Pinku Eiga
Japanese dude: Oh hello, can I please have a DVD of locally produced soft porn?
Japanese porn purveyor: There it is man. Over there next to Astro Boy.
Dude: No. It's not.
Japanese porn purveyor: Yeh. It is.
Dude: But there's no pubic hair on the cover! I'm looking for genitals here.
Japanese porn purveyor: You have to imagine the genitals.
Flux Capacitor
Time travel. Not real. Someone really ought to tell the nerds who wrote the Wikipedia entry on Back to the Future. Along with an explanation of how the flux capacitor powers the DeLorean, there's a diagram on there explaining the inter-connected chain of effects of Doc and Marty's eight interventions in the space-time continuum.
Thank god we died together eating a burrito on the bus to Baghdad
Lonely Planet writers have set the precedent for fictional travel writing - who needs to visit a country when the chick you're dating has been there? (His travel guide was probably way better than the usual fact-bogged ones anyway.)
In a natural extension of this logic, nine artists including Dylan Martorell, Nathan Gray, Tai Snaith and Amber Wallis come together for Thank god we died together eating a burrito on the bus to Baghdad, putting a creative spin on what travel means to them.
Interplay
Demystifying the creative process can be a dangerous thing. Sometimes it's nice to think artists are rarefied beings, periodically struck by bone-shaking bolts of inspiration, rather than slobs like the rest of us, makin' stuff in their underwear amongst toast crumbs and fallen armies of takeaway coffee cups.
d.v.d at Aphids Reel Music Festival
Comprised of two human drummers and a visual artist, d.v.d piece together live animations triggered by the musicians' drumming. They push music/gaming boundaries by reworking the ‘80s arcade classic, ‘Pong' (You all know, Pong, yeh?) with their own unique tribute. These guys are just one of the groups performing at the Aphids Reel Music Festival - four nights of live performances combining music with the moving image.
The Forty Thieves, Gorker Gallery launch
Must be killer to be an illustrator because everyone would always be inviting you to be in a group show. "Hey I'm putting on a group show, yo. Can you send me, like a drawing, it will be number 39."
WHY CANNOT THE ILLUSTRATORS HAVE THEIR OWN SHOWS? It's not like a zoo where the wombats are a bit boring, sitting in a hollow log all day, so they throw in some red-bum monkeys next door and a jazz orchestra near the kiosk.
Nice Box
Fort Heart Co (get it, ‘for the art') presents an exhibition tonight with the frankly incendiary title of 'Nice Box'. More than thirty artists, designers and illustrators will be exhibiting at No Vacancy Gallery, the city's newest art space in (weird, we know) QV.
What will they be exhibiting? Information is scarce on the ground, but each will be responding to the idea of a box.
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