We were going to talk about this early 2012 Calarts student films…. we’ve done our own selection in previous years but we weren’t very inspired by this year’s works. Maybe we should however dedicate a few words to …
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Remembering John Halas
From Budapest and his painting studies along with his first animated steps (firstly influenced by Bauhaus’ leading light Laszlo Moholy-Nagy) to his London studio creation in the mid-30s. Not easy years for a Jewish to travel Europe at …
Music, Meaning and Metaphysics
Los Angeles is a very weird place. If artist and musician Lionel Williams (aka Vinyl Williams) is anything to go by, the people that live there are even weirder. He boasts a visual aesthetic that is a fantasy …
↓ a breeze from mt Parnassus
Our latest animated profile is a Russian spy apparently, who’s managed to infiltrate himself into one of the best American animation schools (Calarts). We’re sure he’ll go back to mother Russia & spread all the info he’s learned upon studies completion next year. Why didn’t American authorities see him come?
Vitaliy Strokous second year film was recently uploaded to Vimeo bringing his chalk drawing talent to the digital world with “an ode to noncomformity”.
one of his street-chalk pieces
An artist to follow over the coming years without ignoring his already excellent previous films…