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junglebook

Also a must see film by Disney, which seems to be pushing films out one after the other these last few weeks. Imagine in your head the length of edits on a normal film, now multiply the number of names featured by five or six and there you have the various departments of animation for 2016 The Jungle Book!

They did a simply incredible job on the 3d animation, which looks incredibly lifelike but must have involved five to ten years of work, with each person working on something as simple as the eye movement of a single character for that entire period.

Chelsea Galleries, 03.26.16.

1. Pace -- Tim Hawkinson's Counterclockwise: 537 West 24th Street

http://www.pacegallery.com/newyork/exhibitions/12787/counterclockwise

The Pace retrospective on Tim Hawkinson offered unique perspective on interaction design and recycling/repurposing of common objects. Every element used in each piece is in some way a recycled element of every day life. His signature piece, for instance is made from a primary school desk and chair, clothes hangers, a bic pen, and a motor.

2. Gagosian Gallery — Taryn Simon’s PAPERWORK AND THE WILL OF CAPITAL

555. west 24th Street

http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/taryn-simon--february-18-2016

This was a tremendously curated exhibition, displaying larger than life portraits of different centerpieces featured at various political and financial meetings and the symbolism of the decoration. Some pieces are decidedly festive, such as the one from the ALBA agreement, flaunting the native flowers of South America in all their glory, while others like the unsuccessful piece treaty of South Sudan has obvious symbolism in the choice of crimson flowers.

3. Os Gemeos and Futura — Street Mural A cool new mural on 21st street between 8th and 9th ave.

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/good-stuff/2092-os-gemeos-mural-w-futura-in-nyc

4. Mark Dion -- Cabinet of Curiosities Exhibit Tanya Bonakar Gallery 521 West 21st Street (between 11th & 12th Avenues)

Mark Dion’s Cabinet of Curiosity was a real treat, especially his "The Library for the Birds of New York and Other Marvels," on the first floor, where four at a time, spectators could enter his large scale bird cage for an immersive experience and chance to observe 22 live bird, an oak tree and diverse books, photographs and memorabilia. Other works included an extensive cigar box collection, and glow in the dark neon plastic animals.

http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/

zootopia

Wow! So glad I went to see it!! I’m ready to say it is one of Disney’s best films yet. A young anthropomorphic rabbit by the name of Judy Hopps makes it her life goal to become the first ever rabbit police officer, to help maintain the law and enforce justice. However, she quickly finds that despite her badge no one on the police force takes her seriously because of her size, species, and eating habits (herbivore). She eventually is forced to team up with her unlikely friend Nick Wilde, a fox and con artist to resolve a missing persons case, possible murder and blackmail.

Of course it’s not one of the classics, but it’s one that we can be proud to share and pass on. It teaches lessons of diversity fit for the 21st century; regardless of your gender, race, ethnicity, you should be treated equally. It also has very socially important subtexts like, nature versus nurture and socially imposed self loathing and bias.

However there are critiques that although the story and plot line are ready to take on our societal problems, the voice overs were done by a predominantly white/caucasian cast... which leads to the next question: what is Disney really willing to change to back up the politics it is trying to promote?

Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop is a 1990s Japanese anime series that follows Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Edward Wong, and Ein as they travel through the Solar System looking for criminals to trade in to the ISSP for rewards. It’s the intersection of the Wild West, anime, science fiction and existentialism. At first, it is mostly the futuristic elements that draw you in, the long, elegant drawings, and then the melancoly music of a Western that begins to creap into yourr heart. By the time you get to the end of the third season, you won’t know what hit you.

The Boy and the Beast

This year’s Children’s Film Festival lremiered with Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. Young Kyuta slips into an alternate universe - after the death of his mother and the disappearence of his father - where he is raised by a bear-man, Kumatetsu, and trained to become a lord. Between the worlds of men and beasts, Kyuta learns what it means to be strong, resilient, determined, loyal and most of all how to love. It is the beautiful love story of a young boy and his father figure as he comes of age and grows into adulthood. Much like Cinema Paradiso, I suggest you watch it with the tissues close at hand.

Strandbeest by Theo Jansen

Big Bang Big Boom

Fantastic, sometimes frightening street at and stop motion work by Italian artist Blu. This video which features sea creatures of all kinds is a lot less scary than some other works oh his with decapitations and strange robotic life forms and alien beings.

The Old Mill

This is an incredibly beautiful short , which won two Academy Awards, one for Cartoons and one for Scientific or Technical, Class II, for the invention and use of the Multiplane Camera and then Best Animated Film at the Venice Film Festival in 1937

Howevet, any of you who watched it and thought to yourselves, oh dear, I knew Disney was sad, but are they really going to kill of the mother bird and her eggs??? Well you weren't wrong exactly! There's a mistake, the tooth that is missing in the one shot is there in the one before.

