This posting is based off of an incomplete draft for a review of Tomorrow Is For Those Who Can Hear It Coming, a one artist show at the New Langton Arts gallery in San Francisco. The show ran in October 2008 and featured work by artist Julio César Morales.
Well, when I discovered that the New Langton closed its doors earlier this year, I felt compelled to share my experience of that show with you all. The New Langton has been an important gallery in San Francisco since the 1970s. It supported young and unestablished artists and helped foster new directions in art. Unfortunately, the New Langton was unable to secure enough funds in 2009 to remain open. Bellow is the article that I began in 2008.
If you’re like me, you care more about what you do with your computer than how it works. Of course that sort of outlook just won’t fly when your computer decides to take a bowel movement on you. No my friends, when that sort of event happens, you force yourself to care—a lot. And when you decide to care about your computer, all sorts of new and wonderful (terrible?) things come bursting into your awareness. Curiously enough these things mostly take the form of acronyms—acronyms and what I can only surmise is some form of WW II naval code. → Want more?
I like to draw when I can’t sleep, like last night. Here are two of the drawings I did. They were drawn with ink on rag paper. Abstract but figurative. I was half asleep so I really wasn’t concentrating while I did these, but that’s actually why I like them. Early this morning I colored them in Photoshop. They were a lot of fun to do, so I’m going to add them to a series called Tandem. I’ll be sure to post some more of these in a couple of days.
This will be a very short post. I just wanted to share a short animated film by Yuriy Norshteyn, one of my favorite animators.
His technique is quite unique. He and his wife paint all of the elements that will make the film on celluloid, and cut them out. They then created characters much the same way one would make a paper doll. Norshteyn has drawers and drawers filled with cut out mouths and eyes, arms and legs. All the elements for a frame are composited, using multiple layers of glass, each layer containing different celluloid cut-outs. Every glass layer can move towards or away from the camera creating photographic depth.
If you like this short film, then check out Tale of Tales, a true masterpiece.
