Filed under: awareness, media, railbelt, video | Tags: animation, cardboard
via BoingBoing: This example of cardboard animation is awesome. You have a marginal narrative. Small enough not to get in the way. What you get are city scapes. Google take note: Cartoons against background increases capacity to navigate. Put another way, if you empathize with (or in this case, feel disgust for) something you can place yourself somewhere.
That’s what the Aspen Project/Google Earth approach lacks. It’s third person versus second person. The only book I remember reading in second person was Bright Lights, Big City, which had something about a ferret in The New Yorker, and the phrases “Peruvian marching powder” and “all messed up and no place to go”. Perhaps it said something about society. I digress. The important thing is to watch the video. Then maybe go out and make one yourself.
Don’t underestimate the power of paper in film. Bob Dylan used it to great effect in Subterranean Homesick Blues, an iconic video that was made before videos were made.
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My iPhone wordpress app is crashing.
Mark Stroup
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Had to try out the cut and paste feature:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John Kennedy
Carol Fryday, editor of The Sierra Club’s Sylvanian should begin an environmental blog.
As a corollary to Clay Shirky’s “collective action just became easier,” I propose “individual credit just became easier.” After spending 15 minutes on PowerPop reading about who did the sax solos on what hit songs, I’m beginning to think what was once obscure information will become equally weighted with marquee information. No doubt this is close to Warhol’s “everybody’s famous for . . .” quote. But given the choice of another American Idol or The Funk Brothers, television favors the idol, the internet favors The Funk Brothers.
It feels like we’re under a giant spider web, remarked my son about the trolley cables in SF.
My daughter pointed out that the airmall directory looks like a baby. The aimall wings are the head and the food court is located in the diaper area.
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Here’s the place to find graph paper. There are instructions here on how to make a cellular automoton with your freshly-printed graph paper.
