Ambling Around

Ambling Around covers all things art and animation from a creative perspective. Prying, spying, and eavesdropping on a wide variety of subjects, this blog seeks to be at the very least informative, opinionated, and meddlesome.

Sharon Katz is a visual artist working in animated and still imagery. Her day job is pursuing the heady elixir of "art," whatever that is at any given moment. Her work can be found screening at film festivals, fixed to the walls of various corporations and institutions, and floating around in cyberspace. You can find her website at http://www.sharonkatz.net and she can be reached at amble[at]sharonkatz.net

YouTube Play - The Winning Entries Part 1

Posted In | Blog Categories: YouTube, Op-Ed, Mass Media | Site Categories: Art, Awards, Films, Short Films
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Still from the short film Bath Tub IV by Keith Loutit

 

There's at least some form of animation in all the YouTube Play winning entries. Which tells me that animation's star is rising in the art world.


YouTube Play - Presenting The Jury

Posted In | Blog Categories: YouTube, Op-Ed, Mass Media | Site Categories: Events, Films, Internet and Interactive, Short Films
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Experimental, psychedelic musicians Animal Collective

 

The YouTube Play jury list is out and there are some stellar people on it. Who are they? Well, for one thing they're all hard driving experimental artists.

YouTube Play: Corralling Wild Cattle

Posted In | Blog Categories: YouTube, Op-Ed, Mass Media | Site Categories: Art, Films, Internet and Interactive, Short Films

 

YouTube Play
YouTube Play.

 

Since 2005 YouTube has given us a prime venue for quick and dirty moving images. And now the powers that be in the art world are trying to grade that production.

The result is the first YouTube-Guggenehim joint exhibition, YouTube Play, an effort to pick the best of the 2 billion videos being screened daily on YouTube.

Who selected and juried the 23,358 submissions?