(Dephaad)
NFB.ca Curator's comments:
As a teenager, McLaren became interested in Colour-Music, an art form in which moving patterns of coloured lights were projected. When he was at art school, McLaren and fellow student Stuart McAllister tried to create colour-music by painting abstractions directly onto 35 mm movie film. McAllister would later become a great editor of documentary films. McLaren was delighted with the experience but knew the results were primitive. Then, in London in 1936, he saw Len Lye’s revolutionary hand-painted-on-film Colour Box. It did not influence McLaren but it gave him the confidence to continue drawing directly on film. He had to wait ten years, however, before he would have access to a three-colour film printing stock, which would allow him to copy a multi-hued hand-painted original. And what an original it is! For me, it is hard to imagine a more satisfying jazz film – in this case, a marriage of hand-painted improvisations to the piano improvisations of a young Oscar Peterson.
hat tip to Brand Upon the Brain!
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren - Begone Dull Care/Caprice en couleurs (1949)
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Hobo Nickels
image: OHNS
The hobo nickel, an early form of creative currency modification, had its heyday during the circulation run of the Buffalo nickel, from 1913 to 1938. Since they were small, cheap and easier to carve, they were popular with hobos, who often used them to trade for food and goods. (Jefferson nickels and other denominations were used, but the old "Indian Head" design was considered best because the large profile gave the artists a greater area to work with and allowed for finer detail.)
The period from 1940 to the late '70s saw the Buffalo nickel almost completely fade from circulation and with this, the styles took a decided turn to the modern. In the early 1980s, there was a resurgence of hobo nickel carving and collecting and this time period marks the separation between the "old" and "modern" eras.
You can find many examples, old and new, at The Original Hobo Nickel Society.
Wikipedia provides a serviceable survey of the topic.
thanks to Ledgergermane for tip!
Monday, March 2, 2009
The Prisoner Production Design Sketches
Episode 4, "Free for All." Production sketch by art director Jack Shampan.
The Prisoner 1960s Production Design Sketches
Monday, February 23, 2009
Stealing beauty
Stealing beauty: the greatest art heists in history:
Perhaps the greatest art theft of them all remains the Gardner art heist, in which thieves made off with 13 works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, in 1990. Altogether they were valued at $500m (£350m) and included Vermeer's The Concert, which is believed to be the world's most valuable missing art work. The haul also included a Manet, several Degas sketches and three Rembrandts. Nineteen years and a $5m (£3.5m) reward later, it remains an unsolved mystery Photograph: Barney Burstein
stray bullets
Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can’t Grasp Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster Web of hidden data: financial information, shopping catalogs, flight schedules, medical research and all kinds of other material stored in databases that remain largely invisible to search engines.... Now a new breed of technologies is taking shape that will extend the reach of search engines into the Web’s hidden corners. When that happens, it will do more than just improve the quality of search results — it may ultimately reshape the way many companies do business online. (via) (prev)
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci discovered in Basilicata What may be a hitherto unknown portrait of Leonardo da Vinci in middle age shows that the Renaissance genius had piercing blue eyes, a long nose and long greying hair with a droopy moustache.
A design for life (The history of the smiley face symbol) Feelgood corporate logo, acid house icon and txt msg emoticon: one chirpy yellow emblem has kept grinning since the first summer of love. Jon Savage celebrates the life of Smiley.
Q&A: Dennis Hopper I don't spend a lot. Most of my art collection I got by trading it or through knowing the artist. I got Andy Warhol's first soup can painting for $75. I lost it to my first wife.
Carbon nanotube sculpture garden
image: Michael De Volder and A. John Hart/University of Michigan/Materials Research Society
This gallery presents the best images from the Materials Research Society’s recent Science as Art competition. Each one depicts familiar objects made from materials with otherworldly properties—and they’re insanely small. This quiz will test how well you understand this tiny, alien world.
more at nanobliss
via roamin
Friday, February 20, 2009
150 SUEÑOS ILUSTRADOS
Ilustración de Henning Wagenbreth
A boy was very poor, and they told him that if he eats one ton of old iron, he gets ten thousand millions of dollars, the boy accepted and in two days the boy and his family became millionaires.
150 SUEÑOS ILUSTRADOS - a collection of children’s dreams illustrated by various artists.
via the Glasgow School of Art Library
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Men and Machines
Dan Williams - Men and Machines, from the Black Biker Series, 1983
Smithsonian American Art Museum
via Ordinary finds
Monday, February 16, 2009
Golden Eagle Nomads
The Golden Eagle Hunters of Mongolia
Photographer John Delaney travels to the remote reaches of Asia to document a dying Kazakh skill
Friday, February 13, 2009
...and enjoy your weekend! ☺
Rebecca Solow
via LCSV4
I will be working and in The Lab for the next few days and back on Monday morning. A Friday the 13th, Valentine's Day and the President's Day holiday in the same weekend... should be interesting.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Zombie Lincoln....
...is an interesting search term.
There's the odd Photoshop job, or two.... (via)
Uncyclomedia Commons
Refacing Government Tender
I liked emancipation of the zombie presidents featuring, from left: James K. Polk, Richard Nixon, Martin Van Buren and Abraham Lincoln....
...and, of course, Zombie Lincoln on the Moon.
$17.02 - A Portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Pennies
claylikethemud:
I used 1,702 pennies to make a portrait of Lincoln. Sorting the coins took about seven hours, and making the image took about six.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Soul Detective feat. David Lynch
(Think Tank)
Director: Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro
A detective enters a train car where he finds different manifestations of a force that haunts the place. Using his telepathic powers he tries to enter the mind of a recently deceased man before all his memories vanish.
Think Tank is a series of visual essays presented by the Brazilian production house, V2 Cinema. Monthly online videos feature various well-known artists whose works and viewpoints are interpreted by V2's stable of filmmakers. This story is built around an interview with David Lynch.
Interview: Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro on The Soul Detective
via Cabinet of Wonders
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