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…
Frank Gehry
Timing is everything…I just got a google feed and the subject happened to be about Frank Gehry, who I mentioned in my last post. Well, I have to follow up, for this is too coincidental. It is my goal to visit Bilbao one day, in Madrid (see earlier post on the metro), which has become my favorite contemporary piece of architecture, not so much for it’s incredible form, which is incredible–revolutionizing all previous, traditional building barriers–but for how it captures and reflects light. This blogger’s post, socializing finance, has inspired me to watch Sidney Pollack’s 2006 documentary, Sketches of Frank Gehry. I had forgotten all about it since it came…
TV surprise 2
I’ve been watching this silly TV series called Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and the humanoid, female machine that the main characters have befriended (actually she was sent from the future to help them), lacks emotion and other human-like qualities like a soul, but looks human and in fact, exemplifies human perfection on the outside. However, “Machines,” as the voice of Sara Connor says, “cannot possess faith or create art, for then they would be able to replace us.” The last scene is of the female machine practicing ballet and dancing so beautifully that she brings tears to the one of the humans, who suspects her of being a traitor to…
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