlong action sequences with very questionable physics (even by movie standards), but it also injected some urgency and momentum into the story, introduced new engaging characters, and had great action even if some of it went on for too long. I even liked the elf/dwarf romance which apparently annoyed a lot of people. And of course it had the magnificent creature that is Smaug the dragon.

Artwork in progress (also, first post!)

January 23, 2015October 5, 2017yggdrasille

At the moment, I’m doing my first-ever commissioned artwork. I often had an idea of keeping some kind of progress journal and documenting the stages of my artworks, but I was just never motivated and organised enough. Now that I have this blog thing, I’ve finally decided to try and take the in-progress photos once a month. Better late than never and all.