People ask me, "Do you do your own make-up?" I do, but, it's just mostly brown eye shadow. People ask me, "Do you edit your videos yourself?" I do, but only because when I started out, I was a one person production with no money, not even a camera. Well, my built-in computer camera. One of my favorite videos I've made was a solo production and my built-in computer camera, Andy's Silver Factory. I wanted to create the feeling of a party at the factory, the hard part was that I'd be playing all the characters, and no special effects would be involved. Warhol is an enormous influence in my videos; and I love paying homage to people who've played a part in my life for the better, and this is the way I've found to do it. Not all my videos are homages to pop icons; I've created characters, like Mother Brule, an homage, in a skit to John C. Riley's character, Dr. Steve Brule on Adult Swim. Dr. Steve's home movie: Mother Brule.
In a year, I've uploaded about one hundred videos, as a solo artist as well as part of a collaborative effort, with my partner in PunkWeb.netPaul Baio. A video we made for the Nine Inch Nails Film Festival, Ghost 28, was their featured selection, and has done very well on YouTube. We met via our separate work on Will Ferrell's website, Funny or Die.
I never would have thought I'd be prolific at anything, much less making videos that range from silly to odd to intense to simply bizarre. If you told me I'd be making a mock-Calvin Klein commercial portraying murder as erotic, I'd think that sounded interesting, but nothing that would be realized by me. Calvin Klein Murder Ad.
I don't think I would be so bold in my work if it weren't for Bob Evans [producer of Rosemary's Baby and The Godfather --NT] telling me I've got something that the world needs to see. His encouragement to go for it in film is what pushes me to be brave in my work. I've been breaking rules in my videos and hope to break even more.
It's been amazing to act in videos as a man, and it's not considered a life choice or a sexual lifestyle. When I portray someone like, say, Kurt Cobain, I'm not portraying a man, I'm portraying a person. I made a solo piece portraying Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Then I went one step further and portrayed them having sex in PunkWeb's second episode of Neopolitan. Sexuality is a big role in my work, because everything is related to sex, so I figure, why pretend it's not the driving force of this planet?
Even in a comedic video, like Pop!Now with Marilyn Manson, it was very funny, but also dark and sexually bizarre. I cut footage I took as Marilyn Monroe in her last night alive [see video below --NT] and footage playing Marilyn Manson as an obsessed psychotic fan, and well, you know, if you're going to be Marilyn Manson, you have to do it right, which means a controlled, yet over the top wild. Marilyn Manson Beautiful People Video Int. Parody.
It's interesting to have a life where the mind's calendar thinks in uploaded videos, "Oh I remember that, it was when I was Ziggy Stardust." Changes Ziggy-Bowie Interpretation.
Never thought I could turn my childhood dreams into art as an adult. Life sometimes surprises me...in the best ways. Kim McBride's Impression Montage.
My Review: What makes Kim stand out, to me, is her amazing ability to divulge herself so deeply into reanimating famous persons that is it more like channelling the personalities rather than impersonating them or performing conventional impressions. Kim's immense and intense energy that she brings to her interpretation of these personalities is too close to their own idiosyncrasies that made them so alive in the eyes of the world with such a realness, that it borders on spooky (in a good way). Kim has reanimated such greats as Jim Morrison, Cher, Alex from A Clockwork Orange, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna, and Christopher Walken, and more. Being the creatively energetic artist that she is, Kim has an acute eye for the little details that make her videos outstanding. Her attention to such "little things" is what embosses her video, pulling them from the two-dimensional realm of the motion picture, to the three dimensional reality, that make her interpretations of Kurt Cobain or Jim Morrison or Marilyn Manson so much like watching them in person. Some of my most favorite details in Kim's videos are the expression in her eyes as she peers through the camera and into the rooms of the many, many people who have viewed her videos on YouTube or Funny or Die (Kim looks through the camera, right at you, and I think she can really see us! LOL); her fearlessness when it comes to breaking rules in her videos; her infamous quick edits and choice of soundtracks; her incredible grasp of atmosphere and ambiance, all combine to give we viewers an experience of her creativity, as opposed to us just passively watching. It's what makes Kim's videos, whether they be artsy, comedic, or an homage, so interesting to watch...and that repeatedly!
Kim also paints, and if you watch carefully, you can see shots that include some of Kim's paintings in some of her videos. Kim brings as much energy as she does in her interpretive videos to her artwork. In addition to the collaborations she does with Paul Baio, Kim also has worked with RickyShoreSingsTheBlues. You can see Kim's collaborations with Paul andRickyShoreSingsTheBlueshere (might I recommend Ontopia and Emo Adults for some hilarity?). Kim has pages at YouTubeandFunny or Die, and atMySpace. After you've taken a look at her videos here at Nicole Terry Creates, you should surf on over to her other pages and watch more; Kim's range is infinite. Kim is of the creed of artists that amaze with each new thing she creates. In the best of ways, indeed!
UPDATE!Kim has uploaded new videos to both herYouTubeandFunny or Dieaccounts. Now, scoot on over there and watch them. Don't forget to rate, subscribe and vote funny. Scoot!
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE MANSON FINAL HOURS WITH MARILYN MONROE