Wolf Proof Animation

Who noticed the wolf-proof mortar, or the portraits on the wall of the mother suckling her young and the father as a string of sausages.

I love how the first pig had to pull his "welcome" doormat in to male dure the wolf didn't get confused.

Music Land

This Silly Symphony is based on the argument at the time (1935), that Jazz music was corrupting the souls of the new generation.

It must have been so much fun to come up with musical equivalents of different objects, like the raft the saxophone uses to cross the sea of discord, the metronome prison, or coming up witht he various melodies and songs to convey words like The Prisoner’s Song, the US army Assembly bugle call, and Wagner’s The Ride of the Valkyries.

The Ugly Duckling

Haha, the father duck is so nervous as he waits for the ducklings to hatch that he literally digs himself a hole by walking to and fro over and over. The poor little cygnet first gets his feet out of the the shell, walks around a bit, and then finally takes the shell off like a hat.

Not so funny, the mom and dad ducks fight over who’s fault it is that the cygnets looks so funny. The mother duck, so annoyed with his weird honking she bumps him off and the little duckings tell him off too. :(

I love how the tears dropping sound like little bells chiming. They made his tail move like a happy dog when he prepares to cuddle up with the other birds in the nest.

Nocturnal Adventures

Julio Fernandez’s 2014 film, Nocturna, tells the story of how a young orphan boy overcomes his fears of the dark and solitude. Fear of the dark in particular is of interest to me, because I discovered that my own personal fear of the dark was really a completely other fear, cloaked in a more typical childhood fear. Here, young Tim is afraid of losing the ones he loves, like he lost his parents, and the manifestation of that fear is fear of darkness.

The adventure takes place somewhere between beautiful melancholy skylines and brilliant hopeful sunrises, in the twilight of Tim’s understanding of himself. The drawings and coloring are incredible. Yet another great film from GKIDS.

#nocturna #animation #sleeplessness #insomnia

cleanbaby666

Was watching Ghostbusters 2 and this happened.

Oh well, we had a good run guys, but the 80′s movie has spoken.

clementired

good

riot98

I’m ready

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Happy Valentines Day Everybody!!

Where the magic comes from

Scorsese’s 2011 film, Hugo, is a tribute to the magical ear of the industrial revolution, the time of dreams and illusions powered by mechanics, the time of Harry Houdini, the Lumière brothers, and Georges Méliès.

Hugo is the son of a clockmaker, who suddenly becomes an orphan and against all odds continues to strive to pursue the adventure he had begun with his father to fix a mysterious automaton.

It is a wonderful homage to the man, Georges Méliès, who arguably was the father of modern day special effects. Méliès started off as a magician, using mechanical tricks to power his illusions and magic tricks. After seeing the Lumière brothers first reel, a train pulling into a trip station, he switched to film and entertaining via the silver screen. Most of his films were destroyed in the WWI, but a few remain.

Skeleton Dance

A classic Silly Symphony, “Skeleton Dance” was thought to be an avant-guard art piece as well as animation because of the music, new animation styles, and new movements it introduced to moving cartoons.

Also, this was used as inspiration for the October 2015 Holojam at the NYU Media Research Lab

Christmas Special

Lucky Billy Brown gets everything he wants PLUS a keg of soap!! For Christmas, Santa, could I please have some checkered soap!

Also, maybe I’m just a child, but the sign for ‘factory’ looks a lot like ‘factory.’

I think it’s toll abuse to electrocute them all in the name of a fashionable hairstyle. Notice these are the same dollies from “Three Orphan Kittens.”

Santa must have a lot of WELL COMPENSATED workers if he doesn’t mind all the mess the toys make as they crash and bang and knock things over.

I love the little boy who sleeps in the patch at the foot of the bed!! And the parade of toys preparing the Christmas decorations for the family, and how the exhaust from the toy plane is actually white garland.

#christmas #animation #disney

Flowers and Trees

Yet another classic Silly Symphony, “Flowers and Trees” was also regarded as avant-guard art in 1932. The anthropomorphized trees and flowers serenade, dance, and fence together. The vines turn into a harp, the song birds become a choral.

The sound of fire trucks is imitated by the bell shaped flowers and the black bird’s call.

Kind of cool how the one tree jumps across the river or pond into another tree trunk, which he pulls up like a different set of trousers.

#flowers and trees #silly symphonies #disney #animation

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