That Smile!

I decided to make a 16mm animation with found footage.  I looked through johnie's collection and was mainly interested in the videos about teeth made by the American Dentist Association.  At the beginning of the term I was working digitally and made a couple animations using photoshop. However, I think that I chose to do 16 mm to animate because I like to draw directly onto the film.  I also think it is easier to understand how motion moves.  My process for this animation was to scratch into the film with awls and draw transition shapes between scenes of collected footage. 
I mainly tried to rotoscope over found footage. 

While I was working I was mainly thinking about how I felt like a dentist scraping between the images of teeth. 





For the sound, I think parts of it really work just from splicing the clip but I wanted to go in and edit the sound but then........................when i put the film through I forgot to make the loop in the film and then it ripped like 4 for every 8 hole on the track.......so i tried to fix them. ...... but haven't touched the machine since.......

Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Patti Smith performing Pale Blue Eyes in Stolckholm 1976

Patti Smith was born in Chicago in 1946 and raised in New Jersey and moved to New York City where she met Mapplethorpe.  She is a poet, songwriter, singer, author, and a ROCK AND ROLLLLLLLLLLL heartthrob!

Her first poetry reading was in 1971. She read this poem, "Oath" while Lenny Kane played on the Guitar. 

"Oath"

"Oath" 1973

Patti Smith says

Perpetuation of remembrance

Certain things pass without souvenir

Loss is powerless second acquisition

Visiting Tombs

                                                      Patti Smith at Bodier's tomb.

Patti Smith visits grave sights of artists she loves and takes polaroid pictures with them.

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, photographed by Norman Seeff at a friend’s apartment on New York City’s Upper West Side, 1969.

Photograph by Norman Seeff.

She wrote Just Kids about her relationship with Mapplethorpe. 

When reading her writing about Robert Mapplethorpe it seems like its just honest writing. Honest about how she looked at Mapplethorpe. I felt like I was in love with him even though I never knew him.

Me eating chips walking around

I couldn't work on the other animation because I wasn't using frame by frame and that is what makes more sense to me so i started making this animation about me eating chips!

Looks what's cooking!

I have completed the intro and title page and am working with adding live videos. Here's a short first draft of what I am working with

I was going through my old videos and I think I want to use live videos I have of Anya with the animation. 

I have lots of videos of Anya walking away from me

I have other videos of peaceful images that I think I would also like to incorporate

I think I may try to make the live videos look like dream like states of the bride or something like that.

Pulped Under Pressure: Melissa Potter and Remi Gower

I worked with the artists over a couple of days.
I learned more about making paper pulp in that oval machine through working with them.  I learned how to make pulp from flax...which i guess you can eat if you want.  However, I was surprised with the final results of the flax paper and the texture was more like animal skin than paper...which im excited about because there's left over pulp    and it looks GROSS and like SKIN:)

At their artists talk,  they first went through the history of paper making and then talked about other artists who specialize in paper making that were involved with the Pulped Under Pressure show.
Here's my notes:





they explained that they both studied religious symbols and iconography and the work they made at Lawrence was inspired by Islamic geometric symbolism and Celtic knotwork symbols.  They made these stained glass looking tiles to pull the paper with and also do blow out images.


After the presentation I overheard someone say, "I don't get paper making...it's just so against the digital age/machine age!"




Also honestly....the show was about environmental issues but...to make the pulp you beat down sheets of cotton paper and use so much water to make the pulp and clean everything....but I guess less chemicals than big companies use... i actually have no idea... i just know i used 11 gallons of water for every batch of pulp i made... and the flax stuff took 5+ hours to beat down!
Making paper is very labor intensive and time consuming! Like the whole time I was complaining about why anyone would want to do this like we have paper in the cabinet but I seeeeeee why! The results can be very beautiful and maybe the process has to do with the message! Medium as the message!!!!  I just am not patient enough and no muscle:( 

Aria Rostami

Aria Rostami

• aria_rostamiNiaz - Repost - the things we make verse the things you try to destroy
• the things we make verse the things you destroy

still from the things we made verse the things you destory
Aria_Rostami 

I first discovered Aria Rostami from Leste Magazine.  They did an instagram takeover.  The only art I have found of theirs has been on the internet. They make videos and collaged images sometimes with story-like captions.  I think a lot of their art is about their queerness and how they define themselves.

They use a lot of roses in their art. 

When they were working with leste, they posted about Iranian films that inspired them.  They made a series of collaged images using stills from the movie, Children of Heaven and self portraits.

Children Of Heaven by Majid Majidi

Patron Saints

My Patron Saints

Lilly

Rebecca

Anya

Jack