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c/r/a/n/e/s/

roooocketboom

not quite a czech stop motion artist but for today it will do

Alice

I've always loved the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland story and the many film interpretations. But this Czech version, "Alice" by Jan Svankmajer has always stuck out in my mind. My sister showed it to me when I was really young and I think it creeped me out more than anything. I haven't watched it since, but I remember it had really interesting stop action stuff in it. I netflixed it recently so hopefully I get a chance to watch it again soon. Check out this caterpillar scene.



sooo i just realized that he's the same guy as the meat video in the previous post. so this should at least interest you brendan.. heh

Jan Svankmajer and Dr Who

My favorite Jan Svankmajer animation:

And I think the opening titles to the TV show "Dr Who" in the 60's and 70's are really wonderfully animation.

cognition≈

this is the facebook event, hopefully you can access it. let me know if you have any ideas to change it. add yourself and invite your friends! also i am missing a couple of last names, could you please send them to me?

also, would like to upload image -- preferably from the poster....if you could send that to me it would be fab:
megnetix@gmail.com

thanks,

meg

ancient scripts

hieroglyphics


transformation of chinese


linear B -- early written language in crete


i am really interested in ancient written languages. they are so much closer to pictures than our current english language. and they are soooo pretty.

<3

skream - supafly

Stereophonic Images

This is fun. Just don't get your eyes stuck... HERE

I'm taking a digital photo class so i've come across some fun stuff lately. I like the idea of physically setting up a surrealistic scene to photograph instead of putting it together afterwards in photoshop. Here's a couple examples of what i mean..


Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman in 1948. I guess he's one of the first photographers to take jumping pictures. The cats just crack me up in this picture..


came across this randomly, and I think its fantastic. William Hundley has a whole series of these on flickr. check it out.

Khoda by Reza Dolatabadi


Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

6,000 paintings @ 20/second + 2 years=awesomeness..

wordboner

HydroSeventyFour

Rene Laloux

This is the trailer for the movie Fantastic Planet, an incredibly psychadelic animated movie by Rene Laloux. He also made Gandahar, which involves a time paradox and once I watched it before I had to go to work and it shattered my world.

YVES KLEIN///

if anyone wants to drag me through paint naked just let me know :D

REQUEST////

are podcasts dead///
because all the ones i loved are gone :(///
check your closets players///
and report///
i shall loot and steal all i can///

Two Items

#1
Heres an interview with Milton Glaser, the graphic designer who designed the the "I (Heart) NY" logo and this Bob Dylan poster, where he critiques some of Shepard Fairey's work, including the Obama poster. The poster has gotten a ton of press in support of it, so I think its interesting to look at it from another way.

#2
Mauricio Lasansky is my favorite artist. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1914 and moved to the United States in 1943. He established the printmaking program at the University of Iowa in 1945 was a teacher up until sometime in the 90's I think. He's considered one of the "fathers of 20th century American printmaking" and is associated with the 1940's revival of printmaking as a fine art. You see a lot of his work around Iowa City, like at the library and some banks/offices. His website has a complete catalogue of his works from 1933-1997.

Also,

What if we just called the show "Why Make Art?" (question mark optional).. I couldn't really think of a cohesive theme for everyone besides the fact that we're all still finding our niche in the art world, and we all make art for different reasons..

plus I don't know about everyone else, but it's a question I think about regularly..

Since we're on a photography kick...

Thobias Fäldt
Still not quite sure what I think of this photographer. He has a love for flash, which I tend to hate since it usually washes everything out.. but somehow he creates some interesting shots with such bright light sources. Some of them are just simple. Some amazing and some I hate.

Peruse his website for yourself..
(just roll over the words til you find links, it was confusing for me at first. the '001' links seem like more artistic shots, and then there's a list of things he did for publications..)

Adam Elliot and Don Hertzfeldt, "The Animation Show"

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LdzgOrhfGA
I posted these two links to videos by Adam Elliot and Don Hertzfeldt whos animation is really funny and cool, I hope you get a laugh!

Animation Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM

interesting animation



nick veasey xray photography

poladroid.net

turn your digital photos into digital polaroids :)

Tokyo Skyline Contrasts Against Grass Lawns in The Green Island Project

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テルミンを演奏するネコ

annnnnnd how could i forget about the cat!!!!

