This video’s an awesome mashup (Lightning Bolt vs Sun Ra!):
via Arthur Mag.
In that video, when Chippendale is flipping through his Sun Ra records, he stops at Disco 3000. That record is sick, here’s one of the tracks:
It’s a four- or five-piece Arkestra that was recorded live in Milan in 1978.
Hey ya’ll sorry I missed posting on Tuesday, I’ve been busy moving. I was going to post something about the Devin Flynn show/screening here in Austin this past week, but I missed that too (also because of moving), so here’s something I dug up from deep in my swipe file:
via cpb.tumblr.
This is how I should’ve reinterpreted Herakles for the 21st century.
A Houston artist, via The Great God Pan Is Dead. Apparently the colors in this image don’t quite match up to the day-glo reality, but I think it looks good like this.
Today would be Jack Kirby’s birthday if he was still alive. There’s a great gallery of his work over at The Comics Reporter.
uitshot via madscientistnz.
I can’t tell you much about the person (or people?) who made this since the site is in Dutch. It reminds me of this scam that the 419 Eater would play on spammers where he would get them to carve objects for him out of wood, like this Commodore 64:
Pete Toms just made me aware of an amazing blog, the PorPor Books Blog, that features images like these drawn by Mike Hinge, from Heavy Metal July 1979:
On our way back home to Austin from New Mexico we stopped to hang out in Marfa. My good friends Caitlin Murray and Tim Johnson live there. Tim owns the Marfa Book Company which is the only book store in Marfa. The store had shrunk in size a bit since the last time I was there in August 2008, but Caitlin assured me that it still possessed the same number of book shelves. One thing that hadn’t changed was the art space in the back. There is an awesome show of work by Anthony DeSimone, who’s moved to Marfa from Marin County. The show is called Space Happenings and will be up through August 23rd.
Here are some install shots:
I saw this awesome pyramidal structure on the Turquoise Trail that runs through the mountains between Albuquerque and Santa Fe:
I had lunch with my Land Arts professor at UNM and he told me that it’s the house of someone who’s really into crystals and ley lines. Speaking of crystals, I got this gem at the Tinkertown Museum gift shop (a fascinating place to stop by if y’all ever get the chance):
According to my father, who’s a geophysicist, that rock is a slice of agate, which is, aptly, an aggregate of crystals that have grown together. Agates are usually clear, but this one has been stained pink. I was hoping that the pink was natural, but oh well, in my world that crystal mass is the third eye of the skull on my shirt.
This digital print, Siddhartha Obama, is a still from Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung’s video In G.O.D. We Trust, in which Hung mythologizes Obama’s struggles by depicting our President as an avatar of the deities of seven world religions. What’s amazing about this video is how much meaning and iconography Hung packs in to each frame.
Thanks Jak.
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.
