I have started a new and tremendous project that will probably drive me a bit further into complete and utter insanity... however, I am very excited about it! But that's probably because I just started. But hey, this is my united states of whatever. Who needs sleep right? Pshaw.
So anyway, as some of you probably know my film group, Complementary Colors Cinema is disbanding. It's sad, yes, it's tragic, of course, BUT it also gives me a plot for another film! I'm awful, yes but whatever.
So to celebrate the short year-ish we had together I am creating a film, very similar to the first film we made together. It breaks my heart that Tiger cannot be here in Montgomery making plaster people with me but I will trudge on regardless. Her creative madness lives on in my heart.
So the movie will be gin with interviews of all the colors... This will be done over the course of time because some of us are a 1000 miles away. It will be the set up for the next part of the film which will be me creating a monument to CCC, in plaster. After I'm done I will mention how I look forward to seeing how this work and how all of our projects will move and grow and become something better and more exciting. I guess this is just how the six of us operate as people, we grow and change and try to be better and do better. At least that's the goal.
Anyway, so the film cuts to six plaster casts which have dreadlocks growing out of their heads and up into the ceiling (this is because Tigger and I have dreadies of complementary colors when we first started this whole thing) after a some beautiful camera work by moi, the plaster will suddenly be real people! painted while draped in canvas.
After some more set up shots one by one the plaster people (now turned real) walk away. we each go out separate ways, just like the real people, and get on buses, bikes, cars and go away. The blue hair one (me) will be the last to leave. Eventually I will walk out side and toward downtown. the differance with me is that the paint will start to walk away and eventually my canvas will fall and I'll be me as I normally am and I'll just keep going and walking without noticing the final change.
This also signifys that I'll be graduating soon and out on my own and become my own person.
*whew* this is getting long...
Anyway a special thanks to Jazmine, Eric, James, Ky, Nathan, Kyle, Kyla, Daliah and Lisa for being such willing victims... models, I mean models... yeah.
lovelovelove,
Boz
p.s. check back in a few weeks for the full facebook photo album of the plaster process WOOT! Till then here's a taste...
First model! Eric Andrews will be playing the role of Paul Hendricks who is known as Pollywog and represents the color green in Complementary Colors Cinema. I can't say enough how totally awesome Eric was for me.
Jazmine Ogle will be playing to role of Ashley Mitchell who is known as Smashly and represents the color purple in CCC. James Pham will be playing the role of Greg Nishikawa who is known as Dirty Pig and represents yellow/gold in CCC.
Boz will be playing herself! I will be the only original member of this group to be in this film. I go by Boz and represent Blue in CCC. It makes sense to me that other people will be playing the original members... basically people grow and change and this is literately showing people changed. Whatever, makes sense to me.
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It's about time for a new project. I have this tendency to cling onto an idea (good or bad) and allow myself and all of my work henceforth produced, to be engulfed by it and in turn stifled and redundant. I think it's time for me to model myself a new project. How can I do this? Well I think I've figured something out.
This isn't to say I don't have several other projects going on right now. I've got "A Drawing a Day" and "Project 365" on Flickr. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/boz_art/) These are pretty much how their titles sound. I take photos of interesting things and draw pictures and post them. Simple. This has been helpful and inspiring. But alas it is not enough.
I am wrapping up "The Disbanding" film and will have that online in a few months. Thank god the heavy lifting associated with that project is done. All that's left are hours upon hours of film editing. I am not a film person, in fact I just bought this program for this project, but I am really excited to learn. Once this is over I'll breathe easy, but for now I feign off sleep…
I am also working on a seven part book that will encompass all of my work (the good stuff) that I've produced during my undergrad. It's going to be a long process but I look forward to wrapping it all up and moving on. Since I will be moving to Hawaii and am unable to take anything with me I am making this "portrait" as a small reminder of all the work I've done. It's good to wrap up this section of my life and move ahead.
Which brings me to my next project! I have decided to sell almost everything I own in attempt to make some extra money for grad school but more importantly to rid myself of all these "things" that I've been so preoccupied with. I feel the need to be clean, to be free of all this stuff that I own. And let me tell you I own a LOT of stuff. I've collected these things, found these things and have bought these things for years, in order to fill a void in my life. Now, however I find that that void was already filled, overflowing really, and I no longer need to be distracted by heaps and heaps of toys and trinkets. So, my goal: to get everything down to two suit cases (or less) and be happy with it. There are a few things that don't belong to me, like my dresser, which will be returned to my parents or donated or what-have-you. But I need this. I have never had so little and I think it's important for everyone to realize that stuff is just stuff and its place in our lives shouldn't be filling that universal void. I wish to carry my world with me and live with my experiences, not my things.
If you know me and are interested in my little project, i.e. wish to buy my wares, let me know!
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