5 AM MUSIC VIDEOS

there was a link to manipulate the "code" "somehow" on google somewhere on the internets but the link is broken

i prefer to think they just used magic

LEGO ME EGO

I found the lego street artist, Italian, i dont know where i got the war torn love story thrown in there, but i am sure i just combined a story or two, you know, jazzed it up
http://www.janvormann.com/

costume artists

check out their blog from their site after playing with their faces

Project 1

Project 1

My short movie, Exposed. It's a small part of a larger series I'd like to do. Basically I told my friends they can have about 5 minutes in front of a camera to do whatever they want. This one became a little more theatrical, but I'm hoping to get a varying amount of responses for this project.

Since this was all I brought to the critique I guess I packaged it too much like a movie and gave the audience too many expectations. I suppose to follow along with the rest of what I wanted to do I should have showed it without a title and credits.

Oh well, entertaining nontheless I hope!

Project 1 - Allison

So, here's what I made. Apparently I can not, in fact, scan anymore, which is a startling development. However, if you care to know more, I guess you can always google Morphogenesis.

Now, I am planning on finishing it. I am going to back it, bind the edges, finish the front first, etc. So, get ready mangs.

Hollis Frampton - Noctiluca

Hollis Frampton's films are radically different from conventional movies, not only because of their minimal content and the nature of their systematic structures, but in their "address" to the viewer. As is true of most critical films, Frampton's films provide experiences most conventional viewers would consider entirely non filmic, with no indication that anything out of the ordinary is occurring. Of course, like the films discussed in Part i, Frampton's films were not made with the idea of their being available to conventional moviegoers in conventional circumstances. I would guess Frampton made his films for himself (or, as Gertrude Stein, a Frampton favorite, might say, for himself and a few friends)
Scott Macdonald


"Noctiluca is a three and one-half minute film designed to be shown on the second day of the MAGELLAN cycle. The title (nox/luceo) means something that shines by night, i.e., the moon, and the film indeed consists of a bright sphere, sometimes white, sometimes tinted, sometimes single, sometimes doubled and overlapped. This suggests to me the nocturnal navigation that Magellan had to rely upon in his first-ever trip around the world. (The second day of the cycle seems to be an inventory of the knowledge, machines, and arms that Magellan--and latterday voyagers like Frampton--had at the outset of his journey.) The film also refers of course to Stan Brakhage's much longer, and monumental, 1973 film TEXT OF LIGHT, which studied the prismatic reflections occasioned by sunlight passing through a glass ashtray. Frampton's film is, characteristically, more controlled and economical than Brakhage's, but no less beautiful." - Brian Henderson

Robert Frank - "The Americans" - the book that changed Photography - NPR report

alexander bergstrom

Alexander Bergstrom

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery-celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from-its where you take them to.
— Jim Jarmusch

This  quote just brought up that thought again about what we were talking about in class last week of  how nothing is completely original, its all been done before we take things from other appealing aspects of artists, film makers, authors and make them our own...

journal posters

these are my project 1, i think i am going to spraypaint the white one some black to give it more variation.

michael scoggins (inspiration to go big)..

these are smaller works from the inside of my notebook of this month, i want to do more with them. im thinking about including them in a series of photos of other things...

scott stulberg photography interactive nice site w/ beautiful photos and music

inspiration from science this article is interesting.

diatoms—a type of silica-shelled algae that’s responsible for producing nearly 25 percent of the world’s oxygen

i think i may have posted this before but its so good if u dint check it out do it posemaniacs.com it provides computerized 3d figures to draw from at all sorts of positions and angles. i love this site!

Wikipedia: "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 was a tent appliquéd with 102 names of the people she had slept with up to the time of its creation in 1995.The title is often misinterpreted as a euphemism indicating sexual partners and the work termed "a list of all the people that Emin has ever had sex with", but is in fact to be taken as a literal statement:

Some I'd had a shag with in bed or against a wall some I had just slept with,
like my grandma. I used to lay in her bed and hold her hand. We used to listen
to the radio together and nod off to sleep. You don't do that with someone you
don't love and don't care about.

