Doug Lefler

Category Archives: News

You can find all blog posts/news related to my projects are listed in this section.

Following Passion

February 6, 2012

With Facebook’s impending IPO many of its employees will become wealthy. Among the potential nouveau riche is David Choe, a graffiti artist who was hired to paint the walls of the social network’s first headquarters, and took his payment in stock options. The New York Times is predicting those shares to be worth around $200

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douglefler.com 2012

January 1, 2012

New Year, New Site “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit Everything I’ve done in my career stemmed from the love of drawing stories. It is a specific passion.

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Seven Extraordinary Things

October 19, 2011

A story about art, love and sleepless nights. At art school, Greg will do anything to escape mediocrity, including becoming the secret benefactor to Nina, a gifted dancer who is his inspiration. When Greg learns Nina is willing to die for her art, his own conviction is tested to the limit. The story can be

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The Rat Catcher’s Son

October 19, 2011

This short story was created as a lesson in character development. The moral: Don’t create characters that ARE interesting, create characters that DO interesting things. The black and white version of this story is still available HERE.

The Girl in the Moon

October 15, 2011

It is a closely guarded secret that well-to-do families from the Moon occasionally send their children to Earth, to grow up in the sunshine, fresh air and heavier gravity of our planet. Crosby Campbell grew up living across the street from one of them. The Girl in the Moon will be available soon on WWW.SCROLLON.COM.

Dino DeLaurentiis…

November 12, 2010

(reposted from sevenextraordinarythings.com) … died Wednesday night, November 10th, 2010 at the age of 91. I made a movie with him a few years back.  He was 87 at that time, producing three pictures at once and none of us could keep up with him.  He was alternately tough and charming. He forced me to

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An English Bulldog in Italy

September 12, 2010

He was outside a small shop in Florence, and looks the way I felt by the end of our trip. (reposted from sevenextraordinarythings.com)

Gelato 2

September 5, 2010

Project “Ice Cream: Italy” continues. I’ve made it through many of the Gelaterias in Florence and have begun searching other towns.  Along the way we took some pictures: (reposted from sevenextraordinarythings.com)

Gelato

August 30, 2010

A photo of the most important attraction to be found in Florence.  I feel it’s my duty to sample ice cream in every shop that sells it.  This may take a while, there are a lot of them here! And for you traditionalists, a few pictures of old buildings… And the Arno river, from our

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Some Thoughts on Style

August 10, 2010

When I was in High School a friend said that he had recently seen one of my drawings.  “I recognized your style,” he told me.  This caught me by surprise.  I wasn’t aware I had a style so I asked him to describe it to me. “Oh, you know,” he replied. I told him I

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