Vince
"You can have all the fun you want. This place is for fun."

Male
62 years old
San Francisco, California
United States



Last Login:7/25/2008
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General

...made from parts of abandoned multimedia projects.

UNOFFICIAL REALITY

Time is the school in which we learn - Time is the fire in which we burn...

The (short) History of Prohibition

At the stroke of midnight, on January 16th, 1920, America went dry. There wasn't a place in the country (including your own home) where you could legally have even a glass of wine with your dinner without breaking the law. The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale and possession of alcohol in America and lasted for thirteen years..

Tolstoy Story

Why just have Toy Story when you can have Tolstoy Story?!

Gasoline Alley

We sail tonight for Singapore Don't fall asleep while you're ashore...

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FUN with Computers

A spectacular respite from the futility of daily drudgery!

Why Our Children Can't Read

..subtle, allusive, ironic, outrageous and unexpected.

Neglected Legacies

The plentitude of the past was not intended for us, but as fortunate inheritors, we can appropriate the often neglected legacies of that world.

WILLIE NELSON MANDALA

I lost my artistic license over this one...

PEAK OIL

Today's hip, urban, tekno-savvy world is coming to an end! - COMING SOON: horses, candles, coal, wood stoves, hand labor.

Music

EUPHORIA

A cluttered polymorphous frenzy of spasmodic deterioration.

Malice in Wonderland -BANNED FROM YOUTUBE!
(after being on there for two years already...)

Have you ever seen Bugs Bunny perform bizarre oral acts on himself? Alice does it. Have you ever seen Minnie Mouse ravage an array of huge phallic symbols? Alice does it.

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200

A trippy tribute to USA's 200th birthday

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The Magic Pig

It depends on your perspective...

Movies

"Typically, in a cartoon, the story will build up and it all comes together at the end... Well, your stuff generally never gets to the point where it all comes together... not that it's coming apart, it just seems like it should have come together, but the end is usually missing... or comes first or something, right??"

Gina Larson, Neighbor

"I liked your old movies better - when are you going to make something new that is as good as the old stuff?"

Tony Smith, Relative

"None of the characters are established -- in fact they change personalities in different animations. Why is there no consistency here??, while on the other hand, the paintings of Ettore Bugatti, Joe Gould, Tom Waits, Gram Parsons, etc., are all actually John Moses Browning -- Why is this??"

Doris Schmick, Chemistry Teacher

"...and is this stuff actually any good?? I mean, like, I've never even *heard* of Vince Collins, and what if I like some of this stuff and then later I find out it's no good -- how do I deal with this??"

Tom Lamar, Swimming Coach

"You seem to like the little details and asides -- in fact, it looks like that's all you like, sometimes. Is that true??"

Norman McLaren, Legendary Animator

"Are these pieces examples of malappropisms or are they non-sequiturs??"

George Lucas, Multi-Billionaire

Television

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Status:Married
Body type:0' 0"
Zodiac Sign:Sagittarius



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About me:

Everybody's always telling you you have to be something all the time. Like how during these early years it is important to start to be something. It gets on your nerves. It really does.

You know what I'd like to be? I mean if I had my goddam choice? An animator. An animation artist. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just animate stuff and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

So I started doing animation and really got into it. I went to school in San Francisco studying filmmaking -- made Independent Animated Films.

I got all kinds of festival prizes and grants and all.

Thinking about making Experimental Animation and Underground Films makes me as excited as hell. I swear to god I'm a madman.

Then everything disappeared. The entire scene ended. All the goddam distributors, festivals and venues disappeared. I mean, they suddenly just weren't there any more.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about.

Overnight, the key publication "Filmmaker's Newsletter" goes from articles about experimental film and all like, "The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson" to commercially oriented articles like "How to Film a Wedding" (Tip -- make sure to have a shot of them cutting the cake). Really depressing, but it was pretty funny, in a way.

Like, I guess I was supposed to take this as a cue to become some kind of goddam "manager" or something now.

