[gushism]

rock rabbits

[dannyreviews]

Scenes With Beans (Babfilm) (1976)

MUBI does it once again. Going through the archives, the site found a gem of an animated short to include on its streaming service underneath their Hungarian Animation banner. And what makes this find very significant to me is that only a couple of months ago, I submitted the short to the site after it remained in obscurity for over 40 years. Otto Foky’s “Scenes With Beans” is a testament to the beauty of stop motion animation and its overall superiority to the CGI works of recent years. 

The story is original and fascinating. A metallic hen traveling outer space comes across a mysterious planet inhabited by beans. Among the scenes the hen analyzes are pedestrian beans heading to work, spectator beans at a stadium, jailbird beans breaking out of the hoosegow and a poor bean requiring medical help in the street. While marveling at these otherwise mundane events, some of the beans discover the eavesdropping through their own telescope and in a means of narrative resolution, fire a missile to chase the hen away.

“Scenes With Beans” shows why Otto Foky should be listed among the greats of stop motion animation like Ray Harryhausen or Willis O’Brien. The short is an unsung piece of cinematic mastery, where hundreds of beans emulate human qualities. Foky painstakingly had to move these little props one frame at a time. Also worth mentioning is the usage of objects functioning in different scenarios, like razors cutting fabric to emulate a tractor tilling soil on a farm. a sardine can as a vehicle and a spoon acting like a stroller/pram. This technique was probably an influence on the director PES, whose films like “Fresh Guacamole” and “Submarine Sandwich” use similar kinds of object substitution. Computers would have dulled the realism of the situation by stifling the lifelike movements of the individual prop beans. Foky creates his own universe that straddles the realms of fantasy and reality that the two sometimes run into one another. Sure, these are beans, but as animated by Foky, they are more human than you think.

The 1970s was the era of independent clay and stop motion animation making its mark on the awards circuit. “Scenes With Beans” played at both the Cannes and Krakow Film Festivals, winning the top Short Film prize from the latter. Foky submitted the film to AMPAS for potential Oscar consideration, but was unfortunately overlooked. The website Cartoon Research did a series on animated shorts submissions and “Scenes With Beans” was listed as having little information to go on. That was in December of 2017. Fast forward to this past June and randomly submitting this short because it was stop motion animation that played at the Cannes Film Festival that deserved a place on MUBI. It was on YouTube, but had very few views. Since Monday (9/20), “Scenes With Beans” has won rave reviews by MUBI subscribers and currently holds a 8.7/10 average based on over 1500 ratings (and counting). Otto Foky died in 2012, but he’s now receiving a newer and much wider audience for his animated magnum opus.

9.5/10

[justnoodlefishthings]

Stop idolizing the grind and start idolizing Hügelkultur

[justnoodlefishthings]

got another one

[jeanjauthor]

Btw, the trench IS absolutely necessary, at the very bottom.  You compact the soil a little bit so it slows water loss, but don’t line it!  You want worms, etc, to come up from the ground into the mound.  The woody organic material (rotting logs & branches, twigs, shrubs, etc) will have plenty of air pockets for water to soak into them.  This forms a moisture reservoir for the plants you grow on the mound to draw from, and encourages deep root growth, which helps stabilize the mound and ensures a good mix of nutrients for the living plants.

In fact, when you’re digging & filling the mound, you actually need to pause every few inches of layering to give it a good soaking with water.  Don’t fill it up until it’s floating, because that’s a little counter-productive.  Just give the mound a couple minutes’ attention with the hose so that everything is visbly wet, then resume adding in the next layer.

When you do the layer of dirt on top, only a modest amount of moisture is needed.  Basically, give just enough to allow it to hold its shape and position, and then a localized watering for whatever seeds you plant.  (You don’t want to overwater or use high pressure water at this stage, because you don’t want to erode all your effort at mounding up the earth.)

