Look at what I found in my PO Box! Thanks to the awesome Nationeer Tanya for sending the pizza gift card and gnome. I know what I’m having for dinner.
If you want to mail me something, my new PO Box is on the contact page. Sometimes I find ways to use the stuff I get sent in videos (like Bear, and the gnome in my Justin Bieber video). Or, I just eat it, like that pizza
- April 30th, 2009 at
2:52 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
As part of school finals for my Digital Photography and Design class, I am required to present a twenty-photo body of work to show off the skills I’ve learned this semester. Never one to veer far from the predictable, I chose Gnomes In The Home as my subject:
To get these exactly right, I had to take nearly 300 photographs, and pick the best ones for the project. Anyone who has read the preview chapters of my book will catch tiny inside jokes mingled in with the photos. Special thanks to those fans who have mailed me gnomes over the past few months. They look quite nice staring back at me from my bookshelf!
- April 11th, 2009 at
12:24 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
I am very pleased to present the first piece of completed artwork from Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse:
Gnome by Brandon Dorman; the note courtesy of Photoshop
As almost anyone can probably tell, this is a gnome. In fact, it is exactly the way I imagine the gnomes in my world, realized perfectly by illustrative genius Brandon Dorman. This gnome’s got the face, the beard, the eyes: even the perfectly pointed, red conical hat!
While this gnome will most likely not appear on the cover of the book (in fact, I’m fairly certain it won’t) it could be anywhere else, like on the back or the spine, or maybe even inside. Again, this is NOT THE COVER OF THE BOOK, but it’s a wonderful piece of spot art nonetheless!
And as for other big things happening…I think everyone might want to check out BranHambric.com right about now
Question for the comments: What do you think of the gnome art from Brandon Dorman?
- April 9th, 2009 at
1:52 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
Finally, the first piece of official art from Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse has come in from illustrative genius Brandon Dorman! This is NOT the cover, although that is coming very soon (I’ve already seen the drafts, and it is awesome!). But, as anyone who has read the preview chapters has probably already guessed, the Thing That Will Be Revealed On April 11 is quite important
- October 31st, 2008 at
12:46 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
I had intended to write a post about what gnomes do on Halloween (or, as they tend to call it, All Hallows’ Eve) but as it is 49 minutes past midnight, and I have a government exam early tomorrow, I must run to bed before the goblins of exhaustion eat me.
However, on this delightfully windy Halloween, I will be watching at least one Tim Burton film, and I suspect that gnomes would do the same at some point in this long night. I will most likely be watching The Nightmare Before Christmas (yet again) and go to bed singing ‘What’s THIS!’ whilst dreaming about doors in the middle of the woods to Christmastown, and perhaps rubbing my stomach which will be gorged to Winnie-the-Pooh-style rotundness on Reese’s and whatever else I can pilfer from my roommates.
Some people, however, might be pressed for time after being out hunting for bagfuls of candy to appease their addiction to candy corn. So, I have taken the liberty of making a simplified list based on the great master of film himself, as to three things you could do this Halloween, including:
1. Painting:
2. Looking Confused:
3. Plotting Evil Things:
Or, if you don’t even have time for those, I found this for you to watch in under 7 minutes and still fulfill the requirements of a Tim Burton film… and in the process, learn of the woeful and tortured tale of Vincent:
