Aaron Valdez

Proof of Progress 006 (via Aaron Valdez on Vimeo) Detroit. Fall...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:12:33 -0500

Proof of Progress 006 (via Aaron Valdez on Vimeo)

Detroit. Fall hike. Grand River. Snowstorms. Detroit Airport. Animals back home. Maintenance. NYC. Air Zoo.

Star Wars Uncut. It’s in the details.

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:17:33 -0500

Star Wars Uncut. It’s in the details.

John 5x5 (5 shots/5 seconds) Some snippets of my stepfather...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:35:00 -0500

John 5x5 (5 shots/5 seconds) Some snippets of my stepfather during a visit home. 1) Backyard welding with chickens 2) RV license frame 3) Wii golf 4) Dragster on shelf 5) Friend’s old shop being torn down by the city.

Star Wars Uncut Rough

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:35:41 -0500

Star Wars Uncut Rough

I’m excited to announce I’m the editor of Star Wars...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:20:04 -0500

I’m excited to announce I’m the editor of Star Wars Uncut, a great database/collaborative film project by digital Jedi Casey Pugh. The job calls for bringing together close to 500 15-second re-enactments of scenes from Star Wars Episode IV. I’m pretty much in awe of the level of detail people have put into their work, the costumes, the robots, animation, the performances, and I’m having a blast working on it.

Dig These Freeways (via Aaron Valdez on Vimeo) Playing around...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:34:20 -0500

Dig These Freeways (via Aaron Valdez on Vimeo)

Playing around with animating postcards. Right click the play button to turn looping on. Original pic flickr.com/photos/wreck/2803597490

Medical Disclaimer (via Wreck & Salvage on Vimeo)

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:25:12 -0500

Medical Disclaimer (via Wreck & Salvage on Vimeo)

Hard Stars on Tumblr

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:51:29 -0500

Hard Stars on Tumblr

Folk Singer (via Vimeo) Heroes. Commercials. Reality. Selling...

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:32:00 -0500

Folk Singer (via Vimeo)

Heroes. Commercials. Reality. Selling Out. Buying In. Owning Up. Pawning Off. Who gives a shit. It’s all there for the wrecking.

Transition (via Vimeo) Change to a new position.

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:31:00 -0500

Transition (via Vimeo)

Change to a new position.

FBI Warning (via resetcounter) I have utterly failed at making a...

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:56:55 -0500

FBI Warning (via resetcounter)

I have utterly failed at making a long-form mixtape out of the 100+ celebrity workout videos I have acquired on VHS over the last three years. It’s just too big of a job to condense into one video. So I’ll be posting the best clips and edited sequences to this YouTube account over the next few months. Enjoy.

Proof of Progress 005 - Moments from the funeral of my...

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:38:09 -0500

Proof of Progress 005 - Moments from the funeral of my grandmother Cruz Valdez. Shot by my mother. Edited by me.

wreckandsalvage: We’ve been swamped. Plug this number on the...

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:47:35 -0500

wreckandsalvage:

We’ve been swamped. Plug this number on the quick dial;

Only the initiated find and keep our number. You game? Not much time to waste. Call now, don’t be fucked.

mr. portabella will crush you (via Wreck and Salvage)

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:55:00 -0500

mr. portabella will crush you (via Wreck and Salvage)

January project. In NYC with the Wreck & Salvage boys...

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:40:00 -0500

January project. In NYC with the Wreck & Salvage boys hammering out a series of 3-d animated mushroom videos.

Another screening update. My 2003 film Dissolve playing in the...

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:29:25 -0500

Another screening update. My 2003 film Dissolve playing in the UK. Delicate Matter: experiments with flesh and the analogue. A programme of experimental film curated by Richard Tuohy. It’s the flesh, the touching physicality and tiny inconsistencies in approximation and decay that give the analogue its vitality. The film in this selection, sourced from around the globe, all demonstrate a fascination with the analogue physicality of cine film, with its fragility and its presence, with the vitality of its fleshiness.

I’ll have some of my Wreck & Salvage work featured in...

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:33:00 -0500

I’ll have some of my Wreck & Salvage work featured in this exhibition @ UC Irvine.

VIDEO DADA
An exhibition and project by Martha Gever
Opening Reception Thursday, January 7, 6-9 pm | UAG
January 7- February 6, 2010

VIDEO DADA: No repeat of history, not neo-Dada, but still wreaking havoc with conventional parameters of art. Nowadays inventive, intelligent, and aesthetically sophisticated videos can be seen far afield, outside traditional art venues like museums and galleries. And artists circulate their videos on a much wider scale than that achieved by any television network. VIDEO DADA asks how these changes complicate the conceptual and aesthetic contours of art. The exhibition features 300 plus videos — playing on eight screens — by individual artists and art collectives that circulate in the hurly-burly multiverse of the internet. Some serious, some humorous, and some both at once, these works exercise manifold strategies: absurd drama, wry animation, politically astute collage, wild performance, and uncategorizable others. Some play with music; some incorporate extraordinary written or spoken texts; some prefer silence and all the noise that offers. In sum, VIDEO DADA surveys the internet’s amalgamation of popular culture and art, calling into question the difference between the two.

And, yes, there may be echoes of Dada: “Dadaism was no ideological movement but an organic product that came into existence as a reaction against the cloud- cuckoo -land tendencies of so-called sacred art…. while military leaders painted in blood.” — George Grosz, 1924 .

Finally reaching the end of about six months of solid ebaying of...

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:17:00 -0500

Finally reaching the end of about six months of solid ebaying of approximately 250 duplicates I had in the truckload of 16mm films I bought last March. These sales have offset the entire cost of the acquisition. Next step is to cut down the remaining 500 films into more manageable highlight reels, selling empty reels on eBay and recycling damaged cans and reels at the scrapyard. In the end I’ll probably have 50 1200’ highlight reels that will be used as source material for the project.Then there’s another 200 films in the corner that are really cool and should probably not be cut up. I’d be more inclined to keep them if I wasn’t planning on moving. I’ll go back through them again and sell some to help acquire a transfer projector or pay for transfers. End goal is $0 out of my pocket. So far, so good.

Mexican Firewall

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:51 -0500

I started a new Tumblr blog called Mexican Firewall. It’s a collection of media that I’m vibing on for a future project, sort of an inspirational notebook of influences to keep me going. The project is a long way off but it will utilize the truckload of film I acquired last year mixed with motiongraphic treatments. I’m hoping to release the videos as a web series and also have long-form work and live performance versions. I need to figure out how to do this. Like I said… future project.

Grew a beard in November.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:25:11 -0500

Grew a beard in November.