Also consider sowing a nitrogen-fixing crop, such as clover, as soon as possible, so that you get both nitrogen nodules growing amont the roots and get the ground stabilized when you’re first establishing the mound.  You can then “pull plugs” on the mound for planting other crops, aka dig out a little hole in the groundcover (short-growing plants) and plant whatever seeds you want in the circle (or line) of bared earth.

[electripipedream]

Murray Tinkelman, 1975

[babycham-kid]

Mort- plantasia vibes

[xjmlm]

[deadmomjokes]

What I love about this, though, is that the little nails will become an outline of where the water was. It will trace the shape, show someone later what was there once upon a time. It will be a testament to how much this guy wanted to capture the amazing things he saw and experienced, and though it will never truly keep it, it will hold a memory, something that in itself is beautiful and worthy of experience. We cannot describe the indescribable, but we can trace its outline, give some idea of what we experienced.

[river-gate-deactivated20211115]

[danishdesignstore]

via river-gate

Finn Juhl by oneCollection.

[babycham-kid]

I like

[offtheairas]

[cat-cosplay]

🎶"Toss a coin to your Hisser

Oh, valley of plenty

Oh, valley of plenty, oh

Toss a coin to your Hisser…"🎶

[babycham-kid]

I absolutely loved the Witcher!

This snekk was un expect!

[babycham-kid]

Cat

Gobble up

Those Gravey Gibblets!

Hay(na)ku Sonnet.

A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words.

#day 10 #napowrimo

[babycham-kid]

Asthmatic Chlorine Erotica

Manic Pixie Dream Girl: “I just want to capture you

gasping for the one thing 

you wouldn’t usually gasp for.”

Average Guy:

“ ok.”

Manic Pixie Dream Girl:

“Here are the instructions:

Stay deflated, do not float,

Remain under the water

But please, do not choke.

Until I nod 

you mustn’t quit 

just try sit

and follow me, quick!”

**dives in: inner monologue**

Chlorine white bubbles 

glide up

the goosebumps 

on our skin,

as densely compressed

- come your shivers of

adrenalin. 

My cheeks puffed tumescently 

yet yours hold tight with purpose,

then my tongue laps your mouth

and - oh, you thrust up to the surface...

Average guy:

*Gasps for relief*

“ Wtf. You didn’t nod?’

Manic Pixie Dream Girl:

“You almost choked for your breath...” 

Average Guy: 

“Duh, how could I forget?

Manic Pixie Dream Girl: 

“...but, why, aren’t you aroused by near suffocation and death?”

#day 2 #specific place

[babycham-kid]

You simply want to relax in solitude

Listen to an opus or 

read chapter by chapter;

Yet here you are 

as you obey attentively

to the pings

Of cyber frequencies

like pavlov’s dog.

[babycham-kid]

perspective

[babycham-kid]

Meanwhile in Scotland... “Happy St Andrews Day. To celebrate I have posed with our national drink while wearing a traditional Scottish outfit “   - ♪     Check out his gig photography while yer here, eh: https://www.facebook.com/EdinburghGigPhotography/

[babycham-kid]

Technology; A Celebration of Isaac Asimov

[babycham-kid]

Hello! This is letter #3 of Wordplay (here are the first two ). I hope that everyone had ...

Mentions rad stuff:   -computers as humans in a room that calculate sums.

-The three laws of ROBOTS. “ But while there are people who have thought long and hard about the ramifications of programming robots (informed in part by science fiction), there doesn’t seem to be anything that really has the same impact for the other big problems we face right now, namely climate change and the impact that major tech companies have on the populations that they "serve." Science fiction is an ideal medium for framing this conversation.”

[babycham-kid]

20/11/2018 Jen Ella.  At Forest cafe. //Dreamcast// Listen to her single ‘Butterflies’  on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/1cJrNnedqQzK1Zjsat20wL?si=VJD9wzrGTrerDiUB8aqaTg

[babycham-kid]

Nusch Pentlands. Edinburgh. August 2018