The Ford Motor Company used the assembly line idea for building their cars around 1913. I have applied it to my car drawings in this video.
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. Henry Ford, 1909.
I’ve been making five films about the author Lauren Child and her working process illustrating Pippi Longstocking and Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard, by Astrid Lindgren. The films are to celebrate the seventy five year anniversary of the original Pippi Longstocking.
The first film Where Do I Begin can be seen over at staringintospace.me , or you can view it below.
The music is © Soren Munk and Tom Dyson.
Film © David Mackintosh/profuselyillustrated. Permission for use of the film outside of the this website is on request. Please drop me an email.
Two short films inspired by reading words.
One foot cannot stand on two boats. ~ Chinese Proverb
Thanks to Philipp at the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn for asking me to draw while he read a few chapters from The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale. Telling stories can’t be stopped even by a pandemic, it would seem. This was via Instagram Live, which is the mode du jour for those indoors. The internet is quite amazing. The Peterkins would have benefited immensely from it.
Sometime after 2008.
Ally Capellino recently interviewed me with some very nosey questions about what I carry in one of their satchels. You can read about it here.
Photo by Coralie Bickford-Smith
They sent me a black Jeremy satchel, which is perfect when I’m on my bicycle.
I’m doing a live drawing event for the Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY on May 5th at about 3pm EST.
Philipp from the shop will be reading from The Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia P. Hale, and I’ll be drawing whatever I feel like. What do you do? You can listen with your eyes closed, or watch with your ears shut, or watch and listen, or watch and listen and draw your own pictures too. It’s all very simple.
The Peterkin Papers was written in 1880 and is weird and funny and silly. There are a lot of archaic words which you may find interesting, and will have you reaching for the dictionary.
How to join us:
Log into Instagram, click on the @communitybookstore live feed at around 3pm EST (8pm GMT).
I have been working on a short film on the history of smoke. Walter Ralegh plays a part of course, as does the HMS Titanic and the Industrial Revolution. Stay tuned.
Such a stupid git.
People will chalk. Studio window, May 2020.
