Knitting, embroidery, crocheting and needlepoint in animation and stop motion
Animation, stop motion and computing have a lot of possibilities and techniques for expressing ideas and stories… Following last posts regarding textiles, I simply got an idea to collect few animated and stop motion films which were designed with the help of knitting, crocheting, embroidery and needlepoint…
Science Project: Temperature by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
hand-stitched cotton doily, 2005
Freestyle football video selection
It’s been a while since I haven’t blogged about sport in art context… Yeah, it was last year’s book review about Haruki Murakami’s ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running‘, right?! Well, since everything is about football now… I’ve made a Freestyle football video selection for this post… Frankly, I was inspired by some TV show I saw tonight after the game between Germany and Spain on World Cup 2010 South Africa…
Photo by Zitzitoune taken from flickr.com (cc)
Wired bodies, sounds and images…
‘A Small Contribution to the Genesis of Everyday Life’ (2008) by Slovene media artists Nika Autor and Miha Ciglar deals with the complexity of relations between bodies, sounds and images as wired islands…
Nika Autor and Miha Ciglar, photo taken from Kontejner
George Quasha: art is (Speaking Portraits)
George Quasha‘s video installation ‘art is (Speaking Portraits)’ belongs to the series of video projects (‘art is’, ‘music is’, ‘poetry is’, ‘myth is’, and ongoing project ‘freedom is’). Quasha asks artists one simple question: what art is? The project includes more then 700 international artists, poets and composers…
George Quasha is a contemporary artist and poet in constant search for interlaced forms of expressiveness…
Photos by Claudinka taken from flickr (c)