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EPILEPSIKA REVELATIO
CHRISTIAN ZANOTTO - 2010 - 3d and digital animation
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Featured at:
GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART
Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery
Athens, Georgia, USA
29/02 -- 18/03 2012
Curator/Curatore : Lynn Boland
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On exhibition:
AsAbaroK
Christian Zanotto's Personal Exhibition
Mostra Personale di Christian Zanotto
20/04 - 26/05 2012
Red Stamp Art Gallery, Amsterdam
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EPILEPSIKA REVELATIO
The video brings us through a travel across an universe of
inner nature ; like a threshold which has been unclosed on an usually
hidden world, its images allow us to catch a foreshortening
of a psycho-philosofical reality, omnipresent and living.
The viewer is confronted with luminous figures emerging from the darkness
of a broad and quite never explored conscience, manifesting themselves
to activate a sort of electric and revealing contact.
A religious-like iconography : the characters resemble icons used
in past times by men for their religion, religion here analyzed in its aspect of
machinery built by means of all the fears,the hopes and the
will to understand the things of the world and control it.
A philosofical and artistic investigation : "..I feel more like ..an entity..";
"..help me,..I'm lost..";
"..are you speaking about..eternity..?";
"I can save myself".
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"...Wrapped in a din of music, of lights, of noise, of words, of colour, images on Christian Zanotto's videos flow, among imaginary myticism, multimedia, sensual eros and unconscious thought. The mirror is not only the support, the 'place' of art, but first of all it is the portrait of our time, concentrated more and more on the physical aspect of flesh and bone protected by the smooth skin of superficiality..."
from: Alberto Mattia Martini, "Between mistery and free will", Catalogue of the exhibition" God O' Clock -- Horlogerie Exquise -- God Is Wearing A Rolex", 2011EPILEPSIKA REVELATIO
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CRYPTOZOOLOGY & MYTHICAL BEASTS
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"I personally think Goat Man is the creepiest but #3 the cute pink Canvey Island Monster doesn’t seem too creepy"
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Horror legend John Carpenter has signed on to direct comic book adaptation Darkchylde.
Undeterred after The Ward, his first feature directing gig in almost a decade, was panned by critics, the Halloween man has taken the reins on the hit ‘90s series written by Randy Queen.
http://www.moviesreviews2010.com/john-carpenter-giving-birth-to-darkchylde/Horror legend John Carpenter has signed on to direct comic book adaptation Darkchylde.... more
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Some people think it’s one of the weirdest books ever published. An art book unlike any other art book. A unique and disturbing surreal parody. Grotesque and beautiful. It’s very hard to describe. Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini is a window on a bizarre fantasy world complete with its own unique (unreadable) alphabet and numerous illustrations that borrow from the modern age but veer into the extremely unusual. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/section-blog/1223-codex-seraphinianusSome people think it’s one of the weirdest books ever published. An art book... more
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Life underwater is immensely diverse, with many beautiful and unusual creatures. Here are some of the most unique creatures found in the oceans, rivers, and lakes of the world. http://www.grabi.co.cc/index.php/magazin/85/29458Life underwater is immensely diverse, with many beautiful and unusual creatures. Here... more
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Fighting Owl Films, a rapidly emerging independent film production group in Mobile, Alabama, announced the completion of principal photography on the Thomas Smith-directed supernatural-adventure-comedy The Night Shift, starring Khristian Fulmer, Erin Lilley, Soren Odom and Jonathan Pruitt. Shot locally, the film utilized talent, locations and crew from within the community. The film will now enter post-production for completion and is currently seeking distribution.
"The Night Shift is a supernatural-adventure-comedy about Rue Morgan, the undead night watchman at Pinewood Oaks Cemetery. Rue, along with his buddy Herb, a limbless corpse, spends his nights trying to keep the cemetery’s cantankerous residents in, and his days dreaming of a date with hard-nosed day-shifter, Claire. It’s an okay afterlife until a scourge of supernatural occurrences leaves Rue not only watching the cemetery, but also watching his back!"
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20760Fighting Owl Films, a rapidly emerging independent film production group in Mobile,... more
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“Animals” is a wickedly comical animated short film by Kristofer Ström, created for Minilogue’s music video, “Animals.” Minilogue’s music is self-described as Swedish Post-House/Techno, leaving behind the boundaries of those genres, and actually all previous musical genres. The magical little creature-animals serve as the musical front for the band, or rather as its visual front of imaginary, enchanting creatures. And a very strange and goofy ensemble of cavorting little creatures they are!
