The Blood Shot Eye Brigade's current members Julie Farstad and Paul Shortt. To join our club get a blood shot left eye.

Junior Show KCAI Decemer 2006,

Alison Ducote, Ryan Macdonald, Erica leohner.

Junior Show KCAI December 2006, Kay Renner and Ankur Desai.

Patience,
This is not the cleanest animation but It moves away from the circle containing the character.

Self Portraits on december 3rd, 2006.

More shapes though fixed in time, full of color, and full of life.

Flux,

Things change, people come into your life, and they spark a change for the better. But as quickly as they come they move away, sometimes they come back, sometimes not. At first this drawing was in response to the intial excitement of something new and better. I viewed the drawing as a new world being created, not just by me but by this new force.

Looking at this drawing now it captures and holds that excitement, but I see how unstable this new world can be. The shapes are floating in space, seperate. Nothing can be created intill they come together. Building this unstable world takes time, and patience. Sometimes though you have to let go of your feelings and be patient.

All this said, this work is still about things that can't be defined simply, which is why each drawing gets more and more complex.

This was the first time I hit a girl. I sucked at it.

Don't ask drunk girls to slap you. Because they'll hit you, they'll hit you hard and they'll hit you twice.

This is my first flip book, part of the miniture show. The trouble with making your thoughts into spoken words.

This Kinda Deserves a name (Anxiety#), 2006,

More phallic then the others. Not an animation, a stand alone drawing.

Drawing #5, Animation Still

DRAWING # 5

Drawing #4 Animation Still,

This is the drawing for animation.

Drawing #4(undecided, undefined),

I'm throwing this out in a rough state to get some feedback. I'm in the process of exploring sound and hope to have a score for this soon. But I like the default sound that comes from the fragments of music and conversations while I was making this.

Documenting Circumstance new work by Corrie Baldauf currently on view at Unit 5, in the crossroads district.

Corner Performance

Nobody But Me playing by The Human Beinz, nobody but me in the corner. I love the double meanings the music adds to this piece. This performance crosses a lot of the walls I've put up for myself and the meanings I'm finding in it seem to grow each day.

I've Been Hit Harder

This is the Alison's Lesson's video.

This was my studio when I came in yesterday. I feel so loved.

Impressions,

I saw this on my walk to school the other day. It captures the suttle reflections that I need to stop and enjoy more often.

This is a drawing from the first stop motion animation I created last week. I find myself attracted to the traces of the old character that are left behind and intrested in the vortex that is created where the character once was. I will upload the videos as soon as I add sound to them.

This is another experiment. It plays more with perspective and the architecture of the space.

Permission

I shot 3 different videos over the weekend in the same space using two cameras at two different angles. This time instead of being slapped I was given permission to slap three different girls. This changes the slaps for it becomes violent and less humorous because I’m slapping girls, which Is socially wrong. But in the videos it’s obvious that they are willing participants in the exchange. They begin to critique the way I hit them, and the videos become more about how I slap like a pansy. I’m given tips on how to slap them with more force. They give me permission to hit them but to not hurt them.

I found in these videos that I’ve become more aware of my size, I see more of a contrast in my size in relation to these girls that I’m not aware of normally. As well I notice that there’s a line I don’t cross. I never go too far; I never lose control.

Text Teasers

I don’t get it lately I’ve been plagued by a number of the text teasers. They text me messages like what up G? And I being an idiot stupidly take the bait and text them back. What follows is a tirade of messages back and fourth that seemingly could go on for hours. They use acronyms like LOL and WTF. My favorites are the girls I’ve been texting and when I call they don’t pick up. Because they really don’t want to talk to me, they actually have no interest in even dating me. They’re just afraid of being alone. Constantly tapping away on their phones when they can’t get to a computer to post Myspace bulletins.

Experiments

These were some experiments with adding color to the drawings. They seem to lose something with color added to them.

New Drawings

These drawings are partly about attention. Wanting the spotlight, even starving for it but being weary of completely going into it. The character is an undefined mold that is constantly morphing and changing. The time element of these pieces is non-linear, the different characters in the drawing are all the same person just at different times. The drawings take place in a spotlight and on a stage with much of the action taking place behind the scenes. Making visible vulnerabilities I seem all to willing to display.

Slaps,

These images are stills from videos I shot where I asked girls to slap me. I like that these slaps where staged. I'm expecting the slap, like expecting a certain rejection. i found in the begining of doing this that I couldn't look the girl in the eye, I diverted my eyes and wanted to laugh.In the last videos I did i started to look the girl right in the face, and laugh at the absurdity of the situation.

I find visually i'm more attracted to the image of me being slapped then to the videos.

Anti-Personal Ad Business Cards,

This project grew from the idea of selling an idea of myself. I have one thousand of these business cards that list negative aspects of my character, and previous relationships. I have to give them out to anyone I meet and I am not allowed to take a card once given away.

This is an update of a project I did earlier this year, the main difference being that I put my name on it this time and linked it to a Myspace account. I've also started a blog where you can post your own personal ad.

http://realpersonals.blogspot.com