http://www.kerrydennehy.com art for our sake: collaborations with communities Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:23:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/06/06/miyazaki-on-his-film-spirited-away/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/06/06/miyazaki-on-his-film-spirited-away/#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:07:30 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1223 … I’d like to talk about another example of a myth being used to an important purpose. The example is the movie SPIRITED AWAY. When I first saw SPIRITED AWAY I didn’t like it. It was flat to me and incoherent. But then I read its creator’s comments on it and I had to look again.]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/06/06/miyazaki-on-his-film-spirited-away/feed/ 3 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/06/01/my-last-conversation-with-kay-about-the-grove/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/06/01/my-last-conversation-with-kay-about-the-grove/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 04:15:52 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1224 Here for example.…   Kay died one year ago today after fighting cancer for a year.  While she was receiving treatment she kept a journal at Caringbridge.com to record the facts of her]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/06/01/my-last-conversation-with-kay-about-the-grove/feed/ 0 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/05/22/last-try/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/05/22/last-try/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 05:57:10 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1220 …]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/05/22/last-try/feed/ 0 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/05/21/a-gif-too-far/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/05/21/a-gif-too-far/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 13:18:27 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1218 …]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/05/21/a-gif-too-far/feed/ 0 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/02/04/new-courses-at-the-new-milford-community-school/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/02/04/new-courses-at-the-new-milford-community-school/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:27:25 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1135 here…. I’m offering courses in Painting in Acrylics, Beginning Drawing, Basic Photoshop, Creative Writing, and Cartooning & the Graphic Novel.]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2013/02/04/new-courses-at-the-new-milford-community-school/feed/ 0 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/05/08/stereoscope-blake-of-the-shtetl/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/05/08/stereoscope-blake-of-the-shtetl/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 17:07:09 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1054 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/05/08/stereoscope-blake-of-the-shtetl/feed/ 0 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/02/22/the-latest-blake-stereoscope/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/02/22/the-latest-blake-stereoscope/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:55:47 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1039 These are plates 9 & 10 from William Blake’s little book FOR THE SEXES: The Gates of Paradise.  I grabbed them off of the wonderful site The Blake Archive….   One way to read them is as adjacent comic book panels: ‘this happens and then this happens.  Another is to read them as slightly]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/02/22/the-latest-blake-stereoscope/feed/ 0 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/02/16/another-kind-of-likeness/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/02/16/another-kind-of-likeness/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:36:33 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1027 … Drawn and read from right to left, lower row to upper row.  Process: On a blackboard above a flower I saw it said “Yulija loves Hector.” I encircled the words in a word balloon, a talking flower. Next to it, delighting in love, a bee says “Hooray.” At the other end of the bee a]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2012/02/16/another-kind-of-likeness/feed/ 0 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2011/02/15/the-classic-haiku-closed-eye-drawing/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2011/02/15/the-classic-haiku-closed-eye-drawing/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:42:42 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1004 My final offering for the evening, again for Freeman Ng’s Haiku Story.  I like this one a lot.  It reminds me of this….]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2011/02/15/the-classic-haiku-closed-eye-drawing/feed/ 4 http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2011/02/15/yet-another-closed-eye-drawing/ http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2011/02/15/yet-another-closed-eye-drawing/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:36:23 +0000 admin http://www.kerrydennehy.com/?p=1000 …This is the point in Freeman’s story where the doctor is taken hostage by the mental patient (please note hospital gown open in back.)]]> http://www.kerrydennehy.com/2011/02/15/yet-another-closed-eye-drawing/feed/ 0