Artsy Awesomeness - this weekend
2 really cool things this weekend:
1. There is this video store down in Wicker Park called "Odd Obsession", for those of you from Cincy its like Bughouse video on steroids, a quirky video store specializing in hard to find and weird movies. In there I found something quite surprising:
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php?c=1&more=1&p=112&pb=1&tb=1
Indie anime... woah. The clerk it turns out is really into the stuff, even had the dvds from I promptly gave him a link to anipages daily, (which of course had an article on this animator) and suggested if he wanted something somewhat more commercial, but still amazing that he check out Mindgame...
I hope the shorts are good, this guy does charcoal animation, and I always like seeing such stuff. Anipages Article:
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php?c=1&more=1&p=112&pb=1&tb=1
He said that next week he was stocking a dvd full of Kihachirou Kawamoto's award winning puppet animation... win :)
2. A friend of mine invited me to Artopolis (not the greek place in greektown), an enormous art gallery/trade show spanning 3 floors of the merchandise mart! It was like going to a complete contemporary art museum, many awesome paintings (my favorite was actually an electronic piece made to look like a microsopic organism with a liquid flowing through it, that when you looked closer actually was sped up footage of people doing everything from Dancing at a club to commuting back and forth from work), including some of Yoshitomo Nara's superflat stuff. Overall it was a lot of fun.
These two things are the sorts of things that make me happy to be in chi-town :).
1. There is this video store down in Wicker Park called "Odd Obsession", for those of you from Cincy its like Bughouse video on steroids, a quirky video store specializing in hard to find and weird movies. In there I found something quite surprising:
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php?c=1&more=1&p=112&pb=1&tb=1
Indie anime... woah. The clerk it turns out is really into the stuff, even had the dvds from I promptly gave him a link to anipages daily, (which of course had an article on this animator) and suggested if he wanted something somewhat more commercial, but still amazing that he check out Mindgame...
I hope the shorts are good, this guy does charcoal animation, and I always like seeing such stuff. Anipages Article:
http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php?c=1&more=1&p=112&pb=1&tb=1
He said that next week he was stocking a dvd full of Kihachirou Kawamoto's award winning puppet animation... win :)
2. A friend of mine invited me to Artopolis (not the greek place in greektown), an enormous art gallery/trade show spanning 3 floors of the merchandise mart! It was like going to a complete contemporary art museum, many awesome paintings (my favorite was actually an electronic piece made to look like a microsopic organism with a liquid flowing through it, that when you looked closer actually was sped up footage of people doing everything from Dancing at a club to commuting back and forth from work), including some of Yoshitomo Nara's superflat stuff. Overall it was a lot of fun.
These two things are the sorts of things that make me happy to be in chi-town :).