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Category Archives: animation

Minilogue stop-motion video

I had to go and check: it was only last October that Tom Coates put me onto Minilogue, and now I have friends who insist on hearing them every time they visit. Since I last read Tom’s post, there have … more…

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Gregory Barsamian’s Persistence of Vision

The Athanasius Kircher Society returns from a fortnight’s summer hiatus with some extraordinary and ingenious animated sculpture by Gregory Barsamian. A sequence of complex three-dimensional forms are fixed to a rapidly rotating armature, and viewed under stroboscopic lights. Barsamian’s site … more…

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Sagan’s animated evolutionary line

The classic diagram of evolution from the Cosmos TV series, first broadcast 1980. UPDATE: Another clip from Cosmos, A Thousand Years of Darkness is also strongly recommended. If Carl Sagan was alive today, they’d have him on a no-fly list. … more…

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Matrilineal Morph-athon 2: Women in Film

Undoubtedly you saw Women in Art, the previous morphing animation by Philip Scott Johnson of St Louis, if not here (Matrilineal Morph-athon) then somewhere around the place. This new one, as you see, is composed of movie actress photos, and … more…

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Edouard Salier’s FLESH

Flesh, Edouard Salier, 2005 The Empire unveils everything but sees nothing Its enemies idealize everything but tolerate nothing. For some the earthly orgasm of virtual whores, For others the eternal orgasm of 70 heavenly virgins. What if it all came … more…

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links for 2007-07-14: Alan Watts Theater

Alan Watts Theater Short Alan Watts lecture clips, animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. (via MeFi) (tags: Alan-Watts, Trey-Parker, Matt-Stone, animation, philosophy)

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Matrilineal Morph-athon

[via William Gibson]

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La Planète sauvage

1973 cult classic psychedelic animation, now to be seen on YouTube (Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Long-time readers may recall the live soundtrack event at the ICA by J-Walk, back in 2003. Whatever happened to them, I wonder? … more…

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Halucii

Japanese CGI based on familiar M.C. Escher eternal staircase, with a few extra twists. The drunken salariman caught in the trap is really nicely done. (via blort, via a Norwegian blog portal type of thing whose name, if it has … more…

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Fractal animations by Jack Cooper

A spot of eye candy for a quiet autumn day: There’s quite a few more on YouTube, and there are higher quality mpg animations at Fractal Animations.

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