Variations on a disturbed sleep by Brooklyn based animator Andy Kenedy.
Category Archives: Animation
An interesting take on the exasperating friendship of writers Henry James and Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev by the School Of Life, to wit:
When people close to us annoy us, and we wonder why we allowed them into our lives, we should draw vital comfort from a theory known as The Weakness of Strength.
In a new episode of the PBS animated Blank On Blank series, the astronomer Carl Sagan talks to Studs Terkel in 1985 about his concerns that humankind didn’t havw the ability to communicate with extraterrestrial life. To wit:
Look at timescales, you realize that our civilization is the most backward civilization in the galaxy that could communicate at all, because we’ve just invented radio telescopes,just a few decades ago. We had not the ghost of a chance of communicating with anybody else.So If we receive a message, it can’t be from anybody less capable than we, because anybody less capable can’t communicate at all. So it has to be somebody much in advance of us and maybe as much in advance of us as we are in advance of the ants, say, or the worms.
A music video synching the movement of geometric shapes to the frenetic beats and jazz riffs of Takeshi Nakatsuka’s ‘Japanese Boy animated by Hironori Sugie.
Nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMFr4aw5ybE
Smoke City – an ‘adult cartoon based in Ireland’ by Darren.
A rather excellent video for Disco by composer Ralf Hildenbeutel directed by Boris Seewald and featuring impressionistic visions of real life dancers Althea Corlett and Simone Schmidt.
The technique (best known in the video for A-Ha’s ‘Take on Me’) is called rotoscoping and involves the painstaking animation of drawings and paintings created, in this case, from photo transparencies.
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A rather wonderful, beautifully lit stop-motion 2014 short by Estonian animator Anu-Laura Tuttelberg about a little clay girl lost in a painter’s studio.
A rather charmingly illustrated account by ISS astronaut Leland Melvin of returning from orbit with a new appreciation of the earthly things we take for granted..
A pleasing audiovisual collaboration for the US National Science Programme by Kevin Dart, Stéphane Coëdel, David Kamp and Nelson Boles of LA based animation studio Chromosphere.