Short Film Sunday: Blik

by rush Posted on July 24, 2011

Blik from Polder Animation on Vimeo.

Best little 3D-animated film ever? Definitely.

Blik masters what only few animators attempt and what even fewer accomplish. The film tells the story of a particularly hormonal young boy and his falling for a much older young woman–puberty, indubitably, unfolds. With a distinctive 3D-animation style, Blik manages to engage viewers with sound effects and flawlessly rendered body language (characters have no dialogue or faces), just long enough for you to be happy you sat all the way through it.

The film is the first of two animations currently out by Polder Animation, a young 3D-animation studio that may be heading for bigger things.

The film is written and directed by Bastiaan Schravendeel and is only 8 minutes long. Watch it and click through to polderanimation.com for more info and work.

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Advanced Style: Senior Sartorial Splendor

by rush Posted on July 21, 2011

Advanced Style: Age and Beautyfrom Ari Cohen on Nowness.com.

I think about getting old, doesn’t everyone? I think about the day my body will decide to make a dramatic show in favour of gravity’s existence, asking for senior citizens’ discounts everywhere and driving terribly at 20 Km/h or less. Most of all, however, I think about whether I’ll start finding old people, i.e. people my own age, attractive.

At 21, I find people in my own age group attractive, but will I feel the same at 60 or 70, or will I be one of those dirty old women still checking out all the fine 21 year old ass?

Only about 30 years before I’ll have a conclusive answer to that.

In the meantime, this video gives me hope that even while I’m drooping in places I didn’t know existed 30 years prior, I won’t have to give up my love for style. From textile mogul Iris Apfel in her trademark owl spectacles to artist Ilona Royce Smithkin in DIY orange eyelashes, the stars of photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style blog represent the most fashionable older ladies and gentlemen of New York and beyond.

(via Nowness)

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Tea for Three: Shunga Inspired Art by Jeff Faeber (NSFW)

by rush Posted on July 21, 2011

“As one who has “fallen from grace,” as it were, I have a natural interest in the underdog, the discarded and unwanted. Hence, I often paint on or incorporate cardboard, trash, society’s forgotten, landfill-bound material. I react to what I feel is often an overly sanitized, saccharine façade that is projected on us by mass commercialization, or groupthink (or religion or politics or whatever.) There is often beauty in despair. I hope to find hope in “ugliness,” in muted colors. While not dwelling on cynicism, I try to expand the scope of beauty by having it encompass and confront the abuses of “civilized” society, the decadence, the rape of the environment, narrow-mindedness—what is not generally regarded as pretty.”–Jeff Faerber

For those of us who don’t know, Shunga–according to Wikipedia–is a Japanese term meaning “erotic art.” Faerber’s work follows the imagery of traditional Shunga exactly, with only a bit of deviation. With the addition of modern technology, and Western faces, Faerber aims to do more than recreate the Shunga essence in a modern context, he is definitely making a statement.

What that statement is, however, is up to your discretion.

More of his work may be seen at jefffaerber.com

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