sex.science.dump
pathetic geometry
wanna see my surfaces?
congrats omario (i guess - are you spiritual yet?)
how to be awesome [reconstructed 9/24/10]
dystopian sf novel with lovecraftian overtones in GIF form by crunkus (am in awe of this beautiful GIF)
Thumbnails from my current dump.fm page. Most of these are my enlargements, layerings, and other retunings of GIFs posted by others last night.
tag: storyboard
You wouldn't recognize me but I'm in this MC 900 Ft Jesus video on YouTube (blurry face in crowd wearing x-ray specs).
It was filmed at State Bar when I was living in Dallas. I remember being offended by the MTV cameraman's low rise leather pants but he didn't do such a bad job--the blurry psychedelic swirl effects hide much of the cheesiness. "I'm Going Straight to Heaven" appeared on the first MC9FJ album so DJ Zero is still spinning the wheels of steel--his cutup textures and dynamic swoops added a lot to the early sound. The label didn't quite know how to promote these uncategorizable artists but something must have worked since the first two records are still in print.
Also of interest is the self-produced vinyl version of "Too Bad," released before major label signing and reworked slightly for the first LP. A very creepy song where the listener takes the POV of a stalker/killer. MC 900 Ft Jesus (aka Mark Griffin) told me he was inspired by a guy he saw out on the street ranting through a busted, distorted microphone, which is why these early raps sound like this. By the time of "The City Sleeps," Griffin was using his natural voice.
With MC9FJ, the New Bohemians, and others, Dallas was briefly poised to be a big "music city" in 1989 or so (label talent scouts were sniffing around) but then Kurt Cobain happened and the nation turned its eyes to plaid shirts and the Pacific north woods.
digital remake of hand drawing by Clint Fulkerson found via Data Is Nature
Fulkerson writes, about his original drawing (not depicted here except as altered):
I create my artwork through the slow application of decisive marks. As I draw, I follow a loose formula based on what I’ve already drawn, filling areas of the picture plane gradually, without making initial layout sketches. This makes the final product somewhat unexpected and emergent.
This is also called doodling. Data is Nature writes, however:
In this sense the drawing could be seen to be a system in action whereby local agents (drawing marks) define successive marks to create global structures of complexity that are often unaware of their ongoing mutating configurations. This emergent behaviour has been noted in morphological systems and biological colonies...
True, but humans are not bacteria, so the thumbnail from Data Is Nature was flipped horizontally and vertically, pasted into the "nucleus" of the original drawing and Voila, double reverse recursion! As Jasper Johns said, "take something, do something to it, do something else to it," a simple wisdom that seems to escape many artists in the "generative" ghetto. Sorry to be rude and unauthorized but there is so much unfinished work on the web.
