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New Gif: Floating Head of Doom
This new piece is comprised of fewer images, and all together simpler than my earliest from this series. It is though, composed of some of the first images that spurred me to start this project. I’ve had ideas for … Continue reading
Posted in animation, Art, Collage, gif, mixed media, Storytelling, trading cards
Tagged bob powell
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Influences Part 1: David Bowie, Cut-up Writing
No matter what genre of music, film, or art you like, the number artists and creative celebrities passing since the start of 2016 has been staggering. Putting the best face on these losses, the outpouring of tributes speaking to the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Collage, comic, Criticism, influences, music, pop culture, Storytelling, writing
Tagged crazy jane, david bowie, dc comics, doom patrol, grant morrison, Richard Case, william burroughs
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New Gif: The Office Poet (Back)
I’d put aside work on this card over a month ago because I feel it is missing something, an element to go across the bottom somewhere, but it has been sitting for too long, and didn’t see a reason to delay … Continue reading
Posted in animation, Art, Clip Art, Collage, gif, mixed media, Storytelling
Tagged cut-up-text, poem
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What I’ve been up to: January 2016
End of year rush has forced me to be choosy about what I work on. Over at the FLIMSpringfield.net blog, my wife and I have put up a few Simpsons related posts the past month, including a big one about the … Continue reading
Posted in animation, Art, Collage, experiment, influences, mixed media, Storytelling, what I've been up to
Tagged andy boyd, captain america, Chris Coupland, keshi, Kinnikuman, Lösha Kondakov, MUSCLE toys, NASA, theater
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New Gif: The Office Poet
The Office Poet I had a busy October, I got married to the love of my life! Making this piece took second place, and more time than I expected. That’s good though, because I let the image ruminate in the back of my … Continue reading
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New Gif: Head Office
Head Office Here’s another new gif. This one took me … Continue reading
Posted in animation, Art, Clip Art, Collage, mixed media, trading cards
Tagged baseball cards, graphic design, johnson wax, library of congress, shoreways design, trading cards
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New Gif: Incomplete Map
After a long time experimenting with gif making, some dead ends and successes, I’ve finished another piece that I like enough to post. This could be the start of series, I don’t know yet. I made it in GIMP, the … Continue reading
Posted in animation, Art, Collage, mixed media
Tagged animation, Carleton Watkins, Celestial Atlas of Flamsteed, eclipse, map
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Joke Origins: I wish I could retire / The State Hospital
I blog at another site, FLIMSpringfield.net where a friend and I muck about with the classic Simpsons years, and their relation to media tropes. Basically, it’s an excuse to play with some of my favorite pop culture characters. This weekend, I … Continue reading
Storytelling: Richard Linklater (via Fast Company)
One of my favorite movies is Waking Life directed and written by Richard Linklater, and constructed with the help of dozens of animators via Rotoscoping. Like most of his films, such as the Sunset trilogy, Slacker, and Dazed and Confused, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, influences, Storytelling
Tagged daydreams, experimental art, Fast Company, Richard Linklater, storytelling, Waking Life
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The Most Powerless. Coming in at Number 2 …
http://hyperallergic.com/170748/the-20-most-powerless-people-in-the-art-world-2014-edition/ ^From one of the art news sites I follow. Hyperallergic has lots of good observations about the state of the world via art criticism on their list. As an practitioner of Performance Art, I could have decided to take being #2 with a … Continue reading
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