‘Grafton Street Shower’.
By David Howell
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A very pleasing hand-drawn short by Ho Tsz Wing set to ‘Catgot’ by UK-based electronica duo ISAN.
https://vimeo.com/219203403
An abstract animation by Thinh Nguyen with music by William Smed.
Our best guess is ’15 unspecified, possibly rude things happening at the end of the day’.
But we could be entirely wrong about that.
Nofographics
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Jackson Pollock’s route to abstract expressionism by British cartoonist and animation Henry Dunbar.
The abstract ceramics of US artist Jason Briggs – porcelain, hair and steel sculptures with unlikely titles like ‘Angel’, ‘Blossom’ and ‘Baby’ grotesquely redolent of everything from sexual organs to cysts. Interpret them however you like, sez he:
…sculpture, fine art, fine craft, ceramic sculpture, figurative, abstract, surrealism, eroticism, non-traditional, biological, fucked-up, pornographic or, worst of all, decorative.
Lovely Christmas presents, in fairness.
A stop motion timelapse from filmmaker Jeff Frost combining 300,000 photographs taken over the last two years: from riots and decomposing roadkill to optical illusions painted by himself inside abandoned buildings. The film – vaguely intended as an exploration of ‘creation and destruction’ – was made without graphics or visual effects.
It’s quite the visual treat and, if you can spare 12 minutes, well worth watching right to the end.
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A le Brocquy-esque mural of 100 or so quickly applied abstract gestural forms on a building in Madrid by visual artist SUSO33.
Kin – the first of a series of abstract, visually stunning fables by Canadian filmmakers Seb and Ben McKinnon of Five Knights Productions. the short won the Best Cinematography award at last month’s 2013 Fantasia Film Festival.