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Julio César Morales and the New Langton Arts

Intro

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.

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10/13/2009
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More Animation: Hedgehog in the Fog

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.

02/24/2009
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Michel Ocelot’s Kirikou and the Sorceress

I found out about Michel Ocelot, the French animator, by pure chance. While looking at the Studio Ghibli Wikipeadia entry, I happened to see a section titled “Distrobution,” and there I saw a list of more than a few French films and decided to take a look–see. To my surprise, and delight, Michel Ocelot is an amazing director of animation. If you enjoy animation (especially Russian animation like that of Yuriy Norshteyn) then you won’t want to pass this up! → Want more?

02/21/2009
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Mr. Lee’s Third Grade Class & Other Tales

Recently I have been reading folktales from around the world, mostly found through online repositories. These repositories are usually a horribly organized list of unsearchable links (sending you to some sort of HTML Hell). As it happens, I came upon a really horrible web page, born from the same family tree of terrible design, but full of awesome ‘Japanesey’ folktales, written by third graders. → Want more?

02/19/2009
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Experimental Video

During my last year at art school I wanted to make a short film. Unfortunately, the project fell through (I wasn’t able to obtain a film permit for the Pasadena Civic Center parking lot). Although, I did sneaked in there once or twice.

With the footage I acquired by means of stealth (taken with the world’s worst camcorder circa 1992), I made experiments using Adobe AfterEffects. Bellow are the results (sans audio).

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02/08/2009
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