“This striking Radiolab video made by Everynone was inspired by Radiolab’s Desperately Seeking Symmetry episode. Filmmakers Will Hoffman, Daniel Mercadante, and Julius Metoyer III play with our yearning for balance, and reveal how beautiful imperfect matches can be.”
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A Cosmological Fantasia
Very proud to say I am a small part of the awesomeness that is the BDH graphics team on the BBC’s Prof. Brian Cox, doe-eyed-lens-flare-fest, “Wonders of the Universe”.
I made particular contributions to star surfaces and coronal loops.
Here is an edit of all the graphics we produced for the series, with a soundtrack by Timo Baker.
This comes with a caution, as face melting may occur.
EDIT: Looks like they had to take the edit down, but you can still see the trailer for the show here.
“How I learned to love the past’s future” by ff10 (2011)
Andrei Tarkovsky’s words on film
“Cinema is the one art form where the author can see himself as the creator of an unconditional reality, quite literally of his own world.”
Calling New Yorkers… »
There is some art on.
Too Art For TV 5, a fine art show for the animation industry.
I’m showing a film, but, alas, have no plans to make it in person, unless something spectacular happens to me between now and March (I’ll keep you posted if it does).
And Everything Is Going Fine
By A. O. SCOTT
NY Times Published: December 9, 2010
“Here is a description of some of the most innovative and important American theater of the last quarter of the 20th century. A man sits at a table and starts talking. If he has props, they are minimal — a spiral notebook, a record player, a box of pictures — and his costume is correspondingly modest, consisting usually of a flannel shirt, blue jeans or chinos, and sneakers. He speaks mostly about himself, digressing from anecdotes about his childhood and professional life into more serious confessional territory, though always with reserve and good humor.
When Spalding Gray, the man at that table, began performing his autobiographical monologues in the late 1970s and early ’80s — first as a member of the Wooster Group, then on his own — they felt radical and revelatory, like bulletins from newly discovered artistic territory. By 2004, when Mr. Gray committed suicide by jumping from the Staten Island Ferry, his work was a familiar and widely appreciated feature of the cultural landscape. He made occasional appearances in movies, television series and conventional plays, but his great role, his great project, was himself.”
via WolfAndFox
Saw “Swimming to Cambodia” when I was quite young and it made a huge impression on me, found & read transcriptions of his other performances (no internet). It hurt me when I found out that he had gone.
New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, no. 2 Sept. 22, 1899. Edison Manufacturing Co.
John Carpenter – End Credits: Halloween Theme (Reprise) [1978]
“Avis d’orage en fin de journée”
“Il faut que je vous fasse un aveu: je suis absolument en faveur du plagiat. Je crois que si on veut arriver à une nouvelle renaissance des arts et des lettres, le gouvernement devrait encourager le plagiat (…) Je ne plaisante pas car les très grands auters n’ont pas fait autre chose que d’être des plagiaires et ça leur a très bien réussi: Shakespeare, Molière… Cette habitude d’utiliser une histoire inventée par un autre vous libère de ce qui n’est pas important. L’histoire n’a pas d’importance, ce qui est important c’est la façon dont on la raconte. Ce qui est important c’est l’attention porté aux détails.”
[I have to confess to you: I am absolutely in favor of plagiarism. I believe that if we are to arrive at a new renaissance of the arts and letters, the government must encourage plagiarism (…) I’m not joking. The greatest authors, Shakespeare, Moliere, haven’t been anything other than plagiarists, to their great success… The custom of using a story created by someone else frees you from the unimportant. The story isn’t important, what is important is the way the story is told. What is important is the attention brought to the details.]
Paul Greer 