Josh Mossotti

I hate to write about and publish this track here without letting it run its full course on an interpersonal level. I just finished this track yesterday. The ones and zeros have not had a chance to set and cool.  Immediately after I produce a piece of work I am, well blindly appreciative. I have this conversation with my brother quite often. We refer to it as the ‘drunk’ phase of creativity. Your level of real objective criticism is uninhibited because you are so enamoured with the piece you are dulled to see its flaws. I suppose this is a long winded pre-excuse, and a reservation to make changes at any time I damn well please…

Subjectively speaking if this track does not move you, I’d be hard pressed to find your pulse. Seek medical attention immediately.

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Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium

Dark cypresses-
The world is uneasily happy:
It will all be forgotten.
-Theodor Storm

Mother of roots, you have not seeded
The tall ashes of loneliness
For me. Therefore,
Now I go.
If I knew the name,
Your name, all trellises of vineyards and old fire
Would quicken to shake terribly my
Earth, mother of spiralling searches, terrible
Fable of calcium, girl. I crept this afternoon
In weeds once more,
Casual, daydreaming you might not strike
Me down. Mother of window sills and journeys,
Hallower of scratching hands,
The sight of my blind man makes me want to weep.
Tiller of waves or whatever, woman or man,
Mother of roots or father of diamonds,
Look: I am nothing.
I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.

-James Wright

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As I stated in my ‘About’ page of this site I currently work as a CG Artist for film and television. My job description entails adding or removing elements in film, based on directions given from visual effects supervisors. I generate the necessary elements in a wide variety of 2d and mostly 3d software packages.

The current reel has a running time of about 5:50 which is on the long side. I have tried to include enough material to demonstrate a broad range of skills and hopefully have not offended anyone with its duration. There is always a stop button when you have had enough.

http://www.vimeo.com/6881788

Josh Mossotti 2009 Demo 37MB

This resume reflects my work history up though November of 2009.

Josh Mossotti Resume November 2009

‘The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut’ is certainly a mouthful, but also one of my personal favorite stories of Mark Twain, and any other author for that matter. The story describes his  characters’ contemptuous relationship with his own conscience. His conscience, played eloquently by a dwarf of a man and who size is directly related to the conviction of the character, immediately turns a normal quiet day filled with tobacco smoke and self gratifiying deeds into an all out introspective battle of the wills. Equipped with Twain’s natural humor and the hilarity of his absolute disdain for the job of the conscience, he’s set out to destroy that which most have taken as a virtue, but as depicted in this story I might deal the same fate for my own.

Though the track does not play out in the fashion and arc as the tale was written, I often ’steal’ from inspirations that push me further into my own works. Many aspects of this track would be fit for the ears of a man without a conscience.

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I’ve decided to lead off my music entries with a relatively new track. I generally have not incorporated vocal elements into my work, but this one just felt right.

There are a couple things I feel compelled to add considering this is my first musical addition here. First off I have way more to learn about all aspects of music than I currently know, so I bring this to your ears with a deal of humility. Second, I have not really dedicated my work to a set genre, I normally ‘jam’ as it were in a particular direction until I have courted my muse to assist me in the work of it.

As for the intention of the vocals in this track, I think it is a tall order for people to be ‘able’ to consider the full spectrum of their relationship to life, to God or their religion. There are so many aspects of time, space and being, where no matter what religion, faith or scientific understanding… It all comes up short. We can only study and insight what we can touch, taste, smell, hear or see. With the current hadicaps in place, it would seem fit that we are only ‘able’ to fathom so deep into understanding. The rest is faith that we are simply not supposed to understand it all.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. Dang it man … that’s deep. I’m really not that serious of a person and rather than dwell on such things all of the time I enjoy living in the moment and good humor. I am a lighthearted person and will compensate with further works of how cute puppy dogs are…

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