Anyway welcome to this new blog where I post things about art...and ideas for art...and try to not like a pretentious...person...in the first place...
Okay I'm sorry but we're going to have to set some ground rules:
1: Despite this technically being a blog for the University to keep track of me like some Gary Glitter 2.0 I would like to reinforce the fact that there is nothing wrong with trying to be funny and/or entertaining, because I really don't want to be another one of those super-serious internet people who clearly don't care for what they're doing due to boredom.
2: I'm going to swear if I want to (I can leave my friends behind!); now on a personal level I don't think there's that much wrong with swearing, but ultimately anyone in this day and age who is still offended by swearing or sees it as some unintelligent outlet for emphasis and emotional extremes is really behind the fucking times...also Stephen Fry says it's okay:
3: I don't always have to be funny nor to I have to be incredibly intellectual, this is as much a giant brainstorm and memorandum for ideas as it is an blog for your pointless enjoyment.
4: There will be shameless self promotion if I ever feel like it...hmmmm, I wonder what this youtube channel is? http://www.youtube.com/user/WelcometoHellPlus
Okay so first things first, let's talk about memories, because during the Winter Holidays we were told in essence to use different methods to "memorialise" something we'd like to still be there in the future...as you may find becomes a consistent thing here, so instead myself and a bunch of far more influential youtube anime reviewers decided to get together and try something else: "can we memorialise a show that never even existed?" and thus vampainter, the tale of a man who paints the windows of vampire's house to look like it's night time so that they go outside during the day and burn up, was born!
One of the main things that helped was knowing people of influence in the community, and despite my usually brash manner, having a sense of subtlety about it, so on the newly popular animuoutsiders podcast in which a load of well respected community reviewers and then myself (how I became a part of them I have no clue xD) we decided to finally use the vampainter idea originally conceived by Darcy some time before as a large trolling attempt on the community with a simple mention of it and another fake show: time reaper, in a small discussion about our favourite shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPGg6O8qS5M&list=PLuvZ9YboOGb_lzNzsEFg-eLQG5BeCw3p9#t=302
Now just by reading the comments as you can imagine there was a fair bit of discussion about these briefly hinted at works, however what the show lacked was evidence, we'd given some fake reasons why but if you want to fake something you have to treat it as real, so through blogs, and through fake screenshots and quotes and cast-lists we slowly gained a non-existent fanbase, before finally hitting jackpot:
In the last year anime fans have been converging heavily on a new social-networking/anime database and reviewing service called "hummingbird", a place for discussion and forums and so on, and vampainter was trending...so we did what any logical human being would do....fool a hummingbird moderator into thinking the show actually exists and have it posted...now originally I was scared of revealing this on the blog for fear that it'd be taking down...but someone blagged about it, so the evidence of this all comes from blog posts and forums, still, here's a little memorium to an experiment that sadly crumbled under its own weight:
And Now for something completely different: Blue
Blue is an art piece, it is very blue, it is like the boyband blue...but bluer!
It's incredibly blue, it's really fucking blue!
Okay so I'm gonna admit that the whole story behind its creation is pretty damn interesting, with the creator Derek Jarmans losing his eyesight due to a complication from Aids leading him to write this radioplay to reflect his experience, except it's not a radioplay, it's a film....a very blue film....I'm gonna get more in detail about this next post but what I really wanna bring up here is simply this: is art like this legitimately justifiable as film through subversion of the medium and the story or is it a bit pretentious...now I will say that it's a greatly written piece but if I heard it on a radio would I feel any different...and therefore is this even a film, I mean it's at least got great special effects due to its innovative use of blue-screen.....I apologise (I don't)!
ow if you don't mind I've got a shit-tonne of films to type about for the next few posts...Oh Good, work....in a university.....UNHEARD OF!
(Seriously though uni's a lot of work, do better than me kids!)
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