Shut up. The post-its are speaking.

I stumbled upon this on ffffound.com while passing the time at work.

The irony of this photograph is that i work in the building of which it was taken.

Art above is by Adam Ellison

Mean Reds v.s. Mellow Yellow

Above image can be found here.

This is a post about feelings. 

Stupid stupid feelings.

I'm feeling yellow. 

Not like that Donavan Song 'Mellow Yellow"

Just feeling an emotion that can't find placement, but whatever it is, is not a positive one. 

(Because honestly, who loves the color yellow that much?)

Yellow is one color away from being 'red with anger' 

and an opposite color away from having 'the blues'

Truman Capote would call this feeling 'the mean reds'

I'm not feeling as elegant as Capotes Breakfast at Tiffanys character, today.

And so I'm just feeling real yellow....

 

Poster Art

Polish posters of Japanese movies.

A post by an American.

Keepin' McBoing-Boing alive

Recently, I found out that the animators at Cartoon Network had decided that it was a good idea to redo the cartoon Gerald McBoing-Boing.

(Ugh.)

Sorry. Wrong again, 'creative' minds of this ridiculous millennium.

It's not that the new version is horrible, but it was ART. Not just another  thing to feed to people with no imagination and attention span. 

Gerald McBoingBoing was a cartoon adapted from a Seuss story, and turned into a cartoon by Phil Eastman and Bill Scott, at UPA Studios. 

The cartoon was made after a major price cutting in animation. The animators involved, considered Gerald McBoing-Boing an artistic exercise and not just a way to produce cheap cartoons.

The character and adaptation was dubbed with the popular voice of 'yesteryear' Harold Peary 

because no character in the cartoon was meant to talk. No talking friends. No talking dog.

Just Peary and a score by composer Gail Kubik.

(Peary)

Dr. Seuss has already had Universal Studios and Mike Meyers give him a had for his already turned body, from his grave, so I'm sure that man is probably thinking "of course you would rape my work. whatever. at least my family is filthy rich"

But if I were part of the animation team that created McBoing-Boing, I think i would be ticked.

People create these shows, just shitting on the studios that put them into motion. 

United Productions of America (UPA):

The studio primed between the 40's and the 60's. It was founded after the 1941 Disney strike, by some bright folks who decided that making animation into some form of realisim as aposed to a creative entity on its own, was bullshit.

The UPA has an easily identifiable style, to this day, from always experimanting with character design and perspective. 

John Hubley lead the team of animation into becoming what it was, and shortly after he was fired, UPA studios kind of went to shit. 

(A 1952 piece from John Hubley from UPA's Rooty Toot)

The main realization of what i appreciate about animation, hit me today. 

If at any given moment, you should be able to pause a well made cartoon, and be able to imagine that illustration as a print. 

Dan McCarthy

I just bought this 25x19 print by Dan McCarthy, for my house today. 

I just spent about an hour looking through all of his prints. Aside from being visually stunning, his creations are rhetorically steeped in messages that deal with life, death, love and naturalism.

Many of his paintings follow a similar theme to the example to the right. McCarthy likes to highlight the ways in which the dead and alive, the past and the present interact. One painting shows rabbits eating strawberries off a plant whose roots are firmly rooted in a human skeleton underground. Another shows the ghost of a dinosaur creeping up on the ghost of a human.

McCarthy's paintings are not just aesthetically pleasing. I find that most people who take even just a minute to look through some of his work generally find something worth responding to. His paintings carry emotional impact and seem to say things about the world that are truer than words can often express.

If i had the extra money, i probably would have gotten this one too...

I wish there was a way to show the detail of this one. Its a wood block painted over with black. 

Less routine, more life, please.

Until I am able to shrug off my malaise, Its best that i not type, post images of recent interest, eat Pocky,  and continue listening to Torche...and Floor...same difference, I guess.

cover art by Ken Kelly

Jenny Agutter in Logans Run. 

Cover art by Charles Burns

Zappa.

Udo Kier in Blood For Dracula

Marc Ford from his time playing with the Black Crowes durring the time of Amorica

R.I.P. Oldboy

Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are talking about remaking the Korean movie Oldboy. Don't they know that we are only weeks into trying to rebuild America as something to be proud of? That movie is untouchable, for us. Its too smart, too bloody, and too perfect to say 'I ruied War of the Worlds, so why not take a stab at destroying this one, too?'

I know the feeling.

In happier news, my friend Gala decided that I got to be the poster girl for Happy, today! 

So due to this, I feel like I should tell you about the thing that have recently made me very happy:

• The Billy Wilder movie The Apartment. Jack Lemmon is a pleasant person to watch panic and love.

• And this painting by Brian Viveros.