Mendocino

Documentary of our trip to Mendocino on our 25th wedding anniversary. Having fun with the children's game, "Duck, Duck, Goose." Commentary on seriousness and play in Buddhism.

Less

This subtle play on words explores the role of abstraction in art and asks, "A picture is worth a thousand words" or is it?

Strangers to Themselves

Freud saw Leonardo da Vinci as a repressed homosexual; Jung develops the idea of the the animus [the male side of woman] and the anima [the female side of man] which may be seen in the complex personalities of Leonardo, Mona Lisa, Mr. Lisa, and man/woman-kind. What was the Mona Lisa thinking? We are truly strangers to ourselves.

Strangers

His life of obscure poetry
So unique
It was hard to understand
What plagued him.
Only with great effort
Could I begin to glimpse
What he meant
But most remained hidden
In his own private world
Undisturbed by me.

Her feelings were hid
beneath her facial mask,
though for my help
she sure did ask.
She talked a lot
but made no sense.
It was easy to spot
her ambivalence,
for in her way
pretense was defense.
Though she came so close,
she remained far away.

Doggerel

This video poem is presented by our dog, Sophie. The pun of dog and doggerel is intended.

What would it be like
to lead a dog's life
and not know
you lead a dog's life?
I do.

I had over-parked my time
with wretched rhymes
and jingle-jangle lines.

My metered mind
had run out of nickels,
so I began to write free verse.

I moved to assonance
and dissonance,
from passonance to pissonance
and found myself
the dog's delight.

Sisyphus Disjunct

This existential piece is based upon the Greek myth about Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. The music is a keyboard improvisation.

Excerpts Part One 2006 and 2007

These two videos, Parts one and two, are excerpts from 2006 and 2007 YouTube presentations. Images are related poetically with rhymes or alliteration of themes, colors, techniques, emotions. In them you can see the range of material, variety of expressions, as well as the different music/soundscapes which I created to go with them.

Excerpts Part Two 2006 and 2007

These two videos, Parts one and two, are excerpts from 2006 and 2007 YouTube presentations. Images are related poetically with rhymes or alliteration of themes, colors, techniques, emotions. In them you can see the range of material, variety of expressions, as well as the different music/soundscapes which I created to go with them. Start with Part one.

Father's Day

Completed on Father's day, this abstract video is accompanied with music improvisation

Alphabet

Playful colorful abstraction with similar music/sound, something that Jasper Johns might have done in video

070614

Video abstraction of subtle changes with music created on 070614

Ghosts in the Gallery

Late at night unusual beings peruse the gallery.

Fast Fridays

The Fridays night ghosting of the galleries. Quick view of the audience of my art show, Flower Garden, at the Core Fine Art Gallery in Denver, June 1, 2007.

Flitter

An experimental art video with improvised keyboard music

Rectangulated

A playful collage of rectangles with improvised orchestral music

Rothko Squared

What Mark Rothko might have done in video. This is my experience of being upclose to a Rothko. My dynamic soundscape evolves to his electric visuals.

Tangles

These colors dance the tangle to my improvised piano music.

Jet Stream

Fast stream through color with improvised soundtrack

Not so Still

What Clifford Still might have done if he lived long enough to be in the video age. This is best seen full screen.

Circle Dance

Circle colors dance in this art video to improvised keyboard music. This is best seen in full screen mode

Vivace

Fast colorful sweep with improvised organ and instrumental music. Images suggestive of Clifford no-so-Still

Diamond Hop

Experimental music video

Color Blobs

Playful spectrum of color blobing to inprovized piano music.. This is best seen in full view by pushing the button in the lower right

Timid Wolf

The inner world of man facing woman the first time

Timid Tiger

He paced his cage in front of me
demanding that I set him free.
I pointed to the open door.
He turned his head and sought no more.

Adventures in Creativity Music Radio

I have recreated Adventures in Creativity Music Radio at a new site. Adventures in Creativity Music Radio Adventures in Creativity Music Radio and Individual Song/Piece download

Just go to Adventures in Creativity Music. You can play the music in lo-fi, hi-fi in sequence or shuffle them randomly. There is over 50 hours of unique music that I created over the last several years.

If you want to own a piece, you can download a mp3 file at the "music" on the "navigation box." If you want to purchase a CD or a DVD go to www.lulu.com/jgyoungmd.

Flow # 1

Abstract slow stacato flow with improvised music. Forms reminicent of Robert Motherwell and Clyfford Still

S.F. Fog, Wind and Color

See the fog, wind and color around San Francisco bay.

S.F. Kites

Soar with the kites as Pacific winds blow on-shore at San Francisco

Circle Dance # 2

Slow psychodelic dance of color

Homage to Brakhage # 2

Another color play extending the style of film-maker Stan Brakhage with original new age music background

Notes on Nothingness

This conceptual art video is a playful/serious exploration of nothingness. It engages graphics, puzzles, painting, poetry, video rhymes, puns, animation, stick figures, mathematics and more puzzles.

