SUPER HITOPS - TOM BUCKHOLZ

You know, SPYROS HOREMIS?

Nouvelle Vague is a French band that performs bossa nova covers of punk and new wave classics. They’re currently touring the U.S. Songs and tour dates at their myspace. I’m not sure who did the original song for this one. The clip, found on youtube, is a slightly edited version of a scene from the 1964 Jean-Luc Godard film Bande à part / Band of Outsiders. The Nouvelle Vague song replaces the original audio.

It’s interesting to compare that version with the original film version of the scene, as excerpted here with English subtitles. The tone is a bit different and the scene contains moments where the music cuts out and narration about the characters comes in.

These are some new collages on book pages from flickr user xactorocker. There are a couple more, and some drawings, on his page. Oh, and he’s 7.

His father is an art director and illustrator with a portfolio at trustzabo.com. Here’s some of dad’s work;

This was “found” in the sense that it was “stolen from Brian and scanned”.

GEMSTONES - Tom Buckholz - 4 min 30 sec INSTANT RICE version from SUPERHITOPS on Vimeo.

GEMSTONES is a short movie I’ve been working on. Here’s the full description from my Vimeo page.

GEMSTONES is part of a larger found footage remixing project begun by Tom Buckholz in 2009. This extended, second version of GEMSTONES was screened (as a work in progress) at INSTANT RICE on January 16, 2010. This cut adds footage from El Topo, Manhattan, Murder By Death, 3 Ninjas, a found high school reunion tape, a found wedding anniversary party tape, a Zion I music video, and original footage. Additional audio from The Rain Man, Mr. Oizo, Abba, Lightning Bolt, and Jessica Arnold. superhitops.com and tombuckholz.com .

And here’s the original, 2 minute Hott Lava version, with original description.

GEMSTONES - Tom Buckholz - 2 min Hott Lava Version from SUPERHITOPS on Vimeo.

GEMSTONES is part of a larger found footage remixing project begun by Tom Buckholz in 2009. This 2 minute cut premiered at Hott Lava ( http://www.hottlava.net ) on June 26. GEMSTONES uses footage from Jewelry Television (a home shopping channel), Candyman, The Amityville Horror, Sneakers, and clips of women dancing in religious ceremonies. http://www.tombuckholz.com and http://www.superhitops.com

See hottlava.net for info on upcoming Hott Lava events. This beautiful flyer is currently up for Hott Lava III, which happens on Friday, February 5th, in Ann Arbor, MI. You should totally go.

The first and last images of this post are frames of original VHS footage, with colors modified. The images in between are single frame captures taken of children’s educational videos, imported from a VCR with bad tracking.

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! was created by Jake Armstrong over the course of 15 months or so. Jake says in this excellent post at Cartoon Brew, that he made Alpha-9! entirely in Flash with a Cintiq (stylus and tablet), aside from initial story boards. He also cites specific Bugs Bunny references and other inspiration for the short.

I took some captures of the animation, which highlight a few of my favorite shots.



Jake’s blog is here, and includes a post showing these hand made business cards he stamped.



cartons and things

Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross.

Dull Bulb & All is a clean and simple art blog heavy on large images. Very good taste, which is to say very close to my own. You tend to get around 5 or 6 pictures of work from each artist selected for a post.

Above, all from Dull Bulb & All, Katharina Trudzinski’s assemblage of painted wood, Henry Gunderson’s painting (dude is 18 years old), and Sophie Kern’s collage/drawing.

Go to the dullbulb tumblr site to see more info and work from these artists, and links to their sites. There’s also a short video interview/studio visit with Kern. Some of her drawings in the video feel and look a lot like Neckface pieces, if my memory serves me correctly. I would prefer to believe that Sophie Kern is an adorable actress hired to play a public persona, through which Neckface can experiment with new material.



Below, more featured artists from the blog.

Untitled photograph by Lieven Segers from his solo show, We’ve got a date with the night at Maes & Matthys Gallery, May & June, 2009, Antwerp, Belgium. Texts from other Lieven Segers works to the right read, at first glance he appears to be a typical monster, waiting, & I’ve always wanted to do this but I never thought it was so fucking boring.

Untitled, 1990, Jigsaw puzzle, 106.5 x 152.5 cm. A jigsaw puzzle completed with a 2 cm space between each piece, & Untitled, 1997, Paper, 28 x 21.5 x 1.5 cm. A 21.5 x 28 cm sheet of paper was cut and curled”., two works by Tom Friedman. Both scanned from his Phaidon book.

Matthew Dent is an artist from London who makes puzzles and has them up for sale for ridiculously cheap. They’re listed at £17 with p+p included (which I will assume is a fancier version of shipping & handling). Above, some of Matthew Dent’s puzzles and a poster illustration from his vast online portfolio.

Below, Space Houses, a t-shirt illustration by Dent.