I caught this one over at Drawn!. Some people just know how to pick the "hip" colors. I mean, I like the way they look, but I feel like you'd also expect to see the same combos in throw pillows and comforters. I also thought that the music was too repetitive. There could have been some nice moments of a natural ambience like when the trees sprouted up to make the world feel "real". This would have also slowed the pace down so that when music came back in the pace would speed up again creating an ebb and flow that is present in nature. Other than that I thought it was pretty. I wish my creative process was as peaceful.
These types of interactive installations really excite me. Especially when you're able to go to the gallery to be a part of it. I saw a Janet Cardiff piece in japan in which the motion of your body dictated the course of the piece and it was very empowering and enriching to feel apart of the beauty inside of a gallery.
Before I show this animation, I have to go on a mini-rant. (which is fun) When I watched the forthcoming animation, the drawing style and color palette immediately reminded me of the Nickelodeon cartoon Aaahh! Real Monsters Then the thought came to my mind, "you know, a very base and not clever person might be tempted to say, 'it's like aaahh real monsters on crack'" Now you must understand my frustration in such a thought. People who say "Its like _________on crack" are the same people who have been saying "that's what she said" jokes to every word you say for the past four years and still think its funny every time. And if they say that particular phrase then I am sure that, at least in high school, when they saw a poor movie they also said, "I feel dumber for having watched that movie." To which I say "really? is your mind so feeble to actually make you lose brain cells from watching a bad movie?" And then I think further back, because if they say all of those things then they were probably the type as kids to say this number, "that was sooooo funny, I almost forgot to laugh." And then I discover the root. People like that aren't funny enough to think of their own jokes. Now if you fall into this category, don't think I'm chastening you, I'm helping you become aware, because I love you. Its just that, those kind of jokes aren't good enough in America. Just ask Samuel Clemens. I mean, how can a cartoon smoke crack really? Anyways, without further adieu, I present "The Astronomer's Dream" by Malcolm Sutherland
Man, Street Art is getting pretty deluxe. I mean, I got a kick out of the STOP sign I saw today that somebody wrote WAR underneath STOP and then somebody else wrote in between the STOP and WAR "listening to" and then put a "G" in front of the WAR. OK, stop, think about it....there you go.
What is the video artists fascination with the silent film treatment? So many of us try to latch on to this nostalgia of a period we did not experience. Is it an emulation of the surrealists movement? Is it the timelessness trapped in a very defined epic? I think its that because we did not experience, we seek to imagine how it could have been. And the grit of film stock and low-fi reminds us of discovery and invention. Innovation springing from crude technologies. Imagination intersecting industry's intermittent illusions of inspiration and ingenuity. phwew...ill-iteration. Not even necessary.
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