About: Steven
I shit my pants when I was 3 and I had a vision that I wanted to be an Artist......
20 years later, here I am.
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Seeking creative minds interested in forming a collective and enjoying each others company:
The Animation Army is created for everyone and anyone to get together and build bonds of friendship and share ideas and laughs. They get together every first Sunday of every new month between the hours of 8pm and 10 pm at a free bar,club or studio in the Los Angeles area. The Animation Army allows for people who are relative novices or “nobodies” in the animation world to mix it up with more established industry artists and cartoonists.
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Tags: Local LA · Visual Arts
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim met at Temple University in Pennsylvania. They became close friends and collaborated on strange little art projects. One of which was a unique animation short entitled, ” Tom Goes to the Mayor.” After entering it into a few small comedy short festivals, they decided it was good enough to send to one of their idols, Bob Odenkirk ( who was one of the creators and stars of the legendary Mr. Show). Odenkirk recieved the short along with two signed head shots of Tim and Eric and an invoice for the whole package and in mid-view called the duo and the rest is history.
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Tags: Comedy · Reviews
Most of you have seen it, a chain letter asking you to sign a petition as a dog starves to death, bourgeoisie artists and patrons stand around and talk about irony. Understanding the need for some artists to shock to create a reaction can be a hard thought to grasp on its own, but to see an “artist” destroy another living being for the sake of “art” is ludicrous. Its one thing to put yourself at risk and to push yourself to certain limits, but to enforce your idea on a helpless victim, thats mein kampf.
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Tags: Editorials · Visual Arts
A Savage spacewalks through a crowd of heavenly bodies wearing nothing but a leather jockstrap and panty hose. He is howling through a magic microphone with an unusually long umbilical chord attached to a space bus, where fellow funky astronauts groove other-worldly riffs. This contrast of combustible forces, a mixture of barbaric intensity and evolved enlightenment, pulls random aliens into their orbit. Mr. Free has you now.
At the mercy of the Satellite Freakout you have no choice but to go along for the ride. An exuberant and unique fusion of sound and image, you must first allow your brain to adapt to the initial shock of the moment. A half naked man gyrates in your face and you giggle, awe, and shake your head, then you feel the Freakout.
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Tags: Reviews · bands
“It” was the Los Angeles City Artwalk at the Brewery downtown. From 11-6 on Saturday and Sunday you had a chance to step into different realms of some of LA’s greatest creative minds. Or something like that. Studio spaces which mostly doubled as living rooms were filled with many ordinary pedestrians like myself and a few others. Having an inkling of an idea I was going to do a short article on this event, I made sure to bring a camera. Batteries not included, so all of the pictures you see in this article has been borrowed off the net. Still, I don’t think it would make much of a difference. The true experience of the artwork, is the living breathing community that resides around it.
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Tags: LA Backdrop · Visual Arts
As the legend goes, 1968’s ‘Italian Spiderman,’ a long forgotten film directed by Gianfranco Gatti,
was unearthed after 40 years. Finding a loving home at Alrugo Studios in Milan, the original was restored in all it’s glory and a teaser trailer was released to the public. The film stars sexy action star Francho Franchetti of ‘Mondo Sexo’ fame, who duels his heart out in his last role ever before being killed in a spear fishing accident in 1969.
In reality, this was a NO-budget last minute college comedy project that has gotten close to a million and a half views on their Youtube alone. That’s some serious freakin’ traffic for a project done just for the hell of it. With limited marketing and close to a zero advertising budget, where did all these viewers come from?
Trailer after the click
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Tags: Editorials · Internet · Visual Arts
“The hardest thing to do in life is to send love in response to hate…” Those golden words scroll across a screen as you wait in a sea of black. Queuing an ethereal hip hop beat you are about to enter the world of stencil street artist, Chase.
Belgian by birth, Chase, like so many other transient artists has journeyed in search of creative outlets and experience. Once an avid skateboarder in his youth, this energy transferred over into the world of his art. Yet Chase is just another LA transplant… or is he? Searching for answers about life, fleeting youth and creative energy, where can we look for inspiration? Surrounded by a sea of rapid highways, scratchy airwaves and blinkers bouncing off concrete, we suffer in a wasteland of thought. Drones of being. But, sprinkled upon the tar and metal are rays of light and innovation.
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Tags: Image Gallery · Visual Arts · art
