DinkyDogg on 23/5/2006 at 22:20
For anyone interested in CG animation, a cool surreal short movie called "Elephants Dream" has been released. It was made using only open source software. It's very surreal, and has some very cool visuals. Not much in the way of dialogue or plot though. I found it worth a watch. You can get it here: (
http://www.elephantsdream.org/)
metal dawn on 23/5/2006 at 22:27
H. R. Giger For the Win (for the Xenomorphs and simply pure strangeness).
Gingerbread Man on 23/5/2006 at 22:43
Giger's cool and all but isn't it a little... erm... entry level? And fashionable?
Honestly, I think way more of his sculpture (especially the furniture) than I do of his paintings. Maybe it's just because you see them as album covers and dorm posters and t-shirts and whatnot. And there aren't really THAT many of them anyone seems to find cool, so you see the same eight or ten all the time.
That said, I do have a set of 15 prints of various Giger paintings. But I was like 17 when I got them.
Besides, I think once you get into iPod skins and WinAmp themes etc, you've gone a little mainstream to be a shocking or novel artist. Doesn't mean you're any better or worse than when you were shocking and novel, but was anyone really all that impressed with how shocking and novel Kiss were after they started appearing on lunchboxes?
Scott Mutter and Rob Gonsalves I dig mightily, mainly for the juxtapositions. I heart the juxtapositions. I be a juxtaposeur.
Para?noid on 23/5/2006 at 22:56
I mean I love Giger with my pants off but I never understood why so many kids had that shit on their wall when they were 17. I'd be like
a) Girls don't want to see Erotomechanism II
b) We're all smoking weed in here and I don't know about anyone else but it amplifies the sexual horror to a level of intensity no human should have to endure. just fucking take it down and replace it with a giant meter square portrait of Timothy Leary already
EDIT: Fuck that Bill Hicks
EDIT 2: Can I use your bathroom
EDIT 3: Can I have a packet of crisps? I didn't have any lunch
metal dawn on 24/5/2006 at 04:54
^^^^^
Uh. Yeah.
I don't know why you're going that direction.
I was exaggerating.
On purpose, I'm pretty sure.
I honestly was just joking with that FTW crap. I am mildly interested in it, but I don't LOVE it...and I certainly don't want to put it on a wall.
I only skim over the art occasionally and I only started observing because I was under the impression he was inspired by Lovecraft (where my real loyalty lies). I mean what I said about the Aliens, though.
Rogue Keeper on 24/5/2006 at 07:31
Quote Posted by Para?noid
I mean I love Giger with my pants off but I never understood why so many kids had that shit on their wall when they were 17. I'd be like
I wonder that myself, since I'm such case.
But yeah, he went too pop. Pity.
Tenkahubu on 24/5/2006 at 09:04
What`s with the Giger slagging?
Seems like a case of `if everyone likes it then I dont, because I`m so alternative`.
Most of the modern stuff on Pan`s link (great link by the way, personal recommendation is Beksinski) looks like it has been very heavily influenced by Giger. He was a very talented artist, even more so when you consider that he used the airbrush, which usually produces absolute crap.
I`m sure that it doesnt matter to the man himself how `mainstream` he may be, he`s old and he has a museum to play with.
The Ron Gonsalves stuff made me feel a bit sad with the many elements of childhood nostalgia. It`s cool but a bit calm.
Raven on 24/5/2006 at 21:03
Yeah i don't get it, what am i lacking\missing to have such little appreciation for this sort of stuff?
They just seems to me like a really badly written piece of supposed/wanna be literature - hell almost dan brown in the art world. Escher's works were interesting, but eventually I end up just thinking "tescillation, how nice" and move on, these engage me even less. It is as though they started tescillation and then got bored and just painted a pretty picture; actuallly if that did happen then perhaps I would find more depths in the pictures but these have obviously been considered and thought out - with all the subtlty of dan browns latest thriller (or Raven's spelling and grammer). Now, chaos and fractal artwork - those things hold my infinate attension.
So serious question, why should I give this stuff more than a second glance?
Turtle on 24/5/2006 at 21:28
Since I'm only about an hour from the gallery, I'm thinking I might drag the family down to see that Gonsalves exhibition.
Thanks, Scots!
