just, wow.
November 23, 2009
November 19, 2009
flight : 2 minute test
stills from flight : test ~ a two-minute snippet from the pair of backing films i’m working on.
the iconic drawings come from a vocabulary of symbols that i’ve been working with & slowly transforming in paintings, prints, & drawings, for about ten years. in this instance it is the image of the line-drawn heart, which has transformed to have birds sitting on the line.
animation built in flash and motion. assembled in final cut pro.
November 17, 2009
Sun Flight (1966) \ Mrs Voskuil showed this to us, her second-grade class / Matisse-esque cutout animation of Daedalus and Icarus’ flight from Minos’ island after killing the Minotaur. How perfect for me to find this piece while working on a 20mn animation titled Flight for a show mid-December at Melwood Screening Room …
Homage à François Couperin (Butterflies) (1978) : fantasy animated watercolors : Also known as “Butterflies”. A three-minute fantasy of butterflies and dragonflies cavorting amongst the pussywillows, Japanese-inspired animation accompanied by two variations on keyboard works by the Baroque composer. Exhibits a visual haiku wherein an invisible air current stirs the leaves of grass and blows back the butterflies. For more on director Philip Stapp, visit www.afana.org/stapp.htm : embedded from archive.org
fibonacci numbers anyone? : beautiful/strange (an alchemical romance) 2006 : i created this combination animation and live footage piece for a 72-hour filmmaking challenge in Braddock, PA october of 2006. hasn’t been seen publicly since early 2007. enjoy.
November 16, 2009
signal to signal // analog video signal produced in the 1970’s, digitized in the new millennium, makes for a provocative collapse of past & present in the tissue/veil of white lines in this finished work // scan processor excerpts (pt. 1)
November 15, 2009
sound is touch at a distance // delicious animation generated by speech triggers // the speech used to create the animation a description of how we hear - the translation of soundwaves to vibration to electricity (SIGNAL) in the brain
November 14, 2009
poetics of annihilation : killing in a war fight - how to break your own heart.
November 12, 2009
mark rothko : welcome to inner space, through a trick to your senses /// a gift from an artist whose highest compliment was to call you a human being.
November 11, 2009
“ … before computers and emails and blogs, people commonly wrote letters and kept written journals. These things were not things that are necessarily accessible to anyone except those who had physical access. They were private. when that person died,they would go to a family member, probably. Now, these types of things are often not even things that we own ourselves. Most people have email or blogs hosted on someone else’s server, and while they can still access that information, it’s not quite the same as having it physically on paper. That’s a huge history of personal communication that is sitting on a hard drive somewhere, connected to the Internet.
November 10, 2009
yonder Emilia Forstreuter /// stunner of a 3 minute trip
vadim smakhtin’s stunning generative animation internal thinking. delicously gritty post-industrial audio//clark - growls garden//triggers much of the video content.
November 9, 2009
