What Was Left on the Cutting Room Floor (????)

This is a man who would not leave people alone.

Alright Guys, it’s Dérive Time

    According to Guy Dubord, the spectacle is the most glaring superficial manifestation of mass media. Idealized lives, carefully constructed narratives of film, television, and literature, the presentation and function of our commodities, these are all subject to the influence of the spectacle.  It’s a critique of contemporary consumer culture. We are so mesmerized by the spectacle of our society that ordinary objects, locations, images have become emotionally charged. They have become our link to the people around us. We live for objects and images because we do not know of any other way to live.

    How can small stories and the mirco-narratives of ordinary life compete with the spectacle? Is it not inherently influenced by mass culture? The discovering the spaces in between reality and fiction are the only ways we can find grace from the influence of the spectacle. The fleeting moments, the trivial events, inspired instances of play are occurrences that can foster new ways of seeing only if one takes the time to examine them. I like to think of them as spectacles of the ordinary. Capturing and interpreting this idea through visual media, how can the nature of the ordinary change our idea of visual representation? Can the ordinary exist as spectacle or does is very qualities negate its transformation?

What the hell is going on in my brain? (Thanks a lot TV)

There he goes. Eating a hamburger. He doesn't even finish it.

And why should we care about this?

Is this a joke? Were we tricked? Did we wasted our time watching this?

In Warhol’s Eating a Hamburger (1982), we are presented with a incredibly mundane situation. It just Andy. He's just eating a hamburger. Yet the very medium of video makes it an event. There is action, drama, and mystery (why didn't he finish that hamburger???)
It is at once mesmerizing and distancing. A screen that demands our gaze and yet offers us something that can be found in the everyday.

We can read into whatever we like about this piece. I like to think of it as a spectacle.

Saigo No Shudan

KUNCHI from saigo no shudan on Vimeo.

I wanna do animation now.

This is a Test

Test run of what I've been working on.

The Reason Why I am Talking About Orwell's Novella "Animal Farm" When I Should be Writing my Artist Statement

The important things don’t matter as much as the details. I understand the gist of an overall grand scheme of a narrative or whatever but those ideas doesn’t really interest me. They are sort of finite. I like things to have a little wiggle room for interpretation purposes. That’s why I tend to fixate on the little things; the details that are small and brief, but if you stare at it long enough, it tells to everything and more.

The whole story.