Archive for the 'art' Category

July 23, 2008 | Filed under: un-vlogged, art, country mouse, Holiday! Celebrate!

The first annual New Kingston Film Festival premiers Saturday, July 26, 2008 at the Lipko Barn! You know, the one across from the big field with the red London telephone booth in it. No, seriously. I’m not making that up. There’s a phone booth in it.

Come by and enjoy shorts, documentaries and features hand-selected with loving care by us! Feel the warm Catskillian breeze blow through your hair(s)! Feast on good eats! I personally guarantee that if you come to the festival you’ll fall so in love with it here that you’ll want to stay the rest of your natural life.

(I may have overdone it with that last line…maybe I should get a job with the Delaware County Department of Tourism?)

January 7, 2008 | Filed under: art

I don’t think I’ll ever quite get used to quirks of living with an artist.

That’s okay, though, because sometimes art is fluffysoft.

July 29, 2007 | Filed under: art, NYC, city mouse

There is a lot of terrific art in NYC’s subway system. Light installations, sculptures, musicians and mosaics. This is the only poem that I know of that is a permanent fixture.

Oddly, I titled this video “commuter’s lament” because that’s exactly what it is; turns out the name of the poem actually IS “The Commuter’s Lament”, by Norman B. Colp. It hangs in the 42nd Street/Port Authority station in the seemingly endless tunnel between 7th and 8th Avenues. I think most New Yorkers would agree that it is, without a doubt, the most depressing undergound walk in the entire city.

The music is courtesy of Podsafe Music Network and is titled “lightblueish_cry”. There is no artist information given, and no site link, which is also a little depressing.

March 13, 2007 | Filed under: art, loves

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*Not Safe For Work…unless your work involves answering Penthouse Letters**The long-awaited sequel to Porn/Art 1. Hey, fine art takes time, you know! There are four reasonably explicit pornographic images in this video, so Elaine and Megan, don’t prop your kids in front of this one. Again, naughty bits have been blacked out, but still, the gist is still there in full porny force.

Some notes about Brian’s drawings: firstly, they were difficult for me to photograph correctly. They are pencil on white paper so getting in all the delicate shading*** while avoiding shadows was tough. Also, I didn’t realize until after we shot all the footage and stills of the work that I had focused so much on the forms themselves that I missed their relation to the remainder of the space. These images gently float off-center on large amounts of negative background space. I don’t think I got that across properly. Sorry about that, Baby.

I really like the three-dimensional quality he’s added, and I like the well-placed stars. Most of all I enjoy how de-porned the images became, which was, of course, the entire point. Of these four I have chosen my favorite (the one with two chicks), as well as my least favorite. Can you guess which one that is and why? (hint: remember I just said how I liked how “un-porned” they got?)

***EDIT 3/14/07***Brian would like to correct me here: it was not “shading” that was the issue, it was the “line quality”. As you can see, I never took drawing.

For my next post, bread baking!

What, you were expecting more porn? Haven’t you had enough?
Music:
Put On Your Tight Pants
The Soda Pop Kids
Full Breach Kick Records
Courtesy of Podsafe Music Network

February 4, 2007 | Filed under: art, loves, misadventures

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Right off the bat: while this video isn’t actually pornographic and merely contains a discussion about porn, it’s safe to say it isn’t kid-friendly. There is a single pornographic image in the video, and it’s got the girly bits blacked out. It’s the one you see above. That’s the only one, no extra nudie surprises within. If that one image is offensive to you, I’m sorry…and if you were hoping for more than one, I’m sorry about that, too. No dice.My fiancee has turned from creating large-scale sculptural artwork back to drawing, and his current series involves lots and lots of porn that he culls from the internet. This doesn’t bother me…well that’s not entirely true.

On an unrelated note, there’s all sorts of weirdness with the New Blogger and Feedburner. My feed is now screwy, so a mess of older videos recently got plopped into your feed readers, that’s why. There’s no fixing it that I know of, so if you’ve never seen that older stuff, enjoy!