"Here is one way to think of the reverse engineering aspect of the work; if you were to take classic animation where you take key frames and, say, a Disney animator would take four frames to define key action, the in-betweener will come in for the in-betweens, but the key animator will only draw the significant action over time. So the key animator is gapping four or five frames out of the whole thing. It¡¯s a four dimensional space seen in three dimensions. Time is simultaneous unto itself. The beginning, middle, and end all coexist at once and what we are seeing is human beings normally cannot: ourselves in extruded time. Time is this slice that we tick by but truthfully we are extruded pieces of spaghetti ¡ª much like stratacut ¡ª where we blob and shift and move and run. All our timepieces are connected but we can¡¯t see them and don¡¯t know it. In a sense, I¡¯m putting those pieces together and giving you a sculpture of that time."posted by ocherdraco at 7:56 PM on March 4, 2013 [2 favorites]
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I remember I loved the "Big Time video when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it since. The '80s were the perfect time for his aesthetic to come along. Sally Cruikshank is definitely a fellow traveler and probably a fan.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:19 PM on March 4, 2013