Studio

The Olivettes and Chef Chiapiggy

I’m working on creating a full environment for these characters, including a bar maiden who swings from a chandelier as she shakes a martini.

break

I’m on break, letting myself be minimally productive for a few days.  To mediate any residual guilt, I am going to post a video.

Wedding planning/dress/shoe and seamless underware shopping have taken over at least one week of this vacation.  When I get back to the studio next week, I’m going to bust a move.  Turns out stop-motion is real time consuming.  So….I have a lot to do.   MY next effort is finally animating the Olivettes, which, I hope will make the idea more fleshed out.  I want to create the characters in the lounge where they perform, and have done a few short tests to work out the motion/personality.

I like the idea of creating a shape or costume and having it be intimately related and dictated by the movement of the wearer or character.  Is this a unifying theme for my work here?  Who knows, I need to make more stuff.  ;)

Pre-Crit

Tomorrow I have my last crit of the semester (already!).

Showing a video installation.  Documentation to come.

So I’m presenting a “collection of parts” that are iconic beacons of sexuality, or gender identity: long legs in high heels, a pink floor length gown and long gloves, top hats with spinning ties, and lips.  In all cases I have eliminated all the individual human parts and left the iconic fetishized parts.  And yet.  Yet, it may not be enough?  Are we so desensitized as a culture that people can watch disembodied legs dance on their own accord, think it’s fun and sexy and nothing else…..?  Are we so used to seeing women as a collection of parts that this amputation is not enough?

Training

Wondering how to:

1. get up earlier = get to the studio earlier

2. stay in shape = counteract hours of studio (sedentary) work affect on my body

Also:

I have been thinking (again) about legs (I’m 1 min 50 seconds into Single Ladies….almost done!), and the phenomena of the army of pant-less women (i.e. busby berkley numbers, rockettes, syncronized swimming, this) and how I’m far too small to be a Rockette, and that maybe to remedy this I should make a kickline of Me’s, and that if I were to do that I would need to GET IN SHAPE.  I’m a thin knotted ball of atrophy at the moment, and I’m gonna need to get my groove on to kick higher than my waist.

I think a cloned kickline could solve all my problems?