Watch this. I have NEVER seen YouTube used this way and it is amazing. One of the most depressing things about the Web is the comments people leave in response to news items. It is painful to read how stupid and hateful people can be in their responses. This video on Youtube is not at [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
OK; I’m Sick; I Love This
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Andrew Sullivan’s blog, “The Daily Dish” put me on to this great mashup by Pogo. Link. Great music too!
The God of Beauty
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
I love art and always have. I have drawn from the beginning. And I also love beauty. Beauty and art certainly do not always go together, but beauty and nature do in my experience. I love animals and flowers and the beauty that can be revealed in their fur and feathers often stuns me. Andrew [...]
Understanding Art for young People
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
From Boing Boing:
Looking at Paintings is a beginning textbook for young children (I’d say 6-12) who are wondering the same thing. Using beautifully reproduced paintings and crisp prose,Looking at Paintings expounds on the history of visual art, and the use of size, shape, color, light and dark, perspective, frame, motion and materials in creating visual [...]
The Carved Baseball Bats of Peter Schuyff
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Peter Schuyff: “The whole thing started with carving sticks on my walks. I’ve made long walks in New Guinea, the Amazon, Burma, jungles, I like jungles. At the end of the day there’s not much to do and I started carving sticks while staring off somewhere. Sometimes in the morning I’d climb a tree, bore [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Long exposure animation consists of compiling long exposure photographs into an animated form. “Freezelight Magic Forest” is a demonstration of this technique, shot with about 300 individual photographs.
Link. And if you go to the link, check out the “How To” video on Vimeo as well. Thanks to Neatorama.
Body Parts By Music Genre
Thursday, January 14, 2010
What do we sing about, when we sing about the body? The chart below, based on a sample of thousands songs, tells the story. The size of a circle corresponds to how often that part is mentioned in each genre. Click on a genre name to see a close-up that shows exactly what words were [...]
Fabulous SIMPLE Stop-Frame Flip Book Animation
Monday, January 11, 2010
Illustrated with technical pen,frame by frame. I admit it might not be the best, or the quality isn’t perfect, just a shot at animating the old flip book whatever-you-call-it way. =D
The audio I used is Dr Dre Rap beat, not sure who’s the artiste..
Post production credits goes to Noel Lee for his patience in piecing [...]
Avatar Plot
Monday, January 11, 2010
I loved the movie, simple plot that it has. A celebration of imagination.