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Features Editor: John Liebhardt johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com Thursday, June 6,2002 Arrested R&B artist R. Kelly vigorously denies child pornography charges. Page 11 Courtesy photo Sex, Masmeariox ■ Iwo cocky teenagers learn about life, love and their sexual identities while on a road trip ‘YTuMamaTambien’ By Jen West Oregon Daily Emerald Sex can bring people together, but it can also tear them apart. In the Mexican romantic comedy “Y Tu Mama Tambien” — which translates as “And Your Mother, Too” — two rich, cocky teenagers learn this harsh lesson while on a road trip to a beau tiful secret beach. Writer/director Alfonso Cuaron has created an intriguing film that dances on the line separating the pornographic from the artistically sexy. This is a gritty, realistic com ing-of-age film illustrating the sexual growth of two friends who realize they have a lot to learn about how to please a woman — and each other. While their girlfriends spend the summer traveling in Europe, Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal) surrender themselves to boredom in Mexico City. When they meet an older woman, Luisa (Maribel Verdu), the boys tell her they are preparing for a road trip to a fictional beach called Boca del Cielo (Heaven’s Mouth). After learning Turn to Mother, page 9 Courtesy photo Courtesy photo Michael Boonstra says of historic “I usediscarded material, such as wood, nails, and clay, to.create imagesarid(s(idce^thdtrefdrdnbdfdfeds'oltransctendefocd,spirit,'andth'eunkndWd.” ' r Art exhibition will feature graduate students’ work University graduate students will present their artwork at the annual Master’s of Fine Arts group exhibition Fri day at Oveissi & Co. in downtown Eugene. This year’s exhibition, “MFA/02,” will run in coordina tion with First Friday ArtWalk in downtown Eugene, which is designed to attract attention to Eugene’s art and gallery community. Oveissi & Co. is located at 22 W. Sev enth Ave. and will be one of the stops of the ArtWalk. “MFA/02” is organized by the University of Oregon Museum of Art and the art department and will run in Eu gene through June 22. Organizers will then move the show to the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland and stay through Aug. 17. This year’s show is being displayed off-campus because the University’s art museum is still closed for a $12 mil lion expansion project. The art museum is scheduled to open in fall 2003. The exhibit will include: • Art/ceramics by Michael Boonstra and Carrie Shields • Fibers by Annette Hepner and Robin Seloover • Metalsmithing and jewelry by Maru Almeida and Nick Dong ... „,, Turn to. Basketball, page 4A . Design students ‘explode’ with art ■ Multimedia design students will showcase their projects today and Friday during “Animation Explosion” By Jen West Oregon Daily Emerald Animation has come a long way since the days of drawing and painting a se ries of images to simulate movement. “Animation Explosion” will present stu dent work in a variety of animation styles including film, computer and drawing animation and claymation. The art department presents “Anima tion Explosion” at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday in 177 Lawrence Hall. Entry to the event is free, and there will be com plementary refreshments. The University has taught animation for more than 40 years through the art department’s visual design program. But in the 2000-01 school year, the de partment changed the name of the pro gram to multimedia design because of the increasing number of computers and various media used to produce ani mation. The first multimedia design class graduates this year. “Animation Explosion” is “a show case of what has been done in our de partment,” said Marianne Hallock, co ordinator of the event. The event will exhibit animation work that students have produced, she said. The students have worked on proj ects that incorporate various types of animation including 3-D models, draw ings, stop-motion, video, computer ani mation, experimental animation, inter active Web sites and live action with blue and green screens. “We try a little bit of everything,” Hal lock said. Hallock said she began studying multimedia design in Winter 2001, but she had already experimented with animation in high school using Legos and drawings. The hard part of animation is not the drawing, she said, but “you have to be willing to keep drawing the same thing over and over again.” She said some an imating styles involve scanning lots of drawings. But drawing is no longer the only way to make an object move, and the projects shown at “Animation Ex plosion” will demonstrate the various techniques with which the student ani mators have been working. “The hard part is figuring out the pac ing,” she said. “How do you exaggerate the motion?” She said the animators use a tech nique called “squash and stretch” that the old Disney animators used in their classic cartoons. Movements are added to an object that may seem overly car toonish, but the end result is a more life like movement. She drew a ball bouncing into the dis tance and pointed out how she elongat ed the ball in midair to simulate more “organic” movement. Then when the ball hit the ground, she drew it with a dramatic “splat!” Turn tp Animation, page 12
