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Monday, 5 July 2010
World Cup Frenzy

A friend of mine took me to watch a few of the World Cup

games including the Ghana USA game. To tell you the truth

watching 1-1 tie games with no scoring is pretty boring. But

when you watch the fans and listen to the announcers excited

about the game and watch Argentina's coach Maradona run around

like a 5 year old kid every time his team scores you realize that people

around the world are absolutely fascinated and involved by this event. 

The kids in Ghana, Brazil, or Paraguay, or any third world

country can't afford the hundreds of dollars it cost to play football, baseball,

or hockey. But for a few bucks a group of the poorest kids anywhere can buy

a soccer ball and play the game of their national heroes.

 Think of the people in South Africa who are going to see the

games. Some poor guy from the townships saves up

money and bring his kids to one of these World Cup games.

He could never travel to another part of the world to go to one.

For them it could be one of the highlights of their life that

they talk about years later. In this fractured world having

an event that bring everyone together if just for a few weeks

is some kind of accomplishment.

A friend of mine took me to the World Cup final. When Spain won the fans went wild. I'm sure this is a huge event for them.

 

Posted by mcusiman at 9:14 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:32 PM EDT
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Sunday, 27 June 2010
Mermaid Parade

Annual Mermaid Parade in Coney Island

 


Posted by mcusiman at 7:46 PM EDT
Updated: Sunday, 27 June 2010 7:48 PM EDT
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Saturday, 22 May 2010

This has been a hectic but productive weekend.

Yesterday I saw an MIT art exhibit about astronauts the went to Space 242 for a gallery for an artist talk.

The I had a drawing in the group show about sideshow freaks and carnival called Get Your Freak On.

 

Then I went up to new Hampshire for a caricature gig after a high school prom from midnight to 3:00AM. I recently drew some new caricatures seen below.

  I was drawing Tom Brady who plays in Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. I think its funny that the star quarteback for the New England patriots plays in a stadium named after a razorbalde comapny...and hardly ever shaves. 

 

Anyway the night at the caricature gig was going pretty well. Then around 2:00 AM this heavy metal guy and his girlfriend with wild hair sat down to be drawn. They had interesting faces and were dressed in black and it inspired the best caricature I've ever done in 20 years. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera and had to give it to them.

 

You hear about jazz musicians who will play in dingy clubs every night for no money. Why do they do it? They keep trying to hit the high note and sometimes even years they achieve it making all their efforts worthwhile.

 

Today I was interviewed on Newton Cable TV about my movies, animations, and film festivals. My latest movie is part video/part animation...a visual interpretation of a surreal poem called Don't Spill the Eggs. 

 

 

 


Posted by mcusiman at 5:28 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, 8 June 2010 2:15 PM EDT
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Friday, 16 April 2010
Boston International Film Festival

Recently we premiered the Mermaids of Atlantis movie at the Somerville theater.

Friday was opening night @ Boston International Film Festival with the red carpet and opening night movies.

http://www.bifilmfestival.com/

My movie

The Dreams of Leonardo Da Vinci  screened @ AMC/LOEWS Boston Common: 175 Tremont St. Boston

I just got back from 3 days of screenings of movies form Boston, Chicago, Nigeria, UK, Australia, and 30 other countries. One rather interesting movie was Immigration Tango. They are going to screen it again Sunday night.

Since Friday I've been in the theater immersed in the movies world for 6-7 hours at a time @ the Boston International Film Festival  Some are dreary. Others are funny, dramatic, and exhilerating. There are a few movies that you get really entranced with.

 

   Afterwards when the actors walk up on stage in real life there is something about that after just after seeing them on the screen. They are of course regular people just like you and me. But movies create magic...Just like music. What is magic? We know when the guy in the tux pulls the rabbit out of the that that its not real.

  Magic...it's when something grabs you and transcends everyday life into something more than that. Some of these movies have that magic. On sunday night The Dreams of Leonardo Da Vinci won the award for best Animated Film.

 

 


Posted by mcusiman at 11:43 AM EDT
Updated: Monday, 2 August 2010 8:40 PM EDT
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Friday, 12 February 2010
The Surreal Cafe

The Surreal Cafe is a new movie about urban dwellers searching for the ultimate cafe.

The search for the Coffeehouse that will transform their lives.