Tea

This Zen tale of the tea ceremony is adapted with Jungian overtones, graphic positive/negative space interactions and word-play fun.

S.F. April 5, 2007

This video was inspired by a day talking with film-maker and professor Phil Solomon, University of Colorado. It looks at how we address the negative spaces in our lives.

P.I.P. squared

{[This is a (picture in a picture); a (phrase in a phrase).]squared}

Glances # 4

Another glance

Glances # 3

Another glance

Glances # 2

Another glance

Glances # 1

This video was inspired by the art videos of Stan Brackage.

Bedroom Flowers

What I wake to every morning

Homage to Brakhage

Inspired by the recent Brakhage symposium at the University of Colorado. The music was improvised on the day the video was made. Probably in homage to Brakhage, the video should have been silent.

Life is short

"Life is short. Art is long." [Hippocrates c. 460 BC — c. 370 BC] This brief history and future of film/video spans the time of one piano improvisation played on June 3, 2006.

Rapt

Moving from rap to rapture, across the rapids of troubled waters to a new kind of calm.
In this video the music was improvised on two keyboards using orchestral samples from the Garitan Personal Orchestra and Atmosphere.

Negotiating Rapture

You may be familiar with Martin Buber’s “I and Thou.” Though I am not a religious person, what he says rings true to me. He says we experience the transcendent through the I-Thou relationship. Most understand the Thou as being another person, but the Thou can be a stone, a tree or perhaps a film. “The extended lines of relation meet in the eternal Thou. Every particular Thou is a glimpse of the eternal Thou.” I believe that we can negotiate rapture in our I-Thou relationship with films, paintings, music as well as other persons.

I-It is the other mode of being. I-It does not know relationship; it is controlling, experiencing, i.e. knowing the other cognitively to have certain properties.

Negotiating rapture can be a tricky thing. It is a matter of being willing rather than willing, being captivated rather than capturing. It is treating the other as an end not a means to some other end. The negotiating then is putting ourselves in a receptive space, to be with, rather than objectifying, no matter how loving or sincere we may be.

But that is where I have trouble with academia and also with medicine. I would prefer to be in relation, captivated, enraptured, but we have to move to the I-It to negotiate life. There is the rub.

Hamilton

This video project was stimulated by a recent trip to the Denver Art Museum's new addition. Those who go there might also be interested in an article in Brain magazine:Visual vertigo: symptom assessment, spatial orientation and postural control http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/124/8/1646

Show in Chicago

This tongue-in-cheek project on a visit to Chicago evolves into a bold dream sequence. Seen from the 37th floor where Lake Michigan meets the river, this video poem is based upon the poetry of Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" and the works of Jeanne-Claude Christo. It is a tour de force panning the city and within the Art Institute of Chicago. See these large flowers paintings in a new light. (4 minutes)

Slice Five

This is the culmination of the slice series. Enjoy

Slice Four

One more slice with variation. See the earlier slices

Slice Three

This is a third slice of many sections pushing the computer to its limits. [see also slice one and two]

Manifold

This video shows the manifold styles of Dr. Young,'s artwork with his music in the background

Cabo

Cabo is a video peom about being handicaped in paradise and rising above it. It compliments the video Poems at an Exhibition about the same theme at http://www.adventuresincreativity.net/video.htm.

Cage Color Three

This is the third of the graphic responses to my free piano improv

Cage Color Two

This piano improv music video continues Cage Color One.

Cage Color One

This music video is based upon a free piano improv that I did on February 4th, 2007. The random but controlled [John]Cage-like graphic response followed. Even Cagier the music is not programed randomness but the color response is.

070220

new age music video improvisation with abstract animation all created on February 20, 2007.

Crime Scene

This humerous sketch evolved from watching too much CSI.

Just Looking

Video, music, animation created all on March 1, 2007

Begin Again

Sometimes starting over is the best thing you can do

Many New Videos on YouTube

Since last time I have added several new video shorts. The major addition is animation as I explore new ways of graphic movement in art.

Begin
This abstract animation was suggested by the free improvisation of the music I created. To start creating you have to begin

Sublime Suite

In this muitimedia video the music preceded the video, then the poems. After creating the video I remembered a poem, Sublime, I wrote when I asked a patient how she was feeling which reminded me of the Basho poem

Sublime.

She was feeling
as fine as frog's hair.
When I attempted to grab
her intent, she slipped
beneath some lily pad
and I lost her hidden there.

This sublime poem by Basho, translated by Allen Watts, is Japan's most famous poem.

The old pond
A frog jumps in:
Plop.

Snow Garden

Snow Garden

near a stream
snow covers/creates a garden
future flowers bloom
a young doe wakes from sleep
snow colors down