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as two enchantingly zany animated shorts.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/the-towns-been-invaded-by-mystical-imaginary-little-creatures/“Animals” is a wickedly comical animated short film by Kristofer... more
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Connett is an introspective artist who offers a sincere look into life’s circumstance while creating an equidistant world made up of micro organisms, fear and beauty. He is fascinated by the worlds that exist beyond our immediate field of vision and have an abiding interest in the flora and fauna that occupy the space within these tiny worlds... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/section-table/345-mad-creatures-by-robert-steven-connettConnett is an introspective artist who offers a sincere look into life’s... more
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I use the internet professionally. That is, I receive payment and benefits for surfing the web, and then talking about it. I thought I should draw from my expertise to talk about this soon-to-become viral video Greenscreen Grandmas.
Right now this video has 6,468 views. Hardly viral at this moment, but you can expect hundreds-of-thousands of hits.
The video was uploaded to youtube on December 19th by TheBchismar. It was then added to Joanne Casey's blog today, December 28th at 7am GMT. This was picked up by The Daily What as part of their Early Bird Special. All of these factors would bring relative success to this video, but through the miracle of RSS readers, it was picked up by bigger fish. At 2pm EST Gizmodo added this video. It has also appeared on Holy Taco, College Humor, and Buzzfeed.
So even though it has meager views at this moment, by the end of the week, I suspect that this will be a viral sensation.
The content of this video is ripe for mass distribution.
Cute
Safe For Work
Older people
Play
Potential to become an internet meme.
In our society we have two archetype of old people: the creepy and the cute. We fear that creepy aged person, that old man in Home Alone, because they are close to death, and death scares us. The cute old person by contrast reminds us of the nurturing we received from our grandparents. That infant love we had towards older people, has stayed with us through maturity. (I'm no Freudian so don't quote me on that.)
Cuteness is often a factor in viral videos and memes. I explicated on this idea a few months ago.
This video is Safe For Work. Sometimes I forget that people find things offensive. Offensive videos are able to gain traction across our liberal side of the internet, but they don't have universal appeal. The way you do that is by creating a video without any questionable material. JK Wedding Entrance Dance is a great example of this. There is nothing offensive about it (less the Chris Brown song, which many rubes overlook) and it now has over 36 million hits.
Greenscreen Grandmas is the type of video you can send to anyone. Including your own grandparents.
And older people use the internet too! In July, iStrategy Labs published a report that in the previous six months: "there has been a staggering increase in the number of 55+ users – with total growth of 513.7%." Retirees might enjoy the things the non-Coco's-eating set like, but they probably also want to see content about themselves. I'm sure my grandmother would love this video because she likes having fun with her friends.
Furthermore this video as an example of people playing. They are just goofin', and there is something really fun about that. Play is that act of enjoyment. It's great when we are able to do it ourselves, but we get a similar sensation when we engage in play virtually, in this case through these Greenscreen Grandmas.
These previous concepts ensure that this video, is highly transmittable. A highly transmittable video or idea becomes a meme, if it is widely imitated, but still retains an identifiable relationship to the original. The internet meme of the year was Keyboard Cat, which spawned countless variations, but each of these still referred to the original.
Greenscreen Grandmas has potential to be parodied, re-enacted, remixed, mashed-up (with another meme) or referenced. I'm not sure that this video will become a meme, but others videos with similar content have. The JK Wedding Entrance Dance has been parodied online, as well as recuperated by mass media on NBC's The Office. (Grandmas is not on as grand of a scale, as JK so it's less likely to be imitated by television.)
I think these factors will contribute to this video's success on the internet. Popularity, however is not a precondition for quality. I don't like this video very much, or that it has such mass appeal. As an expert on the subject, I need to look at this video in the context of the rest of current internet content. And the direction entertainment is traveling at the end of the first decade of this millennium is disappointing.
Imagine that a group of intelligent beings light years away pickup a radio signal from an early 1900s broadcast of Hamlet. They pick up the signal and say "WOW OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE FORMS EXIST IN THE UNIVERSE!"They are so excited that they come to our planet, and discover that we've been wiped out by global warming. All that's left is the entertainment that we most recently enjoyed.
Videos of sleepwalking dogs, people blowing up trashcans, and elderly women pretending to be on roller-coasters. These aliens will be disappointed that our society, which had so much potential, had squandered it and reduced themselves to idiots.
Luckily we don't have to be worried what aliens think of us. We can continue to watch viral videos forever. Or at least until we are inevitably tricked and subsequently destroyed by a very cute surprised kitty.I use the internet professionally. That is, I receive payment and benefits for surfing... more
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If you’re tired of the predictability of traditional museums or have an interest in the mysterious and unexplained, you might want to check out Loren Coleman’s International Cryptozoology Museum. Coleman is a cryptozoologist, meaning he studies hidden, unknown or unusual animals, some of which may or may not truly exist or could even be extinct. These animals tend to lurk in mythology, urban legends and folklore, and include such familiar beasts as Bigfoot, Yeti, Nessie and the Jersey Devil, just to name a few. If Coleman’s name sounds vaguely familiar, you may have seen it on the covers of the many crypto-centered books he’s written or perhaps you’ve seen the man himself on television programs and documentaries dealing with the subject, such as the History Channel’s MonsterQuest. Coleman also keeps a blog, Cryptomundo, where he posts news from the field and gives thoughtful, open-minded, scientific breakdowns and analyses of the latest evidence and sightings from around the globe.
