Don Hertzfeldt, who with Mike Judge (creator of King of the Hill, Office Space and Beavis and Butthead) created The Animation Show, a film festival of great new animation, released a collection of short films titled Rejected. The premise is that these animations were commissioned by corporations and then rejected.
Very funny. Be warned, […]
Entries from September 2007
Don Hertzfeldt’s Rejected - Funny, funny, funny.
September 26th, 2007 by Trout · No Comments
Tags: Animation · Short Films
Freedom vs. violence
September 22nd, 2007 by Trout · No Comments
I’ve just finished reading an illustrated autobiography that I’ll write more about later.
But it has me thinking. There are many people and places I’d like to know more about. Many times this kind of cultural learning and exchange happens through art. But where is the exchange when people aren’t allowed to express […]
Tags: Art Life · Censorship · Government · Philosophy
Performance - live animation
September 21st, 2007 by Trout · No Comments
I’ve seen similar things, but nothing as insanely complex as this… what I can only describe as Performance Animation. From South Korea:
Tags: Animation · Performance · South Korea
Brazilian and Russian Street Art
September 21st, 2007 by Trout · No Comments
Beautiful street art in Moscow and Brazil (not sure where). From Funny Picture Crazy.
Brasilian street art
and
Moscow street art
Tags: Brazil · Painting · Public Art · Russia
Endurance art - six hours is too long
September 20th, 2007 by Trout · No Comments
Over the past few weeks, Elevator Repair Service has been in Portland and Seattle performing Gatz, their performance which involves the complete six hour reading of The Great Gatsby. I intended to go. But I just can’t bring myself to do it.
I’m up for any strange art thing, I mean I’m one of […]
Tags: Cinema · Germany · Multidiscipline · Performance · Romania · Theatre · United Kingdom · United States
Getting a $4,500 paraglider vs. making one out of plastic bags
September 19th, 2007 by Trout · No Comments
After yesterday’s post (Getting the right tools vs. actually doing something) I read this story in Wired. Instead of waiting on a $4,500 paraglider that he could likely never afford, he built one out of plastic bags. He could have died using it, but instead he became a world renowned paraglider, one of […]
Tags: Africa · Art Life · Philosophy · Sports
Getting the right tools vs. actually doing something
September 18th, 2007 by Trout · 1 Comment
I read a New Yorker story recently about the cult of Leica cameras. Some of the most famous photographs in history have been taken with Leica’s, and photographers love them. But at $4,000+ a pop, you’d better really love it, and you’d hope it takes a great photo.
…as the camera has […]
Tags: Art Life · Cinema · Philosophy · Photography
Momus - “The Norwegian, the Scotsman and the Japanese”
September 12th, 2007 by Trout · No Comments
Inside Japan (a bit like Berlin), there aren’t really serious art collectors. Inside Japan, people like Murakami and Nara make their money by doing corporate identity (Vuitton, Roppongi Hills) or mass-producing souvenirs… Art is collapsed into the mass market. Galleries are often in department stores, and often show what we’d think of as commercial work; […]
Tags: Art Life · Japan · Jewelry · Philosophy
For Rishki, a wonderful zugunruhe
September 12th, 2007 by Trout · 1 Comment
When a change comes, some species feel the urge to migrate. They call it zugunruhe—the pull of the soul to a far-off place, following a scent in the wind, a star in the sky. The ancient message comes, calling the kindred to take flight and to gather together.
I hope you had a great trip… […]
Tags: Art Life
Community Sponsored Agriculture (CSA), A model for artists
September 10th, 2007 by Trout · No Comments
On large farms, sometimes only one crop is grown. Many times these crops are corn or soy beans. These crops are more lucrative because they are used in many processed foods and may be subsidized.
Small farms, on the other hand, often have many crops that rotate and change over the course of a […]
Tags: Art Life · Artforms · Food and Agriculture · Multidiscipline · Philosophy