Laguna Beach Censorship:

My former animation student and good friend, Lynn Kubasek, just got censored. Way back on May 28th I talked about her banners being hung in the Laguna Beach Art Festival (see: banner ).

Well, it seems that Ms. Kubasek put the unclothed female human figure into the fish design of her banner and this is a puritan damaged country. Naked is dirty!.

Somebody or group complained that if you got up really, really close you could see, my god, drawings of naked women.

They finally kowtowed to the inevitable . . . censorship. Ah well, seven weeks is much more than a gallery show and here, the point is proved that Laguna Beach has become gentrified and is no longer an Artist Community but an attempt to embellish the nouveau riche (in Newport and Crystal Cove).

What does this have to do with animation? It is this same bullheaded puritan attitude that caused the Orange County School Board and their stooges to block the use of Muybridge, the Human Figure in Motion in my animation class back in 2000.

The most important book in motion studies and I can`t use it in my class because the body is dirty and sinful. Give me a break, I am surprised that they let doctors study anatomy. It is this attitude that keeps the porno sites in business. Every third booth at Comic Con was much runchier than anything Lynn put up. (end rant for today)  ¶ 9:30 AM