Blu's New Street Animation: Big Bang Big Boom
If, like me, you're a sucker for stop motion animation, street art, slightly skewed theories of evolution and apocalyptic premonitions, the mere mention of a new street animation by Blu invokes your salivary glands. And, like a well trained dog, you stop whatever you're doing and sit to watch minutes of film that take months for the artist to create. Blu's newest release holds true to the artist's evolving aesthetic of outdoor illustrations. In true Blu fashion, Big Bang Big Boom starts small and quickly expands. Like Muto before it, outdoor illustrations multiply, converge, grow and devour each other, stumbling forward towards oblivion. This time however, Blu takes on the challe...Read more
Blu and David Ellis
What happens when two of the world's most innovative motion muralists meet? They go big in a way that either ignites your inner Diego Rivera or motivates you to finally burn your pathetic sketchbook and take your place in the unemployment line. Epic street animator/painter Blu and the original Barnstormer, David Ellis combined their collective talents in Buenos Aires to create this bizarre time lapse adventure. Both veterans in the art of decayed space as canvas, their collaboration combines Blu's gray, silly/somber repetitions of subhumanity with Ellis's crisp colors and tightly swirled line work. But enough adjective yapping, just watch the video and you'll see exactly wh...Read more
Littles Paia Shoots my Shark
Denver's own musician, writer, adventurer Littles Paia plunged me into a whirling kaleidoscope with his new video for the song Shooting Shark - Contracrostipunctus Carol Trilogy 2 which is off of his spanky new album, Dew on the Needles. The bar in the video metamorphosed my brain waves to recall one of the earliest memories in my psyche, with a soundtrack nothing less than freaky and psychedelic. I distinctly remember as a three year old being abducted by leprechauns and taken to Santa's Workshop where I got lost and found myself being saved by my grandma wearing a rubber mask in some bar I had stumbled into. That bar, which remains the pinnacle of my dream, was strikingly simila...Read more
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tags: Littles Paia Shooting Shark Contracrostipunctus Carol Trilogy 2 Blue Oyster Cult