Flash flood
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imomusBack in February, you may remember, I asked Click Opera readers (a creative class so rich in cultural capital, so effortlessly superior, that jealous outsiders now refer to this place as "Clique Opera") to make Flash pieces for songs from my Otto Spooky album. Quite a few chose titles and started work. The Lady Pat was the first to finish, with an amazing video for Your Fat Friend. Then... well, then, to be honest, things went incredibly quiet.
Five months later, the second piece has been completed. It's The Artist Overwhelmed by Blayne Greiner. Blayne has the perfect excuse for his tardiness: he relocated from North American to Berlin while he was making this piece. In fact, I bumped into him in the first week he was here, in the treasure trove of the Treptower flea market. He's very tall and handsome, with a mane of brown hair. My favourite part of his piece for "The Artist Overwhelmed" is when the two elderly gay lovers kiss, and the table they're standing on breaks. Oh, and the single green-coloured cypress tree which appears briefly during the word "eternally", the only coloured object in the whole piece. Blayne has asked me to tell you that if you're interested in commissioning Flash work, you can reach him at: derhutgeist@gmail.com. He's also "been thinking about making t-shirts in the same style of things like monks riding giant turtles and whatnot, so if people are interested they should e-mail me as part of a survey."
The Artist Overwhelmed (Flash media, 4.7MB)
The next Flash piece due, and already hotly anticipated, is Lord Whimsy's presentation for the eunuch-friendly supermadrigal "Bantam Boys". All seems to be progressing well on that front: in a recent e mail, Whimsy told me "I've recently turned you into a calligraphic deep sea micro-organism. Hope you don't mind."
Speaking of Whimsy, art lovers will be delighted to hear that our very own "affected provincial" is featured in an article in the current edition of Frieze magazine, the Slow Issue. (Those desperate to read the article, about intellectual whimsy, might like to cast a glance at The Importance of Being Earnest.) I also spoke about him as an example of "successful self-mediation" during a radio interview I did for BBC Ulster's Arts Review programme yesterday, so perhaps Whimsy can expect to tread red carpet on his next visit to Belfast.
Five months later, the second piece has been completed. It's The Artist Overwhelmed by Blayne Greiner. Blayne has the perfect excuse for his tardiness: he relocated from North American to Berlin while he was making this piece. In fact, I bumped into him in the first week he was here, in the treasure trove of the Treptower flea market. He's very tall and handsome, with a mane of brown hair. My favourite part of his piece for "The Artist Overwhelmed" is when the two elderly gay lovers kiss, and the table they're standing on breaks. Oh, and the single green-coloured cypress tree which appears briefly during the word "eternally", the only coloured object in the whole piece. Blayne has asked me to tell you that if you're interested in commissioning Flash work, you can reach him at: derhutgeist@gmail.com. He's also "been thinking about making t-shirts in the same style of things like monks riding giant turtles and whatnot, so if people are interested they should e-mail me as part of a survey."
The Artist Overwhelmed (Flash media, 4.7MB)
The next Flash piece due, and already hotly anticipated, is Lord Whimsy's presentation for the eunuch-friendly supermadrigal "Bantam Boys". All seems to be progressing well on that front: in a recent e mail, Whimsy told me "I've recently turned you into a calligraphic deep sea micro-organism. Hope you don't mind."
Speaking of Whimsy, art lovers will be delighted to hear that our very own "affected provincial" is featured in an article in the current edition of Frieze magazine, the Slow Issue. (Those desperate to read the article, about intellectual whimsy, might like to cast a glance at The Importance of Being Earnest.) I also spoke about him as an example of "successful self-mediation" during a radio interview I did for BBC Ulster's Arts Review programme yesterday, so perhaps Whimsy can expect to tread red carpet on his next visit to Belfast.
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wow...
Date: 2005-07-28 01:50 am (UTC)The flash piece is beautiful...and is strange because I was thinking of the greek statues before I even watched it. I agree that the tree is lovely, but I find the clouds moving between forground and background utterly enchanting as well.
Re: wow...
Date: 2005-07-28 02:37 am (UTC)Re: wow...
Date: 2005-07-28 02:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 04:02 am (UTC)hmm...
Date: 2005-07-28 05:44 am (UTC)i do like the green tree.
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Date: 2005-07-28 06:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 07:35 am (UTC)http://www.dandyism.net/thediabolicalmon.html
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Date: 2005-07-28 08:08 am (UTC)anyway, i like what i'm doing and that's a good omen i think.
the only thing that scares me is the final size of the video, but we'll see.
