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The Gravediggers Meditation-HD 720p 1114
I’m streaming The Gravedigger’s Meditation at my website - www.drawclose.com - through Feb. 28. After that, it will disappear into the land of ‘password protected screener’ as I work to get it shown elsewhere.
The Overcoat : Gogol’s story of a poor, quiet copyist who finagles a new overcoat in the bitterest of Russian winters. Then, it is stolen; what was a blessing becomes a disaster. Vladimir Nabokov said of Gogol: "When, as in the immortal The Overcoat, he really let himself go and pottered on the brink of his private abyss, he became the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced.” Its a nice short - read it over here if you wish.
This animation - - yes, I did steal images of overcoats from the internet in order to make it … The piece is also a meditation on the role of copying, language-as-object, record-keeping, and technology to a community’s memory. Yeah there may be a wink at the commodification of appearances but you know, the first rule of capitalist materialism is you don’t talk about how it works.
Animation frankensteined together in Adobe AfterEffects from parts created with QT7, Processing, and Quartz Composer. Audio created & mixed in Apple Logic, better with headphones.
The Gravediggers Meditation-HD 720p 1114
I’m streaming The Gravedigger’s Meditation at my website - www.drawclose.com - through Feb. 28. After that, it will disappear into the land of ‘password protected screener’ as I work to get it shown elsewhere.
The Overcoat : Gogol’s story of a poor, quiet copyist who finagles a new overcoat in the bitterest of Russian winters. Then, it is stolen; what was a blessing becomes a disaster. Vladimir Nabokov said of Gogol: "When, as in the immortal The Overcoat, he really let himself go and pottered on the brink of his private abyss, he became the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced.” Its a nice short - read it over here if you wish.
This animation - - yes, I did steal images of overcoats from the internet in order to make it … The piece is also a meditation on the role of copying, language-as-object, record-keeping, and technology to a community’s memory. Yeah there may be a wink at the commodification of appearances but you know, the first rule of capitalist materialism is you don’t talk about how it works.
Animation frankensteined together in Adobe AfterEffects from parts created with QT7, Processing, and Quartz Composer. Audio created & mixed in Apple Logic, better with headphones.