I kept on making goddam films anyway! But I hated the messy paint, scratches on the cels, goddam reflections on the cels, fingerprints on the cels. The cat walks in the goddam paint and gets it all over everything. I'm not kidding. It's depressing. It really is.

Film has so many things that can go wrong - processing, dirt, hair in the gate. It's a goddam nightmare. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.

I really need a goddam computerized digital system for crissake.

Computers were available, but they cost a million dollars and you need a roomful of scientists to operate them. I swear to God.

I went to a demonstration of one of these machines, but they knew I couldn't afford to buy their crummy system, so they kind of ignored me.

There were a couple of guys there that were phony as hell. Both of them had "Calvin Klein" embroidered on their shirts, as if it was their own goddam name, or something. One guy was the kind of a phony that has to give himself room when he talks. He kept saying he would buy two or three of these systems right away. What a goddam phony.

Then, in 1984 the Macintosh was introduced...

Everything started changing then. It really did.

Apple came up with this fantastic program for the Mac -- "Hypercard". Now it was possible to make interactive animation by yourself.

Eventually I made this goddam Japanese Language learning program with Hypercard. I found out later that hundreds of people were simultaneously creating Japanese Language learning programs with Hypercard. Who the hell knew? Not me.

Things gradually got better and better. I know it sounds corny, but they really did.

They started making programs where you could make your own 3D animation just like those million dollar setups with the roomful of scientists.

It was really worth waiting for. I'm not kidding, it really was.

I really get a kick out of making Multimedia pieces. I really do. I can make the entire thing myself -- sound, programming, art, everything so much better than that old film style animation.

Then Multimedia suddenly disappeared overnight. I swear it did. It was just gone. Like when all your data is erased in a goddam drive crash. It made me feel sad as hell.

That was OK because "Virtual Reality" came along as the Next Big Thing. I went to the goddam San Jose Virtual Reality Show, I heard Jaron Lanier give a talk - he had the highest IQ of any boy at Wooton - terrific personality... I even went to a presentation by Mark Pesche and Tony Parisi on VRML - "Just a couple of good Italian boys out to change the world" for crissakes!!

And then Virtual Reality disappeared - gone in a flash like Multimedia and the Independent film Scene...

But then at the same time Virtual Reality went away, the goddam Internet appeared, for crissakes!! Thus began the part of my life you could call my life on the net.

The Internet is like "Waynes World" where you have a goddam TV broadcast studio in your basement, except it's also 24/7 and International! You'd like it. You really would.

And now the Internet is expanding - and getting faster. Pretty soon you can download High Definition Movies right off the net and store them on your hard drive. No more information in physical form sitting on your shelf.

I get excited as hell thinking about it. I really do.

So I'm going to be making High Definition Movies from now on - no more goddam interactivity - just kick back and watch the goddam movie.

A lot of people, expecially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keep asking me what I'm going to do next if the goddam High Definition Movie Thing disappears like film and multimedia and virtual reality. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you *do* it? The answer is, you don't. I *think* I'd try some other latest Big New Thing, but how the hell do I know?

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Michael Paul Wintermute





Jul 8 2008 5:28 PM

I loved your animation as used by Jon Hopkins.

It's gotta be some of the most brilliant stuff I've ever seen.
neeva





Jun 17 2008 6:35 AM

thanks mr.vince.

i love malice in wonderland.





simon





Jun 14 2008 2:24 AM

new video!





Deborah-Nymphe S.





Jun 3 2008 4:29 PM

Thank you ! :) love the animations a lot esp life is flashing before your eyes and malice in wonderland...great work.
The Divine Madness





May 4 2008 5:03 PM

Greetings from the underbelly of the immortal earth~
One Thousand Kisses for your love and sweet messages! Birthday wishes~
xo
D+M
Doctor Vidya & Portable Clock





Apr 15 2008 3:31 PM

brigitte Peritel





Apr 9 2008 5:43 AM

thank you monsieur vince
i like it
Steel Armadillo





Apr 4 2008 11:35 AM

Thanks for the add. The album is availible for free download here:

http://www. mediafire. com/?c05bcyivbgm
DIY Brewing





Apr 1 2008 6:11 PM

Thanks for the add!

