First of, thanks to everyone who came out to our studio for E.A.S.T.! I had a lot of fun. It was also a hectic and exhausting weekend, and I’m looking forward to relaxing over Thanksgiving and then getting back to it in December. While I was cleaning up my studio and then sitting around I had a lot of mental space to plan out how to arrange my studio for maximum productivity and efficiency. As we all know, making comics/art/whatever is a time-consuming process so I try to streamline it as much as possible. I’m also trying to figure out the best model and publishing strategy for my comics and other drawz going forward – traditional, screenprinting, POD, web, some sort of mix. I’ll post more on this once I have something concrete, but don’t count on anything semi-coherent emerging from the haze.
To keep pumped about all this through the post-event malaise I’ve been listening to doom metal, recommended to me by my buddy Ryan Lauderdale. Here’s one of my new favorite tracks, Her Sisters They Were Weak from retro-doom-psych-folk band Witchcraft’s 2004 self-titled album:
Romero uses youtube-level video, performance, and trash art to transform himself into a shaman who emotes like he’s casting a magic spell that will free us from our stunted lives:
Duncan Malashock is exhibiting at Co-Lab, 613 Allen St., Austin September 12th from 7-11pm in a show called Fake Fun in the Real World. Duncan’s videos are mind-bending fusions of video techniques. Here’s a sample:
He explained his process to me once but I didn’t recognize the equipment that he was talking about. I think that basically he processes video through a number of different filter and equipment until he achieves the desired effect. A lot of his stuff is based on looping, which I’m into. Animated GIFs have ruined long-form video.
I’m trying to work on animations for my installation for Dispersal/Return, but I just can’t concentrate.
Rhizome fairly recently posted a Vincent Collins animation, Fantasy, which I finally got around to watching tonite.
It’s an extremely mesmerizing video, and it’s similar in structure (objects melting into one another) to what I’m working on, so I decided to scour the internet for more about Vincent Collins. I found his myspace, he’s doing CGI animations now. His about me is incredible, here’s a quote:
Computers were available, but they cost a million dollars and you need a roomful of scientists to operate them. I swear to God. I went to a demonstration of one of these machines, but they knew I couldn’t afford to buy their crummy system, so they kind of ignored me. There were a couple of guys there that were phony as hell. Both of them had “Calvin Klein” embroidered on their shirts, as if it was their own goddam name, or something. One guy was the kind of a phony that has to give himself room when he talks. He kept saying he would buy two or three of these systems right away. What a goddam phony.
I also came across It Depends on your Perspective from Sesame Street, which was also animated by Vincent Collins.
I hadn’t thought about that animation in years but when I saw it again I instantly remembered how much I’d loved it when I was a kid.
