molotov man and a rough theater

where to begin...well i'll start with the rough theater. after the initial reading i was a little confused as to what the hell was being discussed. theater. got it. i read it again and it clicked and i found the article humorous because it is honest. theaters can be formed from anything. whether in the backyard of a neighbor's house or in a carmike, the sources for entertainment can be found anywhere, but often times it is the creative ideas the spark our imaginations that make for the best entertainment. for example, i thought back to when i was a kid and i would make videos with my cousin and we would use all sorts of household items and pretend that they were something else. the audience (our parents) would always enjoy our films because of what we came up with, what our imaginations could produce. i couldn't help but think back to this time while reading 'the rough theater'. i think as we grow up our imagination becomes grounded and we look at such ideas as silly and pointless. in this light we lose the fruits of our childhood and we become little machines who walk through life with glazed eyes going to see the same predictable films over and over. it almost seems like films today grab our imaginations by the balls and they take it away from you.

For the other article, 'Molotov Man' this article was relatable in the fashion that copyright shit always tries to get in the way of creation. i personally love parody films (not epic movie, more like Blazing Saddles) and its something that i hope to create one day (again not epic movie). But if i made a parody film with no rights i would get sued like whoa! which sucks because despite how creative your idea may be you have nitpick around these little things that could get in your way. Another aspect of the article that i liked was how we tend to decontextualize pictures and other forms of art. we don't consider what was happening at the exact time, only that it represents something bigger. people loved this image of the man but no one really asked what was happening. we do that with films, as well. for example, i recently watched the documentary on wattstax. i personally hated the film. but given the context in which it was set, i had to appreciate what they were trying to do. so in that since i understand how we can decontextulize art/media.

Doot Doot by Freur

What a band. So after watching another film scratch junkies film I'm still a bit dumbfounded by how busy their film St. Louise is. It's like looking at a chemical equation and balancing everything out. I know how to do, but looking at it all at once confuses the shit out of me. I use the chemical equation as an example because CO2 is flashed in this film. Ok, having some knowledge of this medium now, I am able to possibly find the makings of this project. Well the film strips are painted with what i'm thinking is mixed with magazine transfer. One aspect of this film is how they use phrases horizontally, not vertically. What i mean here is that you can read what it says left to right/right to left so it appears that words are moving in and out of the frame. This seems challenging and something I would like to try in the future to see if i could keep that sort of flow like film scratch junkies does so suave.

There is one piece of this puzzle that i can quite put my thumb on. That piece is the animation done with white lines. The only guess i could make would be...yea i can't think of anything. My only guess would be drawing with a white and black marker? Perhaps? Might ask about that tomorrow cause it is bothering me. At one point there is a truck and a boat that move back and forth across screen. My only guess to that is that they are stickers? I'm so bad at trying to figure this stuff out. This stuff still blows my mind. Even in class watching other projects I was fascinated by what i was watching. I myself just guess on what things will look like, and guessing how other people's films were made is like shooting in the dark. This is all still challenging for me to figure out what one form of film manipulation will look like versus another. It is manipulating my mind as well.