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Mar 31 2008 12:03 AM

When is someone going to re-issue Acidburn Flashback on DVD?
nate





Mar 20 2008 7:05 PM

Dennis Pies is on myspace now, check it out

http://profile. myspace. com/index. cfm?fuseaction=user. viewprofile&friendid=358793506
Nastassja





Mar 1 2008 5:54 AM

Thank You for adding me... i really really love Your song and animation "Life is Flashing Before Your Eyes". Is there any way i can get that song? i love the feeling i get when i watch and hear that animation, it really is like life flashing before Your eyes, it's like the sound of living and remembering...
Jeremy





Jan 25 2008 8:55 AM

Vince

Thanks for the add!

Cool site!
LARRY WESSEL





Dec 7 2007 2:16 AM

Dear Friends,

At Last...

The long wait is over!!


Please click this link below...







The trailer for ICONOCLAST (my Boyd Rice documentary) is now online.

The World Premiere is at WWW.ICONOCLASTMOVIE.COM

Please let us know what you think of our little love child and please copy/post/distribute our banner to help spread the word!!

All The Best,

TorandLarry4Ever!!
astroquack





Nov 18 2007 4:23 PM

Hey!!! I hope you like this i made at my job:
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MARKY V





Nov 13 2007 11:18 PM

Vince





Nov 3 2007 8:59 PM

Yeah, I knew Adam Beckett's stuff plenty - we were both in all those animation festivals - then he went to LA to work on this guy's space film - didn't sound so interesting, just gluing parts of model kits together - then later he died in a fire in his studio - bummer...
nate





Nov 3 2007 6:13 PM

Have you seen Adam Beckett's films?

http://www.iotacenter.org/projects/beckett/filmography
Car-N-Art





Sep 13 2007 6:35 AM

Hey Vince, thanks for the add!

#194
Charlie Solomon





Aug 27 2007 8:41 PM

Hi. Thanks for joining my freind list. Leave a comment if you like the music. There is a CD for sale on my Myspace page also. If you like the CD let me know and I will send you a poster. Stay in touch.
Charlie Solomon
Zero-Inverse





Jun 22 2007 7:14 PM

ossu!
Thank you for the add!
How's your summer going?
Rocking enough!!?
Null





Jun 2 2007 2:50 PM

Hello Vince.
dj ransom





May 28 2007 3:05 AM

just saying thanks for all the great stuff.
so ...... thanks!
Songs in the Sun Festival-Key West





May 24 2007 1:23 AM

Vince,
Can you come join us on July 5th? We checked out the stage last week while we were in Key West and it will be cool! Kevin, Danny, Shurman, and Howard
Guarro





May 4 2007 3:57 PM

happy birthday Vince
make sure you have a few beers on us
from your friends at guarro
A Girl And A Guitar





May 4 2007 2:55 PM

Stopping by to say...

DoryCakes





May 3 2007 4:18 PM

You are massive win. That is all.
Kill Buffalo Records





Apr 28 2007 4:12 PM

Vince



Thanks for being our myspace friend!

April has been a busy month at KB. We've got new records out from both The Roadside Graves & Earl Pickens. Stop by and take a listen.
Finsta





Mar 12 2007 8:04 AM

Hey Man!
Im a big fan of youre stuff, and the whole sesame street animation-era. The style is top of the line.
You inspire the next generation. Like me.
/Finsta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4kDa6NV7YI
Joe Cassady & The West End Sound





Jan 25 2007 7:31 PM

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

~Oscar Wilde~
Monichi Fumi





Jan 9 2007 12:53 AM

VICE! I really happy to see you again in this net world. I am very happy to find out you in this "My Space"