Monday, February 12, 2007

Rodney Greenblat

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Rodney Alan Greenblat

Born: Daly City, California, August 23, 1960
Education: Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland 1974-78
Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC: 1978
School of Visual Arts, NY, BFA with Honors, 1978-82

currently lives in New York City and Ghent New York


Whimsyload

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Motomichi Nakamura



Directed by Motomichi Nakamura, this video for The Knife is rather appropriately bizarre.

From the video description:

The animation starts with a girl that wakes up from a long sleep and starts searching for a sacred apple. At the end of a nightmarish story the girl is able to find her apple but only to discover the real price that she has to pay for it.


More stylish videos and other goodies are available on his website. Making good use of shading and coloration, in most cases so strong as to be mere silhouettes, many of Nakamura's figures come across as both cute and threatening. A few more deliciously strange samples:

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