Penumbra's Grey Matter

LIsten and Pick from all the Soup Radio Shows!

2011-03-09T09:20:00.004-06:00

March Soup Radio Show

2011-03-09T09:06:00.001-06:00

Here is the link http://soupradio.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-03-07T18:00:00Z&max-results=2 to Soup Radio for the March shows descriptions, and here is a place you can click on and pick the shows you want to listen to! Thank you for listening and thank you to Mab MacMoragh for making Soup Radio possible and Arahan Claveau for all his help personally and his technical abilities!

January's Soup Radio show

2011-01-12T10:50:00.000-06:00

http://soupradio.blogspot.com/
My guest was Chantal Harvey. We talk about musical influences within her Machinimas, 48Hour Film Project, Mamachinima Film Fest and using Second Life as a medium to make Machinimas.

Creep

2011-01-12T10:44:00.002-06:00

Creep (Radiohead) - Scala & Kolacny Brothers from Alex Heller on Vimeo.
I just love this interpretation of RadioHead's song entitled Creep, as well as the wonderful obsessive filming that is used here. I too made a film featuring the song Creep http://vimeo.com/12883533 , was posted earlier.

I Heard A Fly Buzz

2011-01-11T18:18:00.001-06:00

I Heard a Fly Buzz from Penumbra Carter on Vimeo.
This is a film that was accepted for the National Women's Caucus for Art, the show is entitled Hidden Cities and was judged by Lisa Philips, Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in NYC.The show is up from February 1st to the 12. The party surrounding the show is on the 11 of February at New Century Artists Gallery, 530 West 25th NY, I believe 6pm.

Soup Radio launches on Saturday, October 9 and I will have a monthy show!

2010-10-06T20:34:00.003-05:00

Soup Radio launches on Saturday, October 9 http://arahanclaveau.blogspot.com/ I look forward to my first adventure into hosting a radio program once a month. Will play some music, talk about art in Second Life and hope to have some periodic guests as well. Look for my contribution early in November, but in the mean time, tune in on Saturday with Arahan Claveau and the kick off of Soup Radio!

My 48Hour Film Project 2010 Experience

2010-10-01T09:39:00.003-05:00

On the weekend of the September 17-19 I participated in the 48Hour Film Project. http://mamachinima.blogspot.com/ Where I and 21 other teams, after given a film genre, prop, line and character name, had 48 hours to write, direct, score, produce, build, etc.... a film with the given parameters. I drew Film Noire as my genre. We all had the same prop which was water, line "There is one thing I can do that you can't", and central character named Jack or Jackie Schmidt. Only the genres were different. I decided to work alone , where most teams had a team.

I used the German Expressionistic interpretation of Film Noire as a symbolic, nihilistic and ambiguous view of life.

My film won first runner up! I was very happy with that. One of the judges this year was the Filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It was an added bonus to have him look at my film and offer constructive criticism. The whole experience has been very valuble to me and I hope to become a better filmmaker because of it. http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/09/peter-greenaway-machinima-contest.html#more

My film entry "Nihilist" for the 48Hour Film Project

2010-10-01T09:37:00.002-05:00

Nihilist from Penumbra Carter on Vimeo.

I would like to say that when I uploaded it to Vimeo and youtube the contrast in the film increased.

Ideas past, present and living with them

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Facinating art I found on youtube

2010-07-11T14:44:00.003-05:00

I just found this artist on youtube. By Midnightdigger.

New Idea's I have found

2010-07-11T14:30:00.002-05:00

I have to say that I have not heard of Donna Haraway until yesterday when I visit in SL the sim called Porto, which is somewhat of an hommage to her writings. I will look more into her and her writings, I did enjoy so far what I have heard from her.

New Start up

2010-07-11T13:34:00.001-05:00

Some pieces I am working on, they are further along now.

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I love this painter, Odd Nerdrum

2010-07-09T10:22:00.003-05:00

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Barnett Newman's Zip

2010-06-29T12:03:00.002-05:00

One of my favorite video captures of an artist talking about his work. I like Newman's paintings for a reason I am not sure why, they just seem so secure in execution. Warhol once said (to paraphrase), "I see Barney at all the parties I am at, and I wonder when does he have time to paint? Then I visited his studio." As an artist I am continually wondering, what do I want to say with paint and why does it matter? When I think this way, I believe its the editor in my head that is clouding my intentions. I kill the editor.

Chance to participate in the first Guggenheim Video Biennial

2010-06-27T10:47:00.002-05:00

http://www.guggenheim.org/
I am going to give it a shot. Wanted to pass this on.

2010-06-26T20:35:00.000-05:00

My First Embed!