"

Free Charleston(ed)

Beautiful Losers

HEY GUYS
this movie is playing at the Bijou at the Iowa Memorial Union on campus for the next week. It opened tonight, I just saw it, and it completely blew my mind in every way. Awesome contemporary artists talking about how they love art and make it because they love to make it, how they felt like nerds/outcasts and got involved with skateboarding/punk rock/graffiti/painting and how they just did it because they liked it. They all got famous and their work basically defined what like contemporary art/graphic design/street art is, but they are all still super awesome even though they all used to be super skinny kids and now put on a little weight. I smiled the whole time, I thought it was amazing and inspiring and awesome.
Featuring Ed Templeton, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Thomas Campbell, Geoff McFetridge, Mike Mills, Stephen Powers, Harmony Korine and Shepard Fairey.


SHOWTIMES
Friday, February 13: 7:00
Saturday, February 14: 7:00
Sunday, February 15: 5:00
Monday, February 16: 7:00
Tuesday, February 17: 9:00
Wednesday, February 18: 7:00
Thursday, February 19: 9:00
Go to this

Space Invader Invades Technology!

Chris's colored blocks sorta reminded me of the street artist Space Invader. He uses colored tiles to make pixelated images of space invader guys. But recently he took it a step further and using an app on the iphone you can read a binary message in his tiles...



it's pretty bad ass..

plus his rubix cubism!

Brendan Wells' Project 1

I decided that I wanted to somehow physically work with or alter sound, but I was thinking more along the lines of making from scratch my own record player and records. Then, while looking around through Wikipedia I came across the concept of "anti-records," produced by the label RRRecords in the late 80's.
"An anti-record is a musical vinyl record which has been treated (melted, drilled, painted, etc.) so that it becomes a noise record. While this term was first used by LAYLAH Records on conventional vinyl releases by Current 93, Nurse With Wound and others, Ron Lessard of RRRecords applied the term to a series of physically altered records released by RRR in 1988. Anti-records can also be records featuring strange configurations or pressing, such as extra or unusually sized holes, locked grooves, and parallel grooves. "
An example of one (the video is kind of loud)

I had been working with the idea of creating my own "records" by engraving grooves onto surfaces, but this wasn't working. I hadn't thought about taking a premade record and altering it, and this idea inspired me to do what I did. Then I made all those records, etc.

www.cassbird.com

sweet photographer
does some work for urban outfitters brochures.....i think
dated the dude from the strokes.....i think
sweet portraits






http://nathanmorton.com/
My sculpture T.A. from last semester did some sweet drawings with model airplanes plus much much more, check that shit out














Girl in LA.....i think with some sweet fashion hook ups and prances around having her boy friend taking pictures of her in sweet locations wearing sweet clothing.

FASHIONTOAST

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Project #1 "Artist Redux"

I posted this picture of my first project entitled "paper thin", an installation of sorts that I erected in Solon, where I live. "Paper thin" is inspired by Gabriel Orozco who I have shown you in class, and his ideas on twisting the reality of the everyday. I have hopes that this project will continue and evolve throughout the semester with new architecture and outlines.

Thrasher

Thrasher skateboard magazine has their first 12 issues online beginning in January 1981.

speaking of mashups..

The talk of no authorship and mashups of already created sound/video today reminded me of Girl Talk, the stage name of Gregg Gillis, mashup extraordinaire. (or I just finally found a legit reason to bring him up.. heh..) He mixes a bunch of samples together to create upbeat dance music, and turns his concerts into a big party. He was in IC last year at the Picador I think it was, but I didn't know much about him then. And then I missed the show in DSM recently which was at a 1000 person occupancy venue and it sold out, so he's grown in popularity quickly!

Here's his myspace to check out the tunes.

a short vid on how he does it..


And if you have even more time to spare check out their video journal of the tour. There's something like 30 posted on youtube and it shows some behind the scene tour stuff, and how all the elements come together to entertain the crowd.. just search "girl talk tour."

Sorry Brendan, I know the point of your project was to go the opposite way of digital technology, but I loved that yours was like a physical incarnation of what he does on the computer. great stuff.

