Tag Archives: Animation

Comic book publisher praised for reflecting ‘tolerance of Islam’

I just read this, and it made me think of what Owen said yesterday to Heather during the semester recap, about trying to rediscover childhood creativity.  The type of animation this artist uses is reminiscent of childhood fantasy and is aimed toward a young audience, but with a good positive cultural message.
By Charley Keyes, CNN // [...]

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Cliff Evans

Evans collages and animates still images and video footage culled from the Internet, drawing from disparate times, places and cultures. Merging the aesthetics of northern Renaissance devotional painting and contemporary multichannel video, transgressing boundaries of sacred/profane and high/low culture, Evans may be the Hieronymus Bosch of our time.
Links:
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2009/03/animals_and_ico.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_46/ai_n31297544/
http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16884

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Stan Van Der Beek

Stan Van Der Beek
Handmade Poster
40″ x 30″
Born in 1927—died in 1984. VanDerBeek studied art and architecture first at Cooper Union College in New York and then at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met architect Buckminster Fuller, composer John Cage, and choreographer Merce Cunningham. VanDerBeek began his career in the 1950s making independent [...]

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Terry Gilliam

Packed Full of Goodness:
The Animations of Terry Gilliam
(by Noell Wolfgram Evans) Throughout the history of animation many artists have left their mark. Of this group, there are but a select few whose work and style are recognized almost universally by both the student of animation and the casual fan. Terry Gilliam is one such artist. [...]

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Andrei T. Bakhurin – Scary-Dolls

I first stumbled across Bakhurin’s Scary-Dolls videos a couple years ago, when looking for a quirky birthday image/video to send a British friend.  I found the video “Happy Birthday,” which is described on the website as a “thriller inspired by David Lynch movies in a way.”  I was also impressed by the coincidence that Bakhurin animated [...]

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