..MORE off the top of my head

about six months ago I was dreaming of some BIG projects that would take months to prepare for, a couple dozen guys to pull it off, and about 20 minutes to execute. I had this idea of using the road as a sort of filmstrip, and lay consecutive images about ten feet apart down on the road. The cars driving over the images would see the images appear out from under the car ahead like a flip book, automating the whole thing. I was thinking about taking photos of people doing something (at about 2-3 images a second). i wanted to project each of the high-contrasted 50 odd images, lifesize, onto paper, then cut them out. Fisty images! - i figure fifty people with a dozen paint rollers and cooperating well could lay the images down on the road in 15 minutes in the middle of the night.

and have you ever seen the images of that artist who, using chalk, lays and image down on the sidewalk that, using really precise perspective, makes it look like there are 3D people/places/or things positioned there on the road. - i was thinking about doing the same thing with little animals (bunnies, small dogs, cats, raccoons) that's appeard to be real, 3D animals on the road, and make people slow down.

two weird ideas - where are you at???

i've been looking at the photos that a buddy of mine have been working on (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blumsy/). and the idea popped into my head that it would be interesting to organize big groups of people together to do cazy things that couldn't possibly be done alone. the idea of finding a stream somewhere and throwing fifty-odd people in to it to dam it up. it sounds kinda retarded now that i actually write it down, but the image in my head is awesome! os something like a big group of people all cooperating to do something - like constructing something in a forest all in one day, or carrying a mossive tree trunk from one place to another, or going into an over grown field and flattening it all down or i dunno..
now i am thinking of something like my fence constructions in third year where i tore down an old fence and re-erected it somewhere else, sort of out of place. or NEVERTHELESS and there yellow book project. something involving cooperation and organization.
we will be starting our own traditions, eh?

epaul

i've been looking at the photos that a buddy of mine have been working on (search for Blumsy on flickr). and the idea popped into my head that it would be interesting to organize big groups of people together to do cazy things that couldn't possibly be done alone. the idea of finding a stream somewhere and throwing fifty-odd people in to it to dam it up. it sounds kinda retarded now that i actually write it down, but the image in my head is awesome! os something like a big group of people all cooperating to do something - like constructing something in a forest all in one day, or carrying a mossive tree trunk from one place to another, or going into an over grown field and flattening it all down or i dunno..
now i am thinking of something like my fence constructions in third year where i tore down an old fence and re-erected it somewhere else, sort of out of place. or NEVERTHELESS and there yellow book project. something involving cooperation and organization.
we will be starting our own traditions, eh?

epaul

oh - i just figured out what you were doing..

comments. you were leaving COMMENTS!

... any hidden narratives?? i mean..the gesture/posture seems to suggest certain action/reaction.... to what? are they meant to provoke such intepretation?? or not?......
hidden narratives - nope, worry - im too shallow - hence the need to work with a partner.
narrative/thematic stuff that i produce usually comes out not-very-figurative. Sometimes it's representational, but never figurative. weird how that works.

"outside looking in"
- -- - this would be awkard for me - if i wanted to describe this experience, i think that i'd want to be immersed in it - i just dont have enough reference material, i think.


portrait documentations - 4-5 minutes. folklore...
this sounds kinda interesting. the word "documentation" scares me though. there's been a decade of mostly terrible art.
"folklore", on the other hand, sounds cool. What are these portraits like? are they paint, video, wirtten? is your source member of the family sitting right there in front of you when you do this, or are you just sorta meditating on the specific person? New stories, new traditions, new stories - inventing these new things (documenting them?) - there might be something there..

this is one of the images that im currently working on. I did this mostly to just figure out how to post images. SPEAKING of posting images - your website it nice and all, but where's the art, my friend?

sure brotha! take some time.. no need to rush anything..


i have some new drawings posted on my site. check 'er out.


ok - thematically or physically. i prefer a topic of some sort. if i wanted to just create, i'd smoke drugs, make a huge mess and waste paint, and call it... ..abstract art.

i'd first like to look at what sorts of things we have at our disposal. i'll go first - my wife is going to korea in august, so she can get big huge lightbox printouts done there and bring them back with her. i have a cottage - lots of nature type stuff. i have a friend who's a graphic design teacher at algonquin college who'd be up for helping out (and then there's all the other ex-queen's kids). my parents will be building a house on four acres of land that they recently bought this summer, so there'll be lots of tree cutting and digging and stuff.

the outsider looking in idea is ok - it was different for me, though. i really enjoyed it, and felt comfortable and appreciated pretty much the whole time. My experience would come across more as a vacation than some "hardship" or "odd foreign experience". i'm hoping to go to university in korea in a couple of years from now - maybe that topic would be really good then! i'd be trying to fit in. I was considered separate from society when i was an engish teacher, rather than part of it.

though i bashed abstract above, im not totally closed to sqirly, swishy art.

ok. 'nough for now. gotta think more. and im hungry.

testing.... more than a few minutes~

ok, this is kinda cool~

seeing that i am gonna excuse myself until i get through my hellish last 5 days of teacher's college, i will leave some thoughts for you to chew on during my potential absence.

there are couple way i envision this collaboration would work....
a. thematically: if we could somehow focus on a theme that we are both interested in, we could work independently while keeping each other informed with our progress~ so what are the possibilities?? i was thinking that since you just got back from your long oversea excursion.....any thought?? any memorable experience being on the 'outside' looking in?? Being perceived as the "Other'??(or being surrounded by the "Others".) Something we have in common, i guess..... experiencing that moment of 'transit'....that 3rd space between here and there..... displacement... evolution.....change..... becoming?

b. physically.... i guess we could decide on what we want to work on and actually WORK ON IT together (in kingston?? i dunno....but you are more than welcome to come and stay with me and paint here.. not paint... anything you want, i guess~) ...OR.... working on the same work through correspondance... kinda like that 'communication' show you were in, remember?? ( with somebody from Concordia..)

anyway.... let me know what you think~

cheers.

a small, developing art collective. let's get some images up here, eh?