The SCREENFULL dudes started off their reBlogging stint at Eyebeam politely enough, but total chaos now rules. My browser actually just crashed--you're advised to let everything load before attempting to scroll. I keep thinking of Jerry Lewis in Hardly Working ("essential late Lewis..." Cahiers du Cinema), a walking disaster who can't keep a job. He's rinsing glasses at a bar that's just hired him, staring at the exotic dancer's leg above him on the counter, trying to control himself, but you know by the end of the scene he's going to be grabbing the leg screaming "I LIKE IT! I LIKE IT!"
thats some fucked up shit baby!
Chris Ashley gave them the biz a couple of months ago: Screenfull is a media mashup, a collision of borrowed (stolen) images, video, and audio that have been cut and torn and jammed back together, maybe in the mode of Brion Gysin's and William Burroughs' cutups, not to mention Schwitters and Rauschenberg, Negativland, Bruce Conner and Jess, and Superbad. But Screenfull had slipped my mind, or I had blocked it out, perhaps because even though Screenfull is a work(s) that takes a form I know well and understand, it is not exactly my cup of tea any more.
Not to take anything away from abe, jimpunk, and Screenfull, to be sure, but the pop quotation, the smirking ironic comment, the technique of ripping five things into several pieces and reassembling them into something raw and casual, just isn't something that interests me a lot as an artist; I see that in my past as juvenile, puerile, mean-spirited, and obvious.
This assessment does not mean, however, that I don't check in with Screenfull a couple of times a week. And you, dear reader, might consider doing the same. Turn up the volume! I have a response to this, I just haven't written it yet.
and a little jones and partners (whos mode is looking a little dated these days) too.
> I have a response to this, I just haven't written it yet.
Hey, go easy on me. I reread what I wrote and I don't even agree with what I said about myself.
The main point I want to make is that your critique doesn't give them enough credit as makers (and finders) of interesting video (and still) abstraction. They don't just rip and reassemble--there is lot of innovative design (and content) in all the chaos. Also, the pop culture mashups are a refreshing antidote (and alternative) to stale media product.
I LIKE IT, I LIKE IT!
AE05.
Yeah Tom, you're right, they do deserve that credit. Just because I didn't say so doesn't mean I think otherwise. I guess my idea of cutting and reassembling implies skill, craft, intention, and I believe the company of folks I placed them in also says something about their abilities and intentions. To call what I wrote as a quick post one day a "critique" is to give it more credit than it deserves. BTW, for some reason my browser, Firefox, didn't crash at reblog today, but if often hangs up for a minute or more at Screenfull. Cheers.
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The SCREENFULL dudes started off their reBlogging stint at Eyebeam politely enough, but total chaos now rules. My browser actually just crashed--you're advised to let everything load before attempting to scroll. I keep thinking of Jerry Lewis in Hardly Working ("essential late Lewis..." Cahiers du Cinema), a walking disaster who can't keep a job. He's rinsing glasses at a bar that's just hired him, staring at the exotic dancer's leg above him on the counter, trying to control himself, but you know by the end of the scene he's going to be grabbing the leg screaming "I LIKE IT! I LIKE IT!"
- tom moody 4-17-2005 10:46 pm
thats some fucked up shit baby!
- bill 4-17-2005 10:54 pm
Chris Ashley gave them the biz a couple of months ago:
I have a response to this, I just haven't written it yet.- tom moody 4-17-2005 11:04 pm
and a little jones and partners (whos mode is looking a little dated these days) too.
- bill 4-17-2005 11:39 pm
> I have a response to this, I just haven't written it yet.
Hey, go easy on me. I reread what I wrote and I don't even agree with what I said about myself.
- chrisashley (guest) 4-18-2005 9:50 pm
The main point I want to make is that your critique doesn't give them enough credit as makers (and finders) of interesting video (and still) abstraction. They don't just rip and reassemble--there is lot of innovative design (and content) in all the chaos. Also, the pop culture mashups are a refreshing antidote (and alternative) to stale media product.
- tom moody 4-18-2005 10:12 pm
I LIKE IT, I LIKE IT!
AE05.
- atomicelroy (guest) 4-19-2005 6:03 am
Yeah Tom, you're right, they do deserve that credit. Just because I didn't say so doesn't mean I think otherwise. I guess my idea of cutting and reassembling implies skill, craft, intention, and I believe the company of folks I placed them in also says something about their abilities and intentions. To call what I wrote as a quick post one day a "critique" is to give it more credit than it deserves. BTW, for some reason my browser, Firefox, didn't crash at reblog today, but if often hangs up for a minute or more at Screenfull. Cheers.
- chrisashley (guest) 4-19-2005 9:20 am