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The creative minds behind Lucid Reverie are releasing a DVD, titled "Alaska Robotics Volume 1," of their short films, and the Ruby Room will be selling the disc during Friday night's Gallery Walk as well as showing works of art by members of Lucid Reverie.
The DVD offers a wide variety, from live action to stop motion and animation. It's sort of a "best of" collection of the last few years from some of Juneau's most talented filmmakers.
"We started doing JUMP (the Juneau Underground Motion Picture Society, founded by members of Lucid Reverie) about four years ago. Short films were something that we did peripherally," said Pat Race, local film maven and founding member of both groups.
"We were working for clients in the past doing web design and TV commercials, doing more and more work for hire and not doing what we wanted to do personally. Now we are focusing on our own internal projects like the short films."
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 Domo arigato: "Alaska Robotics Volume 1" will be available at the Ruby Room during Friday night's Gallery Walk. |
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The group's focus coincides with a national wave of homemade movies for Internet sites like youtube.com, where people upload films of all varieties.
Youtube.com gets over 100 million hits per day, and although Lucid Reverie isn't merely riding the wave of home video popularity, they do intend to use the site to try and market their work.
"We want to use sites like Youtube and Google Video to build up an audience," said Race.
"We think there are enough like-minded people out there that we can make something that we like rather than taking an approach that artists had to take previously, where they were making art that was more suited to people's tastes."
In an interview, Race mentioned "The Long Tail," an economics book by Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson. It speculates on a new economy based on sites like youtube.com or itunes.com, where the paradigm for selling music or movies is shifting away from megahits to niche audiences.
Also exhibiting at the First Friday show will be Sarah Asper-Smith. She will be showing digital prints of a children's book she has been working on. The book is an A-Z look at collective nouns (i.e. an army of ants).
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| oFF your toes: Lou Logan dives for a pair of socks in this still from an Alaska Robotics short "Socks," a live-action stop animation film. |
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"I got the idea while reading a book that mentioned 'a business of ferrets,' Asper-Smith said. "I did some research on the subject and decided to put together a book."
The book features Asper-Smith's art, which can also be seen on many of Lucid Reverie's projects. She's a member of the group, and will also be showing large and small prints.
"I'm just finishing the book project," she said. "Right now I'm working on iguanas." In case you were wondering, a group of iguanas is a "mess."
The First Friday premiere and art exhibit begins at 4:30 p.m at the Ruby Room, 174 S. Franklin St. Suite 103.
The DVD "Alaska Robotics Volume 1," with the collected short films of Lucid Reverie will be available at the show for $20.
Check out akrobotics.com, which is the site for the DVD, or visit lrcd.com which is Lucid Reverie's site. You can also call 586-3440 for more information.
