Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Monday, December 25, 2017
Monday, November 27, 2017
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Old Friend Visits 59 yrs old Chimpanzee
Mama, 59 years old and the oldest chimpanzee and the matriarch of the famous chimpanzee colony of the Royal Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, was gravely ill. Jan van Hooff (emeritus professor behavioural biology at Utrecht University and co-founder of the Burgers colony) who has known Mama since 1972, visited her in the week before she died of old age in april 2016. It took a while before she became aware of Jan's presence. Her reaction was extremely emotional and heart-breaking. Mama played an important social role in the colony. This has been described in "Chimpanzee Politics" by Frans de Waal, who studied the colony since 1974.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Monday, October 16, 2017
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki Anno
Hideaki Anno (庵野 秀明) is a Japanese animator, film director and actor. He is best known for his part in creating the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.
After Evangelion, Anno has gone on to work with Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli on several short films.
He also team up with close friend and Gainax cofounder Shinji Higuchi to write and codirect Shin Godzilla, the 2016 reboot of Toho's Godzilla franchise.
In the video I will present bellow, Mr. Anno goes back to his hometown to teach a class on animation, and learns to like himself a little more in the process.
Which is a pretty sweet thing since he always struggle to like himself.
The video cannot be embed in the blog, so please visit this link. Or click in the image.
After Evangelion, Anno has gone on to work with Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli on several short films.
He also team up with close friend and Gainax cofounder Shinji Higuchi to write and codirect Shin Godzilla, the 2016 reboot of Toho's Godzilla franchise.
In the video I will present bellow, Mr. Anno goes back to his hometown to teach a class on animation, and learns to like himself a little more in the process.
Which is a pretty sweet thing since he always struggle to like himself.
The video cannot be embed in the blog, so please visit this link. Or click in the image.
Monday, September 11, 2017
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Monday, August 21, 2017
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Monday, July 03, 2017
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Friday, April 21, 2017
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Extrapolate
"In this hand drawn animation a line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings. Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.
This work was created with support from ”Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo 2016” part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Bunka-cho) ”Project to invite overseas creators of media arts 2016” and the Mondriaan Fund."
This work was created with support from ”Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo 2016” part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Bunka-cho) ”Project to invite overseas creators of media arts 2016” and the Mondriaan Fund."
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Sunday, April 02, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
How Words Help Us to Feel Things
Directed, illustrated & animated by Antonio Vicentini
Written & narrated by Alain de Botton
Written & narrated by Alain de Botton
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
DESCENT
"In 1562, Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder completed a painting called "The Triumph Of Death". In this panoramic landscape the sky is blotted out by black smoke; ships and dead fish litter the ocean shore; and an army of skeletons experiment with myriad death techniques. The living are badly outnumbered and the variety of fated tortures seems endless. There is little room for whimsy in this tableaux.
Over 200 years earlier, a nasty plague, commonly known as "The Black Death", left a cruel and massive mark on European civilization, wiping out half of Europe’s total population. This was a quiet pervasion of death - an invisible pathogen carried by herds of tired rats. This plague triggered a series of social and economic upheavals with profound effects on the history of medieval Europe, guiding its survivors into the sort of self-inflicted darkness pictured by the Elder Bruegel.
Looking back at this historical trajectory, Peter Burr, Mark Fingerhut, and Forma have created a spiraling interdimensional narrative aptly titled DESCENT - a meditation on one of humanity’s blackest hours. Taking the form of a desktop application, descent.exe gives the user a brief glimpse of a world descending into darkness - an unrelenting plague indifferent to the struggles of the user.
There is a silver lining, however, tucked into the software’s final sweep. An equanimous watcher, reduced to a single eye, looks on as the plague of rats that has infested your desktop destroys itself.
This video is a recording of descent.exe running alongside Fingerhut's deepdesktop.exe."
Visuals: Peter Burr
Programming: Mark Fingerhut
Music: Forma - Descent (from Physicalist, Kranky 2016)
Over 200 years earlier, a nasty plague, commonly known as "The Black Death", left a cruel and massive mark on European civilization, wiping out half of Europe’s total population. This was a quiet pervasion of death - an invisible pathogen carried by herds of tired rats. This plague triggered a series of social and economic upheavals with profound effects on the history of medieval Europe, guiding its survivors into the sort of self-inflicted darkness pictured by the Elder Bruegel.
Looking back at this historical trajectory, Peter Burr, Mark Fingerhut, and Forma have created a spiraling interdimensional narrative aptly titled DESCENT - a meditation on one of humanity’s blackest hours. Taking the form of a desktop application, descent.exe gives the user a brief glimpse of a world descending into darkness - an unrelenting plague indifferent to the struggles of the user.
There is a silver lining, however, tucked into the software’s final sweep. An equanimous watcher, reduced to a single eye, looks on as the plague of rats that has infested your desktop destroys itself.
This video is a recording of descent.exe running alongside Fingerhut's deepdesktop.exe."
Visuals: Peter Burr
Programming: Mark Fingerhut
Music: Forma - Descent (from Physicalist, Kranky 2016)