Abba

Try not to let any preconceived feelings get in the way, this stuff is amazing

Chris Markers = la jetee

Bread and Puppet Theater - summer residencies

Cheap Art Philosophy

The Cheap Art movement was launched in 1982 by the Bread and Puppet Theater in direct response to the business of art and its growing appropriation by the corporate sector. With this fact taken into account art becomes:
"political whether you like it or not…"
Cheap Art hopes to reestablish the appreciation of artistic creation by making it available to a wider audience and inspire anyone to revel in an art making process that is not subject to academic approval or curatorial acceptance.
Why? "Because art is food…", reads the Why Cheap Art manifesto. Cheap Art ranges in price from 5 cents to 50 dollars.
Anyone can participate!

Street Theater Workshops

legit photo...i love polaroids the aesthetic, size and insta-photo really appeals to me.

Tokihiro Sato, Brooklyn Bridge, from the Gleaning Light series

The photo below was taken with these pinhole cameras.

Alice.

Found this as a related video on something else that was posted. I dont' know much about music mixing but I thought it was pretty rad that they mostly used sounds from the movie to make this.. Plus I just love alice's adventures in wonderland..

Film vs. Rollerblading

This is a piece that Brad, my director friend, and I put together for a contest while we were in Cannes. It is about how rollerblading got Brad into filmmaking, and how the influences mix. I wanted to put this up in response to Greg's video from Intermedia I. I had my first encounters holding a camera while filming my friends skateboarding (since I wasn't very good.)

Sid & Marty Kroftt

Intro to their landmark show "H.R. Puffinstuff"

Mr. Show Parody of concept and their overt drug references:


And an Interview with Sid & Marty: Here

RICHT

experiments with bodies & motion

"bestario" virtual reality




warp: steina vasulka

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
by IgnitionVM

this music video is a trip

this blog got more goodness like this

Intermedia II

http://facehunter.blogspot.com/

CHECK THAT SHIT OUT OK ALLRIGHT
FASHION IS COOL
ROCKS HXRDCRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bob Turek

"My current work is focused on transforming the way we view the objects we make music with."
A manikin body transformed into a stereo system and a desk lamp transformed into an amplifier.
A couple more images of his work on this subject
-Brendan Wells

Poster Boy!

A new spin on street art... his sole artistic tool is a razor...

Poster Boy!

Jazz Two Ways

I don't listen to jazz, but I do enjoy this album.
"The tape seems to be a compilation of jazz pieces. However, the tape is so old that the iron-oxide is starting to shift and re-polarize and the result is bleed from each side into the other. Effectively, you hear side two of the tape playing backwards in the background of side one and vis versa."
Heres a good track from the album, and the website with more background and all of the tracks.
-Brendan Wells

Taste Tripping

Taste Tripping! NY new sensation... HERE

http://www.chrisgarvertattoo.com

Check out this website for Chris Garver. Some of you may have seen him already on Miami Ink, however he was tattooing way before that and he is a great artist.

www.chuckclose.coe.uh.edu/life/gallery.html

I mentioned Chuck Close as a painter that has influenced me so I posted this website with a few of his works. I think the portraits that he does are really cool, and his bio is quite a story as well.

random things..

The previous music vid posts reminded me of the Klaxons, they have some pretty silly songs with funny, seizure inducing videos..



check out another video of theirs for the song Magick



oh, and this is pretty sweet, even though I dont know much about megaman...

Prelude to Artist Statement

This is a piece I made for my Nonfiction Film class, where I first had Jon. It's background of my involvement in the production company Look At Rubbish.

"Rubbish: Replacement and Reevaluation" - TRT:08:11

Studio Dumbar

One of my favorite design studios.  

ETIENNE DE CRECY LIVE

Another artist who has a similar live feel.

THE KILLERS "HUMAN" LIVE AT EMA'S

The Killers-"Human" live at the EMA's this is one of the most amazing staging/lighting setups that I've seen in a while.

Lation

http://reve.lation.org

Click through the archives as well.

acrylick.net: the message is the concept!

acrylick clothing
acrylick clothing blog

Klaus Nomi

Francis Bacon - Documentary by London Weekend Television

Publish Post

Damien Hirst

One More and I'll stop for today, but he IS AN ARTIST

Kazuhiko Kawahara

http://www.pallalink.net/

A bit off topic, but lets call it more performance art

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