Saturday, February 10, 2007
The Armature as Fine Art - Out to Eat With Stop Mo:
As a Stop Motion guy I always think about what is going on under the skin of the stop motion models in much the way as I imagine a doctor thinks about bones and muscles. I have seen the underside of a great many stop motion models and often the armature has great functional beauty.
Justin Kohn has embraced that beauty of the armature for the thing in itself with a series of fully functional armatures that are designed to be works of fine art in themselves. I look at these pieces and I just want to touch them, to move them, to pose them. And I got to. It would be a sin to put a skin over this beauty.
Then I went out to eat with a large number of stop motion people, Stephen Chiodo, Jim Aupperle, Bruce Brickford. In all there were about 13 of us in an Indian restaurant. Jim Aupperle (best known for a number of other things but my favorite will always be the stop Motion in Flesh Gordon) has just signed on to be a guest at the Stop Mo Expo.
Bruce Brickford, probably best know for his clay animation in Frank Zappa`s Baby Snakes, has been in town all last week as a visiting artist at Cal Arts.
I got to see 2 of his animations while over at the Chiodo Bros. One of the works was Bruce Brickford line animation, a side to the animator almost no one knows. The other work was his new clay animation Prometheus` Garden, very powerful and almost nightmarish in its haunting unrelenting thought provoking dreamlike assault on the senses. An importance work that needs to be shown to a wider audience.
Bruce will be attending the 34th Annie Awards with Stephen Chiodo this Sunday before flying back to Seattle. Bruce doesn`t get in town that often, take the opportunity and say hello.
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy)
As a Stop Motion guy I always think about what is going on under the skin of the stop motion models in much the way as I imagine a doctor thinks about bones and muscles. I have seen the underside of a great many stop motion models and often the armature has great functional beauty.
Justin Kohn has embraced that beauty of the armature for the thing in itself with a series of fully functional armatures that are designed to be works of fine art in themselves. I look at these pieces and I just want to touch them, to move them, to pose them. And I got to. It would be a sin to put a skin over this beauty.
Then I went out to eat with a large number of stop motion people, Stephen Chiodo, Jim Aupperle, Bruce Brickford. In all there were about 13 of us in an Indian restaurant. Jim Aupperle (best known for a number of other things but my favorite will always be the stop Motion in Flesh Gordon) has just signed on to be a guest at the Stop Mo Expo.
Bruce Brickford, probably best know for his clay animation in Frank Zappa`s Baby Snakes, has been in town all last week as a visiting artist at Cal Arts.
I got to see 2 of his animations while over at the Chiodo Bros. One of the works was Bruce Brickford line animation, a side to the animator almost no one knows. The other work was his new clay animation Prometheus` Garden, very powerful and almost nightmarish in its haunting unrelenting thought provoking dreamlike assault on the senses. An importance work that needs to be shown to a wider audience.
Bruce will be attending the 34th Annie Awards with Stephen Chiodo this Sunday before flying back to Seattle. Bruce doesn`t get in town that often, take the opportunity and say hello.
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy)
