Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Friday, October 1, 2010

Pants on the Screen


I just re-vamped my "Lonelypants" video from two years ago - when I first posted it, I was naughty and I used an audio track without permission and got caught by the YouTube police. So my littlest stop-motion animation has been without any sound whatsoever for about a year and a half...until today, when I made a soundtrack on iMovie (omg omg soooo fun). It's way better now. I'm really looking forward to making more animations and spending 7 hours on moving one puppet's arm bit by bit. Seriously. It'll be a great winter activity.



In other news, I went to see the Otto Dix show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts yesterday . I had been really excited all week about seeing the show and I convinced a few friends that it was really worth the money to see it, but I panicked a bit at the beginning because the first room was wall to wall drawings of Dix's experiences in the trenches in World War I, so lots of crushed skulls with worms coming out of them, amputees, brains split open... the Museum even put a "Viewer Discretion" sign outside in the lobby. The first room was intense, and I instantly felt bad for dragging my friends to see such a gruesome show... but the rest of the show was mostly made up of his FANTASTIC paintings and portraits. The people he painted are so weird and really human and affecting. There were also lots of boobs of all shapes and sizes (this guy was The Original Boob Man) but, as my friend Caissey put it, "not a lot of Dix".

I really recommend this show if you go to one Museum thing this year. So go!