The Caldonias was a band I was in for about six months. The song Vice Magazine is an anthem about how boring 'punk rock' can be sometimes. This video was shot by Ben Blankenship and edited and directly by yours truly.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Music Videos: FIST FITE
This is a video we made for a Lips and Ribs remix of a song by FIST FITE
This is a tale of soured love. I think both Jonnie and myself might have been blackedout towards the end of shooting this video.
This is a tale of soured love. I think both Jonnie and myself might have been blackedout towards the end of shooting this video.
MOVIEPARTY MOVIEMAGIC STILLS vol 1!!!!
Evil twin serenades from Puppet Confessionals #1.
Baby edgar has 'body issues'
Love is a beautiful thing!
Meet Blake Cedrick!! Very few people have inspired Movieparty so much!!! Here is a still from Puppet Confessionals 2 "get out of my room dad!"
MATCHMAKER SERIES, Vol. 5 and 11
This particular MOVIEPARTY had some serious ups and downs. When I originally started to think about the idea of making fake internet romance commercials
I had a vision of silly fake talking head style confessionals, all similar in style and composure, using only my friends. Then It started to build a life of its own.
I thought it would be amazing if I could actually meet people on the internet for the puppets to make the videos with. I created an account on OK cupid, using pictures of the puppets and
very eloquently stating that I was on the website for an art project and hoping to meet people who would want to share internet love experiences in a confessional style video with a puppet
acting as there partner. I wrote to a few people as well. The girls NEVER responded, the boys did until they realized that this was an actual project and not some kinky puppet sex thing.
After the internet flop, i started taking it to the next level. I would actually go out to bars and pick up people to be in the videos, it kinda wokred a little bit. All I'd like to say is, some of those nights were not my finest moments. *
This video has been shown as one piece. It has also been shown as a one channel installation running as a loop next to a false table of 3D glasses. Here are volumes 5 and 11.
00:09:04
mini dv
©2008-09
*The concept of picking up someone in a bar to be in my videos is not such a new thing. For my final project in Mediaworks I decided to make a video response to Laura Mulvey's
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
(or as I like to call it, Taking back Freud)
Forgive me for paraphrasing, but the essay talkes about the phallocentrism of Hollywood narrative and the lack of female driven plot development, especially those females who were more sexually comodified and objectified (i.e. sex workers.) I decided to protest this theory by going out to bars to pick up drunk dudes to be in my 'mini movies'. I found one guy at the Tube in portland and got him to dress in drag and pretend to be carrie Bradshaw and Snow white.....maybe someday I'll post it but doubt it.
This particular MOVIEPARTY had some serious ups and downs. When I originally started to think about the idea of making fake internet romance commercials
I had a vision of silly fake talking head style confessionals, all similar in style and composure, using only my friends. Then It started to build a life of its own.
I thought it would be amazing if I could actually meet people on the internet for the puppets to make the videos with. I created an account on OK cupid, using pictures of the puppets and
very eloquently stating that I was on the website for an art project and hoping to meet people who would want to share internet love experiences in a confessional style video with a puppet
acting as there partner. I wrote to a few people as well. The girls NEVER responded, the boys did until they realized that this was an actual project and not some kinky puppet sex thing.
After the internet flop, i started taking it to the next level. I would actually go out to bars and pick up people to be in the videos, it kinda wokred a little bit. All I'd like to say is, some of those nights were not my finest moments. *
This video has been shown as one piece. It has also been shown as a one channel installation running as a loop next to a false table of 3D glasses. Here are volumes 5 and 11.
00:09:04
mini dv
©2008-09
*The concept of picking up someone in a bar to be in my videos is not such a new thing. For my final project in Mediaworks I decided to make a video response to Laura Mulvey's
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
(or as I like to call it, Taking back Freud)
Forgive me for paraphrasing, but the essay talkes about the phallocentrism of Hollywood narrative and the lack of female driven plot development, especially those females who were more sexually comodified and objectified (i.e. sex workers.) I decided to protest this theory by going out to bars to pick up drunk dudes to be in my 'mini movies'. I found one guy at the Tube in portland and got him to dress in drag and pretend to be carrie Bradshaw and Snow white.....maybe someday I'll post it but doubt it.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
SHORT SHORTS vol.3
Dear Friends,
Why did you let me get away with wearing wedges from Target in the summer of 2005? I would NEVER do that to you.
Sincerely,
Movieparty
Dear Movieparty,
Probably for the same reason you listened to me whine about my loser ex boyfriend for six months after we broke up.... you just had to!!!
Your Friend,
Friends.
Why did you let me get away with wearing wedges from Target in the summer of 2005? I would NEVER do that to you.
Sincerely,
Movieparty
Dear Movieparty,
Probably for the same reason you listened to me whine about my loser ex boyfriend for six months after we broke up.... you just had to!!!
Your Friend,
Friends.
SHORT SHORTS vol.2
Circa one hour ago: I'm walking to my friend's Allison house, wearing my red Pacific Place kitten heels from the Goodwill. I happened to have a pair of moccasins in my bag for work. I walked past this girl wearing the same moccasins and for some reason I felt the need to judge her.
SHORT SHORTS vol.1
One night I was out at some mediocre show at dunes and I just so happened to be wearing my most FAVORITE Van Halen 1982 tour shirt, minus sleeves. As usual, I had just finished my whiskey which required me to smoke a ciggarette. I stepped outside and the first thing I see was some dude wearing a 1986 Iron Maiden shirt. After staring at it, trying to get a better look at the graphic, I noticed the man behind the shirt noticing me. After about thirty seconds of the most awkward silence ever we simultaneously exclaimed "cool shirt dude."
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