All Fall Down Blog Piece

on Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction

John Towsen of All Fall Down: The Craft + Art of Physical Comedy fame did a write up of the live screening we did of silent short film duet Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction in September as part of the Amuse Bouche Clown Festival in Brooklyn NY.

We put together a new live musical score with Clifton Hyde and Stefan Zeniuk, and Director Michael Pope and Animator and star Zea Barker provided the sound effects with a tiny table with too too many things on it.

All live action, and much of the animation, was shot on super 8 film and edited digitally. The animation is a self-taught method that Zea came up with through trial and error and trying endlessly to get this endless business of hand-crafted animation to go a bit quicker.

lookee here:

Bony Lil's Distraction from Zea on Vimeo.


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Bony Lil's Creation from Zea on Vimeo.

Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction Screening

BONY LIL's CREATION + DISTRACTION
short film duet
silent comedy * hand-crafted animation * live music + sound fx

Amuse Bouche 2011
ComedyShorts - Clowns on Film
The Brick Theater - williamsburg brooklyn
September 16th - 10pm
tickets



Bony Lil rides again! This will be only the second time these films have screened in New York (the first being in the fall of 2008 at Joe's Pub) This time, they are joined by other great clown films of Jeff Seal and Morro and Jasp as well as an animation/live performance from the multi-talented Isaac Littlejohn Eddy. With each new screening of these films co-creators Zea Barker and Michael Pope look for new folks to collaborate with and create new music for these silent pieces. Clifton Hyde has stepped to the task and will be sure to bring the funk as this is not his first rodeo in the genre. All sound effects are done live as well by Barker and Pope and their bag of tricks.

This is a special night in the month long clown festival Amuse Bouche taking place at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg Brooklyn (Lorimer Metropolitan L/G) THis night in particular will be hosted by the fabulous Audrey Crabtree and John Towsen!

There are a bunch of great live shows happening all month. Check'm out!

NY Downtown Clown Revue

As Lady Luck would have it, the entire line-up this month was women at the NY Downtown Clown Revue! We couldn't quite convince Christopher Lueck to don a dress for the occasion.
Brenn Swanson, Butt Kapinski, Amanda Crockett and the lovely stagehand Aquarium (and, of course, Bony Lil) brought the house down.

Jim Moore at vaudevisuals.com posted a blog with a bunch of fine pictures of the evening.

These are from that.

Bony Lil January - NYC

Two performance this month in New York City!

BINDLESTIFF OPEN STAGE
January 3rd
Galapagos Art Space
DUMBO Brooklyn
8pm

+

NY DOWNTOWN CLOWN REVUE
January 17th
Dixon Place
LES Manhattan
7:30pm

Come on out! xx

Bony Lil's Recital

This is from the 2008 NY Clown Theater Festival. This piece has been around in various forms since about 2003. It started with canned music and then the wonderfully talented Valerie Thompson {who composed an original score to the short film/animation Bony Lil's Creation} came aboard to compose and perform an original piece.

This was a cabaret night at the clown festival and you will see a nice introduction by Joel Jeske at the top of the clip.

Bony Lil's Recital from Zea on Vimeo.

Bony Lil in the Loop- Chicago

Bony Lil - How To Give Up On Your Dreams - Lesson #14 from Zea on Vimeo.

An offshoot from the show I created for the NY Clown Theater Festival, "How to Give Up on Your Dreams, By Not Really Trying"

Spent an afternoon running around downtown Chicago with a camera.

Original music by Zebulun Barnow of B1g T1me. Chris Gummert on camera.

Video Archive: Romance

Dug up this vintage footage circa 2003, playing the Straight Man to Brian Viglione's overwrought romantic. A belated Valentine to the world.

BEIGE: the saga continues

A year and a half ago, found myself living in the oil to my water, Orlando FL, for six weeks. It drove me a bit batty. I made a video about it: Beige

Last month, I found myself in the same predicament again and decided to continue the saga.

Presenting BEIGE REDUX:

beige redux from Zea on Vimeo.

...aaaaand the director's cut

beige redux: director's cut from Zea on Vimeo.

.......aaaaannd a little bonus somethingsomething

hotel from Zea on Vimeo.

I am safely back in Chicago, now.

With Dr. Killbot

Doing a clown bit with Dr.Killbot at the Beat Kitchen tomorrow night.

First Foray into Art Criticism...

Decider.com has posted the results of three clowns going into Chicago's Art Institute's new Modern Wing to watch the entire hour loop of Bruce Nauman's video installation, 'clown torture'. I was one of those clowns.

Photo by Kelly Reilly

WANTED: reviewed

Review

"high-level clowning"
"spandex"
"Mamet"

where's my Tony.

More Than...

Inspired on Christmas night. Made the next day.
NSFW due to copious f-bombs.

...you heard

Employment from Zea on Vimeo.

Done!

A music video for a Bugs in the Dark cover song by Jordan Woods-Robinson featuring the Blue Men of Orlando as shot, cut and directed by Zea Barker.

have at.

alright alright alRIGHT alright

ode to my apartment


a regular lunataco.

S'no Fun

In the Snow: keeping you company from Zea on Vimeo.
This is how I spent my yesterday. I made it as part of the Ze Frank 'keeping you company' series. Since I tend to insist on a complete lack of dialogue, it seems I will have to continue to tackle this 'original music' thing. Probably need to invest in a mic better than what's onboard my 'puter. That and some basic arms-making-rhythms classes. Or start playing stuff with my feet...
Video posted on Ze's blog: here

The other thing I'd like to say is that snow is awesome. For many reasons, but today because the sun going down at 4:30 is a bummer, but if there's snow, it kicks up every last scrap of light in the sky, making it seem lighter at twilight. Sometimes, it seems like the snow is a shade brighter than the sky. this place rocks.
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goood morning