Now this is how you teach somebody about art.
From boulerouge1.
Tag Archives: Art
Film: Homeboy
Here’s another great film from Marvin Tiberious in Italy. ‘Nobody really talks about it, but we are moving peoples.’ That’s what he says in the film. It is one of the most beautiful thing’s I’ve ever seen on YouTube. He draws and speaks. The film shows how natural it is for people to move around and to not want to offer up their lives fighting for some spot of land.
Film: Metropolis Part 1
Having realized in a blinding flash of insight this week that the geek/tech outlook has essentially taken over most of the web world like some sort of a skin cancer and is absolute death to art, I offer an artist’s messy and incoherent view of urban life. It is very uncool and not technically proficient. But it is an artist speaking directly, without falsehood intervening. This piece is by Marvin Tiberious who lives in Italy.
I’m having a huge vomit reaction to these blogs run by little gangs of cool-cats who spread themselves thinly across all domains and offer a smug smirk when photographed. We’ve turned too much of the web over to the ugly little nerd group that wants everything to be just a tad retro. If I see something that looks steampunk I’m going to smash it. Steampunk is the white-supremacist version of cyberpunk which is simply a reference to any book you have read but cannot remember.
August 28 is International Read a Comic in Public Day!
Hey, tomorrow, Saturday August 28, 2010, is International Read a Comic in Public Day!
That means that all you unattractive, bedroom-bound, nerdish, geekster, loser, babeless nobodies can actually get up a little nonexistent courage and emerge from your domiciles to take your first tentative steps across the street with a real live honest-to-god paper-printed comic book in your hands! Woooooo! Get it on, baby! Jivesteppin’ along the street with my ink pages!
Flavorwire has a nice little post about what comics to read for certain locations if you want to fit in and look cool. I don’t happen to suffer from the decease of timidity or humble nerdishness. I’m a real bastard who likes to walk up and push ballpoints into people’s throats if I think they aren’t showing proper respect. So whatever your problem with reading comics in public might be I’m probably not going to understand it or be very sympathetic. In fact, I might just chase your ass through the park to have a good laugh at your expense.
So, go for it. Read your stupid comic in public tomorrow. I dare you.
Art: Don’t Look Now!
This is the latest version of a print I’ve been working on that’s loosely based on my Yellow Plastic Raygun film. I printed what I thought was my final version on a large canvas and looked at it for several weeks until I decided that it was timid and boring. So I went back to work and tried to let loose with the image and not worry about mooring the thing in some kind of reality. So this is what I’ve got to show for the effort. I like it much better this way.
I also renamed it from Don’t Turn Back to Don’t Look Now!
Here are the first two versions of the print.
Can a Video Game be Art?
Here’s a relatively uninteresting article by Grant Tavinor called Video Games and the Philosophy of Art. Can video games be art? I don’t know. Can a tree be art? Can a car be art? Can a rear end be art? Certainly, under certain circumstances they can all be art. But forgive my asking why do people spend so much time discussing a question that is equivalent to, ‘Can a hairbrush be art?’
In most cases I think a video game can only be art because of the player. Any video game, no matter how crappy, can be art in the hands of… well… an artist. Artists make art. If you ain’t an artist you can’t get no art. An artist can load up a copy of Grand Theft Auto on their Xbox 360 and walk into that gigantic world of violence and stand perfect still on a virtual street corner doing nothing but stare at a lamp post for days on end and turn that video game into art. It’s magic. Not theory. Magic. You know it when you see it.
Here’s a film with my own use of a video game as art. Well, I think it’s art, but you may think it’s idiotic. Check it out. You’ll know it when you see it. It contains extreme violence and nudity (just like video games!). It’s intended for an adult audience. There’s my disclaimer. Here’s the film.