Mental connections are beautiful things and ridiculing them is lame. This is why I hate the #Bing commercial, #Microsoft.
Animated Journal (Long Version)
I’ve been keeping an Animated Journal over the last year.
I’ve always liked the picture a day format, video diaries etc, and animation is, traditionally a long drawn out, painful process, this is me trying to free it up and make it a bit more ephemeral.
Stan Brakhage said that he considered what he did to be his home movies and these follow a similar vein.
I generally capture whats going on around me and funnel it into 250 frames.
Art doesn’t have to be a career objective, or a total obsession, or something you make money from, or even something that other people will like. It can be just something you make for yourself, in the cracks of your life, and if you put it up somewhere and other people connect with it, then that’s cool.
It’s made using a variety of software & techniques including Maya, flip book drawings, After Effects, old cameras, roll film, digital photography and so on.
[1973] “Not I” (Samuel Beckett)
“Not I takes place in a pitch black space illuminated only by a single beam of light. This light illuminates an actress’s mouth. The mouth utters a monologue of fragmented, jumbled sentences which gradually coelesces into a narrative about a woman who has suffered an unpleasant experience. The title comes from the character’s repeated insistence that the events she describes did not happen to her. ”
“Déshérence” by AntiVJ (2010)
Leonardo da Vinci, Head of Leda 1503-1507, Black chalk, pen and ink on paper.
“Osborne’s first Budget? It’s wrong, wrong, wrong!”
“If you have a household that can’t pay its debts, you tell it to cut back on spending to free up the cash to pay the debts. But in a national economy, if you cut back on your spending, then economic activity goes down, nobody invests, the amount of tax you take goes down, the amount you pay out in unemployment benefits goes up and you don’t have enough money to pay your debts.”
Bande A Part (Jean Luc Godard, 1964)
“I have a horror of copying myself.”
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it – except from our own works. ”
Paul Greer 