Film
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…
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Silent Monks Sing
Merry Christmas! Here’s an appropriate video that hopefully will bring laughter and joy in the spirit of the season and Kick Start your weekend. Check Monday’s upcoming post for a few more scenes from the blizzard that hit us early last week and stranded my son in the Nashville airport. Surprisingly, my husband was able to make it back from Copenhagen. I later learned that they were only allowing international flights to land. My older son will be back by the time of this post and fortunately we’ll have our family together for Christmas. That’s a very good gift right there. As I was clearing out stuff I ran across…
Visual Acoustics
Visual Acoustics is a new film documentary about the modern architectural photography of Julius Shulman, who died this past summer at age 98. This appears top be an engaging film with the backdrop of the Los Angeles culture, featuring Richard Neutra and Pierre Koenig’s architecture among other connections as Rudolf Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ed Ruscha, Tom Ford, Frank Gehry and narrated by Dustin Hoffman. I was fascinated how one house, Case Study House No. 22 photographed by Shulman depicted completely different impressions, as described by Philip Kennicott’s Washington Post article, Acoustics honors a master’s modern eye. What I found very ironic was that even with all the striking photography…
