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Free Comic Book Day - last minute artist zine

free comic book day - art book

Anteism releases free book for Free Comic Book Day

In a last minute effort to support the International Free Comic Book Day Anteism has rallied a handful of artists to put together an art zine.

Seven artists have submitted comic related/inspired artwork for this booklet. The book is available to download as a PDF & Epub and physical copies will be available through the online Anteism book shop.Copies are wet off the press, photos to come. Order your copy today.

Download the Web PDF Here

Have a flip through the web version.

"Other Travels"- Documentary on Troy Lovegates

"Other" bicycles from Portugal to Denmark.

Troy Lovegates and Erik Burke will create a documentary of the art making journey.

Artist "Other"  aka Troy Lovegates and film maker Erik Burke are producing a documentary of a bicycle journey from Portugal to Denmark. The journey will include art making along the way and a final exhibition at MOHS Gallery in Denmark. Please support the project if you can. Link at bottom of the page..

Hello travel lovers, bicycle addicts, street art supporters, flickr friends, and on and on... Beginning April 1st I will join the prolific artist Other as he travels from Lisbon, Portugal to his exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. This trip is complicated by the fact that we are traveling by bicycle and all the work for the exhibition will be made along the way!!!

The project I'm seeking funding for begins April 1 and covers 2000+ miles of travel expenses related to sustenance, survival, and the creation of work. We'll be living as much as possible off the land so your support will go to direct needs like replacing and fixing bike parts, film, art supplies, and postage. Any level of support is greatly supported and those of you helping out will receive goods along the way.

The product of our travels will be the content of an exhibition at the MOHS Gallery in Copenhagen. As the road trip functions as a catalyst for our creative process, I will document the artist’s influence over his environment with his detailed oil bar portraits on abandoned and defunct structures. Simultaneously I will capture the environment's influence over the artist. This documentation will also help to tie many of the loose ends and ambiguity created by Other’s work in the exhibition.

I completed a similar project in 2006 where I bicycled across America to meet a mythic graffiti artist. Entitled Road To Colossus, the film documented my close friend as we bicycled from Reno, NV to Gurdon, Arkansas in hopes of meeting a retired railroad worker, grandfather, and artist extraordinaire. Completing the film gave me the confidence and experience to improve upon my last efforts and excel in this next, challenging endeavor. ( the above video is an excerpt of Road To Colossus)

We will let supporters know where to go to follow up-to-date reports from the trip. Thank you for listening and hope to show you some great work!

Sincerely, Erik Burke + Troy Lovegates

Kickstarter is a great site for project fundraising. Support "Other Travels" project and get handmade postcards, letters and a copy of the limited edition DVD.

Sound & Vision II - Original Scores to Silent Films

Original musical scores played to classic silent films.

A spirited evening of silent classics with live accompaniment by local artists including Run Chico Run, David P. Smith, Dan Wisenburger, Ryan Beattie, Forestry, the Old Hand & Diamond, Clepoatra & the Nile, Lily Fawn, the High Arctic and many more.

SILENT SHORTS - 7:00pm A series of silent shorts and vignettes by Chaplin, Melies, Edison, Lloyd and more, punctuated by dynamic original scores.

Run Chico Run - "Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip To The Moon)" • Georges Melies • 1902 David P. Smith - "Anemic Cinema" • Marcel Duchamp • 1926 Joey MacDonald - "Safety Last" • Harold Lloyd • 1923 Cleopatra & the Nile - "Ghosts Before Breakfast" • Hans Richter • 1928 Blake Enemark, Peter Gardner & Danny Costello - "The Man Who Laughs" • Paul Leni • 1928 Lily Fawn - "Deer Season" • 1939 Dan Wisenburger - TBA Ryan Beattie & Myke Hall - TBA

SILENT FEATURE - "FAUST" FW Marnau • 1926 • 116 mins.

