Big Bang, Big Boom, by Blu by Aaron Kopff on July 6th, 2010
A beautiful, extremely impressive stop motion depiction of evolution brought to life on walls, streets, beaches, and everything in between.
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The Books // A Cold Freezin’ Night by Aaron Kopff on July 6th, 2010
Francis Alys by Aaron Kopff on July 4th, 2010
In Sometimes Making Something leads to Nothing (video), the artist Francis Alys pushes a block of ice through Mexico City until it melts. In When Faith Moves Mountains, (video) he convinces 500 Peruvian students to move a huge sand dune a few feet. He walks through Mexico City waving a handgun and he drizzles green paint in Palestine. Also, he walks into tornados (video). The Tate Modern opens an exhibition on Francis Alys. This guy is cool.
Siggi Eggertsson by Aaron Kopff on July 4th, 2010
Some wicked illustration, typography, animation, and graphic design by Siggi Eggertsson.
Anatomy of a Scene by Aaron Kopff on July 4th, 2010
Here is a link to a clip from Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist” where the viewer has the ability to pan between the audio of the film and the director’s commentary on the scene.
There are some more clips from other films here.
HAPPY PRIDE WEEK by Maggie McCUTCHEON on July 3rd, 2010
Nina Arsenault recently spoke at IdeaCity 2010 about her art and her body, and how she objectifies herself in the name of both. Read the whole ‘talk‘ because it’s super.
“And, I take my understanding of irony from Donna Harraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. She articulates irony not simply as the idea that an image can contain an implied and literal meaning. Harraway’s deep understanding of irony is that a single image or body can contain a cascading web-like structure of seemingly contradictory yet dependent meanings that can not even be pulled apart. To do so would be to deny the truth of the greater whole.
It’s a beautiful definition of irony.
Dialectics dissolve into one another. Male into female into real into fake into beauty into abomination, worshipfulness and self-annihilation. Cascading into one another.”
Parts of a tour documentary:
Hey, George by Aaron Kopff on June 30th, 2010
Hey, George is a fuckin awesome new short film by Michael Pierro starring Nathanael Chadwick, Meredith Cheesbrough shot by James Klopko, and it’s fresh off a great showing at the 2010 Worldwide Short Film Festival.
Michael and James are part of a fab new collective madebyotherpeople.com. The Other People are a group of like-minded filmmakers, musicians, actors, visual artists and friends living and working in Toronto.
Their blog is a celebration and exploration of the creative process, check it out.
I like!
Here is a clip from one of my favourite films from the gang.
Just remember….
…When Rachel drags George to a New Year’s Eve party the tension that has been building between them for months comes to a head.