haha, that video made me giggle, oddly enjoyable inna shameful way, wow 1982.
i like the john wayne sequences, they remind me of something i've been doing lately, television screen captchas.
i like the glitch of bad cellphone cameras etc.
coolstuff.
& Blaise, you mentioned Black Pus, i love that soundz, it really is worth it to get the silkscreened cd's from Armageddon shop, they are things of beauty!
Shameful? Why shameful? The song is great. I love Haysi Fantayzee. Here's a (British) hillbilly-ish cover of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m77fRcLWX-I
And here's another of their videos--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsnkIP4ddo
Watch for the abstracty portion of the background montage at 1:50 to 2:09--which reminds me of one of your posts, actually--and, well, for Kate Garner's abs throughout.
oh that's cool, i like the montages, a few look like zipatone, like the dry transfer page itself, one of my fave little gagpanels is Joost Swarte's " i brake for zipatone"
shameful? i dunno, i ain't never been good at irony i guess, i mean it's catchy but it's like Culture Club, the girl even looks like Boy George.
maybe it's youthful associations, because the band seems to be a majorlabel marketing ploy or something, shiny shiny sounds like a cartoon theme song, i dunno... i'm more of a Sigue Sigue Sputnik kinda guy ; )
...i did find this old Adam & the Ants video, i like it because he sings about xerox machines & copyrights... Adam & the Ants :zerox
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The artists assembled by Andrei Molotiu for his anthology ABSTRACT COMICS (Fantagraphics, $39.99) push “cartooning” to its limits... It’s a fascinating book to stare at, and as with other kinds of abstract art, half the fun is observing your own reactions: anyone who’s used to reading more conventional sorts of comics is likely to reflexively impose narrative on these abstractions, to figure out just what each panel has to do with the next.
--Douglas Wolk, New York Times Book Review, Holiday Books edition, December 6, 2009 The collection has a wealth of rewarding material... it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.
--Doug Harvey, LA Weekly It becomes a treat to take a page of art - or a simple panel - and consider how the shapes, texture, depth, and color interact with one another; to reflect on how, when one takes the time, the enjoyment one ordinarily finds in reading a purely textually-oriented, narrative-driven written story can - with the graphic form - be translated into something completely different.
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...this arresting book is like a scoop of primordial narrative, representational mud. Which is to say, it has vitaminic powers.
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ReplyDeleteOk, now somebody was supposed to say something like "huh?" and I would have answered by posting the following link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3DdlpSHLkI
Get your act together, people!
haha, that video made
ReplyDeleteme giggle, oddly enjoyable
inna shameful way, wow 1982.
i like the john wayne sequences,
they remind me of something i've
been doing lately, television screen
captchas.
i like the glitch of bad cellphone
cameras etc.
coolstuff.
& Blaise, you mentioned Black Pus,
i love that soundz,
it really is worth it to get the
silkscreened cd's from
Armageddon shop,
they are things of beauty!
Shameful? Why shameful? The song is great. I love Haysi Fantayzee. Here's a (British) hillbilly-ish cover of it:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m77fRcLWX-I
And here's another of their videos--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsnkIP4ddo
Watch for the abstracty portion of the background montage at 1:50 to 2:09--which reminds me of one of your posts, actually--and, well, for Kate Garner's abs throughout.
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ReplyDeleteoh that's cool, i like the montages,
ReplyDeletea few look like zipatone, like the dry
transfer page itself, one of my fave
little gagpanels is Joost Swarte's
" i brake for zipatone"
shameful?
i dunno, i ain't never been good
at irony i guess, i mean it's catchy
but it's like Culture Club, the girl
even looks like Boy George.
maybe it's youthful associations,
because the band seems to be a
majorlabel marketing ploy or
something, shiny shiny sounds
like a cartoon theme song,
i dunno... i'm more of a
Sigue Sigue Sputnik kinda guy
; )
...i did find this old Adam & the Ants
video, i like it because he sings about
xerox machines & copyrights...
Adam & the Ants :zerox
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