Boz art: The Disbanded Thorn in My Side

v. dis·band·ed, dis·band·ing, dis·bands

v. tr. To dissolve the organization of (a corporation, for example).

v. intr.

1. To cease to function as an organization; break up.
2. To separate and move in different directions; disperse.

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"The Disbanding"

This work has been my greatest achievement and my biggest downfall. I have tried over and over again to share this work with people, especially the people involved in the process, but alas, I've always fallen short. I cannot get the damn thing on the internet. Frick and Frack.

I have always had a keen knack for concept, I can think of ten artistic projects I would love to tackle, daily, and if there were twenty of me, I would gladly. Coming up with an idea or a concept is not the problem. Sticking with one project is pretty difficult but I can usually get things done to a point where I am satisfied. Artistic hands-on projects are wonderful and I could do them all day long.

Technology, however, is my foe. I am not very good at anything technical or based in logic or reason. I'm a feeler. Everything I do is loose, a flowing and personal and emotive. I wade through the day in a vast swamp of Emotions and thoughts. When it comes to structure I must wrote everything down or else I'm doomed to forget it as soon as I see a bright color palette or something shiny. Therefore even with manual in hand (and massive amounts of coffee in my system), I haven't been able to get this thing out and available for public view.

Until now.

I have finally figured out how to get this dang thing online. After Six months of being finished with this project I've got it in two places online. Why did this take so long? Well I am not a video person, I am entirely self taught and cannot crunch the compression numbers like a certain Dirty Pig film genius I know. After much search and helpful guidance of aforementioned Pig I found a handy guide on line about compressing videos. I've got the file size down to a fraction of what it was and i think the quality hasn't lost hardly any sharpness.

So this is the original concept that I wrote in early 2008, when i started this whole mess.

"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 difference 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"

Obviously after you watch the finished product you will realize that the concept has indeed changed. But it's basically the same. Six friends leaving and going to the four winds. It is ultimately about change.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/BozSchurr

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