I’ve been working on a video built from extremely underexposed stills, cranking the life out of the miniscule digital information expressable in them, animating that, and the rest is too much to get into at this point. Anyway, saw this bit in PSFK recently, and had that old familiar feeling…..I want to like it.
Me reading Wooster reporting on Rumpus interviewing Anthony Lister. Excerpt:
“(Anthony Lister) This piece, titled HOLY MOLY (mixed media on canvas, painted 2008), is based on a story about Britney Spears’ sister having a baby. I initially painted a picture of a pretty young woman with a baby spitting lottery balls out of its vagina as if to suggest that children are a metaphor for the Holy Grail. It is a painting about fertility, miss-guided youth and predators within social networks and in the media.”
I have not seen anything like this, and I would like to see more. I expect a lot of viewers would find the second half too long and slow, but I would like to be able to invent a potion that would enable anyone to quiet down to the place where you can just dream along with that second half, enjoying the alien voice of the shaman tiger ghost and the shimmering of the tree over the transfiguring cow in the jungle night.
Addendum: the first half is completely different aside from featuring the same two actors in roles that may or may not be related to their roles in the second half. It feels more conventional, in that a lot more is going on, and yet it is also unlike most things I’ve seen. It feels at once naive and worldly – not just in the innocent, near-chaste relationship between two gay guys, but in all of its facets: the dialogue, the production values – it could be amateur documentary, except for the regular sense of the poetic voice and crafty hand of the author here and there. Wow, check out that sentence. Anyway. The first half is wonderful in its own way, and I neglected to mention it earlier because the second half is kind of a show stealer.
Creativity Online reported on this timely (overdue) idea that was recently presented at a Pecha Kucha.
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Donny Hathaway – Magnificent Sanctuary Band
As with so many youtube franchises, some of these are funnier than others. I like this one. You may like others. We will respect each other’s preferences.
Even More Legendary 
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