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Animation: The Adventures of Prince Achmed
A 7 minutes scene from “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” – an animated feature film by “Lotte Reiniger” from 1926. This film is said to be the oldest surviving animated feature film. If you’re interested in Lotte Reininger films you will find references to other scenes with the movie link below…
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Time-Warp: Back to the 60s
This is definitely a great presentation of the sixties – one you should not miss.
While some of the good things from that time seem to be still going strong (forgive us, just back from driving with a Ford Mustang up to Big Sur from L.A. and over to Zabriskie Point) again others things we hoped that won’t come back are back with a vengeance or are already being seen lurking just around the corner (think war, assassinations, Manchurian candidates, surveillance etc.)
BTW, today Polariod stopped supplying their color film prints (mentioned in the image below).
Anyway have a look – to find out how your daddy ticks…
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Video: Hokusai An Animated Sketchbook
Most westerners will only know one of Katsushika Hokusai’s print work – the wave or “In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa” (that’s the full title of this woodblock print)
This “short film” animates some of his work and introduces you to the life of this great Japanese artist. Animation designer Tony White created this video 30 years ago – it won him the British Academy Award for Best Short Factual Film – and it’s still an outstanding piece of animation…
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Design: Web site and visual design by girls and women
These web sites have no girlie design – these web sites are made by girls and women and their design rocks
The “list” was put together by Pedro Reis a visual and web designer himself. …
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Happy Chinese New Year
A prosperous and happy new year of the rat to our readers in China and to all that celebrate the lunar new year.
Congratulations and be prosperous !
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Music: Led Zeppelin Reunion
How to tell if an event was a great and global success. Well the Led Zeppelin concert in London this Monday definitely put the bar up quite a bit for others.
If 2,000,000 want to come and you have to distribute the tickets through a lottery to the lucky 20,000 that’s definitely an indication. If news stations around the world are reporting on the event at prime time even a better one. Not to mention the hundreds of web blogs, news paper and magazine sites.
And if on web sites from YouTube to MySpace hundreds of video clips of the event appear within 24 hours – we stopped counting on YouTube at 250 – you have definitely won the crowds over…
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