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Frank Lloyd Wright at Disney

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 17, 2006 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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Disney History blog has posted several pages of transcript of FLW talking to Disney animators about their use of music. From what they're talking about it sounds like this discussion may relate to the origins/development of Fantasia since the use of music FLW talks about it closer to Fischinger's work than to Disney's other films.

via Cartoon Brew






 
Credits NeverEnding

story © Michael Betancourt | published August 30, 2006 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



movies: AESTHETICS

Credits NeverEnding is a video art project that invites anyone on-line to add to their list of credits so they can run forever, without ending. Interesting idea. Take a look and add your own...






 
The Lamascope

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 30, 2006 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



movies: AESTHETICS

The Lamascope looks a lot like a kaleidoscope to me--clips and other info on the site, too.






 
The Space Art Database

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 27, 2006 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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The Space Art Database has a lot of surprising things. It is an online database providing information about the arts related to outer space from the middle of the 19th century until the present.






 
Low-Tech Video processing

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 17, 2006 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



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It seems like the era of low-tech video processing is upon us (again). The earliest devices were being built in the 1950s and 60s by people like Mita, and they aren't well known today. So we get a whole new set of approaches, like this one (with video) or this one where a TV has an attachement that breaks the image into derivative pixels based on what's on screen.