Ahhh. A Little Free Time
Now that I’m not filling in 3 to 4 nights a week for other people, in addition to my own 2 nights, I’ve got some more free time, time to cook and fool around with silly things like all the acrylic paint I’ve accumulated. Right now I’m in my “room” listening to flamenco music and working on a painting that I started a year ago, but have barely touched. Don’t laugh!
It’s based on the Great Horned Owl and the paint for the eyes is glow in th- HEY. I said DON’T LAUGH! It won’t necessarily look like an owl, when it’s done, but it will be an owl-like creature… thing? Anyway. I’m having fun. Good enough for me!
Upside-down Video Art
This is totally rad. It’s the kind of video you just could never contrive. It could only be dreamed up organically. Of course, what I just said may or may not be total bullshit. That’s art, baby.
via Nerdcore
A cat is sleeping
This is what I do when I’m up until six in the morning. It’s so bizarre that I’m not making six-figures working as an avant, rising-star creative for some hot start-up.
I just feel like the world needs this. I’ll prove it to you some day. I promise.
><: Level 2
i-cubed-HYPERMEDIA, those sneaky folks behind the very sexy, mesmerizing, and idiomatic video piece that is B-17 have been at it again, right under my nose! (I wrote about b-seventeen here.) I just noticed today they’ve already released several parts of a new short film, which is still a work in progress.
The film is described on the website by the Chicago based filmmakers as “A rhythmic and glittering master/slave story about international economics”
Fair enough. So far I’ve only watched the first part.
It nicely lived up to my expectations. It’s tough to find stuff with this level of originality and quirkiness that also has great production value. I look forward to watching the rest of the film, in the, uh, privacy and comfort of my own bedroom.
Here’s a link to the playlist:
I drill holes in many corks.
I’ve been performing the thrilling task of drilling holes in several hundred corks. Tonight alone I drilled 230 of them before both of the powerdrill batteries ran out.
Aside from the sheer joy of performing the same mundane task over and over again, I’m doing this for a craft project I have in mind. (Admittedly, I’ve been listening to a Roman History course while I do it, and I find it meditative and relaxing.)
I purchased the corks during a sale last week at SCRAP. Everything in the store was 50 cents a pound that day. I think I bought about 34 pounds. (It’s a huge bag that I’ve barely dipped into.) I decided to buy them because I have a lot of ideas for different things to do with them and they’re relatively light, but make a good, basic building unit.
I even saved the cork dust in a jar. You never know when you might need some cork dust.
Colour Lovers
Over the past few days I’ve become enamoured with ColourLovers, a site that allows you to make simple color pallettes, patterns, and individual shades and share them.
Color by COLOURlovers
I’ve flirted with the site before but always meant to come back later and make an account. After I finally did, and made my first palette, I was hooked.
Color by COLOURlovers
Having a lot of color theory experience from art school had already given me a sensibility for color combinations. ColourLovers has caused that enthusiasm to re-emerge and I’m noticing palettes everywhere now.
Color by COLOURlovers
B-17 A mini epic
Somewhere in between all the nonsense teenage-boy videoblogs, duck vs. goat, and girl fights on youtube, you can actually find something genuinely sexy. B-17 is the story of Sarah and Yumi who are secret sex slaves, kept in a basement cell. It’s a collection of 11 videos that form the full short film. i-cubed productions managed to make something that has a ring of dark fantasy without taking itself so seriously that it becomes ridiculous or contrived.
A heavy fetish theme, an extremely cute main character, a meticulously constructed trash-art set, and a neat original “lo-fi” electronic score, among other things puts b-17 on my all time list of internet awesome. And, well, it’s fucking hot.
In addition to the 11 videos that form the main part of the series, there are bonus clips and behind the scenes materials on the youtube account. Here, for your consideration, is the second part.
The i^3 people also have some interesting and progressive ideas about filmmaking and creative process. Trying out things like “interstitial” media, and encouraging other artists to do so. According to their Hyper-Cinema Manifesto, their aim is:
“A cinema that bypasses the socioeconomic and administrative movie making machine, a gauntlet that turns many a film into just another watered down and unsuspecting vehicle for the “big message.”
I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for their future projects.
