FecalFace.com

When I was in Europe I started appreciating art a bit more as I went to hundreds of art mueseums but after moving to Vancouver my interest in contemporary art has spiked.

I stumbled across fecalface.com and being a fan of street art it went straight into my bookmarks.

I'm not really a big painter but I think if I hadn't chosen film school I would be creating contemporary art. At some point I wouldn't mind stepping into the contemporary art side of things, be it collaborations or creating my own pieces. Never know, could happen. I'm still young.








"We don't normally work with any specific artists really. I'd say we work within a like minded sensibility. A bit hard to describe, but it probably has a lot to do with growing up surrounded by punk rock and skateboarding culture. The artists that gravitate towards us are also the same artists that we lean towards. Artists who might not have consciously decided to become artists... maybe the same way Fecal Face was never a conscious art website with specific defined goals. Some things just happen." -Trippe

Fecal Face is a content-rich, comprehensive, multidisciplinary art and culture website supporting the art scene in San Francisco and beyond since 2000. The site greets between 11,000-13,000 visitors a day, occupying a unique niche online and in the "real world," by chronicling and shaping the contemporary arts scene in the SF Bay Area and beyond. Visitors to Fecal Face find photo rich features including artist interviews, studio visits, blogs by prominent artists and personalities, an hourly updated news section and coverage of current art openings. Additionally the site supports a forum board with over 2000 users, a comprehensive creative jobs database and an events calendar offering some of the more obscure attractions in San Francisco, Los Angelos and New York. It's helped launch the careers of many a creative, and catalyzed a community of artists working in various mediums from around the globe.

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php

Nate Frizzell

I came across a video on an artist by Nate Frizzell, I'm really digging his stuff right now. He deals with a lot of masks in his paintings and ever since reading Macbeth in highschool I've always liked the idea of the mask motif. So yeah, check him out.

Nate Frizzell 'Put on a Happy Face' Preview from Jeremy Asher Lynch on Vimeo.

My Final Project.

Term 5 is finally here which means pre-production on Final Projects. For mine I've decided to make a motion graphic-like music video for my Brother's rap group- Tantalus Behavior. The whole thing is going to be completely ridiculous and over the top, probably offending over half the parents at graduation but I'm hoping it will look amazing.

My idea is to have still photographs of the rappers faces placed in 3D space in after effects in a fully illustrated environment which my buddy Milan who is a talented graphic designer is going to help me design. Then I will mask out the mouths and eyes and feather in real footage synced to the lyrics.

For the most part these two videos are my inspiration and I will be stealing techniques from both of them.

Ramona Falls "I Say Fever" from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

Hermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe - Wanderland from Kristof Luyckx on Vimeo.

My Best Friend Doug

My Best Friend Doug from Dustin Shea on Vimeo.

Short film in 13 shots for Cine class. 3minute movie- 12hours on set.

It wasn't bad for a first try, we made a few mistakes but that's how it goes. There are a few things I want to change eventually, at the time we decided to leave out the last scene of her being dragged into the closet but I think we are going to take a shot out from the hallway scene and add in the ending.



Written and Directed by
DUSTIN SHEA


CAST
(in Order of Apperance)

Sarah SARAH HARRISON
Jennifer BRIANNA ASHLEIGH
Doug AIDIN SAEDI


CREW

Camera Operator.....SCOTT JOSEPH
First Assistant Camera.....TAYLOR LENTON
Director of Photography.....RYAN CHABOT
Assistant DP/Key Grip .....JULIAN CHAPDELAINE
Grips.....AIDIN SAEDI/RYAN CHABOT/TAYLOR LENTON
Boom Operator.....TAYLOR LENTON
Post Production.....SCOTT JOSEPH
Production Manager.....DUSTIN SHEA



SPECIAL THANKS

The Schryvers Family
Brad Leith
Chad Costen
Steve Taylor

Invasion

This was a video Ryan and I did for art and creativity. It was our first time experimenting with a gallery type video that is meant to be looped indefinitely. The quality is a bit a amateurish and the lighting didn't turn out so well as it's hard to light outside.

Our topic was power. We were trying to evoke some empathy for bugs that people kill everyday by personifying them and making the viewer conscious of what they are watching. We also tried to deal with the idea that we like to think insects invade our personal space, but the fact is they were here first and we are invading on them.

Invasion from Dustin Shea on Vimeo.

Sugar Walk

Sugar Walk from Dustin Shea on Vimeo.

So I helped Ryan with his art and creativity project. We filled his backpack up with 10 kgs of sugar and poked a hole in it. I followed him around for about an hour.

My discovery project.

I've had the idea for awhile now but never had the resources to make it. So when I got the chance to do a self-directed project through discovery class I knew I had to make it. We had limitations of equipment(don't get to use shotgun mics until next term) so the sound quality is a bit low. Other then that It turned out pretty good.

Suffering Student Fund:

Suffering Student Fund from Dustin Shea on Vimeo.

I also had to do a small presentation about the process of creating the video, so I figured I would try and be professional and do an interview style presentation

The making of:

The making of suffering student fund from Dustin Shea on Vimeo.