Mike Mills

"There’s a carefully tended fuzziness to the movie itself, like a memento mori sketched in pastel. Part of that has to do with the nature of memory, or rather those shards of Oliver’s recollections that are continually bumping up against one another as the near-past triggers remembrances of things further past, sometimes with the neatness that distinguishes a meticulously constructed screenplay rather than messy life."

I watched a documentary called "Beautiful Mess" this evening  and found myself intrigued by one of the artists interviewed; Mike Mills. 

Mike mills has directed a movie/biography of his life called, "Beginners". This quote is from the website,

 http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/movies/beginners-with-christopher-plummer-and-ewan-mcgregor-review.html

I am intrigued because of Mills honest embarrassment when he talks about the making of the film. This is a true artist! I have to question the motives of any artist unless they reach that raw point in life where there is no where else to go, but the truth. I guess that means I need to question my own. And I love the way he describes how memories can be so fictitious.  


http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/03/16/movies/100000000728868/mike-mills.html?ref=movies

Caleb Cole

Here is a artist that uses his childhood experiences to inspire his work today. He literally loved junk as a child, due to his mothers own fascination of garage sales. And I can see this in a lot of his work.

 I am attracted to his work, simple because of the theatrical states that he puts himself in. ThoughI am annoyed also for it seems thought that some of his characters are too foreign to him as a person. I would rather see him exploring more natural circumstances. But maybe that is what he wants. Anyway, he has inspired me to move forward still in my own theatrics!

 http://www.calebcolephoto.com/biocv.html

Scanographers..

Yes it's true folks! To my delight I have the found the heroes of our time. THE SCANOGRAPHERS! So can I join their group?

This first website gives  links to many awesome artists. It's so fun to explore all of them.
http://scannography.org/artists/artists.html

My question is, what kind of scanners are they using? These look like studio shots

TINTIN

   I grew up reading the adventures of Tintin. As odd as it sounds, these books had a great influence on my youth. I wanted to be like him! I wanted to travel the world and be a reporter who cleaned up crime in my spare time! Well as we all know, it never turned out that way, and by the time I turned seventeen, my ageless hero was put back on the shelf and I became interested in other fictional characters, such as Nero Wolf.

But the art of Herge has always appealed to me. It holds simplicity in it's strong line, but it shakes with life and color. These books, were carefully drawn by Herge's  motley crew and then resized to fit newspaper standards of the early 20th century.

 

gathering material

For this first project, I wanted to take a different route then internet image pulling. Sure it would take less time, but I have no interest in using other peoples work in such a way for my own projects. So this past week I have been taking pictures of myself and of objects that are needed to complete this assignment. I want to make myself the star character in all of the stories! This is to create humor and also to tie the stories together.