Young Love: Act 2 (Video): Nov 2010

Young Love: Act 2 (boy loses girl)
Boy: Dan Fitz
Girl: Dre Time
Grip: Matt Wilkie
Lighting: John Verdejo

Here is the 2nd video in a 3 part series I am working on. You can find part three >> HERE. Part one is in the process of being scripted, but even when its done, you guys wont get to see it for awhile, but I will tell you why.

The whole video series, Young Love: A Romance in Three Acts, will be on display at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art from May till early July 2011, and the curator there has asked me not to put the whole series on the internet for mass viewing. Originally I considered not even posting Act 2 but before I ever talked to the curator of the DCCA I was planing on showing you guys the finished 2nd part. So I am still going to give you that, but part one will be unavailable until AFTER my show comes down and then I will put all three together and we will go from there.

This just means you all should burn to see the whole film so badly, that you will trek out to Delaware to view it. Trust me... itll totally be worth it.

Young Love (Video)

After much run around and stress I present to you

Young Love: A one minute silent modern retro romance.



Him: Greg Labold (of Bald Spot! Comics)
Her: Cat Park

Grip: Dave Klyman

Cross your fingers for me in hopes that this gets into the Toronto Urban Film Festival! See you guys next week and feel free to let me know what you think of the video! I always love hearing from you, my unknown audience. ;)

Encyclopedia P preveiw

Incase you guys didnt know, I did my thesis in performance video (if you back track far enough in the blog youll find my demo reel, which has samplings of my thesis films on there). Even though Ive been making comics, Ive also still been working on making videos. The video you see above is my latest one and is part of a collaborative piece that is going to be in a show in Philadelphia.

Warren Holzman (the blacksmith I write public art proposals for) and I worked together to create a piece for the upcoming Philadelphia Sculptors show called Art Between the Covers. For this show, sculptors were asked to use one or more volumes of an encyclopedia to create an art object. I created a film in which I recreated entires from our Encyclopedia (volume P) using available objects and locations and then edited them together in alphabetical order. Warren then created a "porthole" in our encyclopedia through which my film is viewed on a video MP3 player (which is why the video quality is kinda crappy). Below is a drawing of what the encyclopedia with the porthole looks like.

I feel that our piece illustrates the concept that without a literary context, alphabetical is not a rational organization method.

If you want to see the piece in real life (the porthole in the Encyclopedia is so awesome looking) come to the show! It will be on view from May 30th to June 13th at the University of the Arts in Philly! Ill let you guys know all about the opening once I find out about it!

I hope you guys arent too disappointed this isnt a comic... Tuesday there will be a comic, so dont lose hope! Also, a warning: I am going to be on the west coast from April 22nd till May 4th, so comics might become sporadic while I'm away, but Ill do my best to make sure you guys get pictures, or doodles or something while im gone!