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≡ Category: Animation, Music | ≅ 1 Comment
Last year, we featured a slick animation of Cross Road Blues by the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. This morning, one of our Twitter friends highlighted for us a 2007 animation of Johnson’s Me and the Devil Blues, created by Dutch artist Ineke Goes. Recorded in 1937 in only two takes, the song (find the lyrics here) [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Evan Seitz created this one-minute animation in which each letter of the alphabet represents a famous movie. How many can you name? The answers have been shared on Buzzfeed and The High Definite. Don’t miss our collection of 450 Free Movies Online, which includes many great classics, indies, documentaries, noir films and more. By profession, [...]
≡ Category: Animation, History, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last year, Jeremiah Warren celebrated the 154th birthday of Nikola Tesla by creating (in less than 36 hours) a short, animated introduction to Tesla’s work, which contributed to the birth of commercial electricity. Now Warren turns to Thomas Edison, the great inventor, who gave us the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the long-lasting electric light [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Technology | ≅ 4 Comments
It starts with Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketches of flying machines, then moves to the first hot air balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, the gliders created by Sir George Cayley (1804), and the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. These great moments and others all get covered in this Animated [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Books, Film | ≅ 6 Comments
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore offers a modern tribute to an old world. Made with an animation style that blends stop motion with computer animation and traditional hand-drawing, the silent film pays homage to a bygone era when elegantly printed books inhabited our world. The 15-minute short is the first made by Moonbot Studios, a [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Film | ≅ 3 Comments
When the 2012 Academy Award nominations were announced yesterday, there must have been plenty of smiles at the National Film Board of Canada. For the eighth time, the Canadian film producer/distributor scored a double nomination in the same category. In this case, Sunday by Patrick Doyon, and Wild Life by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, were selected [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Art | ≅ 3 Comments
Fallingwater was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Construction began a year later and was eventually completed in 1939. Many consider Fallingwater one of Wright’s finest creations. Hence why Smithsonian Magazine counted it as one of the 28 Places to See Before You Die. Now, thanks to the mini movie above, you can watch [...]
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In 1927, The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, one of the first great “talkies” to use synchronized singing and speech, hit American theaters and thrilled audiences. Knowing that change was afoot, Walt Disney spent $4,986 to create his first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (1928). Remembering the film many years later, Disney said: The effect on [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Books, Film, Literature | ≅ 1 Comment
George Orwell’s anti-totalitarian novella, Animal Farm, almost never saw the light of day. The manuscript barely survived the Nazi bombing of London during World War II, and then T.S. Eliot (an important editor at Faber & Faber) and other publishers rejected the book, partly for political reasons. Eventually Animal Farm came out in print in [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Books | ≅ 2 Comments
Last year, “crazedadman” and his wife reorganized a small bookshelf and recorded the project in an endearing stop motion film. This year, they took things to the next level, spending “sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto.” Â The rest speaks for itself. Don’t miss other videos for book lovers right [...]
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