"Fast Trip, Long Drop" Gregg Bordowitz 1993

Hey all,
Thinking about the exhibit "Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" (named after the Sonic Youth album) about 1993 US art that was up in the New Museum earlier this year in NYC. A lot of self-representational pieces, though, with what we are learning about objects, I suppose every piece made by the artist is self-representational.

There was one in particular which I think we can all learn from, enjoy, etc. It is called "Fast Trip, Long Drop", and it is about the artist's venture into getting treated for HIV, also tying in bits about his relationship with his father and his father's lineage. There is stock footage, home movies, video shot by the artist (self-portraiture), as well as an interview segment. It really is influencing my approach on this assignment we are doing.

I have ordered it off of Summit! So it will be here soon, and we can watch it, maybe in the screening room, or at a NFM party!

fast-trip-long-drop (info)
an article on the film

Captain Beefheart Self Identification Video

http://www.ubu.com/film/corbijn.html

Beefheart in distance with projected images of Joshua Tree, speaks of art and the desert "I like the way you-" "I am just combing my hair" ; "The difference between the desert and the ocean is the ocean is wet.. the desert is just dried up ocean" ; ; ; ;

Using images of Joshua Tree to speak of his self 


Wowee Go B. Heart Go B. Heart

Salvador Dali: A Soft Self Portrait 1967

Surrealism has been a huge influence on my writing, photography, and painting style. Here is a wonderful experimental documentary made by Dali and others in the late 60s. Have fun watching! You should all check out UBU.com's vast archive of film and sound. It has anyone and everyone you can think of. The link for the Doc is below.


http://www.ubu.com/film/dali_soft.html

animation to coldplay- strawberry swing

via Jackie
(thanks for your awesomeness)

cool video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHnnGHgeyC0

Crash Course on the tube

"Six awesome courses in one awesome channel: John Green teaches you US History and Hank Green teaches you Chemistry. Check out the playlists for past courses in World History, Biology, Literature, and Ecology."

What do you know, sometimes advertisements CAN yield educational benefits... just found CrashCourse, a channel on youtube educating peeps about history, science, the works, using animation and other interesting tools.

It's an interesting approach to widening access to knowledge, though anything called "Crash Course" is bound to carry some problematic assumptions/consequences, especially if we're approaching history in a very sure-fire linear way. What do you think about this approach? Where do you think the filmmakers are coming from, what is being presumed? Or, what isn't being said?

Find more of them here : http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q

META MORPH O SIS

META MORPHO SID

a media family dinner

Catered by Cuisine of India, it was an unforgettable banquet in the sacred bench editing suites of COMM325, featuring honorary aunt khadija.

Blog

Hey Guys, how is it going? Just thought I would give the blog a try.

Remember - Eliot Rausch

An amazing short on Alzheimer's,
 by L.A. filmmaker/director/editor Eliot Rausch.

From his website:
 [Rausch's] short documentary Last Minutes With Oden won the Documentary Award and Grand Prize at the 2010 Vimeo Fe stival + Awards. He has since created films for organizations and brands including The Red Cross, Vans, Under Armour, Duracell, and Ford. His documentary series Ed’s Story, chronicling pastor Ed Dobson’s battle with ALS, was featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” In 2013, his short film Find Your Understanding, created for Expedia was awarded “Most Tear-Jerking Viral Ad of the Year” by Ad Age and one of TED's 10 Best Ads of the Year.  Rausch’s film ambitions took root in college when his Ogilvy & Mather internship ended and he refused to leave. 

What techniques stood out to you in the telling of this story?

What are the different modes of documentary you see represented?

Blue Butterfly - Dikayl Rimmasch

BLUE BUTTERFLY from Dikayl Rimmasch on Vimeo.

Some Like It Raw - aloveproductions

An animation from Andrea Love

( aloveproductions )

who lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

I met her a few weeks ago
and we tossed some seeds of possibility:

would it be sweet to have her in class 

to talk about some of her work?

How to be Alone - Tanya Davis

Some simple animation to spark inspiration,

and sweetness for the loners in all of us.