the shanks and don s. davis short movie

[imported_TheDoc]

i was asked to pass this on, and I don't dare to refuse ...
last year the shanks and don s. davis ("general hammond" on sg-1 and "nameless lorry driver" on mac gyver ...) plus derek de lint (greaseball from "legacy") did a short movie called "the artist's circle" which was also shown in cannes (alas, if it was also actually *watched* there, I can't tell!)

now, this thingy is 8:41 minutes long and can now be enjoyed online.

The Artist's Circle

you will need real-player or mediaplayer to watch it.

and if you dislike artie-farties as much as I do, you'll like it.

the doc

 

[adele.s]

Has anyone gotten this working?

Admittedly, I'm attempting on a newly-installed Win2K machine with IE5 (just tried upgrading to IE6) and Netscape 6.1... but I'm not able to get this 'thingy' to play, no matter what plugins I attempt to hook with each browser. Sigh. Maybe I should just stay away from computers today...
-- Adele

Adele's Abydan Archive: http://www.shakal.org/sg-1/

 

[orange]

Gratitude

Thank you Doc for the heads-up on the short film. It had no problems loading to the latest version of Real Player (faster than I thought it would be, too). It was fuzzy though at times.
It was nice to see the sg1 actors in a different role.

As for the short...interesting...the critic cannot explain the art by looking at the artist nor can he explain the artist by looking at the art. So art becomes a distant object, over-analyzed and explained away by comparisons to other art and society, etc. A lot to say in a few minutes.

-Orange

 

[imported_TheDoc]

yep, they "fence" themselves out from whatever meaning the artwork in question could have had for them (I think this was really nicely done). for me, art needs neither explanation nor analyzing, anyway, I either connect with it or not.

the artist's circle will most probably *not* go down in history as a milestone in movie-making, but it got the point pretty well, and yeah, I was (positively) surprised (I was secretly dreading some over-styled artie-fartie flick - ok, I was wrong!).

and I could imagine they had a gaz doing it.

ewww ... reading this ... geezuz, sound pretty artiefarty meself here ...! :ticking:

the doc :blpaw:

 

[orange]

Artsy-fartsyness

>>>>>>>>ewww ... reading this ... geezuz, sound pretty artiefarty meself here ...!

the doc <<<<<<<<<<

Well, I wasn't going to say anything...but since you mentioned it. <g>

But we understand the big picture, anyway. Do you know how MS and Don Davis got involved with this little flick? Through a friend perhaps?

-Orange

Adele: Ever have any luck with the downloading?

 

[imported_TheDoc]

---Well, I wasn't going to say anything... ---

thanks - much appreciated ....

---Do you know how MS and Don Davis got involved with this little flick? Through a friend perhaps? ---

geezuz, you ask me, I'm the most uninformed person on the net. if my friend hadn't sent me the "heads-up" mail, I'd never seen that movie meself. maybe somebody out there knows something?

no idea. dsd and ms have done some flicks together, and bruce marchfelder has worked with the shanks before, too. guess he just asked him again.

marchfelder does teaching as well, so maybe they just stumbled over each other. at film school, that is. everybody knows everybody there, I guess.

the doc

 

[orange]

>>>>>>no idea. dsd and ms have done some flicks together, and bruce marchfelder has worked with the shanks before, too. guess he just asked him again.<<<<<<

This is already way more than I know, so, without permitting debate, I summarily lay claim to the most uninformed person on the net title. You are relieved of that burden.

Thanks for the tidbit. Appreciate it.

- Orange

 

[adele.s]

Success!

After reinstalling a bunch of stuff, I did finally get to see the movie over the weekend... sigh. Sometimes Windows is a blessing, and sometimes it is a curse.
-- Adele