He does some really nice line drawings of playful creatures and funny cheeky animals.
The largest room of the Campbelltown gallery is given over to the monumentally scaled, single-screen projection of Tripasso in Wackyland (2014), a looped collage of 1930s-style charactersaracters dropped over a collage of random TV footage including basketball games, undersea creatures and funny cats, all set to a very serious piece of booming orchestral music a la Walt Disney's Fantasia.
In these dreamlike paintings, Frida is blessed with companions -- funny creatures inspired by the folk art that surrounded Kahlo as a child and that she collected as an adult, including a devil, a jaguar and a dancing candy skull.
We thought of our New Jersey relatives as exotic creatures who talked funny and smoked and played pinochle all night in basements that had full bars, complete with red leather booths and a beer tap right in the wall.
Miro's vocabulary of calligraphic signs, funny creatures, erotic symbols and radically simplified landscapes is familiar, but with the exception of a large, physically substantial collage on yellow sandpaper, most of the canvases look hastily and negligently made -- albeit with splattery energy -- and have none of the sensuous grace of Miro at his best (Johnson).
"You were wandering round looking at all these funny creatures and fantastic sets, but you had no idea what it would look like at the finish".
In the demo video above, for instance, you'll see different advertising effects projected onto the walls of a room, from a Pong game that you can play to a RSS feeds running across the baseboard as a ticker to funny creatures whose eyes you can move with your mouse.
Warthogs are very busy and funny creatures.
(This is easier. Humans are funny creatures because we find it incredibly easy to come up with 5,000 things we don't like about ourselves in 30 seconds, yet we search for hours to identify our good characteristics).
Humans can be funny creatures.
