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TOOFY

09.11.08

By: Aaron Ray

Along with all of the other great events going on this weekend, the Toofy film festival should be on your list.

 

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ANDREW STANTON INTERVIEW

07.11.08

By: Josh Holland

Co-writer and director of some of Pixar’s best flicks, Andrew Stanton, was interviewed today on Fresh Air about his newest film endeavor, Wall-E.  The in-depth interview is fantastic, and touched on everything I really wanted to know about including color, design, squares vs. circles, storytelling without dialogue or facial features, and the film’s timely social commentary.

This interview is a window into the creative process of an extremely talented artist, and I’d highly recommend it to artists of all types as well as fans of the movie.  And if you haven’t seen it yet, what the hell are you waiting for?

THE INTERVIEW

MY RANT

 

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STORYTELLING 101

06.30.08

By: Josh Holland

Pixar gets mad points for difficulty in their latest film endeavor, WALL-E.  After watching the trailer the first time, I was intrigued how the technical animation would truly make or break this movie.  With main characters that can’t speak (not much anyway) and have very limited facial expressions, the pressure was on to create lovable, emotional beings out of tiny scraps of metal sans dialogue.  The end result was a beautiful experiment in visual storytelling, made more special by the originality of concept and a timely sociopolitical message.

Lips, eyes and eyebrows become luxuries of on-screen character development when your subjects are little more than spheres and cubes with wheels.  The character design was amazing, with robots of all shapes, sizes, makes, models and personalities truly overshadowing the human characters who dully share an identical pear-shaped physique, and emotionally resemble… well… robots.  in the end, the animators succeed admirably in creating living, breathing, emoting creatures out of those cold spheres and cubes.

The first part of the film is by far my favorite, with our gritty worker-bot hero Wall-E going about his everyday routine and unraveling a past of corporate consumerism gone awry.  He soon encounters a sleek, sexy instrument of Apple brand death and destruction named E.V.E. and the duo form a complex relationship using nothing but flawlessly timed animation.

The film is a perfect abstraction of visual storytelling, utilizing only the most essential elements of motion, color, sound and symbols to do the whole job.  Granted, there is a lot more dialogue in the film than I’ve indicated here, but those scenes are saved for the human characters who are ultimately a sideshow to the robots.  So when you go see Wall-E (and you should), take notice of how much can be conveyed by moving shapes with the vocabulary limitations of a Pokemon.  And ask yourself, how did they make me love a stupid cube with wheels so fucking much?

RIP Joe Ranft

 

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STREET 2 SCREEN!!!

05.15.08

By: JoyEngine

Over the next three days, Kaffeine Buzz, in partnership with the Denver Film Society, present Street-2-Screen: a 3 day festival celebrating graffiti culture and film. Tonight, Street-2-Screen begins the celebration at the Starz FilmCenter (located at 9th & Auraria Parkway in Denver) at 7pm, showcasing the new graffiti documentary movie: BOMB IT. Friday night, the Street-2-Screen Graffiti & Hip-Hop Party keeps the festivities rolling at Falcon Bowl (the newly renovated bowling-alley-meets-venue, next to the Gothic Theatre) at 8pm, for a night of hip-hop, old school and new, live graffiti, b-boys, graffiti video mashups via the DVJ skills of An-ism and the Denver-based, internationally renowned Magnet Mafia crew. Street-2-Screen wraps up the celebration with a Graffiti Panel Day at the Starz FilmCenter on Saturday, with two panels, Education and Commerce, starting at 2:00pm. Denver’s graffiti artists will join civic leaders, city officials and community directors to discuss the past, present and future aspects of graffiti in Denver, ways to combat vandalism, and the programs that embrace graffiti art in a positive way. These panels are free and open to the public. Sounds like a very intriguing weekend… Get into it Colorado!

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Happenings

  • 08.24.09

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    New works from Kris Lewis at David B. Smith Gallery from August 22nd through September 12th, 2009

  • 08.17.09

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    Friday, August 21st 2009 Illiterate brings its mission of promoting creative collaboration to Denver’s Space gallery with “CMYK+RGB”, an interactive arts event exploring the interactions between print and digital media. Count on print and digital installations, live screen printing, a fashion show and a print exhibition.

