rough rough cut

the end got cut off, probably didn’t render all the way through. I’ll re-render tonight and upload a whole version tomorrow.

 

Morbid Anatomy: Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/

 

Animation progress

Music
Ben’s ipod
emeliana torrini
kate bush
cowboy junkies
ben’s french chick
joanna newsom (instrumental?)
ben’s chick that sounds like newsom

Costumes
Rental monster
Latex built monster
Tunics for girls

Image Research
-black lagoon/swamp monster/fish man/mole man
-powerful young women/sisters/witches?
-acts of destruction/creation (indian, greek, roman)
-deserts
-english/oasis/gully
-death of child/victorian post mortem/dolls/funeral/open casket
-consumption and assumption of another’s powers
-cannabalism?
-”antique”/natural/wooden crown jewels and staff
Overall change
Play—————————->Real consequences
SUBTLE environmental changes
harmless animals chasing e/o_________> coyote chasing/eating rabbit
clear gradient sky—————–>turbulence

Cannabalism?
Death of part of self and consumption/assumption of dead part into remaining part/something new
Cannabalism as passive, mourning, gracious. Stones on the body, the body opening itself up magically.
Plant grows out of chest, lifts/offers heart
From behind, view living girl as she graciously takes it in her hands, brings it to her face
CASUAL CANNABALISM (yeah, that made me laugh, but I have a point.)

Forms of destruction
maggots, worms
explosions (of gas, fire, parasites)
dry up, shrivel
catch fire
grow perversely/cancer
eat self, turn on self irrationally, self destruct
get stuck
gruesomeness
crush things

Forms of creation
touch things
bring strength, life
flourish, grow
glow
fly, run, play
flower
abundance, lusciousness, too much, decadence
watchful, peaceful, guardian
healing of destruction/wounds
birth, multiplicity
eating, morphing

 

400 Xerox: Class update for Monday

1. describe your project(s) in 3 sentences
I xeroxed the female body, then fed the images through the copier over and over and over until the images desintigrated into the dust of visual compression artifacts. On the micro level, the pixels slowly morph into tiny island shapes, turning the body into some kind of strange imaginary micro landscape. On the macro level, the body is abstracted into geometric shapes, and then blurs out into nothingness.
2. describe how you are going to use the space (writing or drawing)
I will be presenting this piece on a wall. I will either take a corner and do a black-box-adult-room kind of thing, or will proudly display it on a wall in plain sight, to attract more attention to it. Not 100% sure yet.
3. describe what equipments you need
If I build a black box, I will need the black fabric from fremont, and some kind of structure to hang that on.
I will need to figure out how to mount the images on the wall. I will figure that out later this week.
4. describe any special condition you need (for example; dark room, independent sound space, unique entrance, unique use of existing structure or furniture, unique color of wall etc.)
I probably won’t really need anything special. Unless I want to paint the wall black or something, which I probably will not.

 

Proposal for final PART 2

Ideas from class (thank you, class):
check out: persona (by ingmar bergman sp?)
check out: sandman (neil gaiman) personalities/supernatural (specifically delerium)
check out: double life of veronique (wow that was hard to spell)
check out: tivon’s stop mo (cranks and stuff)

it’s important that the girls are touching (so few groups of people can touch like that, like young girls can)
it’s important that they are not verbally communicating, but only communicate through glances and touch
(these things make them more solid, powerful, confident, bound together)

think about: the girls as still photos, environment dynamic
think about: the motivation of land

what’s changed since class:
The new story:
2 girls sitting in an oasis in the desert, not talking, but touching in a sisterly way.
One creates and one destroys. They play with their powers, “battling” each other, showing off to each other.
Accidentally, a mole man is created, an abomination of nature (not evil, but unnatural in this world).
The girls are shocked, but self confident. The destroyer tries to destroy the mole man, and the creator tries to capture him (with vines or by summoning birds, etc)
Accidentally, one of the girls is killed, and the remaining girl is forced to take on both the powers of creation and destruction.
And then, is forced to re-balance, with the mole man (king and queen of this new altered realm).

Interpretations:
girls as yin and yang, balanced
but playing around they break apart, lose balance
and are forced to re-balance with this self created abomination of nature
king and queen. standing rigidly.

“this weird sense of guilt and beauty always remains from the act
one must move on
use what they have to their advantage”

“it reminds me of relationships
we destoryed each other but both ended up as a mixture of ourselves and the other”

“it’s like growing up
fighting against yourself, then maturing and fighting against the world… the way the two girls become one.”

 

Wanderlust (Bjork) Music Vid

http://media.ghostrobot.net/7020_wanderlust.html

 

Completely incredible. I aspire to this precisely. How could I have waited so long to check this out?

 

Beautiful Story-book-ish 2D animation

 

I love the depth in the sky at 1:16.

Kind of a pointless video story wise. I confess I didn’t watch it all the way through, but I did skip around and do think it’s worth including here as a visual reference. 

Some gorgeous images. Kind of reminiscent of Dr. Seuss. 

 

Odilon Redon

Cyclops by Odilon Redon.
I like the fleshy colors, and the male/female metaphor (though thinly veiled).
I like the texture of the background (the foreground strokes are a bit too abstract for my liking).
Certainly a good painting to keep in mind as I plan my 3D project. 

 

The first shot is so rad. That’s the only word for it.

The first shot. The rest is meh. I love the momentum, the way the two kids wearing similar clothes almost collide over and over but never do. The girl with the barbie doll hair, the way you can see the shadow of the truck. The energy is incredible.
It’s so honest and happy and bad ass. Yeah I said it.