Saturday, December 13, 2008

Pigeon-man

I made a pigeon head this week.
It was intended for my video art final project, but now I think it was just an excuse to make a gigantic bird head. Looks good when you wear it though. Here are stills from the project.
The project I originally had in mind was gonna be this epic part live-action part animation thing, with nightmare sequences and dead pigeons dropping all over the place. There was gonna be this part where this pigeon gets pierced to death by seeds. Alas, I think my vision was just too grandiose. Oh well.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to raise pigeons in our backyard. Every few weeks or so, my grandma would wrangle a pigeon from the coop, kill it, and cook it for dinner. I used to stand there and watch pigeons dangling from the doorknob for years. I guess blatant animal cruelty wasn't a big issue in my family.

5 comments:

love is not single player said...

meat is delicious murder

ben oviatt said...

Very nice.

And what a handsome pigeon, if I do say so myself.

ben oviatt said...

PS: why aren't you in class right now?

Connie Li Chan said...

i would be if i could, but i'm sort of on a different continent right at the moment...

Bob Szantyr said...

oh connie... i wish i sat in on peter's class so i could have seen such craziness from you