sneakers
By rae | May 25, 2011
I recently acquired a shiny DSLR that makes me ridiculously happy. Now I need to remember to stop and capture those moments I see a hundred times a day. Number one from this evening. Coming home on a foggy, rainy evening, and seeing the comforting sight of my neighbors’ shoes, stacked next to each other to dry from the rain. They are a sweet couple who are more attentive to one another than most couples I know. Somehow this just struck me as emblematic of their sweetness.
Art and science have an ages old history, to be sure. What also has an ages old history? Crap science in Hollywood movies. So I totally appreciate it when this sort of dorky collaboration occurs. Even if the movie was only so-so.
geeky joy
By rae | April 26, 2011
Seriously, when two forms of geek collide, beautiful things arise.
I always love Yo Yo Ma, without question. I can honestly say I have almost no idea who Lil Buck is. But damn… he pulls off dance moves that defy physics. I have spent years studying the motion of human beings for animation, even delivering a brief lecture a couple of weeks ago to my class on the concept of weight. And here is a man, a real live one, defying weight.
A beautiful animation with some breathtakingly simple moments that just make me smile. The French really do amazing animation.
Happy Year of the Rabbit, folks! I hold this especially fond in my heart, remembering that moment when I was a kid in my first Chinese restaurant, intently reading the placemat explaining the Chinese zodiac and realizing that I was the Year of the Rabbit. And my mother was the Year of the Rat. Imagine how delighted this made a ten-year old girl.
I adore old school Disney. I will completely confess to it. The original days of it were brilliant, and think what you will of Walt Disney, I believe that he pushed his people to a lot of innovative and original thinking. A lot of the truly amazing stuff has not been seen by the usual public. This is a remix (OK, I’ll admit, I don’t like the modern twitchy editing and background music so much) of a bunch of footage that was created by Disney in 1955 for their “Man in the Moon” television program.
This is hysterical. And I really hope a joke.
But it brings up one of the issues I have with this rush into 3D television… how many people are going to want to have a set where they have to wear glasses and sit directly in front of it to watch? Sort of limiting, glasses will break, I can think of myriad problems. But then again, I may just be the harbinger of doom on this one.