Saturday, 2 February 2013

David Shrigley And Some Vaguely Coherent Bullet Points

Multiple people were telling me to look at David Shrigley's work, and I'm very glad they did.


I think I'm in a bullet-point-y mood.

- Shrigley's work has some of the quirky humour that the kind of web comics I like have, so I'm happy about that. Web comics inspire me. Yaaay!
- The way his animations are based on childish drawings is interesting to me because of the idea of putting time and labour into something which may appear, to some, to have little value. The reason this is interesting to me is because it seems relevant to the thoughts I was having about using childish, less serious "doodles" from friends and investing time into them in some way (although as I mentioned, I was thinking about carvings or elaborate paintings, as opposed to animation). I like the idea of having full control over what you do and don't take seriously.