A film by Vincent Haycock.
Morphologic is a Miami based creative studio run by marine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay.
The first film version of 'Alice in Wonderland' was made already over 100 years ago.
There's only one surviving print and it's now been restored to it's original colours.
When aired in 1903, it was the longest film yet produced in Britain, running about 12 minutes. It's unusual lengt meant that it was not suitable for all film showings, so all the scenes were sold individually.
A showman could show only a single sequence, such as the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, not the whole film, which was less a self-contained story than an illustration of key moments from the book.
So without further ado, here's the 8 minutes of the film that has survived through time.
Scintillation, a magnificent visual candy made entirely by Paris-based Xavier Chassaing is a stop motion animation made of 35,000 photos and the outcome is nothing short of a masterpiece.
It's a year old already but it's still remarkable.
Julian C. Duron is from Brooklyn and is totally awesome. Here he gives us instructions how to meditate and get through art school and shows us how totally awesome it all can get.
Viernes is two dudes from Florida who make beautiful, chilly and fragile feelings and have friends like Charles Bergquist and Nathan Schroeder who make absolutely gorgeous visuals for them.
The duo will release their debut album called "Sinister Devices" in the upcoming months, early 2010 that is.
THE FIRST DAYS OF SPRING - A FILM BY NOAH AND THE WHALE
December 16, 2009
FILED UNDER: film, listen with spotify, music, music video
This is truely remarkable.
London's very lovely orchestral folksters Noah and the Whale have made shifted their entire, lovely album "The First Days of Spring" to an absolutely picture perfect film that the album entirely carries throughout.
The movie was directed by the group's front man Charlie Fink and was apparently shot in 8 days with a minimum budjet, although not even a hint of that can be seen from the imagery.
Let's hope this "popera" will start a new movement so that we'll see more and more albums to be released with or as a film.
So, turn off the lights, light some candles, sit back and enjoy.
Following the Yeasayer's brilliant site, I started looking for info about how the visuals were shot and yes, it's basically just a simple 360 camera.
We've all seen Google Maps' Street View and all kinds of 360 panorama pictures, but now it's all gone video, and the same people, Immersive Media, are behind it too.
Think about the possibilities of this technology! I mean, when you think about it, it's completely future! The future of television: 360 sports shows, travel programs like Madventures shot like this, reality shows, concert videos, video games, it changes everything.
It's could be the future of film too, this combined with the 3D glasses and these Wii-style motion controls, and maybe even bit of interaction, it could make things huge, a full on serious body experience action. It could send us straight back to the 90s, to the age of interactive movie and virtual glasses, but in a good way.
Immersive Media has a lot of these demonstrations of what it can do, and here's just some of them. Just grab on the video and start moving your view around.
Brooklyn's Yeasayer are truely taking it to the next level with the website for their new single "Ambling Alp". The site features some deliciously intriguing ambience and wondorously immersive moving imagery which you can pan around. The visions remind me a bit of family life and stuff like that, but in a more positive light. Like nothing ever went wrong.
The song is much more electronic than the groups previous acts, and don't get fooled by the site: the feeling of the song is actually very bright and positive. This could actually be the most infectious bit the group has released yet, as you kinda have to listen to it over and over again.
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
Moomin is one of Finland's national treasures.
As all nordic people know, these lovable white creatures were created by Swede-Finn Tove Jansson and have spawned cartoons, books, animations and endless amounts of merchandise of every kind imaginable.
Björk, one of Iceland's national treasures, has now written a new song called "The Comet Song" with her frequent collaborator Sjón, who has worked with her on e.g. "Bachelorette" and "Wanderlust" for the new Finnish movie, Moomins and the Comet Chase.
I myself was a huuge Moomin fan as a kid, so I can't say I wouldn't be a bit thrilled about this. I remember having all the episodes of Japanese made cartoony animation series, except the first one Taikurin hattu, (‘The Magician's Hat’), on seven video tapes and watching them constantly. The slow pace and the relaxed atmosphere had a soothening effect that was truely unsurpassable, on times when every other kids' cartoon seemed to be noisy and violent. But of course there are differing opinions to this, mostly because the Moomins were originally a bit anarchic and oriented more to adult tastes than just kids.
The new film is done by Swede-Finn film studio Filmkompaniet. The movies they make are stop-motion animations, and I myself find them a bit creepy, considering how their last year's Muumi ja vaarallinen juhannus, ('Moomin and Midsummer Madness') looks like. But we'll see how the new one turns out. It's said to be coming to cinemas in August/September 2010.
Here's a clip from the last Moomin flick:
SPHERES OF FURY + EARLIER WORK OF TIM BROWN & CHRISTOPHER HEWITT
November 3, 2009
FILED UNDER: art, film
Born from a love of classic 80s war films Spheres of Fury is an action packed pastiche. The bravado and attitude that pours from these movies is nothing but a treat to watch, our modern remake aims to capture some of those magical moments but with a slightly comical, modern stance.
This brilliant audio-visual sweet cake was stunningly shot using the latest Canon D7 and was directed by East London's Christopher Hewitt and Tim Brown.
I found the earlier work from these two also immensively effective.
The phonograph needle ground into its stop groove. Armando Dominguez’s sweeping Mexican Ballad Destino finished establishing the mood. The walls of the room were a montage of pencil sketches and paintings. Salvador Dali paused as he completed narrating the visual sequences to this song, and told a journalist at the Disney Studio in 1946 that everything he ever painted will be in it, all his pictorial concepts -- the melancholy of space, dissolving images, hallucinations of man and landscape.
Just as with Bauhaus abstract painter and animator Oskar Fischinger who worked on Pinocchio and Fantasia, Walt Disney invited Salvador Dali to invigorate the artistic boundaries of his studio. The two met at a party that WB studio head Jack Warner gave around the time Dali was designing a sequence for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Spellbound. Shortly thereafter, Dali started work on the Disney lot designing visuals for a short entitled Destino which was intended for inclusion in one of Disney’s anthology features, like Make Mine Music. Walt Disney stated in 1946: “Like the Night On Bald Mountain sequence Kay Nielson designed for Fantasia, I want to give more big artists such opportunities. We need them. We have to keep breaking new trails.”
Destino is a short animated cartoon released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was a collaboration between American animator Walt Disney and Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez.
The funny thing is that the film hasn't been released in a DVD. A disc featuring Destino was slated to be released on November 11, 2008 but has been put back in the company's release schedule. It's not known at this time when the DVD will be released.
Some of Dalí's concept art and info about the clip can be found here.
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