The Surreal Cafe won the audience award at Boston Open Screen in February.

 

 

 


Posted by mcusiman at 10:29 PM EST
Updated: Friday, 16 April 2010 11:55 AM EDT
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Saturday, 16 January 2010
Carny Knowledge

Here are some scenes from the recreation of a circus sideshow called Carny Knowledge a dazzling array of carnival-inspired plays and carnival-style performances — using new-timey production methods to evoke old time-y interpretations. Drawing its roots from the sideshows that spread across the nation from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, Carny Knowledge conjures up that mysterious thrill that would envelop curious onlookers every time the circus came to town, accompanied by the cacophony of sideshow barkers promising the wonders of the world to those who had never strayed far from home.

 

 

 

Silvia Graziano & Marc S. Miller, Impresarios 
January 29-February 6, 2010
Cambridge YMCA Theatre
820 Mass. Ave.
Central Square, Cambridge MA

 

 

 

 


Posted by mcusiman at 7:24 PM EST
Updated: Monday, 14 June 2010 2:32 PM EDT
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Sunday, 20 December 2009
Crashing Dinner Parties

There was an amusing story recently about a lady in red and her husband crashing the White house dinner party and posting pictures on their facebook page.

We all know certain people who get into events they aren't invited to by dressing up and acting like they belong. I remember several people like that at the Cannes film festival sneaking into events where they had no business. The phenomenon deserves study by some sociology grad student.

Anyway here is a cartoon for the season.


Posted by mcusiman at 11:56 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:39 PM EDT
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Thursday, 19 November 2009

In a recent New York Times science article the Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass calls for the return of the Rosetta Stone, the bust ofNefertiti and other artifacts in the possession of European and American art museums. Egypt, Italy, and Turkey have demanded the return of ancient art objects as part of their cultural and national heritage.


Several museums the Louvre and Metropolitan have returned some of their objects. James Cuno the director of the Art Institute of Chicago doesn’t agree. He believes that museums who legitimately acquired these objects years ago should keep them. The modern governments of Italy and Egypt didn’t exist 300 years ago and certainly not 2000 years ago. Cuno in his book Who Owns Antiquities advocates the return of the concept of partage where archaeologists give some of their finds to the host countries and get to take some back home to their museums.


You have probably seen Zahi Hawass on many of the History Channel and Discovery Channel programs about Egypt. He’s a bright educated guy. 

Interestingly enough when I was doing research on the Tomb of Alexander the Great fiasco in the mid 90’s Hawass sang a different tune. He then said that it was fine that Western museums kept Egyptian art as ambassadors to the world. After all he said that Egypt barely had the resources to store and exhibits all the artifacts they have as it is.

How many artifacts does Egypt need? They already have the Pyramids, the entire treasure from Tutankhamen’s tomb, the many tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Karnak, and the Sphinx.


How far do countries have to go to return antiquities to the countries of origin? Should Sicily have to return their Greek temples to the land where the culture came from? Does Libya have to return their Roman temples to Italy? The next thing you know Greece will demand the return of the Elgin Marbles.


Posted by mcusiman at 5:22 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:42 PM EDT
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009
mermaids

 

Mermaid movie stills. Film shot Aug. 2009 at Plum Island MA

 




Posted by mcusiman at 10:23 PM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 3:37 PM EST
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Sunday, 9 August 2009
Fire of Prometheus

In 1984 a group of poets called the Fire of Prometheus got together and performed all over Boston. For several years the group performed shows that either entertained or tortured the audiences depending on who you listen to.

They also performed in the east Village, Soho, Toronto, London, and Paris. 

 

The group is doing a one night reunion show featuring the 84 year old Billy Barnum, RU Outavit, Kasara, and Mick Cusimano @ 

 

SQUAWK Coffeehouse open-mike Thursday night Aug. 13, 2009 from 9:00 pm to 12 midnight,

located in the Harvard Epworth Methodist Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., Harvard Square, Cambridge, Ma

https://www.angelfire.com/music/squawk/weekly.html

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvb29xxhle8&feature=channel_page

 

https://mcusiman.tripod.com/fire.html

https://mcusiman.tripod.com/und.html

 

 


Posted by mcusiman at 9:56 PM EDT
Updated: Sunday, 9 August 2009 9:59 PM EDT
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