VS. Opens @ The Windup Space Friday, June 5

Sean Murray

Who Can't get down with some Gamer art? Vs. an exhibition of art by local illustrators, comic book artists and video game designers opens at the Windup Space this Friday, June 5 from 7 - 9pm

From the press release:

Baltimore-based artists working in the visual entertainment fields of video games, comic books and illustration will exhibit their personal work in VS., a new gallery show at The Windup Space during the month of June. An opening reception for VS. takes place Friday, June 5 from 7-9 p.m. at the bar, music and arts venue located at 12 W. North Ave. in the heart of the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. The show ends on July 31^st.

Each of the 14 artists in the exhibition will interpret the theme of conflict from a fine art perspective. It may be literal -- Bigfoot vs. Cookie Monster -- or conceptual -- Nature vs. Nurture.

Artists include video game environment artist and landscape painter Colin Campbell, graphic novel artist Brian Ralph (“Cave-In,” “Climbing Out,”) video game concept artist and Spectrum Gold winner Jeremy Enecio, video game concept artist and freelance illustrator Sean Murray and children’s book illustrator and fairy tale-inspired fine artist Jaime Zollars.

cinematic culture vulture

Blast from the immediate past, current fave film of '92: BARAKA

This one:


Not this one:


Shot in 152 locations in 42 different countries, "Baraka" attempts to search for a universal cultural perspective on spirituality, war, industry and community. This experimental film contains no dialogue, leaving it up to the instrumental soundtrack (provided by Andean drummers and ambient musicians "Dead can Dance), time lapse photography and long winded yet stunning landscape shots to evoke emotion and cite parallels between cultures. Ron Fricke, the director and cinematographer of "Baraka", is also linked to Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy, a set of films described as "visual tone poems" featuring a minimalist score by Philip Glass (of course).


"Balinese Monkey Chant"



Continue to "Part 6 of 10" if you'd like to see the meet-your-meat conclusion but go ahead and rent the film in order to finish it. "Baraka" was shot in Todd-AO format which is a ludicrously high-format, widescreen film that basically makes everything look like super-saturated iMAX hard candy.