Enormously imaginative and epic in its scope, Faust is the archetype of all fantasy films and a beautiful rendering of Goethe's tale of God and Satan's wager over the fate of Dr. Faustus. Original score performed by ensemble featuring Jay Morritt, Matt Skillings, Thomas Shields, Joey MacDonald, Kalev Mikhel Kaup, Scott Henderson, Joel Fernandez, Blake Enemark, Andy Vanier and more.

Advance tickets $8 / $7 for students, seniors & Cinemagic members at Ditch Records. $10/$8 at the door.

Roman Singer - Seeing in slow motion.

Signer’s works have acquired the label ‘time-sculpture’. They share traditional sculpture’s concern with the crafting of physical materials in three dimensions, but they extend that concern into what may or may not be characterised as the fourth dimension: the dimension of time. Time-sculpture investigates the transformation of materials through time, focusing the viewer’s attention on the experience of the event, the changes wrought, and the forces involved. Variously combining three-dimensional objects, live action, still photography and moving-image documentation, Signer’s time-sculptures frame episodes of the containment and release of energy − always with ingenuity, often with captivating, epigrammatic swiftness and irresistible humour. In Cap with Rocket (Mütze mit Rakete 1983), for example, a length of string connects a firework and a knitted hat that Signer has pulled over his head. The firework is ignited; it shoots into the air and whisks the hat away, revealing the artist’s face. In Stool − Kurhaus Weissbad (Hocker − Kurhaus Weissbad 1992) a small explosion triggers the catapulting of a four-legged stool out of a window; the stool sails through the air and crashes to earth. In Kamor (Kamor 1986) a gunpowder explosion at the summit of a small mountain in the Swiss canton of Appenzell produces a burst of flame and a plume of smoke and momentarily lends the summit the appearance of a live volcano. In Attaché Case (Aktenkoffer 1989/2001) a concrete-filled briefcase is taken on a short ride in a fast machine − a helicopter, to be precise. At a height of about a hundred metres it is dropped. Like a meteorite, it plummets into a grassy field and gouges a deep crater in the turf.

Simple! And in some ways, the step from sculpture to time-sculpture is indeed beautifully simple: elementary, to borrow a word the artist himself has often associated with his work. In the face of the striking immediacy and poetic plasticity of Signer’s pieces, critical commentaries can sometimes seem frankly redundant − like a dull-witted, pedantic glossing of a perfectly-timed, beautifully-judged joke. The critic is dogged by the suspicion that (to co-opt a phrase from Simon Critchley) a time-sculpture ‘explained’ might be a time-sculpture misunderstood. From a seemingly restricted palette of processes and materials, Signer generates a poetics whose tones range from the melancholy to the thrilling, from the charming to the violent, from the grave to the frankly, irresistibly silly, and many points north, south, east and west of these affective co-ordinates.

© Rachel Withers 2007, Excerpt from: Withers, Rachel, 'Collector’s Choice. Roman Signer (engl.). Volume 07', Cologne: Dumont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2007

Chris Johanson Interview

I recently had the opportunity to check out a screening of the Beautiful Losers movie. It was amazing to see the artists behind the work that we've all seen and love. What was really impressed on me was the personalities, the honesty and life that each of these artists had/have to give. This is the reason why their art is so good, it's not because it's original or rebelious or whatever, it's because it's human and these artists know how to truly express themselves.

I've always enjoyed the artwork of Chris Johanson but after seeing the Beautiful Losers movie and seeing the artist himself I can appreciate his art much more. He puts a smile on my face.

Here's a perfect stereotypical "interview" with Chris Johanson

Beautiful Losers Movie

Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.

Film: The Fall

I don't usually post movies on Anteism but The Fall is art. You could take a still frame from almost any scene in this movie and frame it. The movie is as beautiful and astonishing as they come. It's rare to see such a big production that isn't ruined by Hollywood scripts and product placement.

