I watch this animation by Jeff Scher every summer. Each frame is an individual painting, 2,141 in whole. See some of the paintings here.
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From Dutch Profile: Karel Martens :
“…So you don’t need to worry, as long as people are sympathetic.”
CommentWhen WNYC (our local NPR station) announced they were doing a Radio Love Fest at BAM theater, I was torn about which show to go and see live. I was lucky to see two. I got to see Radiolab, which was fun and interesting, but not a huge departure from the format of the radio show, recorded on stage. The highlight was a surprise visit from Reggie Watts who is a brilliantly genius crazy person, and a master of live performance.
A few nights later, I saw This American Life with Ira Glass. I expected more or less the same sort of live recording of one of my favorite radio shows. If I could compare the level of expectation to what we saw that night, it would be something like strolling around the corner to the local bodega, and ending up on planet Saturn with dancing penguins synchronized to your favorite live band. While that might blow away your expectations, I also don’t want to give anything more away, and can only implore you to go to this link, pay $5 for the video download, and prepare to walk home happy that you took the long journey to the corner:
http://live.thisamericanlife.org
Trailer here:
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Paper to Plants from Tinybop on Vimeo.
Kelli Anderson made this unbelievable stop motion animation entirely out of paper.
CommentGrampy is a character from the Betty Boop cartoons, who likes to invent contraptions out of household items.
He has a thinking cap, which he puts on when he’s trying to solve a problem. The cap is a mortarboard with a lightbulb, which lights up when he has his “Aha!” moment.
I want this cap.
This episode is called Betty Boop and Grampy, produced by Max Fleischer in 1935. It’s good for a giggle:
And relatable (in both this post and in my work), here’s The New Yorker article on the “Aha!” moment (which inspired my reminisce on Grampy), seen through the eyes of their cartoonists.
Comment“From a three screen slide show made for a lecture on The New Covetables given by Charles Eames during his tenure as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard, 1970-71.”
Some notable quotes:
” …somehow or another a bolt of cloth comes under that sort of heading of goods. The kind of goods that people sort of lay a great story on. The kind of things that you have a feeling of tremendous security about. And I don’t know if you remember quite, sort of, what goods are. But, this is the way a bolt of cloth looks. It’s fascinating because it is goods… ”
“These are goods… A ball of twine. Who would throw away a ball of twine? Because there’s something special about that ball of twine. Before the moment that’s it’s opened up and gotten into… Because as long as it’s somewhat of a seal, why, it’s an object to hold onto. Even the way that marvelous iron thing that the twine goes in so that the string comes down and in some sense you think it’s going on forever.”
“A keg of nails… boxes of candy are thought of as kegs of nails. But once into it, the beautiful mass of stuff which like a barrel of apples or a bushel of apples you think is going to last forever. Because once you open a keg of nails, how can you run through it?”
“Reams of paper. Haven’t you dreamed of reams of paper? It’s absolutely beautiful beautiful beautiful stuff… What you do with a ream of paper can never quite come up to what the paper offers in itself.”
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