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Date: 2005-07-28 09:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 09:15 am (UTC)Momus, you are the rare creature that inspires most of your fans to go out and start bands and flock to galleries. Though you may never appeal to the majority of the masses (though occasionally appealling to sections of them), you attract fellow creatives like flies to honey.
And wherever creatives "gather" on the internet, cynics also gather to try to dampen the creatives' surreal nature, particularly yours, being the bandleader so to speak. I think you are brilliant for allowing the "anonymouses" to post at all.
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Date: 2005-07-28 10:15 am (UTC)Thank you for the judicious phrasing there!
I think you are brilliant for allowing the "anonymouses" to post at all.
Oh, no question of disabling Anon posting. The spiteful ones make me chuckle most of the time and there are many great and positive Anon posts which educate me.
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Date: 2005-07-28 10:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 12:25 pm (UTC)Re: The Artist Overwhelmed
Date: 2005-07-28 12:26 pm (UTC)Anyway, on a tech note, the clip is a bit snippy and discontinuous. Flash is a great animation tool but has a problem rendering a lot of information especially in full screen mode, so it's recomended to make it in a smaller resolution (even then it renders not smoothly).
Momus, If you'd like I can make it into a movie (AVI MPG or even MOV for you trendy Mac people) which is a good solution. It will do it more justice. Leave an e-mail where I can send it to, in case you're interested.
max
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:29 pm (UTC)Should it be in an archive - or is it yet to go on air?
If so, do you know when?
barry cullen
dodgy stereo
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 12:33 pm (UTC)Re: The Artist Overwhelmed
Date: 2005-07-28 12:35 pm (UTC)The Flash works fine on my iBook, though!
Re: Belfast
Date: 2005-07-28 12:40 pm (UTC)*sniff* It's like a little bit of my childhood disappearing..
Where's Mollie Weir
Date: 2005-07-28 12:58 pm (UTC)Re: Where's Mollie Weir
Date: 2005-07-28 01:16 pm (UTC)friends in low places etc
Date: 2005-07-28 01:19 pm (UTC)On a cultural tangent relating to my home town, the Momus radio link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/ulster/aod.shtml?ulster/artsx_wed
barry c
dodgy stereo
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Date: 2005-07-28 01:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 01:36 pm (UTC)Re: The Artist Overwhelmed
Date: 2005-07-28 01:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 03:10 pm (UTC)Really really nice!
Date: 2005-07-28 03:33 pm (UTC)When is the kind and sensitive Whimsy expecting to be finished with his?
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Date: 2005-07-28 04:09 pm (UTC)I'm currently doing a GCSE Art project that you're the subject of, (it's a long story but basically it's an interior design project where we pick someone famous/well known, design a room for them and make a model of it) and I tried emailing you on the momus@t-online.de email address I found on the momus website but it wouldn't work. I was wondering if you'd answer one or two simple questions for me to help me with my project?
Thanks!
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Date: 2005-07-28 04:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 04:23 pm (UTC)*snort* Could've sworn you said "Though occasionally appalling"...
Re: friends in low places etc
Date: 2005-07-28 05:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 08:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-28 08:30 pm (UTC)Re: friends in low places etc
Date: 2005-07-28 10:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-29 12:26 am (UTC)I tend to work in fits and starts on these projects, so it's hard to say when it will get done, but get done it shall. Educated guess is in a couple weeks, but it may be sooner or later than that.
Thank you for the kind mention, Nick--would love to hear the program. I'll check in on the BBC Ulster website.
W
Random question
Date: 2005-07-29 02:27 am (UTC)Re: Random question
Date: 2005-07-29 06:53 am (UTC)Flash animation...
Date: 2005-07-30 02:47 pm (UTC)Momus, listing to "Your Fat Friend" made me want to ask you what you think (if anything) of Morrissey's "You're the One for Me, Fatty"? And on that topic, years ago you said "[Morrissey] is always searching for his sexual nemesis". I've wanted to ask for a while if that was simply based on his lyrics, or did other things inform that statement?
Re: Flash animation...
Date: 2005-07-30 05:05 pm (UTC)I think the "nemesis" comment was probably just a reference to Morrissey's songs and sleeve imagery, the suedehead, delinquent teen fetish he refers to, a proclivity his erstwhile record label Rough Trade named itself after.
Re: Flash animation...
Date: 2005-07-30 06:00 pm (UTC). I think it's part of a genre which calls the bluff of a certain strand of political correctness which, under the banner of sensitivity, draws a veil over problematical and sensitive issues.
What other good songs fit this "subgenre"?
Great blog. Too bad about the jealous types, but you probably wouldn't have it any other way.
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Date: 2005-08-02 01:25 pm (UTC)W
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