http://fox-gieg.com/spiders Intermittent video podcast by Nick Fox-Gieg Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:28:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (click to play) (Here’s the updated version, with the sound finished!) This is an adaptation of a poem by Jeffrey McDaniel, who has some ideas for a few appropriately modern gods. format: HD video software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition The Hague, 2007. http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2007/the-foxhole-manifesto/ (click to play) Here’s It’s Like Spiders‘ first guest artist, Montreal-based animator Malcolm Sutherland. This is an elaborate meditation on–well, you’ll find out. format: DV video software: ToonBoom Montreal, 2004. http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/guest-artist-this/ (click to play) Here’s a brand spankin’ new one, from a song by Jessica Delfino. She’s discovered a guaranteed shortcut to everlasting fame–watch and learn! format: HD video software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audacity San Francisco, 2006. http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/i-wanna-be-famous/ (click to play) My cousins used to play this odd little game; they were about five and three years old at the time. The older one would pick up the remote control to the TV, point it at her sister, and say “Turn you off”–she’d obligingly fall to the ground ... http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/disarmed/ (click to play) Enoch receives a premonition of disaster, so he sets out to collect as many books as he can find, to preserve the knowledge of the world. But, lacking reliable divine guidance, all his careful preparations come down to a straight-ahead, all-or-nothing gamble…. format: DV video software: ... http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/the-story-of-enoch/ (click to play) This is a story about a little bird who claims to be able to predict the future. Don’t trust him. The Little Bird of Disaster was developed at The Kitchen’s 2003 summer workshop. The speaking characters are real-time “video puppets,” controlled with Mark Coniglio’s Isadora software. The ... http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/the-little-bird-of-disaster/ (click to play) This short is based on an old joke, a perennial in compilations of Jewish humor. Although the details differ between versions, the scene remains the same: a priest challenges a rabbi to a debate on the spiritual condition of Jewish people. But neither speaks the other’s ... http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/a-good-joke/ (click to play) I’d seen pictures of it before, but an especially dramatic photograph caught my eye on a magazine cover in the grocery store. It almost looked like another vegetable: a brilliant marigold-orange “fuel-air” bomb, the most powerful non-nuclear weapon on the market. format: DV video software: Commotion, ... http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/mother-of-all-bombs/ (click to play) In this adaptation of an early Kafka story, a soldier is taken prisoner in the night by a pack of jackals. Offering a pair of scissors, they demand that he use the makeshift weapon to kill his sleeping friends. They overwhelm his initial, shocked refusal. Slowly, incredibly, ... http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/the-option-of-war/ (click to play) The painter in this short may think she’s only painting circles on the ground. But from our privileged vantage point, we can see well enough where it’s all going to lead…. format: DV video software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition Los Angeles, 2003. http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2006/birds-eye-bulls-eye/