Read more: http://www.whitespace.bz/ws/web/forms/pulse/PulseMainArticle.aspx?id=403If you’re tired of the predictability of traditional museums or have an interest... more
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ROTTEN TOMATOES
For centuries, monster legends have romped over geographic boundaries to permeate folklore stories around the globe. And for decades, ever since Universal first began creating monster flicks in 1923 and subsequently introduced the concept of the horror franchise, movies have made a select few of these monsters legendary through their birth and occasional resurrection on screen. With The Wolfman making his hairy return to theaters on February 12, we at RT thought it was time to recognize the journey that a few of the most iconic and classic Universal Monsters that have made over the years to blaze a path in not only cinema, but popular culture, breakfast tables, and beyond.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1194949-wolfman/news/1865794/meet_the_universal_monsters_starting_lineup
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This list of creatures are amazing in the rarity or size of the creatures. Also contains some creatures newly discovered.This list of creatures are amazing in the rarity or size of the creatures. Also... more
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Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
What is the biggest lie you've ever told ?
The Thames skyline.
There's a huge spider next to my bed.
Trying to claim money for producing your own electricity in the UK is made very difficult.
Sat in front of a lake.
Do we need someone to "open" the new studio ?
"The Absolute Peach" http://www.theabsolutepeach.com
South Hill Park.
Where are the ducks ?
Seagulls.
A little fold up stool.
Is it my fat bum ?
"The Elves of Iceland" continued.
A silhouette.
How do you sit there for an hour ?
I woke up very early.
3 times every 10 minutes.
Send in your pictures for the big screen.
On line forms.
Where has the French autoroute gone ?
More on train fares.
Mark has trouble with the neighbours loud music.
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AlexCF makes some truly fantastic yet twisted and bizarre creations. A professional cryptozoological pseudo-scientific assemblage artist and illustrator, Alex’s work ranges from Lycanthrope lab specimen and infant plesiosaurus to ancient vampire hunting kits and the Cheshire Cat.AlexCF makes some truly fantastic yet twisted and bizarre creations. A professional... more
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Link to Article: http://linkbee.com/HobbitInQatar
A woman in Qatar snapped a photo of a creature in a parking lot whom many witnesses also claim to have seen. Could it be a living relative of the Hobbit fossils found recently?
Continue Reading about the found hobbit: http://linkbee.com/HobbitInQatarLink to Article: http://linkbee.com/HobbitInQatar
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It's taken the staff at Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall quite a while to figure out what's at the bottom of all the mysterious attacks on the precious coral reef in one of their tanks, but finally they've figured it out. It's Barry, the giant sea worm.
See as friendly as Barry sounds, he's not. He's a four foot long slimy sea worm who's “covered with nasty bristles that sting and can cause permanent numbness in humans,” who's also responsible for injuring a Tang Fish.
In a bid to catch him the aquarium's staff laid traps, but Barry just munched his way through the traps during the night. So as a final resort the staff decided to dismantle the tank piece by piece, and in doing that eventually found Barry, who after chomping through some 20lb fishing line, and not falling for the fish scraps used to try and entice him out from his rocks, was eventually captured.It's taken the staff at Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall quite a... more
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In March of 1999, a man reported a strange occurrence in northern
California. He was driving up Interstate 5 to visit friends in Oregon,
and around 10:00 p.m., he took an exit off the highway to see if he
could find a place to get some dinner. When he couldn't find a
restaurant, he decided to pull onto the side of the road and make do
with some snacks he had in the car. After he ate, he dozed off, and was
soon awakened by a loud thump. When he got out to investigate, he found
a good-sized rock on the hood of his car. He got back behind the wheel,
started the car up and turned on the headlights. In the beams, he saw
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8-foot-tall creature covered in thick, dark hair. The creature watched him for a minute, turned in the road and walked slowly off into the woods.In March of 1999, a man reported a strange occurrence in northern... more
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The jelly-fish like creature turritopsis nutricula can rejuvenate itself over and over again, and so is, in effect, immortal.The jelly-fish like creature turritopsis nutricula can rejuvenate itself over and over... more
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Here's my CINEFANTASTIQUE ONLINE interview with director Toby Wilkins about his tidy little there's-something-trying-to-get-us horror film, SPLINTER.Here's my CINEFANTASTIQUE ONLINE interview with director Toby Wilkins about his... more
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