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Ken Priebe

A collection of 8 posts

Escapes to Ladner, Vancouver, Port Townsend, and Nowhere Else: adventures in rest, reading, writing, cinema, and music

Escapes to Ladner, Vancouver, Port Townsend, and Nowhere Else: adventures in rest, reading, writing, cinema, and music

Some travel journaling from my late summer excursions and escapes.

You’re invited to conversations in the Cathedral of Cinema

Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema

You’re invited to conversations in the Cathedral of Cinema

I’ve just completed the first of a series of celebrations marking the publication of my first book in 15 years. If you missed it, you have more opportunities coming up!

Refueling, revving the engines...

Refueling, revving the engines...

A Surprise Package post full of recent highlights — Muppets! Anna Tivel! Rian Johnson! Catherine O’Hara! and much more.

Animator and author Ken Priebe talks about his three fantastic children's books in the latest Looking Closer podcast episode

Animator and author Ken Priebe talks about his three fantastic children's books in the latest Looking Closer podcast episode

In this "Master Shot" episode of the Looking Closer podcast, Overstreet interviews animator, illustrator, and children's storybook author Ken Priebe about his three wild and whimsical books of wild, wacky, and scary characters.

On Movies & Media

For the love of Labyrinth

On September 11 and 14, Fathom Events is bringing Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy extravaganza — Labyrinth — back to theaters for two days of big screen bedazzlement. David Bowie will rise again as the Goblin King, tempting and tormenting poor Sarah by stealing her baby brother away into his lair

Ken Priebe's Christmas Playlist

On Songs & Albums

Ken Priebe's Christmas Playlist

Stop animation — that's what I see when I hear "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" or "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town." I suspect that this is true for many who grew up, like I did, with a Christmas tradition of watching stop-animation

Song of the Sea (2014): A Conversation With Animator and Author Ken Priebe

The Secret of Kells is gorgeous, dramatic, funny, moving, alive with mystery, and bursting with details that continue to emerge viewing after viewing. It's no surprise that it took so many years for Tomm Moore and his team to come up with another feature-length film: Song of the Sea.