Welcome back to another art-link extravaganza!
◊ I like Drew Green‘s graphic style—cartoony but with personality. This piece is a little different from his other work, and I like what he’s doing here, too:
The Last Thing You’ll Ever See by Drew Green
I’ve collected so many art links that I couldn’t quite decide what to use for Magpie Monday, so I’ve opted to spread the art-link love to two days this week (check back on Thursday for another installment).
◊ Leontine Greenberg has drawn some pieces that really appeal to me—birds and houses, but not, strictly speaking, birdhouses. Here’s her description:
The houses have no doors. No one ever goes in or out. But at night, light shines from the windows; on a cold day, smoke rises.
There are fingerprints on the windowpanes, hastily scribbled messages on cloudy glass: a smiley face, hello. Behind them, shadows waltz. The creatures dance—one, two three; one, two three—to each home’s song or cry.
Below is my favorite of the three, but be sure to check out the other two images at the link. She has many other lovely pieces, too! Courtesy of Erin Morgenstern’s wonderful tumblr. (As with all the applicable images, click to embiggen.)
All that was bright and shiny in my eye last week (with another installment to come on Wednesday, and two art MMs on Tuesday and Thursday, so with Video Friday it’s a full week of mayhem here…)
♦ WELCOME TO SUMMER!
I must confess that the exclamation point above is exaggeration on my part, as is the “welcome,” because summer is my least favorite of the four seasons. I am a winter prince, an autumn fellow, sometimes a spring gent, but rarely am I moved by summer (other than fireflies; I do like fireflies). Still, the season is upon us, so there you go. I take comfort, though, in the solstice that has just passed, the longest day of the year, as now each day forward will wind down the world closer to winter.
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton
Today it’s all about stop-motion animation, a technique I love and admire (can you imagine the patience it takes to film a stop-motion film?). Here are three short films that use the technique for very different effects.
First up is Antonio Martinez‘s Near the Egress, a film using “over 800 modern dryplate tintypes” made from black-and-white film; the project took five years to complete. Martinez “created this video to serve as a desired childhood memory of the circus, but through the mind of an adult.” Via.
Next is a music video for the band Gypsophilia for the song “Horska.” Sydney Smith and Jason Levangie created the stop-motion animation. The video is a lot of madcap antics. Via.
And last is a video that can’t help but make you smile as you head into the weekend: Sticky Man by Eduard Taberner, who started making the video when he was fifteen (Facundo Ferreyra did the editing). Very fun! Via.
