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Going West

Using around 3,000 still images, Andersen M Studio has animated an extract from Maurice Gee's novel, Going West, for the New Zealand Book Council...

Colenso BBDO commissioned Andersen M Studio to create the stop-frame animation, which took around eight months to complete. The film was designed and animated by the studio's Line Andersen (one of CR's Creative Futures from 2006) and photographed by her brother, Martin, who set up Andersen M Studio in 2000.

"The entire film is handmade, using only 10A scalpel blades and paper," explains Martin Andersen. "It was photographed on two SLR cameras and lit using Dedo lights."

The film is currently showing as a cinema ad in New Zealand and has been released on DVD as part of a promotional pack for the upcoming film, Under the Mountain.

Design and animation: Line Andersen / Andersen M Studio. Photography and lighting: Martin Andersen / Andersen M Studio. Sound design: Mikkel H. Eriksen / Instrument Studio.

via creativereview.co.uk

 

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Posted December 8, 2009
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The Complex of All of These

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3000 photographs, 35 books,
2 months at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY.

Ratatat made the music.

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Posted December 8, 2009
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COMBO by Blu and David Ellis

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via @jessebdylan

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Posted December 7, 2009
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Don Cherry & Herbie Hancock - Bemsha Swing (Live)

Rare performance of Herbie Hancock and Don Cherry. Recorded live in New Orleans, 1986

via boricuajazzz8

Filed under  //   jazz   music   video  
Posted November 30, 2009
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Break On Through


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Posted November 25, 2009
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Inside an actor's brain

via guardian.co.uk

Inside an actor's brain | Fiona Shaw performs in a scanner

As part of a new exhibition on human identity, actor Fiona Shaw agreed to have her brain scanned while performing parts of TS Eliot's poem The Waste Land. Stuart Jeffries joined her at University College London

Filed under  //   art   film   neuroscience   poetry   science   video   word  
Posted November 25, 2009
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Henry Darger

                             
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Appreciation of the art of Henry Darger is unequivocally influenced by the known facts of his life:  his mother died when he was four years old after giving birth to a baby sister, whom he never saw.  When he was eight years old his father, unable to continue caring for him, put him in an orphanage and died soon after.  Diagnosed as a disruptive trouble-maker, he was removed to various mental insitutions until he ran away at age 16.

For the next sixty-four years, he lived a reclusive life, working as a janitor in Chicago area hospitals and going to Catholic Mass daily. Neighbors would see him going through the trash, picking out magazines and newpaper illustrations. Finally, at age 80, unable to climb the stairs to his rented room, he was moved to a nursing home and died shortly thereafter.

His landlord was cleaning out his room after his death and came across a startling discovery: alone in his room, Darger had created a beautiful and violent fantasy world, primarily embodied in a 15,000 page epic narrative, "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion." (...)

from Sara Ayers | Henry Darger Page

Trailer for Jessica Yu's "Realms of the Unreal" about Henry Darger. Narrated by Dakota Fanning:

 

 

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Posted November 25, 2009
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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Posted November 25, 2009
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Josh Gosfield's Gigi, The Black Flower

Josh Gosfield's GIGI, THE BLACK FLOWER
The definitive Archive of Gigi's Life
On view October 22 to November 25, 2009
Steven Kasher Gallery 521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011

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From WFMU:

What words would you use to describe 1960s French pop sensation Gigi Gaston? With a growing cult discovering her through the dozens of photos, periodicals, songs and videos assembled by Josh Gosfield, some adjectives describing the chanteuse nicknamed the "Black Flower" include "sultry," "elusive," "scandalous," "murderous" and "misunderstood."

To that you must add the word "fictitious" — Gigi Gaston is wholly and entirely a creation of Gosfield, an artist and designer whose exhibition at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan closes on Wednesday, November 25th after a monthlong run. Not only did he cast Gigi, shoot the period-perfect photos and created the meticulously rendered versions of the covers of actual magazine of the era along with a staggering variety of her record sleeves, he's also responsible for the putative Jean-Luc Godard film short for Gigi's haunting song "Je Suis Perdue," which is presented here for your viewing pleasure.

via WFMU
 

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Posted November 23, 2009
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The Famed Dock Ellis LSD No-Hitter

via pitchersandpoets.com

The famed Dock Ellis LSD-no hitter, with narration by Dock himself.

Animation by James Blagden

via pitchers & poets

hat tip Poetry Hut Blog

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Posted November 20, 2009
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