SixToes: "Low Guns" Platform

Kubrick & Postmodernism essay links

http://kubrickfilms.tripod.com/id56.html

http://www.whale.to/b/wilder1.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/

http://siebethissen.blogspot.com/2007/01/situationism-part-2-sadie-plant-1995.html

Nancy Spero

Documentary to watch on Nancy Spero from PBS:

http://video.pbs.org/video/1239788836

For decades, Nancy Spero has drawn from the political to create compelling works of art that make a statement against war, the abuse of power and our male-dominated society. Regarding her paintings made during the Vietnam War, Spero says: “I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest…The War paintings are certainly a protest because it was done with indignation.” Spero further explains how the politically-inspired work of her late husband, Leon Golub, not only stimulated, but also posed a challenge for her own work. “It was pretty damned difficult contending with someone who was so…brilliant,” she says.

Downloadable info on Nancy Spero relating to this documentary:

http://beta.art21.org/get/4736/documents/downloads/a-g/art21_s4guide_spero.pdf

Source page for info: http://beta.art21.org/doc/2725/season_4_educators-_guide/


Also see Serpentine gallery 3rd March-2nd May for Nancy Spero exhibition complete with a talk every Saturday at 3pm:
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2010/09/nancy_spero_serpentine_gallery.html


Also see obituaries:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/arts/design/20spero.html

and views:
http://aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com/2011/02/kiki-smith-on-nancy-spero-opening-at.html

ADIDAS IS ALL IN: My new favorite ad.

Visualising Time

This is the idea im going with. Here is the making process:

This is the area for working, im using a glass bowl and some mud to start with:

Then im adding a layer aof newspaper over the top to make it stronger to hold the trees etc:

Bang on a layer of pva to make it a proper surface (i peirced hole in the newspaper so the pva sinks through and binds onto the soil):

Here is a shot of the models ill be using:

Getting it all dry in time is an issue, so heres my drying rig to deal with this problem:

I then painted over the PVA base a greeny brown colour mixed with PVA, which made it possible to stick grass on:

Add some buhes and trees and the people and voila:

These are just to make it look complete, i still need to design the landscape better and as you can see from the pic below i have plenty more props to work with:

This is a very brief update as im in a rush to go out so havent explained anything about the project or the point of it. Will sort this out when i have a chance.

Exskellements

This is a little experiment I've been playing around with. The idea is to take control over simple movements, and in this case putting it to music. Instead of just plain stop-motion im trying to see if its possible to control the speed of actions and timing of actions: taking control of the subject as if it were a puppet.

I need to workout the best way to interlink all the actions in order to make something interesting out of this and I think it would have to be a very carefully choreographed thing, but when it works it'll be banging.

Access Fashion - London Fashion Week SS11

Here is the video I edited for Access Fashion from their footage of LFW ss11...