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God Bless America and Rick Mercer (and YouTube) because "Talking to Americans" is finally on-line for our viewing and reviewing pleasure.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.
b/t/w I got the links via a morning (as if I'm up in the morning) email message, then Wonkette and then the wonderful boingboing who, as you know, directs to more wonderful things.
Another good video link is an interview with Mercer where he talks about the worn leopard print carpet at 24 Sussex that Mila Mulroney installed and subsequent occupants have refused to replace.
Tiger Video/Cow Video from 1999 now turned into animated GIFs. (hey, are they actually moving on anyone else's end?)
I got inspired by (or jealous of) certain works by Sally McKay and Tom Moody, (and the anonymous Jane-Campion-Fleeing-Romance-Truck) so I thought I'd try out Easy GIF Animator and convert some of my old director animations that had originally been exhibited as videos.
I can't get them running fast enough unless I sacrifice more frames, so I'm not sure how to optimize the files without loosing more frames, or if I'm even using a good GIF animator, or if I am just way off base with the type of images I am trying to animate.
The on-line work I do like is starting to make more sense, (choices always get made within the limits of any technology and the best of anything always looks like it was made that way on purpose.)
Artfag #14
(Best balaclava that I could find for them.)
If Sally would call me with her satelite phone, I'd be able to inform her that last week Reuters published an article about Günter Grass serving in the Waffen-SS. This is the kind of stuff that GVB wants to hear about.It's very puzzling since so much of his stature as a post war German writer was based on his demand that Germany come to terms with it's WW2 past. I guess I'm surprised that it took him 60 years to tell his tale.
From Cease-Fire fantasies by Pierre Tristam, a writer rapidly becoming my number one stop for sane information and opinion on the Lebanese fiasco.:
"The Lebanese must be wondering why it is that cease-fires with their name on them must be written with that open-season clause that allows the savagery not only to go on a good bit longer, but that supersizes both sides’ incentives to maximize the violence as if every frame of Lebanese soil was a Sam Peckinpah flick."
Newsflash! Sometimes artists use text!
Alpha Beta Data:
WOOT. WOOT.
BOOYAH.
But the good news here is that we don't write the shit ourselves. That would be so fucking dire.
(I offer this blog as proof)
And as well, as much as I love the relentless formality in other works, I also love the cheap rough trade in images that Cheryl Sourkes works with.
from 'Homecammer-messages' - Cheryl Sourkes
For the past six years Cheryl has been collecting messages that people display on their personal webcams, The results make for a history of the phenomenon and a chance to consider a peculiar bridge from the virtual world to the real world full of all the stuff we want or need.
"People often observe that webcams are instruments of Big Brother, but from my experience surveillance plays a much smaller role in the world of webcams than one might imagine. Ordinary people establish most webcams. They’re a way for them to disseminate things they care about to the world at large – themselves, their family members, their homes, their evangelical messages, whatever. One can watch friends chatting, sexual display, the view from a window, an old person in a nursing home, a dog and her pups, etc., etc. - content that stands outside mainstream political and/or commercial interests."
