 Still working on this, trying to nail the continuity bugs (and lapses in drawing skill) frame by frame. I found a good description of what it's about, though: I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. [Moody's dumb animations] are psychological provocations, mental tests where the aesthetic elements are no more than a framing device.
It's interesting that this should be the case. I assume it is because our environment today, by and large a media landscape, is oversaturated by aestheticising elements (TV ads, packaging, design and presentation, styling and so on) but impoverished and numbed as far as its psychological depth is concerned.
Artists (though sadly not writers) tend to move to where the battle is joined most fiercely. Everything in today's world is stylised and packaged, and [Moody] is trying to say, this is [Spider-Man vs Doc Ock]. He is trying to redefine the basic elements of reality, to recapture them from the ad men who have hijacked our world. apologies to bloggy and J.G. Ballard
while not pyrrhic, it is sisyphean
What Sally calls "the victorious arm pump" is ironic. Only kids and football players do that. Nice Sisyphus, especially his skate down the hill, suggesting the activity is voluntary.
Lance did a nice arm pump yesterday, but he was allowed to crest the hill.
I stole that Sisyphus gif from a translation of a Camus essay.
If this myth is tragic, that is because its hero is conscious. Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? The workman of today works everyday in his life at the same tasks, and his fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
If I were doing the .GIF I'd have the boulder roll over S., then have S. pick himself up in a daze, and trudge reluctantly down the hill to resume the cycle. The alacrity with which he's performing the job here is just weird. Maybe he's a Mormon?
As for the "failure of imagination," I expected the 9/11 committee report to be a whitewash, just like Danforth's Waco commission. The purpose of these things is to soothe and renew faith in the status quo. "No one's to blame"="Nothing to see here."
"Nothing to see here."
bingo, you nailed it
as for Lance, "Feh." Had enough of that Bush-loving postal worker.
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Still working on this, trying to nail the continuity bugs (and lapses in drawing skill) frame by frame. I found a good description of what it's about, though:
apologies to bloggy and J.G. Ballard- tom moody 7-20-2004 10:23 pm
while not pyrrhic, it is sisyphean
- mark 7-23-2004 6:05 am
- mark 7-23-2004 6:07 am
What Sally calls "the victorious arm pump" is ironic. Only kids and football players do that. Nice Sisyphus, especially his skate down the hill, suggesting the activity is voluntary.
- tom moody 7-23-2004 10:25 pm
Lance did a nice arm pump yesterday, but he was allowed to crest the hill.
I stole that Sisyphus gif from a translation of a Camus essay.
- mark 7-24-2004 3:11 am
If I were doing the .GIF I'd have the boulder roll over S., then have S. pick himself up in a daze, and trudge reluctantly down the hill to resume the cycle. The alacrity with which he's performing the job here is just weird. Maybe he's a Mormon?
- tom moody 7-24-2004 3:22 am
As for the "failure of imagination," I expected the 9/11 committee report to be a whitewash, just like Danforth's Waco commission. The purpose of these things is to soothe and renew faith in the status quo. "No one's to blame"="Nothing to see here."
- tom moody 7-24-2004 3:25 am
"Nothing to see here."
bingo, you nailed it
- bill 7-24-2004 9:55 am
as for Lance, "Feh." Had enough of that Bush-loving postal worker.
- sally mckay 7-24-2004 6:55 pm