Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
No, nothing to do with the operating system we love to hate. This video is more a mellow architectural/design tour. You can tell it’s age as all the displays use CRTs.
Shinji Inamoto takes a frenetically idiosyncratic tune by Frenchman Thiaz Itch and animates it utterly. Hitting the beats and following the changes in an avant-garde style that twists and surprises as much as the music does.
Modeling by Hironari Okada
Music:”La Combe du Tréboulou” by Thiaz Itch (i think we’ll be back to hear more from mr itch soon…)
There are many a photographer’s nightmare and horrific pictorial evidence that describe the Family Portrait. It’s unfortunate that even the animals that share our life and home are not spared the indignity.
Enter Andrew Pinkham.
This ongoing project not only draws on my technical knowledge, but also on my childhood influences. Painters such as George Stubbs and John James Audubon impacted my work in a big way. These historic influences are offset by my modern day means of fabrication. These photographic portraits are mostly done on location with minimal post production work afterwards. I want to challenge beliefs of what we think of as historical or authentic, whether it was made yesterday or hundreds of years ago. To blur the lines of time and to engage the viewer in how we interpret history itself.
His portraits evoke the rich, dusty stillness found in old photographs and turn-of-the-last-century textbook illustrations. This isn’t simply antique tinting the picture, by any stretch.
Taco and Hoagy
While there is certainly some color work done to mimic film chromatics of a time and the aging since, Mr Pinkham also pays close attention to the setting, lighting, and focus we instinctively recognize as from another era.
Deep-scene painted backdrops, perhaps the subject is lit just a little too brightly, perspective is just a tad off kilter. The details perfect an image out of time.
What is particularly compelling is his choice of subject in this recent series of portraits; animals.
He has given human-subjected photographs the same treatment to nice effect, but they just don’t quite have the other-time-ness the animal series does to my eye.
You can see more of this series at Andrew Pinkham Photography or visit Mr Pinkham’s blog for an excellent overview of his work.
(yes, that was a dog picture. an unusual occurrence, i know, but don’t let it throw you. here’s an extra cat, if that’ll help)
Henry
Whoever animated this video was running some heavy fuel…
Heart’s a Mess by Gotye has a dream-like quality that reminds me a bit of Alan Parsons Project. The video, animated by Brendan Cook, reinforces the unreality well.
This video, Transformers, is a good example of how far computer animation had advanced in the two short years between The Mind’s Eye videos (1990) and this compilation.
I was 3 years old when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted into law and had little real understanding of what it really meant at the time. As a kid of an age in single digits two of my best friends were a couple of brothers that lived two houses down my block. That their father was black and their mother white, and that their marriage was illegal still in many states, never hit my radar.
February 2, 1960. Greensboro, NC. A sit in at the Woolworth's lunch counter
In elementary school I remember the children’s schoolyard songs and taunts changing over time, racially charged terms no longer accepted by the adults amid our own dawning understanding of bigotry.
In the decades since I have to admit a certain disappointment in an America that still cannot seem to eradicate racism and intolerance, but I have hope that perhaps we have finally beget a generation who will give truth to Dr King’s dream.
For my part, on this day, every year for the last several I have listened to Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ and ‘Mountaintop’ speeches. I will do the same on every year I have left to me. When others are around I turn it up loud enough for them to hear, but it doesn’t matter if it’s just for my ears because the change he dreamed of must take root one heart and one mind at a time.
I Have a Dream – August 28, 1963
An excerpt of his last speech, the “Mountaintop” speech, given on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated.
The full speech can be found here.
To learn more about Dr King and his leadership in the Civil Rights movement visit The King Center website and MLK Online.
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