jjblack is a writer/poet/photographer/filmmaker/animator/artist/sculptor/musician/composer/singer/songwriter/multimedia artist & producer.
As a journalist/photographer he has worked for many magazines worldwide including
Time & Look & has worked as a magazine & newspaper editor.
His fine art Photography has been widely exhibited & he has taught communications at college & university.
As a musician, he has played in bands in England & Canada. He & his late son Sean were the core Of the band, Dining With Attila. He lives in the Green Mountains near the Vermont/Quebec border.
(click on (music)trax to hear music.)(see below for latest cds - available on iTunes)
He combines traditional media as conceptual art in non-traditional ways for out put as
interactive DVDs & CDRoms. His works include the Black Boxes of jjblack which comprises :
Relics of a Novel - 4 Multimedia Quartets (5 DVDs/4 CDRoms + 4 audio cds) being
artifacts left behind by characters in an abandoned novel :
.....Tornado Sky - the 1st multimedia quartet
.... Please Dont Mention Miami - the 2nd multimedia quartet
.... Dancing On The Bones Of Dreams - the 3rd multimedia quartet
.... Whisper To The Wind - the 4th multimedia Quartet
.....each of the 4 interactive DVDs/CDRoms includes ...
the story of the abandoned novel ; artwork created by a character in the novel ; photography by a character; poetry written by a character ; sculpture by another character & songs written & performed by Deaf Lemon Peel ,the central character in the abandoned novel.
....IMAGIC - The Magic Image Odyssey of jjblack ( 9 interactive DVDs/ CDRoms )
each DVD & CDRom has 5 - 6 image movies (15-20 mins each) with musical soundtracks
an odyssean novel in images Book 1 - Lux Book 2 - Temps Perdu Book 3 - Persona Book 4 - POV Book 5 - Dea Book 6 - Isness Book 7- Floral Etudes Book 8 - A Few Days
( Book7 has 27 movies each 3-6mins) ( Book 8 has 35 movies each 6-7mins on 2 DVDs )
....Moondog Soirée - an interactive multimedia miscellany of words, sounds & images including VR plays ; animations etc. (2 DVDs)
...Naked -
an erotic novel roman/ce in kinetic poetry with photographic & musical accompaniment.
( an interactive experience with animated poetry & VR variations) (2 DVDs)
......The Goldbox Variations - a conceptual series of virtual boxes within boxes, which contain virtual galleries,audio/visual jukeboxes & other conceptions
...,,,,Sex - Found & Lost : A Tantric Book of Visual Commentary on Sexual Imagery
(erotic art postmodern)
.......Primavera : More floral etudes
........Flicker : A series of Short Strange Films & other kinetic artworks (2 dvds)
........Palimpsest : a full length experimental/conceptual film
.........Graphic Tantric Chorals : 4 choral works accompanied by graphic works
.........Tantric Graphics : a 2 DVD set of Tantric graphics
.........A Gallery of Kinetic Abstract Expressions : 16 short kinetic art films
......... Serial Surreal Suppositions : a 2 dvd set of more kinetic artworks
......... Nonlinear Narrative : a 90 minute experimental film
......... Qualitative Allusions : a 90 minute experimental film
......... Increased Kinetix : a 2 dvd set of more kinetic artworks
......... Etude in Deep Blues For Giger : an hour long animation film
......... Rapid Eye Movement : a 90 minute experimental film - a night of dreams & nightmares
......... Redux : new images - old themes revisited - 8 20 min films
......... Bardo Thodol : A Feature length animation based on the Tibeta Book of the Dead
......... Untitiled Galleries : New Imagery
......... Kali Puja : More Tantric graphics
......... Stuff & Nonsense : a 2 dvd set of short experimental films + new images
......... 4x2 : a 2 dvd set of new imagery
......... Tableaux & Variations : a 2 dvd set of new imagery
......... Double Dutch : Images of Amsterdam & Holland
......... Diversions : New Imagery
......... Europa 2015 : A multi dvd set of imagery from Europe
......... Better Than Most-the jjblack 2016 sspring collection
......... Ghosts of Paths To The Past : A reflections on the fragility of the mirror of memory - a ghost story.
A surrealist feature length experimental film.
......... à la recherche du temps trouvé/in search of time found - a Proustian melodrama
Collections of Poetry & Imagery : Naked / Travelog 2000 /
I Am Schrödinger’s Cat / Eclipse In DMinor /
Book Of The Muse / Sacred Scarred Poems/
The Next Book Of Poems/Art & The Poets /
Will You Have Stigmata With That / Early Exclamations of a Zenbo
Random Writings / Dark Black / A Short Break For Fantasy / Renga ( with jlshields )
Graphic Novels : Before Dawn / Bombazine / Day Tripper / Walkin’ Blues /
Macabre Concept Comix #1 : Splatter / Absolution / Escape From MindState 6 /
Escape From MindState 12 / The Curios Coincidences Of Otto Brugge
Contact : jjblack@slimbehemoth.com
FOR BOOKS ON SALE SCROLL DOWN BELOW DVDS
( on sale here soon ) Interactive Dvds & Cd-Roms previews at www.youtube.com/jjblack
Books of poetry & Imagery To view book previews & buy, click on book covers below
Graphic Novels
Books of Art & Photography
Some Recent Audio CDs available on iTunes
