A small movie, taking you through my new book, Reykjavik, published by Danish publisher Fahrenheit today. Andrei's Nautilus is also out from the same publisher today.
i agree some sound would flip the switches most blisteringly.
i am late to respond to this because i am usually on my main p.c., which is a major glitch-bucket & unable to view video, now that i've seen it i must say shit goddamn!
massive jam!
crazy inna way of brainmaze grazing my gaze sideways so soft yet firm & familiar, like when the tendrils came cruising it is like haptic eyeballs being touched so tactile within its own cellular structure indeepth to the teeth & chewing greyroom foods so entryway, like yeah man, this here Icelandic core probe duggit quite deep to the little island inside my skull & i applaud abstract comics like this that actually are performative in the nature of a showing, of an actualization, not just representation, but a fucking actualization man!
you should be very proud of this work.
& if anyone thinks i'm over-gushing, i gotta say effyoo 'cause this shit trips my trigger like captain caveman drinkin' ethnogenic reindeer piss & dreamin' inna language i ain't never known but a language that knows me, ifya know what i mean.
eyesum saga
this is sequential visual poetry in the sense that the viewer is engaged inna textural fiction/friction which heats the head to a space beyond time, this video seems much longer than 1:15.
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 it is a significant historical document that may jump-start an actual new genre.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.
--Adam Waterreus, Politics and Prose, "Favorite Graphic Literature of the Year."
...this arresting book is like a scoop of primordial narrative, representational mud. Which is to say, it has vitaminic powers.
--Design Observer
For years, comics (at least American ones) have doggedly refused for one reason or another, to consider other schools of art and beyond mere representation. It's only now we see artists attempting to branch out and try to push at the edge's of the medium's definition. As such I found Abstract Comics to be a revealing, thought-provoking and genuinely lovely book that I'll be sure to be rereading in the months to come.
please add some sound to the video! something by Biosphere, perhaps, or the sounds of waves & wind.
ReplyDeleteFahrenheit's site is www.forlaget-fahrenheit.dk/ (Dansk).
your book has the flavour of Norse sagas, & Nature. I see sea-water & rock-faces on some of the pages.
will you be sending a copy to the Alfaskolinn (Icelandic Elf School)?
for some reason, I'm also reminded of Max Ernst's graphic books Une semaine de bonté & La femme 100 têtes.
ReplyDeleteHey Henrik--
ReplyDeletewould it be ok to just embed the video here? I can do it for you if that's cool.
i agree some sound would flip the switches most blisteringly.
ReplyDeletei am late to respond to this because i am usually on my main p.c., which is a major glitch-bucket & unable to view video, now that i've seen it i must say shit goddamn!
massive jam!
crazy inna way of brainmaze grazing my gaze sideways so soft yet firm & familiar, like when the tendrils came cruising it is like haptic eyeballs being touched so tactile within its own cellular structure indeepth to the teeth & chewing greyroom foods so entryway, like yeah man, this here Icelandic core probe duggit quite deep to the little island inside my skull & i applaud abstract comics like this that actually are performative in the nature of a showing, of an actualization, not just representation, but a fucking actualization man!
you should be very proud of this work.
& if anyone thinks i'm over-gushing, i gotta say effyoo 'cause this shit trips my trigger like captain caveman drinkin' ethnogenic reindeer piss & dreamin' inna language i ain't never known but a language that knows me, ifya know what i mean.
eyesum saga
this is sequential visual poetry in the sense that the viewer is engaged inna textural fiction/friction which heats the head to a space beyond time, this video seems much longer than 1:15.
welldone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGdGgQtZic&fmt=18
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