Yes, but is it art? posted by chebucto at 5:07 PM on April 14, 2011
Noted for emphasis: performing works for up to 4 hours continuously. posted by ColdChef at 5:13 PM on April 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
Wow, this is sooo cool! I love spirograph art and never imagined it could be made this way. So pleased all the fun, new stuff that's being created these days. posted by nickyskye at 5:23 PM on April 14, 2011
Oooookay. posted by Splunge at 5:31 PM on April 14, 2011
So is it artifact-art or performance art? posted by GuyZero at 5:34 PM on April 14, 2011
People clapping in unison like that make me twitchy.
I like the end results though. posted by carsonb at 5:39 PM on April 14, 2011
Nice. Bet he gets a lot of his clothes dirty and smudged up. Suffering for one's art! posted by Salmonberry at 5:42 PM on April 14, 2011
The woosh-woosh sound is oddly soothing, like the factory sounds in Bjork's Cvalda.
As someone who isn't super coordinated in the getting-ones-hands-to-do-the-same-thing-simultaneously department, I'm genuinely impressed, especially when he changed shapes in the first video. posted by The demon that lives in the air at 6:06 PM on April 14, 2011
Neat, no pins to work their way out just as you get near the end. posted by unliteral at 6:20 PM on April 14, 2011
After watching these videos, my 3-year-old daughter and I tried it. We taped some old maps to the kitchen floor. She swung markers wildly while I spun her. Our results lacked his uniformity, but his process lacked the merriment and laughter of ours. posted by gruchall at 7:06 PM on April 14, 2011 [12 favorites]
Yeah, "My *kid* could do something just as good!", right gruchall?
Why does all his art end up looking like pubic hair? posted by TwelveTwo at 11:22 PM on April 14, 2011
Spasm, for some reason, that video always makes me think of the hudsucker proxy. posted by BrotherCaine at 1:43 AM on April 15, 2011
Why does all his art end up looking like pubic hair?
He's too scared to fasten himself to the paper by sticking a pin through his head, so his registration keeps on slipping. posted by PeterMcDermott at 1:53 AM on April 15, 2011
Well, this really makes my childhood spirograph art look like shit.
*rips drawings down from parents' fridge* posted by orme at 4:01 AM on April 15, 2011
Yeah, but can he pat his head and rub his stomach at the same time? posted by bwg at 6:05 AM on April 15, 2011
Am I nuts or is the print up on the left wall in the first video identical to the cover art on my 1969 Berkley Medallion paperback edition of Stranger In A Strange Land? posted by likeso at 8:35 AM on April 15, 2011
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