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My name is Paul Greer, I work full time at BDH, making computer animation for the telly.
This is a scrapbook where I gather, research and organise things I see, find or am shown.

Including film, photos, stories, music, thought, comics, note taking, realities and math.

My update blog is here.

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“L’Inquietude” by Man Ray (1890-1976)

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“One of Man Ray’s guiding principles was “to do the things that one is not supposed to do,” and here it seems he has used the camera to make a picture of something intangible, an emotion. Man Ray explored photography’s potential in the realm of abstraction, photographing a cloud of smoke gathering around a found-object sculpture in his New York studio. By manipulating his camera, he blurred the subject beyond recognition and created a sense of velocity and disequilibrium. The enigmatic title denies the existence of a recognizable subject in the photograph. Unknown to the viewer is the fact that Anxiety (L’Inquietude) is the name of the sculpture in the photograph, making this a craftily anti-documentary document of the three-dimensional piece.”

Moray McLaren – We Got Time (2009)

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Directed and animated by David Wilson.

Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera, no computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera. The transitions between each section of animation was created by simply cutting or wiping between the bits of footage.

Making of video here.

 

“He wrote his plays to make money. “

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1.  Everyone – all levels of society – went to see Shakespeare’s plays.  There weren’t many other forms of entertainment: no TV; no cable; no DVDs; no videos, hand-held electronic game players, or personal CD players; no CDs; no movies; and only the rudiments of a newspaper.  People went to the bear-baiting or bull-baiting ring for a thrill, they went to a public execution or two – and they went to the theatre.

2.  Shakespeare wrote his sonnets to be applauded and remembered as a writer.  He wrote his plays to make money.  And he made lots of it.

3.  He wrote 37 plays, and some of them were real dogs.

4.  Shakespeare’s wife was pregnant when they got married.

5.  Shakespeare and his wife had three children before he left them all in Stratford-upon-Avon for the big-time, big-city life in London.

6.  Shakespeare never went to college.

7.  Reading Shakespeare is hard.  Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed – acted and seen on a stage.  About half of Shakespeare’s plays weren’t even published until after his death.

8.  In Shakespeare’s time, a woman’s value depended solely on who her husband was, and how valuable he was.

9.  Experiencing a play in the Globe Theatre in 1603 was sort of a cross between going to an Oscar de la Hoya fight and an N Sync concert.

10.  In Shakespeare’s plays, you can find drunks, ghosts, teenagers running away from home, boy who gets girl, boy who loses girl, king who loses everything, woman caressing her lover’s body that is minus its head, woman caressing her lover’s head that is minus its body, weddings and celebrations, and murder by stabbing, suffocation, poison, decapitation, and drowning in a vat of wine.

– Peggy O’Brien, from the “Acknowledgments” section of The Shakespeare Book of Lists by Michael LoMonico

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Karoo Ashevak

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Karoo Ashevak

Karoo Ashevak, (Fantasy) Figure with Birds, 1972

Karoo Ashevak (1940 – October 19, 1974) was an Inuit sculptor who lived a nomadic hunting life in the Kitimeot, central Arctic region before moving into Spence Bay in 1960. His career as an artist started in 1968 by participating in a government-funded carving program. Working with the primary medium of fossilized whalebone, Ashevak created approximately 250 sculptures in his lifetime, and explored themes of shamanism and Inuit spirituality through playful depictions of human figures, shamans, spirits, and arctic wildlife