Archive for March, 2008
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Part 3 of Destiny Manifest…I drew this material in 36 hours…the line work is more loose than I like, but this project is almost finished!
Destiny Manifest continues with the second 5 minute chapter…
(The third chapter has all the action, so hang in there!)
This chapter features: My harmonica playing debut! (I can’t play the harmonica, it’s all studio tricks…and it sounds like it)
Enjoy!
-AOWB
This is the first 5-minute ‘episode’ of Destiny Manifest, a short film I made in the illustrated and scored story telling format I’m calling a ‘VSA story’ (Virtual Sequential/Sonic Art).
Tom Knight supplied the voice of the narrator, and Kim Barnes plays violin for the opening credits in the episode.
This is a low-resolution copy, designed for the iPhone.
The DVD resolution version will be on my debut record, Revisionist History...due out in April.
Enjoy.
-AOWB
Questions
March 21st, 2008 | by alanLately I’ve been listening to a lot of local music and looking at a lot of local art. Specifically, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this trend I’m seeing with some of my friends in their late 20s. They are extremely verbal in protesting the state of the world. I agree with them, the world is falling apart. But there’s something else there…
Their protests have a lot to do with the general feeling that they were mis-informed. They seem to be actively ‘preaching’ the gospel of malcontent. Also, their art, their ideas about how to present these feelings to the world, are devastatingly unclear. In other words, they seem to be screaming at the world in a way the world cannot hear.
The work is in some ways extraordinarily complex yet simple in the extreme by design. This, by itself, is kind of cool and interesting. However, when I look at the other artists in this circle I find that they are an imitative group, pulling little or no outside influence. Their solution to raging against the machine appears on it’s face like a very tiny new machine.
Is this the right way to bring about change?
Is this modern art what we should expect?
Is there no room for craftsmanship in modern art?
If there is, should we expect more or less craftsmanship from those claiming to be artists or designers?
Should modern art be more well crafted than the corporate sludge it is protesting?
Should modern art be less well crafted as a statement about humanity?
I don’t know the answers….but I’m curious about the direction.