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If cassettes can come back as artful home furnishings, so can turntables. At left, this is a a bubbling fountain - water flows
through the tone arm and over the platter into a granite pool, where it is recycled. The wooden turntable on the right has been
re-imagined as a sandy Zen garden.
through the tone arm and over the platter into a granite pool, where it is recycled. The wooden turntable on the right has been
re-imagined as a sandy Zen garden.
While I could not always tell the
exhibits from the attendees, the
Tim Burton exhibit at the Museum
of Modern Art in NYC was a lot of
fun.
I had to order tickets weeks in
advance - and the show seemed to
contain far more than the "only 563
visitors allowed at a time" posted at
the entrance. The show had been
held over due to its tremendous
popularity.
Burton is obviously a collector, as
well as someone who saves
apparently every scrap of work he
has ever done - including grade
school scrapbooks.
A list of "jokes I have Made Up"
scrawled on looseleaf mentions,
"Pollack (sic) Jokes, Knock-Knock
Jokes, and Elephant Jokes.
exhibits from the attendees, the
Tim Burton exhibit at the Museum
of Modern Art in NYC was a lot of
fun.
I had to order tickets weeks in
advance - and the show seemed to
contain far more than the "only 563
visitors allowed at a time" posted at
the entrance. The show had been
held over due to its tremendous
popularity.
Burton is obviously a collector, as
well as someone who saves
apparently every scrap of work he
has ever done - including grade
school scrapbooks.
A list of "jokes I have Made Up"
scrawled on looseleaf mentions,
"Pollack (sic) Jokes, Knock-Knock
Jokes, and Elephant Jokes.
I enjoy much of Burton's work, including Pee-Wee's Great
Adventure. Big Fish, and Beetlejuice. The recent Alice In
Wonderland was a bit of a let-down for me, but it was enjoyable,
and I still occasionally declare,"I need a pig here!".
Tim Burton's imagination is prolific, and the many pages of
production notes on display show his clarity of vision. His script
changes for Beetlejuice are concise, with a logic behind his
comments on needed changes. It is always interesting to see the
details of works-in-progress from artists that you admire.
Burton's many painting and models are, at times, breath taking,
and exhausting to study. His sensibilities are detailed and varies
(note the disturbing Willie Wonka animatronix kids on the right).
Some of Burton's work runs the gamut to simple shock value and
even cruelty- as if just wants to see our reactions to some poor
taste prank. Most of the time, even the scary visions are
fascinating.
His early scrapbooks play loving homage to his early creative
heroes - Angelo Torres from Mad Magazine, and cartoonist Gahan
Wilson.
Looking at Burton's early models, it seems obvious that one of his
greatest influences (unnamed as far as I can tell) was the great
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Roth was a hot-rod builder with a talent for
creating monsters who drove sports cars. Roth's best-known
creation was "Rat Fink" - who became a theme for a series of
popular model kits created by Revell. I am sure that Burton, like
me and my friends, assembled some of these kits.
Looking at Roth's bizarre creations bear more than a passing
resemblance to some of the creatures in Mars Attacks! and
Nightmare Before Christmas.
The best of the Burton exhibit made you itchy for the next strange
work that Tim may be developing for the screen.
Adventure. Big Fish, and Beetlejuice. The recent Alice In
Wonderland was a bit of a let-down for me, but it was enjoyable,
and I still occasionally declare,"I need a pig here!".
Tim Burton's imagination is prolific, and the many pages of
production notes on display show his clarity of vision. His script
changes for Beetlejuice are concise, with a logic behind his
comments on needed changes. It is always interesting to see the
details of works-in-progress from artists that you admire.
Burton's many painting and models are, at times, breath taking,
and exhausting to study. His sensibilities are detailed and varies
(note the disturbing Willie Wonka animatronix kids on the right).
Some of Burton's work runs the gamut to simple shock value and
even cruelty- as if just wants to see our reactions to some poor
taste prank. Most of the time, even the scary visions are
fascinating.
His early scrapbooks play loving homage to his early creative
heroes - Angelo Torres from Mad Magazine, and cartoonist Gahan
Wilson.
Looking at Burton's early models, it seems obvious that one of his
greatest influences (unnamed as far as I can tell) was the great
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Roth was a hot-rod builder with a talent for
creating monsters who drove sports cars. Roth's best-known
creation was "Rat Fink" - who became a theme for a series of
popular model kits created by Revell. I am sure that Burton, like
me and my friends, assembled some of these kits.
Looking at Roth's bizarre creations bear more than a passing
resemblance to some of the creatures in Mars Attacks! and
Nightmare Before Christmas.
The best of the Burton exhibit made you itchy for the next strange
work that Tim may be developing for the screen.