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Streetartist Judith Supine on flickr

(via arrested motion)

史黛普．王 on flickr

see also: Lies between Lines 史黛普．王

1 minute animation about life. view on filminute. (via)

Director: Monica Gallab, Belgium - The surreal, perpetual conveyor belt of life pushes these characters towards the promise of a picnic. (read more)

Pen on tracing paper by Wonil

Laziness exemplifies satire well. Taken on a political or personal level, the point is well made. “My brain has become the brain of a fish. It’s in no state to think of anything…but why disturb the waters.” (via)

Animated by Aleksandr Tatarskiy and Igor Kovalyov
Directed by Yevgeniy Sivokon 1979

Alexander Binder was born in 1976 in the Black Forest/Germany. He is a self-taught photographer and has a degree in economics. Both – his photo and his film projects – are characterized by a fascination for the mystic, the spiritual and the occult.

“The overall style of my work derives from the self made lenses i use.The photos are blurred, diffuse and they give a lot of space for your peronal imagination. But it’s not only the style of my photographs - it’s also the subjects i deal with. Most of my projects move between two extremes: On one side the naive ideal of a romanticised, virgin nature in which light unfolds it’s primordial power, as the basic energy of life. And on the other side, the disenchanted monochrome works, that reflect the dystopian living circumstances of modern society.” (via)

What do you want? ”The simple things in life: family, good friends, a beer and a camera.” What do you need? ”The simple things in life: family, good friends, a beer and a camera.”

Alison Watt was born in Greenock in 1965 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1983-88. From 2006 to 2008, Watt was the Associate Artist at The National Gallery in London, an intense period of work culminating in the spectacular solo exhibition Phantom (2008) which explored her enduring fascination with one particular painting in their collection, Zurbaran’s St. Francis in Meditation.

“These exquisitely painted canvases edge further towards the abstract yet had a strange, almost sexy quality which suggested a human presence, or at least absence.”

Michelle Jane Lee’s art is minimalist in form yet muscular in content. There is a complexity, density . . .to put it simply, there is a lot of heart in her often times sparse drawings and paintings. Like a kid in the sandbox with limitless imagination, she builds, telling us stories with images because language fails here, showing us a myriad of ways to be and belong in the world.

A selfportrait with all our friends

Passive aggressive love notes and other unmentionable things

Mindscape by Jacques Drouin, 1976. This film is about an artist who steps inside his painting and wanders about in a landscape peopled with symbols that trigger unexpected associations. Film without words.

Exsitu Insitu is the latest animation by artist SAM3 (Granada, Spain) featuring music scored by Endika Currier(San Jose, CA). This work was created on location at Anno Domini during the last 2 weeks of August, 2009 in preparation for the opening of Sam’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery. (via)

wall painted animation

Jerzy Kucia (b.1942) was trained as a painter and graphic artist at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, where he is currently a professor and the head of the animation department. His first animated film, Return, was completed in 1972, and demonstrates beautifully Kucia’s interest in the interplay between reality, memory, dream, and emotion.

Strojenie instrumentów (Tuning Instruments) 2000, 16min
http://www.dailymotion.com/videox9ns3s

Odpryski (Splinters) 1984, 10min

Refreny 2008, 13min Part1 / Part2

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986.

Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort”.

Walter Martin was born in Norfolk, Virginia and Paloma Munoz was born in Madrid, Spain. They have been collaborating since 1993 to re-imagine the snow globe, taking sentimental keepsakes and making them sinister. As objects, the globes are kitschy as the real things; as narratives, they’re absurd and callous. It’s winter wonderland gone terribly wrong. (via)

Alexandros Vasmoulakis was born in Athens in 1980. Inculcated with the principals of ironic-metaphoric language Alexandros Vasmoulakis in his present work uses oppositions to elucidate, ambiguities to emphasize, crystal clear signs to puzzle; like an artistic roamer he defies the borderlines between painting and drawing, street art and installation, unfolding bravely the first steps of each piece in its final form, prompted by an instinctive disgust of secretiveness and using the blank space as a way to open up the painting.

“Individual means indivisible. Any singular thing, the basic unit, subject or object, the one who suffers or the one who hurts, a bachelor or the couple among strangers, any specific object in a collection“.

Jon Kyle - Erased / 20Frames

When Madame Tutli-Putli was first being discussed as a concept for an animated short film, one of the most important creative issues was how to bring human emotion and expressiveness to stop-motion puppets.

