Posts Tagged ‘avant-garde’

Procrast-Nation the Gathering, Part IV

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

In this section, I figured I would focus heavily on the Avant-Garde type creatures.  These are strange drawings, primarily ones I have done on paint or doodled, and I use the term Avant-Garde sort of interchangeably with poor quality.  Anyway, these cards tend to be creature types, and some grant positive benefits for all Avant-Garde type cards.  Avant-Garde Renaissance is an amazing card if you build a deck out of these creatures, as it  makes them more powerful and cheaper at the same time.  Also, the Mutant Wet Nurse is another great card if someone is playing with a primarily Avante-Garde deck.  One playing with these creatures would want to focus primarily on forest and island mana when adding lands to their deck.

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Examinations of 8 Films by Bruce Conner Pt. 2: Report and The White Rose

Friday, June 19th, 2009

The garbage day marathon goes on! (more…)

Examinations of 8 Films by Bruce Conner Pt. 1: Vivian and Breakaway

Friday, June 19th, 2009

A couple months back I reported on the MOMA memorial screening of Conner’s films Breakaway, Looking for Mushrooms, and Crossroads. Having recently come upon copies of 8 of these films I’d like to go through them one by one and do brief intuitive analyses of each film. Having now viewed the vast majority of his work, I can give a much more informed overview. Films are going to be written about in chronological order. (more…)