check em out tell me what you think.
Clay and Water
A city of obsidian
Spirit of Destruction
Memories and blindness
Art is not real
Anyone can do anything
Nobody can't do nothing
27.11.10
Inspiring New Film Work
I know how you feel. Everything you see feels like mindless programming. The more you watch the more you feel that the part of you that asks questions is being suppressed. So do what I did. Stop paying for cable and stick to all the crap you find on the internet. Here are just couple of the amazing, innovative, thought-provoking, and enriching media that can be found on Vimeo.
22.11.10
New Animation Work
All new fall two thousand and ten.
First one is a short sound based animation.
One week was taken for idea development and drafting.
One week for drawing, editing and sound recordings.
Sound is sourced from my own voice as well as a robotic one
The title is UNTITLED
Second is a pixilation project I have been working on.
This one is based on a three word haiku.
supernatural
superficiality
similarity
Over 3,000 stills were captured
Here is a preview of Tindle-Ut
7.11.10
Do Let Inside Next Two The Upper Lost Everything
This is my new work in progress. This is at the animatic stage. I flash "sketch" illustrates the aesthetic that will be develop in real world applications.
read this after viewing
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HELLO AND WELCOME TO MY ANIMATION. I HAVE CREATED THIS AND EVERYTHING IS INSIDE, AROUND, BEHIND, AFTER THIS POINT ON. FIRST AND FOREMOST I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO STOP READING THIS FAST MOVING TEXT. IT IS ALL AVAILIBLE ONLINE AND CAN BE READ AT YOUR LEISURE. THE REAL INTENT IS FOR YOU TO FORGET ABOUT THIS AND LOOK AT THE RAPID SUCCESION OF FAST MOVING IMAGES. ONE AFTER ANOTHER THEY FADE AND SWAY. FORGET ABOUT THE PAST. FORGET ABOUT YOUR BREAKFAST. FORGET ABOUT THE STORE. FORGET ABOUT FATHER SISTER AUNT BROTHER COUSIN SON NEICE DAUGHTER MOTHER HAND ME THE AX. HAND ME THE ACTS I, IV, AND ACT X. AFTER YOU ARE THROUGH. WE WILL TALK TOGETHER. IN YOUR MEMORIES AND IN YOUR SLEEP. MY VISION WILL BE YOURS. I WILL LIVE THROUGH YOU FOREVER JUST I AM THE ENERGY YOU EMINATE. YOU TAUGHT ME SO MUCH IN SO LITTLE TIME. YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO: LISTEN TO THE STREET, DANCE LIKE EVERYONE IS LOOKING, MIRROR MY DAY AROUND MY SHADOW. THERE IS NO CONCLUSION IN LIFE.
3.6.10
27.5.10
27.1.10
The AntiPainting Film
The Anti-Painting Film from Jak Ritger on Vimeo.
I am an experimental artist. The term experimental gets thrown around so much that it has lost almost all meaning. It is used now to describe anything artistic that is not rooted in years of tradition. The fact of the matter is that experimentation is the core action that drives artistic practice forward. Unfortunately artist have used to idea of experimentation without realizing its true worth.
If we remember back to grade school, the first science class went into to great detail explaining the sceintific process. The reason for this was that while experiments are fun they are quite useless if one does not take careful notes and form a hypothesis. This outcome is then fed through the system again in order to further distill the information.
I have applied this same system to artmaking in hopes of creating a truly experimental piece of work.
I started with a question: How does one create the antithesis to painting
I then did research to concretely define painting:
painting is
resolute
tangible
full statement
3d with a 4d space created by viewer
I then constructed a hypothesis:
If I create that which contains the opposites of the words that define painting then I will have created an antipainting.
I then carried out an experiment to test this hypothesis:
The antipainting will be
fluid, fleeting, and ephemeral
intangible
without statement
2d with 4d created by a machine
The result is the film above.
My conclusion is that my AntiPainting works in the sense that it is what it is. But many things can be the opposite of painting and be no better or worse than mine. The work is in the mind of the viewer. How does a person react and use this idea in there own work. It is up to you to create the next experiment.
19.12.09
Thinking in the Fourth Dimension
Sunglaze from Jak Ritger on Vimeo.
Thinking in the fourth dimension is actually a moronic thing to say because it is impossible for a person to not think about the world in the fourth dimension. We are humans and in order for a human brain to process information we must observe how it changes in time.
Even looking at a freeze frame of life, a photograph, we are letting the image change over the split second that the image is new to us. First we focus on the image, then we pick out something that grabs us, then we observe the image as a whole and come to a conclusion about it based on our unique experiences and association habits. That is why photographs are so powerful, because the fourth dimension is constructing a unique experience for our viewers in their mind.
Time and change are the sculptors of our visual world.
Using these intangibles to create and you are animating.
Thinking in 4d is thinking about an object or image becoming incrementally different and what that would look like.
Imagine taking a leaf "taking pictures" coating it in a polymer as to harden it "" printing the plastic on paper "" Tracing the outline "" cutting a stencil of the outline "" spraying the stencil on a wall "" chipping the wall away around stencil "" using charcoal to frottage the texture on paper "" scanning the rubbing into a computer and layering all of the pictures and scans of paper into one image of the history of change of that leaf at that time in that why.
Now do you need to see that image? and if you did would be able to decipher the process? and if you did would if be any more satisfying than thinking about it?
If the answer is no then the art is the process.
My first video post is a hand-drawn loop. I sat down at my lightbox without any idea of what I was going to draw. I doodled two frames then realized a direction.
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