edit : bleh, it’s down, thanks to the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust.
This is Water - By David Foster Wallace
The Glossary
> We made this video, built around an abridged version of the original audio recording [of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencent address at Kenyon College] , with the hopes that the core message of the speech could reach a wider audience who might not have otherwise been interested.
Rest in Peace, Raymond Harryhausen.
Chris Ware’s The New Yorker cover for mother’s day.
The History of Typography - Animated Short
by Ben Barrett-Forrest
Danny Boyle talks about a “Pixarification of movies”:
You can see what’s happened with movies… is what I call a kind of Pixarification of movies. Pixar makes great movies, don’t get me wrong, they are very sophisticated storytellers. So much so that you have to litterally pull your socks up, you can’t compete with them, they’re so brilliant.
But they are family-friendly.
The spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second).
Janice Poon goes over the food styling in the show Hannibal.
Haute cannibal cuisine.
To simulate a woman’s thigh, my pork roast will be about 3 inches in diameter by 10 inches long. Made from 3 different thigh muscles, it will be stuffed and bound. Jose Andres has gone over my sketches and menu and made some mouth-watering suggestions (crystallized apple garnish, Cumberland sauce) and sends me an inspiring photo of his glorious bone-in rib roast.
Lens Flares by Peter Prevec
Flare test with this lenses: Nikon 35mm f/1.8, 50mm f/1.4, 17-55mm f/2.8, 80-200mm f/2.8 (all F mount); SLR Magic HyperPrime CINE 50mm T0.95 (M mount); Sony 16mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.8 (both E mount); MIR-I 2.8/37, Helios-44-2 2/58, TAIR-11A 2/135 (all M42 mount); Fujian TV LENS GDS-35 f=35mm 1:1.7 (C mount) and Samyang Mirror lens 500mm 1:6.3 DX (T mount). Shot on Sony NEX-FS700.
Frame from Sightseers (2012)
Laurie Rose, Ben Wheatley
This blog, inspired by the famous Animation Backgrounds blog, will be a place to appreciate and be inspired by the amazing background art in animation. I feel like there are lots of blogs dedicated to the art of western animation, so this blog will be “mainly” focused on Japanese and non-western animation
5 Centimeters Per Second. Directed by Makoto Shinkai. Created by CoMix Wave Inc.
