"Emergence", the debut album from AnimHeru

AnimHeru · Emergence

The best skill...

The newest track from AnimHeru (James Bowman)

The film Watership Down helped to put me on a path to becoming an animator...  And currently, I'm still traveling.... 

What put you on a path towards creativity?

The newest piece from James Bowman (Poochie) 

seeing Me 3

#Art #Artist #Portrait #Impressionism #Impressionist

"FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST"

1. What is your name?
- Crys Darling

2. Where are you from?
- Columbus(Ohio) is my home

3. What do you do?
- Eco Fashion Designer specializing in custom costumes for clients and runway

4. What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- Growing up as a kid with modest hand-me-down clothing inspired my Eco fashion line, Label Yourself. I created my line to inspire others to express their own true beauty and style through fashion

5. What is your view on the state of the arts?
- Art classes in school saved my life and made me the artist I am today. It breaks my heart that schools are taking art and music out of schools when children are naturally creative. Art and music allows them to express themselves.

I'm so passionate about it that I created an Eco Fashion Club at Berwick School with junior high students. The kids learn to design their own creative fashion and at the end of the year model during our runway fashion show.

Most importantly we inspire the kids to express their true beauty through design, fashion and art.

Taming the "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

What would it be like to live in the middle of a swamp, in a post Katrina or post apocalyptic world? What if you saw this world from the imagination/reality of a child. That's where I arrived when I opened my eyes to the film, Beast of the Southern Wild. The film opens in a celebration with the people of the "Bathtub", a community living in the middle of the Mississippi delta, inside of a levee. This community is a hodgepodge of races, cultures, the eclectic, and the strange. The narrator of this unusual story is Hushpuppy, a tough, spunky, and independent six year old girl, who is raised by her equally tough but slightly off father, Wink.

As I watched this film, I couldn't tell where realty crossed to fantasy or when fantasy reawakened again to reality. In between listening to the heartbeat of every animal she came upon, or handfishing with her father, Hushpuppy envisioned the escape of prehistoric beasts, released from melting polar ice caps. For her, the universe had to always be in balance, and the escape of these beasts represented just that. The film moved as it were visual poetry, weaving in and out of realism and the fantastic mind of a child. I wonder if adults would have the flexibility to still absorb or understand the idealism of such an imagination.

For a first time effort, director and writer Benh Zeitlin runs full blast into a visually stunning, epic, and artistic piece. It's also hard to believe that the stars of the film, Dwight Henry(Wink) , and the truly amazing Quvenzhané Wallis(Hushpuppy) were just regular people discovered in Louisiana. This film will either disappoint with its confusion, entrance you with its artistry, or leave you longing to understand its meaning. But whatever you take from this film, I hope that you would appreciate the remarkable talent of Quvenzhané Wallis, in a performance that I hope will be awarded come Oscar time.

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" Official Trailer

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Ryan - 

2) Where are you from?
- Miami - 

3) What do you do?
- cg supe at buck. - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- toy story -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- Commercial art has been booming for thirty years, since cable tv, the Internet, and cheap printing. Fine arts has descended into Tiny niches mainly because it has been fragmented into many many pieces via subcultures. Fine arts reaches fewer and fewer people -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Kamala - 

2) Where are you from?
- The Milky Way, Earth, NYC. - 

3) What do you do?
- DJ and produce music. Mastering the art of living. - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- Love of music, positive and creative outlets, social service. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- The arts are forever evolving and expanding despite political resistance and corporate manipulation. -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Aiko Tanaka - 

2) Where are you from?
- Japan - 

3) What do you do?
- content development, marketing etc. - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- my interests in media x culture -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- unlimited -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Michael Lindgren - 

2) Where are you from?
- New York City - 

3) What do you do?
- Freelance writer, poet, and musician - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- I have always felt the need to express myself with words and music, and have been fortunate to be shown how to attempt to do so by parents, friends, teachers, and co-workers. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- I have faith that artists will always find a way to get their work done; but there are many factors today that make it hard to feel optimistic. The current political trend towards cutting support for arts, education, schools, libraries, and so on, is disastrous, and very angering. -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Iris Huey - 

