Sylvia Toy's Book

A Day

2011-12-14T05:41:00.000-08:00

traveling to

2011-11-06T13:39:00.000-08:00

Breath

2011-10-20T21:58:00.000-07:00

My Director's Cut of 'Keskarel A Quicktime Storyboard'

2011-08-25T05:52:00.000-07:00

Play it on Vimeo

A****le runnns in red boots.

2011-07-05T04:15:00.000-07:00

Tall

2011-07-03T18:28:00.000-07:00

2011-06-20T13:59:00.000-07:00

A****le, Episode 5

2011-06-18T08:42:00.000-07:00

Infinity

2011-06-11T20:05:00.000-07:00

The Story of the Book, Found

2011-06-08T23:56:00.000-07:00

The bot infestation

2011-04-10T13:53:00.000-07:00

As a person of color, I am very offended to learn that western entrepreneurs are still at the game of exploiting the underclasses. As the great blogger nitecruzr states: 'Even spammers don't crap where they live.' Instead, European spammers, primarily in Germany (http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2006/09/bots-and-you.html) practice colonization by bouncing most of their porn and other spam from servers in underclass countries.

My Google stats show almost 1200 hits on this site. As this blog is unpromoted, and primarily a personal library for my own serious video performance art, I doubt most of those hits were by fans - they were made by a botnet.

I use Blogger because it's free, and after leaving the professional gallery scene with a bad taste in my mouth, I want to keep my video art free for anyone who wants to share it with me. So, I am learning not to let it bother me that this wonderful medium is infested with parasites, the lowest form of life on the food chain.

Shhh A****le

2011-04-10T04:49:00.000-07:00

Mirror

2011-03-18T06:10:00.001-07:00

http://www.archive.org/details/MirrorHallucination

Runnn (re-edited February 17, 2011)

2011-02-10T00:16:00.001-08:00

Performance art that started storyboarding itself as soon as I saw from the trolley that there is a new grafitti mural where my favorite one used to be. A spark that would not be denied had me pulling out my Flip before I was off the trolley, and racing down the street like they were about to paint over the new mural with that horrible maroon paint, too. It was as if I already all the shots, all the angles, how to design and costume the shoot all at once, and when I bought the aluminum foil at Walgreen's, I was embarrassed because my hands were shaking.

Psychotic Artifacts (2007)

2011-01-27T06:17:00.000-08:00

Selected Work, 2006-2009

2011-01-27T05:48:00.000-08:00

dollar 99

2011-01-22T21:15:00.000-08:00

Keskarel Second Cut

2011-01-09T19:35:00.000-08:00

I have done some cutting to improve flow, and shot a little B-roll today to add some dimensionality to the story:

on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WYclfOyfQA

Quicktime storyboard

2010-12-12T16:25:00.001-08:00

2010-12-12T07:11:00.000-08:00

Step

2010-11-17T14:40:00.000-08:00

watch me on Vimeo

2010-11-04T10:08:00.000-07:00

Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth. Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth. Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth. Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth. Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth. Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth. Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth. Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth. Art flows from pain and bleeds very slowly and painfully from truth.

Replenishment

2010-08-29T20:28:00.000-07:00

Deep Well

2010-08-12T13:47:00.000-07:00

thank you for watching.

TYFTB (thank you from the bottom)

2010-08-08T14:47:00.000-07:00

TYFTB : what's left of an unfinished play (thank you from the bottom) about a delusional woman who believes the universe is collapsing and jumps into a manhole in an effort to escape into a black hole.

Scratch Scribble

2010-08-01T19:27:00.001-07:00

Video performance art shot on my Macbook, composed in first generation IMovie and edited in FCP. The text is inspired by my very collection of discarded notes, drawings, letters, postcards, crib notes, handwritten drafts of resumes (2 of those) and lots and lots of lists. Handwritten things (ink/pencil on scraps of paper) are becoming more and more rare. I feel like an anthropologist when I find a new treasure. Making the video is very satisfying, very physical: speaking, improvising character and then weaving the images, text and sound into a new piece of art. This was an excellent Sunday afternoon.

Depression as Geography

2010-04-02T12:27:00.000-07:00

the story of the book:thecovenantofgodandallthepeople

2009-12-20T16:14:00.000-08:00

scratch scribble

2009-12-01T13:23:00.000-08:00

scratch scribble

our words are scraps on the sidewalk crushed underfoot blown from one doorway to another crushed under tires crushed under raindrops.

our words are directions notes to the metermaid notes to our neighbors lists directions addresses phone numbers essays memos.

scratch scratch scribble scribble

our words are thrown out on purpose thrown out by mistake lost fallen out of our pockets fallen out of our backpacks dumped by pickpockets dumped by dumpster divers dumped while we look for our keys in the dark.

our words are scribbles on dirty scraps of paper on the sidewalk, all over the sidewalk, all over the street, all over the alleys, in the gutters, under the park benches, crammed in the corner of the bus shelters, shoved in the chinks in the wall.

scratch scratch scribble scribble

written on receipts on napkins on popsicle sticks on dirty paper bags on newspapers

so somebody gets a piece of our mind so the metermaid knows so the highway patrol knows so our neighbor knows, so

so we won't forget

we won't forget

scratch scratch

scribble scribble

Found:The Art of Failure

2009-09-27T17:12:00.000-07:00

Artists know sometimes our best stuff comes from our worst experiences. A year has passed since my hair and fingernails were falling out due to poison named Leona. You have to know her to hate her. You have to know her to believe her. You have to be her to get over her.

more music for The Book

2009-09-09T20:14:00.000-07:00

Neon Vegas

the door

2009-09-07T14:40:00.000-07:00

Found:MyHome

2009-06-22T17:24:00.000-07:00

Found:The Street Where I Live

2009-06-17T18:49:00.000-07:00

Found:TheStoryofTheBookPartThree

2009-06-16T19:02:00.000-07:00

Found:TheStoryoftheBookPartTwo

2009-06-14T16:19:00.000-07:00

Found:TheStoryofTheBook,PartOne

2009-06-13T06:18:00.000-07:00

Found:Mouth

2009-06-12T13:53:00.000-07:00

Found: Shelter

2009-06-03T19:05:00.000-07:00

Found: Head

2009-06-03T11:00:00.000-07:00

Found: in the universe

2009-06-01T17:47:00.000-07:00

devout scavenger. plagiarizing reality truth beauty. woodcarving plagiary of ancestors. filmmaker plagiarizes public places. a writer is his favorite junkyard. we are stardust. our bodies. recycled from the universe. recycled back into the universe.

Found: New Rune

2009-05-30T19:24:00.000-07:00

Found: A Theme

2009-05-29T12:21:00.000-07:00

there is nothing wrong with your player -
no image will appear

gracias por escuchar

Found: Sylvia Toy

2009-05-28T02:02:00.000-07:00

Found: A Sermon

2009-05-27T18:47:00.001-07:00

Found - Defined

2009-05-27T11:25:00.001-07:00

Marcel DuChamp's Fountain on Wikipedia

Found

2009-05-27T10:33:00.000-07:00