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Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Start a New career

Tired of your dead end job. Start a New career. Become a brain surgeon in your spare timeSign up for the

Cerebellum School of Brain surgery. You get a manual, a map of the brain with the different lobes,

a cauliflower to practice with and you're on your way.

Start your dazzling new medical career in just six weeks! Watch the movie on Youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JolxcLnu_Ms 

 Posted April 1, 2009 


Posted by mcusiman at 5:33 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, 8 May 2009 9:44 PM EDT
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Last week I saw the Academy Award shorts at the ICA. All the animations were pretty good. Though the Japanese anim won the Oscar this movie This Way Up was the most amazing one. Its a humorous take on two undertakers. In one scene they stumble upon a Mardi Gras in Hell with a huge brass band of skeletons and ghouls...playing music and dancing around. The animation is worth seeing when it comes around.

 This winter has been cold here so I've been indoors watching old film noir movies from the 1940s with Robert Mitchum, Jayne Mansfield, and Edward G Robinson. Many of the characters are extremely solitary lonely people. They don't seem to belong to a community. They may have one close friend or a wife. Even the other people at work seem to be strangers.

Contrast that to the 60s where half a million people communed together in a muddy field watching Hendrix and the Who. Whether the Woodstock Nation was a momentary reality or a myth it's a concept that would be totally unfathomable in 1940. Last year I created a film noir animated movie called City of Dark Shadows set in the dimly lit 1940s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've also discovered this quite amusing HBO comedy series Entourage. This one young guy becomes a rich Hollywood movie star and he gets his 2 high school friends and his brother to quit their jobs at Pizza Hut and move in to his mansion. From there they drive his cars, meet beautiful starlets, and share in this fantasy world that he lucked into. Its based on the early life of Mark Wahlberg.

The cast are a bunch of clueless knuckleheads stumbling into situations that most people only dream of. They're like kids let loose in a candy store without adult supervision. They spar with their insane agent giving you an insiders look into how movies are made by completely irrational egomaniacs. It s a pretty amusing show.


Posted by mcusiman at 11:35 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 1:34 PM EDT
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Friday, 13 February 2009
The Island

 The winter wind is howling. Ice and snow and ice are covering everything and the temperature is dropping to 2 degrees. What else could a sensible person do but take a week off to a visit a tropical Island. Vieques Isn't a well travelled resort like the Bahamas or St. Thomas. Its' an island off the Puerto Rico mainland with miles of beautiful beaches. Beaches that you have practically to yourself. Why is that? Vieques is called the best kept secret of the Caribbean. Vieques hasn't had much time to develop into a resort. The U.S. Navy was kicked off the the island by the locals in 2003, after using it for 60 years as a place to do target practice and play war games. The bunkers formerly filled with ammunition are still there...empty and now covered with weeds. 


  To say that the people in Vieques are laid back is an understatement. People go to work when they feel like it if they even go to work. Those who own horses let them roam all over the island for days or weeks at time. Their roosters also walk anywhere they want. They cock adoo doo doo each other all night long. Hanging around the boardwalk by the palm trees late at night after a day on the beach is the perfect escape from the tribulations of the Western world.

 

Posted by mcusiman at 8:57 PM EST
Updated: Friday, 13 February 2009 11:37 PM EST
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Saturday, 22 November 2008
Caricature Convention

Recently there was a caricature convention in Raleigh, NC. Over 200 artists from all over the world drew each other for 5 days. Caricature artists work in theme parks, conventions, parties, etc. Every year there is a convention to practice drawing more exaggerated pictures of each other in a hotel ballroom that is open 24 hours a day.

Below you will see some drawings people did of me and some that I did of the other artists.


Posted by mcusiman at 3:10 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, 22 November 2008 3:17 PM EST
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Saturday, 25 October 2008
The Genie

Recently I filmed some friends in my Genie movie. If only a genie could fix the financial crisis.

 


Posted by mcusiman at 6:00 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, 8 May 2009 9:53 PM EDT
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Saturday, 6 September 2008
Boston Film Industry

The Boston Film Industry has been booming the last few years due to tax breaks etc. Casting companies are signing people up as extras.

But some people think they will immediately get discovered and be instantly cast as swashbuckling stars.

Imagine magazine has much to do with the revitalization of the local film industry. They have me do monthly comic strips for them and this is a recent one.

 Imagine Magazine has


Posted by mcusiman at 9:36 PM EDT
Updated: Thursday, 7 May 2009 2:21 PM EDT
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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Rollover Baby

The blues band Rollover Baby played at Artbeat in Somerville for the first time in two years. I was there to videotape another band and found out they were playing too.

 Rollover Baby is an offshoot of an earlier band called Neon Grandma which started at the Naked City Coffeehouse and Passim. Check out their recent show on video.

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmL0t-SmmY  

and 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-GzcPaPp4 

 


Posted by mcusiman at 8:59 PM EDT
Updated: Thursday, 7 May 2009 2:18 PM EDT
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Sunday, 10 August 2008
Wild Elephants

Recently Rooster Tails Studios filmed three comedies: Save the Elephants, Restless Leg Syndrome, &

Correspondence Brain Surgery in Cambridge. The plan is to premiere the movies in the fall of 2008.

These are some stills from the movie. Its amazing how cauliflower resembles the human brain.

 

 

The Cast: Steve, Mick

Eric, Jane, Deb, Dawn


Posted by mcusiman at 6:03 PM EDT
Updated: Saturday, 6 September 2008 9:41 PM EDT
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Thursday, 31 July 2008
Woods Hole Film Festival

Last weekend the Woods Hole Film festival went into 

full swing.  My movie 

The Dreams of Leonardo da Vinci 

played on Sunday night with other notable

animated movies. The week was spent hanging

out with other filmmakers at the after parties, 

walking by the harbor, and seeing some of the

films. It was a pleasure meeting several people who will be

involved in upcoming film festivalsin Cannes and Berlin.

Someone from PBS filmed me talking about my movie.

There were some great dramas and 

comedies and several movies about the 

environment and the ocean. Woods Hole

is the home of the famous oceanographic 

institute. Below are photos of some members

of the film community enjoying the festival by the sea.

 

http://woodshole.bside.com/2008/films/thedreamsofleonardodavinci_woodshole2008

 


Posted by mcusiman at 5:52 PM EDT
Updated: Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:50 PM EDT
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Sunday, 15 June 2008
June Caricatures

A few new caricatures: Stooges, Sex & the City, Rat Pack, and Stephen Colbert


Posted by mcusiman at 7:00 PM EDT
Updated: Sunday, 3 August 2008 1:23 PM EDT
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