2010-06-26T15:52:00.002-05:00

This song is one of my favorites. The one below, posted twice, its the first time I embedded, so I will leave the fuck up :)

2010-06-26T15:31:00.000-05:00

Unfortunate Life

2010-04-15T15:44:00.002-05:00

This is a piece I recently finished entitled Unfortunate Life. It measures 72"h x 60"w and around 7"d. The box connected with the piece is a music box and plays "Oh what a beautiful morning" Basically it is about life, missed life, and life beyond. I submitted it to be considered in a juried show in New York for July.

Premium Lindenites

2010-03-18T12:30:00.002-05:00

Dekka Raymaker and I each have Linden homes which we are making installations within them. This is the latest. Dekka's is located at raycar , and mine was at Squatters, it is since gone, and am working on another.

8 Stations Opening with Perfomance Artists

2010-03-10T16:09:00.002-06:00

This film below is the opening of Dekka Raymaker's "8 Stations" at Hughes Rise, with performance artists SaveMe Oh, Marmaduke Ardo and Kikas Babenco perfoming during the opening.

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Real Life Sim

2010-03-07T13:50:00.005-06:00

Walked to the Post Office the other day, ran across my shadow and neighbourhood icons. Took some film footage, as you see above.

Juried Show in the 3rd Ward Brooklyn NYC

2010-02-24T15:37:00.002-06:00

http://www.3rdward.com/opencall/aw2

This looks like a cool call for art, there is a 5000 dollar grant money and some studio space for "the winner", as well as some other perks.

2010-02-23T07:12:00.002-06:00

A conviction is a disease.
Francis Picabia

Finally getting back to painting

2010-02-06T14:19:00.002-06:00

Here are some pics of a few paintings in progress, both are 4'w x 6'h , as well as a very messy kitchen. Have been moving into my new home the last week, and getting ready for a few weeks before, chaotic , but, feels great. Will finally have my home in my studio. Viva!

Chaos, Moving into new house studio and what I am working on

2010-02-06T14:09:00.005-06:00

Mab as the Pushy Bunnyken

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Quotes and Thoughts from Emerson's Essay "Self Reliance"

2009-10-31T08:55:00.003-05:00

In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty Ralph Waldo Emerson To me this speaks of seeing what can be done by doing, I like that.

Emerson also writes that he hates that Hamlet exists, because it could be used as a way to measure against. I was listening in my studio to his essays.

The Persistence of Memory

2009-10-20T20:58:00.008-05:00

This is found at Da Boom 31,97,25 in Second Life. The sim is on an older mainland mishmash, Dekka and I walked about it. I like how this is just stuck here, maybe because sims like this are similar to where I live, weird zoning:) Did find it when I did a search for Dali. Still processing the Spanish vibe.

The Persistence of Memory

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dada manifesto

2009-10-17T10:56:00.002-05:00

Found this Picabia manifesto after having a conversation with Dekka today. Recently we experienced Dali, Gaudi, and Miro in Spain, it was mindblowing.

2009-10-17T10:03:00.001-05:00

dada manifesto by francis picabia march 1920

The Cubists want to cover Dada with snow; it may surprise you, but it is so, they want to empty the snow out of their pipe on to Dada. Are you sure? Perfectly, the facts speak for themselves from great grotesque mouths. They think that Dada wants to stop them in their hateful trade: selling pictures at a high price. Art is dearer than sausages, dearer than women, dearer than anything. Art is as easy to see as God (see Saint-Sulpice). Art is a pharmaceutical product for idiots. Tables turn, thanks to the spirits; pictures and other works of art are like strong- box-tables, the spirit is within them and gets more and more inspired as the prices rise in the salerooms. Comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, dear friends. Dealers do not like painting, they know about the hidden spirit.... Buy reproductions of signed pictures. Don't be snobbish; having the same picture as your neighbour doesn't make you any less intelligent. No more fly-specks on the walls. There will be some, all the same, but not quite so many. Dada will certainly get more and more hated, for its wire-cutters allow it to cut processions singing " Come Darling ", what a sacrilege! Cubism represents total famine in ideas. They cubed primitive paintings, cubed Negro sculptures, cubed violins, cubed guitars, cubed picture magazines, cubed shit and girls' profiles and now they want to cube money!!! Dada, on the other hand, wants nothing, absolutely nothing, and what it does is to make the public say " We understand nothing, nothing, nothing ". "The Dadaists are nothing, nothing, nothing and they will surely succeed in nothing, nothing, nothing."
391, No. 12, Paris, March 1920 Francis Picabia who knows nothing, nothing, nothing.

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