Have a nice flight, John…Remember, don’t order the fish and call when you get there… Tweet. Shit Baldessari just died! John Baldessari was provocative, irreverent, cool, and funny—and never boring. Play. Baldessari's projects include artist books, videos, films, billboards and public works. 0:00. A video narrated by Tom Waits illustrates how John Baldessari, his ideas and tools evolved over years. Written by Gabriel Nussbaum, directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (" Catfish "), and narrated by crooner and fellow National City alum Tom Waits, the documentary is …
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Tom Waits narrates this whimsical, fast-moving introduction to the life and work of West-Coast conceptual artist John Baldessari. Narrated by Tom Waits. This is a sweet and short audio/video bio with Waits as narrator. More posts from the tomwaits community. A Brief History of John Baldessari. April 6, 2015 That meant that Tom Wait’s friend, artist John Baldessari, might have also spent time there. Prolific as he is respected, Baldessari has taken part in over 1,000 group shows and 200 solo exhibitions throughout his career. Known as the Godfather of conceptual art, John Baldessari has shaped contemporary art as we know it. The film, which debuted at the South By Southwest festival earlier this year, went up for public YouTube consumption this week. A Brief History of John Baldessari A towering figure in the art world, standing at 6'7", John Baldessari's epic career is crammed into 5 and a half frenzied minutes. ... Just Watch This Video Narrated by Tom Waits. The film was directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the creative team behind Catfishand Paranormal Activity 3.
Baldessari's Projects and Awards. View Comments. 61. RIP. John Baldessari is regarded of one of the world’s most influential living artists, and he has shaped contemporary art as we know it. Mailing List Sign up for the Tom Waits mailing list: Subscribe Add the RSS News Feed Archive. In our October 2013 issue, coinciding with Tom Waits' new book of photographs with Anton Corbijn, we asked famed California-based conceptual artist, and Waits collaborator John Baldessari to engage with him in conversation. In California is a new monthly series where we shine a light on things that are quintessentially Californian, or that could only have come out of California. Settings. DEL BARCO: In 2012, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art commissioned a short documentary on Baldessari, narrated by singer Tom Waits. My friend Josh’s dad grew up on the same street as Tom Waits in National City, a suburb of my native San Diego, California, around the same time Waits did.
While we are probably not going to get Tom Waits to do voice work for our films, picking the right subjects to discover can lead to all sorts of happy coincidences, and John Baldessari and Tom Waits just so happen to be from the same town, so naturally there was no better person to translate the wit of the dialogue than Waits himself. Instead of being a regular documentary, this film whips through its subject with rapid editing, asides and a droll narration from Tom Waits; indeed Waits says way more words than John Baldessari …