Oh Christ! Destroying the Art of Sacrilege
On Thursday, a piece of art inspired by conquest inspired its own violent demise. The artwork, a Pre-Columbian styled codex by Enrique Chagoya, titled The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals (pictured above), on display at the Loveland Museum Gallery in Loveland Colorado was ripped to pieces by 56 year old Kathleen Lorie Folden, who drove nearly 700 miles from Montana to do so.The 7.5" x 90" twelve panel foldable book, made from the same paper as its ancient Meso-American counterparts, depicted a clash of cultural icons, like much of Chagoya's work. Chagoya, a Mexican born artist who has been living in the US for the last 20 years, and currently holds a position as an associate art professor...Read more
Eat Pray Love Movie Trailer Review
Helen used to love the book Eat Pray Love. She’ll probably also enjoy the movie. Me, not so much. I find the entire tone of the goddamn thing insulting. Food will kill you. God will kill you. Love will kill you. This thing should be placed in the horror section of your local Borders. Instead it’s been embraced as the feel-good ride of the year. But it’s not. During the film, when the guy who played the killer in No Country For Old Men is taking a ‘romantic’ walk beside a bunch of street venders and Julia Roberts asks him what this crazy new fruit tastes like that SHE’S NEVER EXPERIENCED IN HER ENTIRE LIFE UP UNTIL THIS POINT! (Oh, the fuc...Read more
Kate Moross
Kate Moross happens to already think in terms of Love/Hate. She is a young and talented designer/illustrator/artist based in London. I found out about her a while ago through the Colorado local and awesome, joyengine.com. I recently went back to her site and discovered some clever sketches oh so relevant to our current theme. You can see them here: www.katemoross.com/play/detail/love-hate-drawings/ "A small book of things I love and things I hate. Weird and obscure choices perhaps but good all the same. For each object i wrote ten things about it. Specifically points that made me love it or hate it. The objects arent labelled so you have to guess what my feelings are about each one."...Read more
Make Your Own Illiterate Valentine
Print this. Cut it up. Paste it back together, then bring your resulting illiterate valentine to the illiteratemagazine.com Launch Party on February 12, 2009 at RedLine to receive a $2 discount, a free drink ticket...Read more
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tags: Illiterate Valentine Website Launch Party Crafting Love to Hate/Hate to Love RedLine
Ill Affair and Website Release Party
On Thursday February 12th illiterate magazine and Redline, Denver's urban laboratory are celebrating the launch of illiteratemagazine.com with two unique Love to Hate arts events in one evening. Illiteratemagazine.com is the new home of illiterate's hybrid arts community where local and world renowned artists and writers come together on equal footing to participate in the creation of the small square magazine that puts Colorado's arts scene on a pedestal. What better place then for its official debut than Denver's new urban laboratory, Red Line. From 5:30 to 9:00, bare witness to the scandalously elegant Ill Affair, a fundraiser supporting two progr...Read more
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tags: Website Launch Party ill Affair Valentine Party Love to Hate Hate to Love February 12 2009
Welcome to the ILLITERATE Film Blog
Hi. My name is Isis and I love the moving image. I studied experimental film, animation, video, and installation art at the University of Colorado. Unbeknownst to me I was stumbling onto the legacy of Stan Brakhage - the founder of the program- and film for me was never the same. Suddenly there was an entire world beyond the theater, and even beyond narrative structure, that I never knew existed. I feel like I came into myself as an artist (with still much more growth to come) as well as learned to appreciate all different flavors of the moving image. While on a typical Friday night you might catch me at the local megaplex, that is not what this blog is about (okay, maybe it will be sometime...Read more
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tags: isis film Stan Brakhage experimental film animation dreams memory love deterioration French