2) Where are you from?
- Phoenix, AZ - 

3) What do you do?
- Live life and grow spiritually. And I bring what I learn to my creative outlets like filmmaking and acting. I also enjoy performing spoken word. - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- The fulfillment I experience from making films and acting impels me to work in these areas. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- It is ever expanding. More and more people seem committed to creating opportunities to share their art with the world. Great things are happening. Beautiful art is everywhere. -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Dawnn Mahulawde - 

2) Where are you from?
- Cleveland, Ohio - 

3) What do you do?
- Model and Jewelry Design - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- I've always been expressive in the arts. I graduated from the Cleveland School of the Arts majoring in Voice and Creative Writing in highschool. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- Art is being guided by the consumer and what the consumer wants to buy at that time. This shapes the art that is created by the artists creating limitations for their outlet. -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Kimberly Townes - 

2) Where are you from?
- Virginia - 

3) What do you do?
- Filmmaker - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- I never perceived of doing anything else. Maybe I thought of being an anthropologist. But the two closely relate if you think about it. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- I think the art scene is bursting, maybe not flourishing. Everyday a new tool is created making them abundant and cheap. There is no excuse to not create something. There is no reason to not tell your story. -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Ann LePore - 

2) Where are you from?
- Saratoga County, New York - 

3) What do you do?
- I'm an artist and educator. I like to build, hack, break, edit, project and animate. - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- Delmer Herrick, my high school art teacher believed in me. If it weren't for him, I never would have pushed myself creatively, or gone to art school. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- The state of the arts in this state is not great- in terms of official NJ support, or American arts support for that matter. However, as artists, we create our own communities and our own support networks- and while we have very few monetary resources, we support each other better than any government ever could. -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Michelle Zada - 

2) Where are you from?
- Columbus, Ohio - 

3) What do you do?
- Professional Dancer with Dallas Black Dance Theatre - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- Fell in love with dance as a young girl and decided I was going to follow my heart. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- I feel the arts and particularly dance is flourishing, but there is always room to grow! -

The Question

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Araia Patrick Tesfamariam - 

2) Where are you from?
- I live in Chicago but I am originally from Dayton, OH - 

3) What do you do?
- I am a copywriter and commercial producer - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- My father bought a camcorder when I was 13 years old and he used to let me make little movies with it. I loved the idea that I could make people see what I wanted them to see, to have a vision in my own mind and be able to impress that image on another person. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- I believe that technological advances will continue to make it easier for people to create and distribute their projects. But if all this access isn't paired with real talent, all we have is noise. -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Karol - 

2) Where are you from?
- Wisconsin (near Green Bay) - 

3) What do you do?
- Game Artist - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- At age 5, I saw a Disney cartoon and decided I wanted to be an animator. In high school I saw Toy Story then decided I wanted to be a computer animator. I got pretty hardcore into gaming in the 90s when I first noticed story-telling become an important part the gaming experience (ie. Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid: The twin snakes). That's when I decided I'll do games. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- A career in the art and entertainment industry has historically been a risky endeavor to pursue. I'm sure the hardships involved in trying to get an opprotunity might have been magnified by the rough economy. I'm working full-time as an artist so I have no complaints about my life as an artist per se. The main thing that worry's me are lay-offs. Once you find a job you hold on to it for dear life because it could be months to over a year or so until you find full-time work again. Its pretty scary out there. -

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR THE ARTIST

1) What is your name?
- Chris Collins -

2) Where are you from?- I grew up in New Jersey - 

3) What do you do?
- I am a freelance cinematographer based out of Hollywood - 

4) What inspired you to pursue your creative career?
- I was fortunate enough to have a great teacher in high school who taught American literature from a Budhist perspective. Having grown up in a conservative environment, that was the first time I was encouraged to explore the way other people might think about the world. Film was a natural medium for me to explore, and it didn't take long before I realized that I belong behind a camera. Now I use the camera as an excuse to experience new people, places, and things. -

5) What is your view on the state of the arts?
- The art world is finally in a state today where anybody can potentially turn passion into a career. It wasn't always like that. The internet has given artists a platform on which to stage whatever it is they may be doing. I think filmmakers and musicians have benefited the most from this transformation, and I give thanks every day.

I would also appreciate it if one of these trailers made it in there somewhere. Thanks man!

https://vimeo.com/40320920