And yet, I feel a delightful sense of responsibility to you, my wonderful visitors, and I would like to give you all something to feast your eyes and minds upon as the weekend nears. So I present you with this list of Friday diversions...
First, Dan DeWeese was kind enough to write up a fantastic interview he did with me at the lit / art / film / culture magazine Propeller Quarterly. You can read the entire thing right here. I liked doing this one because most of the interviews I have done have been emailed lists of questions for me to answer. Nothing wrong with that, but it is difficult to develop a sense of conversation and to build on prior questions. Dan and I shared quite a few elaborate and wide ranging emails, so this one turned out nicely.
Next, this post on the incredible and constantly surprising web site 50 Watts reproduces a number of pages from the stunningly gorgeous 1948 children's comic The Magic Underground Castle by artist Rokuro Taniuchi. I obviously cannot read Japanese, but it almost doesn't matter with art this beautiful. Here is a page...
Next, a series of delightful and short (most around a minute) videos from artists I admire enormously. Here is Stille Nacht I: Dramolet by the Brothers Quay...
Here is a music video for the song "Are We Still Married?" by His Name Is Alive, again by the Brothers Quay. My wife finds this video subtly but enormously disturbing...
One last video, an excerpt from Jan Svankmajer's fantastic film Alice, full of animated bone creatures. A bit longer at almost 7 minutes, but worth the time...
In blogs that I love to visit, Scrap Princess of the Monster Manual Sewn From Pants has started a new blog called Kludge Witchery, a home for her non-Monster Manual Sewn From Pants delirium. Or, in her words, "totems of an automated machine blindly aping sorcery." Awesome. My favorite posts so far? This one full of absolutely deviant constructs like this...
And this one showing some of the clothing she makes under the name Toilet World. Good. Very good.
Finally, in totally and shamelessly self-serving news, I've added dozens more Moby-Dick illustrations to my Etsy shop and will be adding many more this weekend. Why? I want and need to learn much more about color. How to use it, how to control it, what it means in paintings and so on. And the book fetishist in me really very badly wants to buy this ludicrously expensive book from Amazon...
Josef Albers' Interaction of Color: New Complete Edition. My wife will understandably and necessarily strangle me if I just spring for this, so it's sell sell sell all the art I can. Fingers crossed.
Have a fantastic weekend, although there will be more art and more Slaadi tomorrow. And Sunday. And so on...
4 comments:
I sure can understand wanting that book. I have a much smaller reprint and it blows my mind every time I open it up. I was surprised years later to encounter some Albers in The Clark and they just held me there. (sell! sell! sell! and then report in on the book!)
i'm a total brothers quay fan - so? so buttons as my old friend barry aka B.W. used to say... it's just nice to discover another thing shared. and svankmajer too. and that is all for now - from lizzy
Mary Beth, I saw that reprint listed online (around $15 or so, right?) and that seems like a good alternative for a working copy. As gorgeous as the expensive version is, I'd almost be terrified to lug it into a study full of open paint tubes and ink bottles. I'll keep you posted on the progress and keep my fingers crossed that I can earn enough for the book.
Lizzy, I am not at all surprised you and I share such similar tastes in, well, in many things. I have not seen nearly as much Svankmajer as I would have liked, but fortunately many of his films are available in the states on DVD and I am working to rectify that situation.
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