MON: Pocahaunted/Wet Hair/Eyes,Wings and many Other Things (The Lounge) MON: An Horse/On After Dark/Big Science (Rubber Gloves) TUE: Leatherwood/Daredevil Christopher Wright/The Polycorns (The Schoolhouse) WED: Coscientious Projector/The Century of the Self (1919 Hemphill) THR: Billy McGee/The Dutch Treats (Tradewinds) THR: Stoogeaphilia/The Black Dotz/Bastardos De Sancho (Lola's) FRI: Dear Human/New Science Projects/Geistheistler/Handbrake/Babar (Rubber Gloves) FRI: Florene (Tradewinds)
Japanese animator Kanako Kawaguchi creates a stop-action version of Jim Woodring’s surreal comic “Frank”.
“Kawaguchi's approach to animating and ‘dimensionalizing’ Woodring's work is immediately compelling: combining intricate model work (including exquisitely detailed pieces of furniture and room interiors and convincingly naturalistic miniature exteriors) with construct 'cut-outs' models of Frank (composed of layered bits of Jim's art), Kawaguchi allows us to inhabit Frank's environments as never before. ” - Steve Bissett, MYRANT, 2006
MARJOE
Sarah Kernochan, 1972 (88 min.)
“The Academy-Award®-winning MARJOE is the ferocious and extraordinary chronicle of a firebrand evangelical preacher who wholeheartedly and humorously exposes himself as a fraud. An evangelist prodigy at the age of four, the film captures an adult Marjoe as he recounts how he discovered the seductions of the 60s counterculture and dropped out of preaching, only to return later, using his swaggering bravado, to woo Pentecostal audiences out of their offerings.”
ALL STAR REVUE
Spike Jones, June 7, 1952 - Hollywood, California (59 min.)
Spike Jones hosts the popular television variety program of the 1950s, featuring Jim Backus and Liberace.
"an 1,800-square-foot site-specific installation elaborately comprised of intricate mechanisms [...] suspended from the gallery ceiling". Not so sure about the installation work, but the thing that caught my eye on this one is the combined work of Sam Scott and Jeff Yerger. Beautiful... check out Sam Scott: here and here.
I've had trouble finding much of anything more by Jeff Yerger, but here's a prime example. Yerger was an artist-in-residence at CentralTrak, and seems to currently teach at Brookhaven. Some more information about him.
Introducing DJ Perera DJ Perera ThirdSpace 1608 C Main Street, Dallas, TX 75201 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
I think every high school art teacher in North Texas probably forces their students to submit something for this. Hundreds of entries come in, a select few dozen make it. It's put together each year by Greg Metz and students at UTD.
Hey guys, sorry about the It List today-- we're preparing for our show and running around Austin and getting over illnesses and all kinds of stuff. You probably won't see a lot from us for the rest of the week, although FP might have a few things for you before all is said and done. Anyway, we'll check in with you a couple times throughout SXSW and we'll be back with regular coverage next week. In the meantime, we hope to see you at our Day Party on Friday:
We're happy to announce our 2010 SXSW Day Party, taking place on Friday, March 19th @ Victory Grill (1104 E. 11th St. in Austin) from noon to 5PM. This year we've teamed up with our friends at Switched On, the new music electronics shop in Austin that specializes in vintage synthesizers, keyboards and drum machines, and once you get to Victory Grill on Friday, you'll see that Switched On is located right across the street, so you'll have plenty of time to check out what they've got when you join us to catch:
There will be a DJ or two as well playing between sets, and we might have another act to add to the bill, so we'll let you know about that if and when it happens. See ya there!
We are celebrating our Irish heritage here at the office so this is super brief and late. If you are in Denton go to the last day of FestxFest Fest with Pocahaunted & Orange Coax it starts exactly at 8. When that is over you could go to Hailey's there are alot of bands playing...
Thought I would choose something this week that wouldn't require me to spend a bunch of words convincing you to download it. Everyone knows and loves the Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart. Safe as Milk is the album that you give to people who don't know about Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica is the one that you talk about at parties to show you know what is up and The Spotlight Kid is there to keep you in touch with the later period work. Somehow in the journey through psychedelic post modernism, 1970's Lick My Decals Off baby get left out due mainly to it's unavailability thanks to litigation with Zappa's Striaght records ( it did receive a vinyl only 180 gram release a few years ago but that has become OOP as well) Decals takes the experimentation of Trout Mask and pairs it with the fleshed out song centered format of Milk. The expanding of musical ideas comes not just from drug use but also with Bill Hackerload taking over the musical direction after Vliet threw previous arranger John French down a flight of stairs. My favorite Beefheart album. Can we all agree that this music was/is experimental?
