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“Sensology” by Michel Gagné (2006)
“The creation of this film was a true spiritual and artistic journey. Sometimes, I felt like I was channeling the images. I did no storyboards and virtually no preliminary work. I animated in a stream of consciousness, one frame at a time at a rate of 30 frames per second. The shapes revealed themselves as I listened to the music over and over again. The process was intensely focused and required large amount of concentration. I was becoming part of the music and expressing my creativity at its rawest and most primal. Like Kandinski tought us, every shape and sound has a equal vibration in the soul. When Paul Plimley saw a portion of the film for the first time, he said to me with tears in his eyes, “It’s like you read my soul.””
— Michel Gagné
“Alone Again Or” – Love (1967)
This came on the radio when I was out driving the other night. It was a damp, english summers evening and half the sky was black.
It’s a track you’ve probably heard a thousand times.
But listen to it again.
(shh)
(T)
Microscope Stop Motion by Josh James Gross (2010)
[1973] “Not I” (Samuel Beckett)
“Not I takes place in a pitch black space illuminated only by a single beam of light. This light illuminates an actress’s mouth. The mouth utters a monologue of fragmented, jumbled sentences which gradually coelesces into a narrative about a woman who has suffered an unpleasant experience. The title comes from the character’s repeated insistence that the events she describes did not happen to her. ”
“Déshérence” by AntiVJ (2010)
Leonardo da Vinci, Head of Leda 1503-1507, Black chalk, pen and ink on paper.
“Osborne’s first Budget? It’s wrong, wrong, wrong!”
“If you have a household that can’t pay its debts, you tell it to cut back on spending to free up the cash to pay the debts. But in a national economy, if you cut back on your spending, then economic activity goes down, nobody invests, the amount of tax you take goes down, the amount you pay out in unemployment benefits goes up and you don’t have enough money to pay your debts.”
Paul Greer 