Michael Szpakowski
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inaugurationanimation


That's rather lovely Pall ( I'm sitting here about 10 mins in, but I assume plot-wise you're going to be springing no suprises).
Indeed it's the loveliness of it which makes me quite thoughtful. It reminds me of two other very nicely executed pieces of work - Mark Tribe's Revelation projects, particularly the first one

http://www.nothing.org/revelation1/index.htm

which stripped the Amnesty International site of all verbal context.
In Tribe's words: "the Amnesty site is reduced to geometrical compositions of color fields and photographic images. "
It's something about rendering the political gorgeous that draws me in and repels me at the same time although I must admit I feel a good deal more discomfort at the Amnesty piece ( and I suppose the "disappearance" metaphor might justify it, although I thought then and continue to think 'What a strange choice to erase the very urgent & brutally functional raison d'etre of this particular site *as art*' ) than Tribe's subsequent CNN piece or your vid.

Indeed, I guess, as I think a bit more about it there's a celebratory quality to your aestheticisation of the footage which currently fits just right with the almost religious fervour of the day. It'll be interesting to re-view it in a year or two. It will certainly acquire more even more resonance as time goes by.
Thanks!
michael

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shortest day


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sound on :)

Happy Holidays

michael

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spell & other work


HI
'Spell', a new GIF piece, here:

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/GIFcinema/GIFcinema.cgi

let it run awhile, takes awhile for it to get into its stride, especially the sound..

Also , if you have a mo, vids I made in October and November:

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/10

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/11

cheers
michael

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a message (2008) - Heather Rasley


Do you think so, Taylor?
I think it's delicate and lovely* but with a sting.
Her other work is interesting too - bit like a very very distilled female Nauman..
Why do you dislike it so?
michael

PS it *does* display oddly, though, in IE - for some reason placed at the extreme right of the page.
At first I thought the fact one had to scroll to see the whole thing might be part of the deal but then
I saw that in Firefox it's centred.

*not the colours so much as its fragility, the malformed lettering, the fact that that it sits there all lonely on the page...

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GIF Cinema Presents: A Visit to the Viaduct


http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/viaduct/

needs a fastish connection to work smoothly.

Since I've found myself making a few of these
GIF pieces I've gathered them together here:

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/GIFcinema/GIFcinema.cgi

cheers
michael