Comments on: 12 Glowing Men

By: jonny

jonny — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:46:53 +0000

I’m with Cliff on this. it’s simple and effective. I like it. It’s obviously Starglow, but so what? it’s just a tool and it’s there for artists to use it. and there’s nothing wrong being lowbrow. I just hate people pointing out some geek design tricks in artwork and think they are good.

focus on the meaning, kids. not the technique.

By: Optical

Optical — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:05:34 +0000

Sorry, but no. You want to see clever, artful massaging of appropriated, old material? How about that ‘Alice’ video by Pogo?

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:03:23 +0000

Hear hear, Cliff!

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:03:11 +0000

Ahhh….now I see. Thanks

By: Cliff Kuang

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:18:12 +0000

Tony, you’re a grade-A putz. Making something really nice isn’t about who’s got the bigger dick with FX techniques. If that’s what you’re into, go read a design blog. I bet you love Kitsune Noir or Coolhunter. They (like you) are interested in techno tweaks for the sake of the technology itself. Real art doesn’t have to live in that space.

This piece is about being “lowbrow”, as you say: simple, and straightforward, and introducing a bit of jokey transcendence to a musty old piece of well-worn film. It’s a good piece of appropriation/web art.

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By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:53:22 +0000

What’s the big deal with this video? Maybe I’m missing something but from what I can make out the ‘artist’ just slapped the default settings for the After Effects plugin ‘trapcode starglow’ (http://www.trapcode.com/products_starglow.html) over this scene and rendered it out…….the whole thing seems kinda lowbrow and half arsed. Getting excited about something like this is like blowing your load over a lens flare or drop shadow. What happened to ‘art’ that pushed the medium or at least experimented with the given media….I’d be interested to hear his justification for such laziness.