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Monsters in your Mind
Since I did my incredibly long post on the basic how to’s of Internet Networking and how Social Media can benefit your business, I’ll just do add a transitional link to another interesting article. This one discusses: the computer age technology (“Big Design”); how, “the digital revolution has expanded the universe of design;” and art vs. design in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Businesswoman. Fitting since my business group is all women. Also, since I’m working overtime this week on a backlog of commissions due to the snow lag, here’s another link to a very interesting blog/ book by James Gurney, the author of Dinotopia, regarding Imaginative Realism…
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Walt Disney at NOMA
With the Saints in the news and now going to the Superbowl, all posts this week will just have to be about New Orleans in some way or another. Hey, not hard for me (previous posts on New Orleans). The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is featuring an exhibit of conceptual art from Walt Disney’s animated films called,“Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio.” It includes 600 sketches and animation stills from select films dating back more than seven decades. There are several things that make this interesting to me and particularly if you like animation, which I do. Hopefully, the Saints’…
Impossible Animation?
This fascinating short animated film, Pigeon Impossible came my way. I’m impressed with Lucas Martell’s film making, technical ability and creativity and sense of humor. Very clever, particularly with simple things captured like the movement of Agent Becket’s hand when opening the briefcase and the pigeon pecking had me laughing, as the typical behavior of pigeons goes. Now, I’m wondering about the Washington Monument (watch the film and you’ll see what I mean). Here’s a link to the actual process of how he rendered it and other links to how he did some of the lighting and camera shots. Scary that I understand this, but don’t pretend to know how…
