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creamaster actually is available elsewhere.

If you live near a university with a decent library/art school/art history/art criticism school you could get copied dubbed for yourself at the library. Thats how I saw it. The cycle also gets played at art house theaters in largish cities on occasion.

Now, I'd have loved to see his retrospective at the gladstone gallery a few years back. They featured his films, of course, and also his drawing restraint, lots of increadibly intricate dioramas and mockups for the creamaster sets and costumes. An old art professor had an exhibition with him. According to him, Barney is a humorless, self-absorbed dick. I can buy that. ;)
 
^ yeah, I have heard a simular description aswell from a friend who has met him, and his lovely wife few times, he does deserve some self absorbtion though. I saw that the 3rd cycle played in Seattle but that was after the fact. I have seen part of the 3rd and understood/related entirely oddly enough. Every frame of it is perfect art, incredible. I must of watched it 15 times over a week.

Thank you thank you for that information! There are a few unis that might have a copy near. I wanted to use a clip of the petroleum trailing in the guggenheimer during the third as an avatar here, hehe. I read an original DVD of the whole thing sold for $500,000.

Still though Iam going to NYC to see it;)
 
Steve Roden: Surface Shifts

the "surface shifts" drawings were created while driving in my car on the highway. i attached a board to my steering wheel with bungie cords, and was able to slip a piece of paper between the board and the cords so that it was held against the steering wheel. i held a pencil in my right hand and rested it between the paper and my body. i wanted to create a drawing through the combination of bumps in the road surface and turns of the steering wheel - a kind of graphic map of the movements of my vehicle along a particular area of road; and a different kind of topographical notation, or recording process.

the drawings were done with different pencils, and the smudges and fingerprints occurred while trying to maneuver the paper and "drawing station" while driving on the highway at roughly 80 mph.

for a long time i have been interested in various ways of generating drawings while doing something else. since i also work with sound, i am interested in the various kinds of recording process's one can use to document a moment, a location, a series of movements, etc. certainly william anastasi's subways drawings and tom marioni's work were an influence here.

the drawings can be found in the mcclean gallery in houston alongside a small sound installation, also created in my car.
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Mark Bradford, former hairstylist who incorporates hairdressing endpapers into his work. Pretty cool stuff.

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Kryptonite

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The Devil is Beating His Wife

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The Devil is Beating His Wife (Detail)
 
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These are some works by one of my siblings.

Her name is Jane Queally.

My practice is an exploration of my pallete, dealing with hot colour. The notion of colour theory is intrinsic to my work but secondary to my intuitive response to colour. This has been influenced by experiences of Indian culture. In my abstract paintings the potential for colour and form to be a facet of expression is one of my central themes. The work is involved with the properties of paint itself, incorporating thin washes and glazes poured and brushed in a controlled manner. Thereby creating tension, movement and an atmospheric feeling in the work. I am presently working on various scales 74 x 65.5cm, 50.5 x 45 cm Through this painting process a sense of translucency and a veiled layer has evolved, part revealing and obscuring gestures and drawing forms which encompass the work. I am presently exploring the development of this process and the symbolism of the veil of my work
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My view on this is that the veil is used as a metaphor for sexuality.
 
I'm not sure if it's been mentioned or not, but lowly links (google it) is a great site to find and look at art.

cssniderdesigns.com - features Tamie Beldue who is someone I really admire.

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M.Hutter
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Zwei stehende Akte (Two standing nudes)
Öl auf Leinwand (Oil on canvas)
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Liegender Akt (Lying nude)
Öl auf Leinwand (Oil on canvas)
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Im Titanenhain (At the Giants Grove)
Öl auf Holz (Oil on wood)

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Abortion
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Org Seller
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Sex Machine
 
If you don't know about it already, let me introduce you all to the demo scene.

Demos are small computer programs which presents a visual and audiatory performance in real time. That means that unlike computer animations like Shrek, where each frame can take hours to calculate, they are calculated on the fly, like computer games.

For all your demos, http://www.pouet.net is where it's at, but to start you off, here are some of my favorites: (some might require a "new" graphics card)

mfx:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=19023
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=16338
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=15088

farb-rausch:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=5569
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=9450
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=9424

kewlers:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=7138
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=12798

conspiracy:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=9438

kolor:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=9458
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=1883

equinox:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=12790

haujobb:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=7130

.. to name a few.. hope you enjoy it, and there are tons of more on pouet.net
 
^ Really Nifty finding atlas.

I'm surprised Jeff Wall hasn't been posted yet.

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Picture for Woman

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Insomnia

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After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue

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The Destroyed Room

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Mimic

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The composition and the characters in some of those remind me of one of my favorite paintings from the last couple of decades.

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Eric Fischl - Cargo Cults

It pisses me off that a larger pic can't be found. Observe how the narrative is pretty much amorphous and subject to interpretation. :D
 
You're spot on with your interpretation atlas.

For example, picture for woman is suppose to be a fresh take on a famous Manet.

Picture for Women was inspired by Edouard Manet's masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergères (1881-82). In Manet's painting, a barmaid gazes out of frame, observed by a shadowy male figure. The whole scene appears to be reflected in the mirror behind the bar, creating a complex web of viewpoints. Wall borrows the internal structure of the painting, and motifs such as the light bulbs that give it spatial depth. The figures are similarly reflected in a mirror and the woman has the absorbed gaze and posture of Manet's barmaid, while the man is the artist himself. Though issues of the male gaze, particularly the power relationship between male artist and female model, and the viewer's role as onlooker, are implicit in Manet's painting, Wall updates the theme by positioning the camera at the centre of the work, so that it captures the act of making the image (the scene reflected in the mirror) and at the same time, looks straight out at us.
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I would never have connected the two.
I think we can agree that we're both awesome, though. ;)
 
my, has it really been ten years? Time sure does fly when you take pills for everything and multinational corporations talk to you as if they thought you were important, significant, and special. 8(
 
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