Van Gogh self-portraits animation, and Lucifer's Ark

It's going to happen one day: there will be a big budget CGI film made that uses Van Gogh's paintings, no doubt with the artist himself being brought to life on screen. Then a little way down the line there'll be 3D hologram projections, where we can enter the world of Van Gogh, perhaps in the Arles of 1888, and interact with the artist and the townspeople. And, who knows, maybe even have our own portrait painted in the man's vividly explosive style. Until that does happen, however, here's a short film using a morphing computer program to animate Van Gogh's self portraits.
Van Gogh

My previous book to THE MIDNIGHT MAN is LUCIFER'S ARK, a horror-thriller set aboard a ship that carries psychopathic criminals to a foreign jail. Writers work hard to create an entertaining story, but we only know whether we've succeeded when people read the book, we get feed-back, or we see the reviews. A writer's pulse always beats that bit faster when we begin to read the review; will it be a bloody butchery job or will it praise? Recently, I got this one from BookList, and it is one to warm the cockles of an author's heart!
Author: SIMON CLARK

Title: LUCIFER’S ARK

Publication: BOOKLIST

Issue: 1ST MAY 2008


Lucifer's Ark. Clark, Simon (Author), May 2008. 256 p. Severn, hardcover, $28.95. (9780727865809).

Clark, author of several vampire-themed thrillers, shifts gears in his new novel. It’s set aboard a ship owned by a Russian mining company transporting miners’ wives to meet their offshore mates for the Christmas holidays. But unbeknownst to the passengers—in particular, Tanya Rhone, the novel’s central character—the ship is also transporting hardcore offenders who are being sent to a secret prison. Naturally mayhem ensures. Clark is extremely good at this kind of thing, plunking realistic characters into a surrealistic environment and seeing what happens. The novel is violent, but in a clever way that demonstrates the author’s respect for his readers.


The trade paperback of LUCIFER'S ARK is released this summer.

Until next time,

Simon