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman (Pace) begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm (Untaru), a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

The Fall

Charlotte Cynthia Video + Damag3 Clothing

Daniel from El Kartel took a video during Charlotte Cynthia Waltons show "Givers". Check out Daniels clothing line called "damag3" The new shirt he did with Luke Ramsey looks insane.

damag3 t-shirt - designed by Luke Ramsey

I was lucky to get a shirt designed by Daniel with a graphic created by Peter Taylor. The image is all chopped up and abstracted. When the shirt is folded like origami the image is created.

KRAZY! @ the Vancouver Art Gallery

Krazy at the Vancouver Art Gallery ( VAG )

I wasn't that KRAZY! about the current show at the VAG. It was worth seeing, but felt like I had missed something after the experience. I slipped between the cracks of the target audience the VAG was going for. The show seems to be directed towards people who have no prior contact with the comic industry and for the die hards that want to see original sketches etc. I had hoped to gleen an inside look into the artists and their work, but ended up seeing allot of pages from comics I have read. What else could the VAG done, to make the experience more fulfilling? I don't know. Projecting Akira on 4 opposing walls of an enormous room seems like filler to me. KRAZY! puts comics & anime on a fine art pedestal which I believe they deserve to be, but they don't seem to be comfortable standing up there.

Krazy at the Vancouver Art Gallery ( VAG )

Jeff Ladouceur - Inflatable Character at the VAG

The huge inflatable character created by Jeff Ladouceur hanging from the front of the VAG. By the time we got to check the show the character had deflated. It seemed fitting. Photo to come, I have to get the film developed...

I'm still digesting the show so don't have much to add to the debate, but you can read more about what others think of the KRAZY! show at the VAG here:

Cloudscape Comic Canada.com Preview-Art Globe and Mail: Seth and Spiegelman interview Global TV: Spiegelman profile

Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg

This elegy is dedicated to the memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and to the memory of Earle Brown (1926-2002), whose music has been intertwined and juxtaposed here with images of the glorious Combines.

Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg has been created from footage filmed by Art21 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles during the 2006 exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Among the works seen in whole or in part are Minutiae (1954); Interview (1955); Monogram (1955-59); Canyon (1959); Gift for Apollo (1959); Black Market (1961); Empire II (1961); Pantomime (1961); Ace (1962); and Gold Standard (1964).

The video is set to music composed by Earle Brown who, along with Rauschenberg, was a member of a small group of friends in the 1950s that included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, and Christian Wolff, among others. In the spirit of that long-ago friendship, and in the collaborative spirit of that time and group, excerpts from the following works by Brown have been selected and collaged, with permission of The Earle Brown Music Foundation, for this video: Music for Violin, Cello, & Piano (1952); Octet I (1953); Folio and 4 Systems (1954); String Quartet (1965); New Piece (1971); and Special Events (1999).

More info at ART21

Gregory Euclide Profile

Anteism contributing artist Gregory Euclide has been profiled by YouWorkForThem.(Check out all the other awesome profiles.) Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. His attraction to the landscape originates from his experience of growing up in the rural landscapes of Wisconsin. Free to roam from farm field to forest edge, he developed an appreciation for authentic experience within the natural landscape. The complexity and interconnectedness of the environment had a profound impact on him as a child and would become the content and conceptual framework for his future work.

After teaching high school art for three years in southern Minnesota, he took a teaching job in the Twin Cities. In 2001 Gregory was awarded a summer residency at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. This time allowed him the opportunity to explore a number of materials and techniques important to the development of later works. In the past few years Gregory has shown his work at over one hundred events and locations in the Twin Cities. He has been awarded a a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant and a Jerome Foundation Residency through the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary. Currently he is teaching high school art and attending graduate school at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design on a Trustee Scholarship.

BLU - "MUTO" - Animation painted on walls.

BLU is an Italian artist known for his HUGE murals depicting baby like bald headed men often missing limbs. His murals have been an inspiration for many artists. Blu has also been creating wall animations, which he paints the frames of an animation on abandoned walls. Using the form of walls his characters react to the shapes and textures they are painted on. This short film is possibly the most insane animation work you'll see in your lifetime.

http://www.blublu.org/

 
 
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.