February 2012
Basic Animation Aesthetics
thedavidoreilly:
Visitor of this website and citizen of the internet, what follows is an extremely long brief intro to my essay “Basic Animation Aesthetics”, dating back to 2009A.D.HD. If you are too lazy to read and just want 2 DL heres a link.
Around 2007 I started to get invited to speak about my work, and found the exercise of writing down my thoughts on animation made it easier to...
“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is...”
– H. P. Lovecraft (via journalofanobody)
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Do This! →
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander
(via barebrownboy)
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strangerains:
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know...
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Finished Project.
Not moving today.
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4:08 am
..and I’m still working.
This is the reason my Tumblr has been a tad quiet recently.
It’s not bad, it’s exciting stuff, strange and devious. I just can’t talk about it, atm.
But does explain the unanswered emails, delayed progress on collaborative projects, lack of communication from me generally.
If you need something to read/look at out, you should be checking...
“In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin...”
– “You practice and you get better. It’s very simple,” iconic composer Philip Glass famously said. A new NPR interview by his cousin,This American Life’s Ira Glass, gleans deeper insight into the philosophy and creative process of the modern genius. (via curiositycounts)
“There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
(via liquidnight)
January 2012
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“It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white...”
– Duane Michals, 1976 (via theremina)
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“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
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bossa:
Lou Armer - Song of the Week: Week One -...
“David suggested that, instead of dreaming of being dancers or spacemen or...”
– Will Cameron’s call for popular films mean more silent comedies? -Stewart Lee
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inchesgiven:
pretty, bruised big mouth that opens on Sunday for line-cutting bastards, cracked bottles of Chardonnay. a dancer in dimestores, said ‘pay through your pocket,’ he calls himself shallow and you’re always soaking wet. dick drips cascade, cocksure prince play cut to red ribbons, unstitch your grin’s loopholes to secrete...
wolfandfox:
Above: Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson, 1971) [watch here]
Below: Le Notti Bianche (Visconti, 1957)
Both based on Dostoevsky’s White Nights
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