Portrait artist Jason Walker created the technique of adding composited human eyes to the stop motion puppets. Walker developed a system of separating and analyzing the previously shot stop-motion puppet moves, choreographing, rehearsing and shooting a human actor’s corresponding “eye performance” to match each puppet move, at the same time recreating as closely as possible all light and shadow passes original to the stop-motion. Once the human eyes were shot, each eye was individually positioned, scaled, re-timed and digitally composited onto the puppet scenes on a frame by frame basis.
The creation of the film and this extraordinarily painstaking process took 4 years from concept to completion of the 20min Shortfilm by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski.

Meet Laurie Maher, the Soul of Madame Tutli-Putli

We Have Decided Not To Die is an unusual short film. A modern day allegorical triptych, three figures under go transformation through three rituals. Though not a story in any conventional sense, We Have Decided Not To Die succeeds in taking audience on an emotional journey. Aurally intriguing, often stunning and always beautiful, Danielís short film has been winning fans from around the festival circuit.

Directed by Daniel Askill - Read Interview

deconstruction and regeneration… Gonzalo Bènard belongs to a very special category of humans; those whose lives are comprised of many storylines. “Reborn” in various occasions, Bènard began as an art history, fine arts and computer science student, he went on to pursue a career as editorial coordinator in the Cultural Centre of Belen in Lisbon, gained notoriety as the editorial coordinator of the Pavilion of Portugal in the 1995 Venice Biennial, left everything for a three-year residence in the painting school of a Tibetan monastery, came back, became a painter, finally ending up an emerging photographer. (via)

G. Bènard mixes cultures, rites and rituals, life and death. Encompassing everything human his work speaks of faith, sex, spirit and what it is to be alive and trying to make sense of a world that cannot make sense of itself.

Take a look at GBenards Video-Projects and visit him on flickr and 8oinks.

Find all of Wang Tzu-Ting’s works on her flickr: 史黛普．王

The video film by taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen entitled “Factory” is the videotaped testimony of women who for many decades worked in one Chinese factory and, shortly before retirement, were sacked and the factory closed only so that the owner would not need to pay their pensions. The women, thanks to Chen Chieh-jen, were able to return to their jobs, and relate their story without words to the camera.

Excerpts:

Lingchi - Echoes of a Historical Photograph
In this work, Chen Chieh-Jen reinterprets Chinese history by analyzing an early twentieth-century documentary photograph of a criminal execution in pre-modern China, taken by a French soldier and made famous by the French thinker Georges Bataille.

20min silent film - find outtakes on youtube:

Robert The, born in Carmel California, 1961. Studied philosophy and mathematics (via)

A two-minute animated voyage through nature’s life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed.

The film was funded by Adobe, made using their CS4 range of software. It was produced at Nexus Productions and features a soundtrack by Jape. It was made using a mixture of stop motion papercraft and 2D drawn animation.
http://www.vimeo.com/3715286
See making of here: vimeo.com/2425610

Winter Days (冬の日 Fuyu no Hi) is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based upon the renga of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō.

The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material — the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute. (via)

Winter Days won the Grand Prize of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003.

P2 / P3 / P4 / P5 / P6 / P7 / P8 / P9 / P10 / P11 / P12 / P13 / P14 / P15 / P16 / P17 / P18 / P19 / P20 / P21 / P22 / P23 / P24 / P25:

P26 / P27 / P28 / P29 / P30 / P31 / P32 / P33 / P34 / P35 / P36:

Shannon Taggart Photography

Victor Safonkin’s work is self-described as Eurosurrealism, or European classic surrealism & symbolism. (via)

The artist about himself:

From the audio version of The God Delusion. Read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward.

From April 17 through July 23, 2009, The Drawing Center, New York presents Unica Zürn: Dark Spring, curated by João Ribas. It is the first major museum exhibition in North America devoted to the work of the late German artist and author, Unica Zürn (1916–1970).

The exhibition foregrounds the role of drawing in Zürn’s artistic career and for the first time brings together nearly 40 ink and watercolor works on paper spanning from the early 1950s until Zürn’s tragic suicide in 1970, as well as related texts, photographs, and personal correspondence.
The drawings reflect the hidden codes and meanings Zürn found in her cryptic anagrams and depict hallucinatory motifs ranging from chimerical beasts to calligraphic detail hovering between image and writing. 
Already an established author of expressionistic prose in postwar Berlin, Zürn began experimenting with Surrealist ‘automatic’ drawing and anagrammatic poetry after meeting Hans Bellmer, who would become her long-time partner and collaborator,
in 1953. (more) 

Hans Bellmer, ”Cephalopodie a deux” - 1955, pencil, 9 x 10

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