Seven-year-old goes on joyride

care of Amado

Paint it Black

COOPER put out a book available to all for free as a downloadable PDF
Just click below:
Paint it Black

You are promised to find within the unauthorized use of imagery representing space-exploration, costumes, murals in restaurants, movie fandom, nudity, bondage, bondage gear, fire, bleeding, cartoons, self-mutilation, governments fighting dirty, machinery, death ceremonies, vehicles, ice fishing, architecture, miniatures, robotics, portraiture, doodles, american justice, 80s references, drug use, toys, instruments, ecological disasters

and other found objects (or at least imagery of found objects).

Bon Qui Qui Working at King Burger

Thanks to Jiae for sending it to me

ZHANTRA mysteries solved!

I found a pic of how those Table-dresses that were sitting in the hall were used!


I want one.

heaven sent in miami

hehe, an old team mate of mine sent this to me today!
near the end you'll see that i'm the body double for the whitest girl.

Freegums got kidnapped

Alvaro's having a show soon.
look at his freegums jacket shirt under the guy's jacket

Vote for videos to be shown @ GETTY Museum!

The Getty Museum is doing an ancillary online exhibition to their "California Video" show. DREAM(land) is honored that all of the video artists in the show have been chosen for this online exhibit. If the video artists get enough votes they will be included in a special screening at the Getty's "Fridays Off the 405" event.

go to www.videorevolutionaries.com and vote daily for:

"Seven Sisters" by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
"Aperture" by Jiae Hwang and Nicholas C. Raftis III
"Flue mask" by Jim Roche
"The Gang's All Here" by TM Sisters

Carla D'Alessio made it

Italian born photographer Carla D'Alessio has a website for
her photo works that I just found
!

Full Circle

So this studio blog has come full circle... the first video posted on here was of Sony's bouncy ball commercial... now the commercial came to our street and hood!

Our White in the Season

Foaming City

They only bring out the cops to downtown when things like this happen

More Foam

Sony Foam Video Shoot on Our Studio Street!

So for a few days this past week Sony has been filling the street that our studio is on (and some surrounding ones) with foam for a commercial. Huge swirling puffs!
My brother, Sam, shot this with his phone.

Art in America this month reviews "Things Will End Before They Start"

TM Sisters section of PERFORMA 07 review in Art in America magazine

Another Stop

Short video by Tony Kapel

What Now What Next

Book by Miami filmmaker, artist, and writer Tony Kapel just released this week!
I am reading it now. It is mostly a bunch of short adventurous stories in random order taken from the young Kendall and present life of Jason (who is really Tony). The author claims that some are true and others are not, but I'd like to imagine that they all really happened for the spiciness of it. The layout is scattered and fits the excitement of what's being said - typos and all. There are also some artwork images by Mr. Kapel scattered throughout.

Available at Sweat Records and online at Lulu

Dog Bite

I was about to put another video but I can't help myself and you must see this dog's owner.

Rainbow Dance

This is one of my favorite experimental animations on film by the New Zealander Len Lye. He's known for his scratched-out-emulsion films but in this one he has a dancer in it that became colors as shapes and more colors were added all around. It was done in 1936 which makes it all that much more impressive than it already is to me.

Snoop Dogg's Sensual seduction

My favorite song and video duo right now.

Short Article about our Studio

Miami.com (Miami Herald spin-off) features some artist studios:

I'm not sure why they called us the "Up & Comers" collective since it's the first I've heard of that title... but the article gives a semi-description of what it's like to be in our shared studio in downtown Miami.

*Click on picture for article*