| They shoot horses don't they ? // Ballroom dancers around the room. |
[Oct. 19th, 2006|11:29 am] |
http://www.longpauses.com/blog/2006/08/collins-and-jost.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_dancing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Shoot_Horses%2C_Don%27t_They%3F
http://www.myspace.com/theyshoothorses
Saw "They Shoot Horses Don't They ?" last night. A few months ago we had a dance competition
in Seymours family club for a night called disco ordination. This dance competition only went on for about hlaf an hour if that and it was fun, but They Shoot Horses is about a sadistic dance derby set in depression era US. If you are looking for happy endings, Dirty Dancing, Stricly Ballroom, Saturday Night Fever, blah blah this film aint gonna give you any. It's about People being the ultimate spectacle. It's so ahead of it's time, and
has parellels with how we watch reality TV.
In my own life I am using my studio ( It has a table and chair) and although I like being tucked away where no one knows where I am in my fantasies, Reality is that I do like to chatter chatter chatter and do feel free to come and say hello. It's so great having a space. Am about to head down there now.
So I am looking at competitive dance in my drawings but as in Ballroom dancing. and from
ballroom dance magazines from the 50's 60's and 70's, from a publication called Ballroom dancing times. I guess what interests me in making these drawings are the attention to detail of a publicity shots, published in an enthusiasts magazine that have only really be seen by ballroom dancers. Yesterday I managed to get hold of some more karisma pencils, there are still a few in Bristol Fine Art. I layed all the drawings out to look at the yesterday. It was dust free up in Art Husband's studio, so we went up there.
I've decided I think they will work well in a line or maybe in blocks of four, so you can pay attention to them. I have drawn more than I thought I was going to, probably about 37, so that's good. Need to make a few more.
So if your in Brighton over the next few weeks you should come and see Desination Blatz.
http://www.phoenixarts.org/exhibitions.htm#blatz
Tomorrow school kids customizing T shirts, got them so great spray paint.
Friday Whitstable to meet http://www.adamchodzko.com Gruelling journey to do in a day ( 8 hours) but should be fun none the less. |
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| Dancing Times in colour |
[Jul. 19th, 2006|03:09 pm] |
Yesterday I started work on a new series of drawings.
They are in colour, well each drawing uses one colour selected from my depleted stock of Karisma colour pencils.
They are big, well bigger than before and they feature
the ballroom dance champions of years gone by.
Afterwards I took them round to Art husband to have a look.
The consensus is good. I like them and want to make some more ! |
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| Bucks futures favourites |
[Apr. 14th, 2006|11:24 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | arnolfini, art, art prizes, artists film and video, becks futures, bristol, comic book, comic books, dancing, matt stokes, nothern soul, olivia plender | ] |
I thought my absolout favourite of Becks futures or "Bucks" as Olivia Plender calls it in her comic The Masterpiece part 5 was going to be Olivia and her comic.
And I do like it, though I suspect that Bristol has been ripped off and the originals by Oliva are at ICA and CCA not A The Bond Building in Bristol.
Instead we get a news print version of the comic book, which is OK and I expect cheap to distribute, and maybe that is what Olivia's comic look like normally, but I was expecting something more well comic book like.
The comic wins the award for noting that the Art world in the Uk today
is like a competitive sport. (Good job I come from a highly competitive sibling
gene pool huh?)
So the piece of art that blew my mind last night at The Becks Futures oppening was Matt Stokes Long After Tonight.
A church in Dundee, not sure what kind of church, but it's gothic and beguiling and as the film begins we get stills of it and it's surroundings. It's early in the morning, prehaps 4 oclock. You would expect this scene to be silent huh.
But inside the church there is a kind of Northern Soul all nighter soire.
My heavenis in that church. Reminds me of secret Lock in dancing parties we've had and you know where, except not with twee Bristol Indie kids, but with spohisticated scottish Soulsters.
Beautifully shot dancers with ace norhern soul outfits and attitude.
What is caught is that special group activity that is dancing, when everyone is
collectively taken by the music but each individual enraptured in their own unique dance.
I will be going back in the day to watch and dance.
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/gallery/image/0,,-10605375813,00.html |
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