NEWS | Bye bye Laino.me

We launched Laino.me a year ago and today we are closing it. The idea was to create a cloud platform of comics translated to basque starting with the translation of Dragon Ball but today we decided to set the project on stand by. We need some time to re-think everything and reboot it. The already translated pages will be available soon in a new, better platform. Stay tuned for news.

Ian Nose & me

Joaquin Rodríguez took this nice pic of Ian Nose and me last night with an awesome app for the iphone: cinemagr.ma. The democratization of the Cinemagraphs is here.

Jean Giraud dies at age 73

Moebius is gone. After a long illness Jean Giraud passed away today. When you have read and stare at drawings of someone for such a long time as I have to Giraud's ones, you have the feeling of knowing him for a long time. You believe you understand him the same way you understand your best friends. But this is a kind of a different friendship in wich you can only know about the other when a new album is released or when someone interviews him or just when you discover something old you haven't read before in a book store or surffing the net. It's a weird friendship. But it's ever weirder to realize that of those three actual real ways to know something about your "friend", now only the last one is left. Rest in peace Jean.

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Director Phillip Kaufmann, the man behind The Right Stuff, probably the best pilots and astronauts related movie ever done, is back together with film editor Water Murch. With who he colaborated years ago in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Hemingway & Gellhorn will be released on HBO as a TV movie in the States, but we will likely be able to see it on cinemas all over the world. Hear Walter Murch speak about the film on last octobers Boston SuperMeet

Ralph McQuarrie Dies at Age 82

Today one of the best concept artist of all time, Ralph McQuarrie  passed away. His work is his legacy. Rest in Peace Ralph.

When Star Wars still was a bunch of written dialogues and George Lucas was fighting with studio executives to make his cinematic vision come true. There appeared Ralph McQuarrie and made George's vision visible. The rest is history. The importance of a concept artist in the very first days of a project such as Star Wars is dramatically important. What those guys draw establish the atmosphere, the characters, the colors and the overall tone that the movie will likely had, if its ever done. Because those are the artists that start to work when there is almost nothing done yet, the ones that have to translate words into images for the first time, the ones that have to imagine it all.