  • 08.14.09

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    Ravi Zupa will be showing new works tonight at INDYINK.  It’s gonna be a cash & carry program.  There’ll be some inexpensive works, kick down, and roll home with new art!!!

  • 08.11.09

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    Party at Installation this Friday the 14th featuring Brooklyns, Jasmine Solano.  Gonna be hot.

  • 08.06.09

    speakerseriesPublic Works Speaker Series starts tonight with Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine and Chris Kaskie of Pitchfork at Andrew Rafacz Gallery. If your in the Chicago area, def make the time to check this series out. See lineup here.

  • 08.05.09

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    Another Denver local by way of New Britain, Connecticut, Sandi Calistro will be showing a range of new works at The Shoppe this Saturday August 8th right next door to Leigh’s show on the Super Block. The opening reception is from 7PM – 11PM at 3103 East Colfax Avenue. The Shoppe will be open until 2AM on Saturday following the show… slangin’ fresh cupcakes and big ass bowls of cereal.

  • 08.05.09

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    Denver local Leigh Viner will be showing new works this Saturday August 8th at The Fabric Lab. The opening reception will be from 7PM – 11PM and is going down at 3105 East Colfax Avenue in Denver.

  • 08.03.09

    Mod Livin’ presents the Denver By Design Showcase. Vote for the best modern design object, art or furniture created by a Colorado designer.

  • 07.20.09

    Public Works is a group show featuring new works from Chicago artists Cody Hudson, Justin Fines, Andy Mueller, and Chris Eichenseer. WHOA!

    Friday, July 31st
    Andrew Rafacz Gallery

  • 07.14.09

    ART FOR OBAMA: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change – Now Available.

  • 07.09.09

    Tuesday, July 21st, will be Denver’s 6th volume of PechaKucha Night. The line-up of presenters includes: Lawrence Argent/Argent Studios, Berger, Foehr, and Henry/cypher13, Charles Carpenter/EBD, Larabee & Thornton/DoubleButter, Scott Lary, Bruce Mau/Bruce Mau Design Inc., Ted Schultz/CTA Architects Engineers, Brand Shigley/Fashion Denver, Ravi Zupa/Parts and Labor Union.

  • 07.07.09

    July 16th MCA Denver: Kevin O’Connell shot wind turbines, while Arlene Shechet cast the surface of water.

  • 07.03.09

    The Date Farmers will be showing an entirely NEW body of work at Andenken Gallery on July 11th.

  • 07.03.09

    All sorts of hot arty shit goin’ down at INDY INK, TS Board Shop, and Think Tank tonight (Friday July 3rd!!!) – So,  get after it.

  • 07.01.09

    Seriously Super Fresh East Colfax July 4th Block Party!!!

  • 06.25.09

    Joseph Shaeffer presents 3 bodies in 3 states: a survey of work from 2004 – 2009 – Opening Reception,  Friday, July 3, 2009 – 6 to 9 p.m. at Sellars Project Space

  • 06.24.09

    Nice profile on our good friend Shannon Bonatakis at the Egotist. Read it – and look at the pretty pictures.

  • 06.23.09

    FLUIDIAM apparel launch party at Family Affair goin down June 27th.  Check it.

  • 06.18.09

    Noise x Buffalo Exchange x XROCKSTHEPOT™ present: SPLASH BASH

    Music from:
    Le Castle Vania & Alex K.

    Fashion from:
    Buffalo Exchange

    live art from:
    Aaron Dubois, Mike Graves, & Josh Wills

    The Splash Bash Alley Cat:
    A Swimsuit Alley Cat through the streets of downtown Denver. Make sure to wear a swimsuit, the first person in the pool at Beta is the winner!

    10PM – 2PM

    1909 Blake St Denver
    www.betanightclub.com
    www.xrocksthespot.com

  • 06.11.09


    City Folk Art by Zshanna Kristoff opens this Saturday June 13th. The opening reception will be from 7PM – 10PM at The Fabric Lab : 3105 East Colfax Avenue Denver.

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