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New Zone: Artists exhibit ghoulish work
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clay called "She's Coming." Pho
tographs, illustrations and even deco
rated Friskies cat food cans are also
among the sundry pieces of art that will
be on display until Oct 27.
"One of the many interesting
pieces that's in the show is a Polaroid
photograph taken by one of the (New
Zone) members of the Anasazi Ru
ins," Higgins said. "When he took the
photograph, it was just a normal, sun
ny day; nothing unusual was going on.
Butwhenthe photograph developed,
there were streams of light that were
coming down at different angles and
intersecting the ruins. It was just one
of those interesting phenomena that
he happened to catch on film."
The prices for pieces of paranor
mal artwork range greatly, from $8
for a Friskies can with a picture of a
cartoon hippo bathing itself with a
toothbrush, to $2,500 for an oil paint
ing and recycled wood creation
titled "One Hand Clapping."
NewZone has been a vital part of
the Eugene visual arts community for
more than 20 years and is celebrated
for its experimental and limitless
forms of artwork. New Zone is also
non-juried, meaning that members
can show any type of art they like
without having to be pre-approved by
a panel of judges.
"We encourage each otherto be
better artists as we go along," New
Zone vice president William Baby said.
Being non-juried leads the groupto be
come more innovative. "It will allow
artists to stretch and express them
selves in a way that a juried group
couldn't do because of what (judges)
think might be good. As an art organi
zation, we're more concerned about
the fundamentals of art and less with
the commercial aspect of a gallery."
New Zone member and photogra
pher Pat Sheehan also sees it that way.
"New Zone is a wonderful way for
artists to display their own interpre
tations of art," she said. "There's no
political agenda."
New Zone is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
arts organization with about 50 mem
bers. New Zone is also active in pro
moting community outreach, partici
pating in such activities as Reading in
the Rain, Art Amore and arts programs
for at-risk youth.
Exhibits change each month at Nev
Zone, and New Zone hosts a receptio
complete with drinks and hors d'oeu
vres every first Friday. Some months,
the exhibits have no themes, so artists
can displaytheir favorite pieces of
work, while other months have set
themes to encourage member artists
to explore some of their deepest cre
ative influences.
"We do a theme show just about
every month and that keeps things
pretty active," Baby said.' Artists want
to do pieces for our art shows and hav
ing a new theme each n.onth keeps
things pretty fresh and keeps their art
being shown. And yoL never know
what you're going to see at our
gallery."
"We definitely encourage coloring
outside the lines," Higgins said. "If you
follow all of the rules, you'll never dis
cover anythinn new."
For more information on the New
Zone Artist Collective, visit www.new
zone.org.
amylichty@dailyemerald.com
McCollum: ESRB should play games it rates
Continued from page 5
this sort of unconstitutional bill would
never see the light of day.
In orderto understand why the
ESRB is a failure, we must first exam
ine howthe ESRB rates a game. Logi
cally, the ESRB would have to play a
game before rating it, right? Wrong.
When a developer submits a
game to be rated, it does not submit
the game itself; instead, it submits a
questionnaire that explains what is
in the game. Along with the ques
tionnaire, developers send a video
tape that, according to the ESRB's
Web site, must show "the most ex
treme content and an accurate rep
resentation of the context and prod
uct as a whole."
Then three raters watch the
footage and arbitrarily give the game
a rating. Here are the ratings: E
(Everyone), T (Teen), M (Mature),
and AO (Adults Only). Unfortunately,
there are no guidelines that raters
mustfollow when rating a game.
Since there are no guidelines, the
rating system is a mess. Games that
are rated M include everything from
Tecmo's "Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach
Volleyball," where scantily-clad
women play volleyball, to Rockstar's
"Manhunt," where players can grue
somely kill enemies with everything
from a plastic bag to a shotgun. The
popular game "Halo 2" is rated M, but
the violence in it is far from graphic.
Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto: San An
dreas" just got slapped with an AO rat
ing after a crudely rendered sex scene
was found in the game's code, but
"God of War," a brutal beat-em-upthat
has a threesome sex mini-game (the
sex is off screen), is rated M. The ESRB
explains the disparity by saying it's all
about the context of the game, but
ESRB couldn't possibly knowthe con
text if it hasn't played it.
The rating system needs to be
re-worked. First, the ESRB needs to
establish a clearset of guidelines
that would give game ratings a con
sistency they lack today. The M rat
ing is too broad; it needs to be bro
ken up into more specific ratings.
Some parents have no problem with
their children shooting aliens and
cyborgs a la "Halo 2," but cringe
when they think of their kids beating
up hookers in "Grand Theft Auto:
San Andreas." Second, if the ESRB
truly wants to analyze the content of
a game, they need to play the game.
ESA president Doug Lowenstein re
leased a statement saying the ESA "in
tends to file a lawsuit to strike this law
down, and we are confident the we will
prevail." This is good news for Califor
nians, but afterthe law is stricken
down, the game industry needs to re
tool its shoddy rating system to prevent
itself from being an easy target for
vote-hungry politicians.
amccollum@dailyemerald.com
Cabin: Movie influenced by 'Evil Dead' series
Continued from page 7
matter. Instead, a fair amount of his
past work hasfocused on animation.
And if his name sounds familiar, it's like
ly because his great uncle is William
Hanna of "Hanna-Barbera" cartoons.
"Animation is in my blood,"
Hanna said.
While attending the University,
Hanna focused his studies on com
puter animation. His favorite profes
sor was Ken O'Connell, under whose
guidance he studied experimental an
imation and motion graphics.
"He was my mentor," Hanna said.
"He taught me a lot about timing,
writing and seeing things through to
the end."
O'Connell was similarly full of
praise for Hanna's work as a stu
dent. He said a few of Hanna's great
est strengths were humor, timing
and storytelling.
"Matt was always good at develop
ing ideas and seeing the funny or un
usual side," O'Connell said. "He had a
great sense of presentation, so the
audience would totally get into what
he was doing."
Hanna's crew shares a similar sense
of admiration fortheir director. Howev
er, they stressed that bringing "Stab
bin' Cabin" together would not have
been possible without the team effort
and overall cooperation involved.
In addition, the support of the
community has been a powerful
force in bringing the film from con
cept to execution. In fact, Hanna's
goal from the start was to create a
film that utilized the cinematic
strengths of Eugene exclusively.
"THERE ARE SOME REAL STRONG ACTORS AND
ACTRESSES IN EUGENE. WE RE LUCKY TO HAVE
THEM," HANNA SAID. "BASICALLY, WE RE HERETO
SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT THAT THIS TOWN
HAS THE TALENT TO MAKE A MOVIE. WE RE MAK
ING THIS FILM BECAUSE WE KNOW WE CAN."
kgerhard@dailyemerald.com