Wilderness Trouble / Crab Fu
Today on Boing Boing tv, two pieces of nature-themed video art. First, an excerpt from WILDERNESS TROUBLE, produced by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir of the ecology, art, and technology collective EcoArtTech:
[This work was] inspired by William Cronon's article, "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature," which argues that the concept of wilderness is a historical and cultural construct and relying on it as the basis of environmental ethics fails to imagine new, healthy, and sustainable relationships between humans and the environments they actually inhabit.Next, CRAB FU, an animated short by I-Wei Huang (crabfu.com). No crustaceans were harmed, we promise.
Editor's note: This BBtv episode is sponsored by Dell's regeneration.org project -- but purely by coincidence, a Dell PDA appears in the opening sequence of "Wilderness Trouble." This is not product placement or advertorial. EcoArtTech produced this film in 2007, and the air date of this excerpt was not planned to coincide with the sponsorship campaign.
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...oh, the clip? Nice, too. The pulsing image around the 1:15 mark reminded me of Ken Jacobs' Nervous Lantern "filmmaking" technique. (Quotes because said technique involves no film, created realtime in projector.)
Isn't "Crab Fu" also the name of a steampunk modelmaker? Or is it just a special down at Hunan Palace? Fun animation either way. Now let's see it throw down with a Tai Kwon Do lobster.
lovely clip, why are the young lady's nipples blurred out? Who did this? Why?
Doctor Zoidberg !
in the book 1491, a summarization of the last fifty or so years worth of new knowledge of what the Americas were like prior the European colonization (hint, you probably don't know 99% of it and it contradicts most of what you think about the place/time), the myth that America was a vast wilderness and that the natives lived in some sort of spiritual harmony with the land is pretty thoroughly debunked. It's incredibly good reading, check it out.
1) To bad there are no new Axim PDAs from Dell :(
2) Boo to the blurring!
3) Love the eye regeneration => happy ending!
What, no cleavage from Xeni? Buried.
Now’s the time on Sprockets when we dance.
Wigglypricks, do you think anyone believes you'd be so brazen to Xeni were you to meet her in person? Because I have a feeling you would stammer like a little boy, emasculated by a young woman with more going for her by this point than you would in five lifetimes. As I said in the Greasemonkey post's comments, put your flaccid cocktail weiner back in your pants, numbnuts; no one's impressed.
#1- Yeah, Crab-Fu is the name of a steampunk modelmaker. His real name is I-Wei Huang (crabfu.com) and he is also, apparently, an animator. ;)
lovley clip, great woman Yeah! It was bluring but is happy end so is great :)