Still plugging away at the apparently endless ( unlike the finances) pile of drawings for the new animations. Also found some time this week to get the next pages of the online comic ready and handled most of the bureaucratic chores which bog down the unrepresented artist.
Some new music for the City of Gears timelapse video. This film shows a day in the life of a street painter following a 3.5 hour, 12 x 12 foot mural. The drawing was made on the corner of Queen Street and Soho , downtown Toronto in 2007. I’ve used various different scores for the presentation of this video but, like the animations, have been struggling a lot with sound issues.
I like this track because it was programmed entirely into an old synthesizer keyboard enabling me to add it to the video without any editing or degenerative interference. With my limited technology, or at least limited knowledge there of, I can’t seem to get a professional sounding recording consisting of more than one track.
This loop was created for my animation reel which will be featured at this years Nuit Blanche festival. It worked so I thought to add it to this video as well. Sort of a theme song, but really it’s the only clean recording I have right now. There will be more. Music by Narsen Osutei, Mark vanZyl, and me.
HEY APATHY! is an ongoing artistic investigation into people, monsters the metropolis and the mechanics of being. In the earliest artworks the city is announced as a giant gear propelled by an endlesss sea of anonymous denizens. Since that time I have experimented with an increasingly public artist's process involving , giant wall murals, outdoor festival performances and street art interventions. As a result I have talked to thousands of people from all over the world and of all walks of life. Today the artworks still describe the city as an ominous gear, only now it is all the strange and unique individuals, not faceless cogs, who fuel the machine. HEY APATHY! has been featured at the A.G.O., the storefront of the Hudson's Bay Co.,and won various awards and honors from the Canadian Council for the Arts, the Ontario Art's Council, and the Ontario College of Art and Design.
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