‘Welcome to the Hellmouth’… Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch
Hey guys… in honor of Joss Whedon’s upcoming new movie, over the next year, I’ll be doing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer rewatch for Boxfire Press and the Lowercase. We’ll start tomorrow (Monday 3/5/12) with Welcome to the Hellmouth and at the moment, I’m planning two to three episodes a week… though I could do like two or three a day!
Anyway, I hope you’ll be watching along with me. If you don’t have the DVDs, the entire show is available for streaming on Netflix. Like or reblog to let me know if you plan to watch along! We’ll be adding Facebook comments in the next 24 hours so you can participate in the discussions.
Go!
The first trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter hit the web this morning. Looks. Pretty. Amazing.
BODY TALK
How one artist transforms the human shape.
Whether it’s an extra toe or an uberlong arm, mutations are a visual paradox: horrifying and mesmerizing at the same time. That paradox is where artist Lucy McRae lives. A self-described body architect, she creates add-on structures that function as mutations to the human form. Her work is creepy and it makes you a little queasy, but you can’t look away—kinda like an episode of The Jersey Shore.
“The human body inspires me, but so does the thought of how the human body is evolving and can be re-shaped,” she says. One project, a skin-crawling collaboration with fellow artist Bart Hess, is a series of photographs of people growing fur, sprouting quills, and turning from solid to gelatinous. A more high-profile transformation and one of McRae’s favorites was the living, liquid skin made of plastic tubes and powered by drills that she wrapped around European mega-pop artist Robyn for a music video.
McRae insists, though, that she’s not trying to make any clever statements about the body. She says her work— beautiful, disturbing and captivating — is really about forging alternate worlds and “future human archetypes.” She likes to start with a single material or idea and push the piece to its extremes, letting it evolve moment-by-moment until she has something that resonates; she relies on instinct and emotion.
“I think that’s what makes the result provocative and living,” she says.
Her last solo show was this past July at Australia’s annual State of Design festival in Melbourne, where they featured works under the theme of “design that moves.” We’re betting McRae took that literally. You can catch her newest work, though at swallowableparfum.com, a Web site for a company that produces perfume that you, well, swallow. McCrae created their current video campaign.
—Justin McLachlan
Justin McLachlan tells us how long it took him to write the first draft of Time Up, and how long it took to edit.
Source: youtu.be
