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Li Songsong in New York

Posted In | Blog Categories: Exhibitions | Site Categories: Art
Escape
Escape, 2010 by Li Songsong. Courtesy of The Pace Gallery, New York.

Chinese artist Li Songsong is showing new paintings at The Pace Gallery in New York until August 5, 2011.

Steven Woloshen: At the Heart of Experimental Animation

Posted In | Blog Categories: Interview | Site Categories: Art, Education and Training, Films, Music and Sound, Short Films

 

Shimmer
Still image from Shimmer Box Drive (2007) by Steven Woloshen.

 

Steven Woloshen creates animation in cars, at work, in airports, on planes… in other words wherever and whenever he has ten consecutive minutes to play. 

The Lyrical Lines of Tsvika Oren

Posted In | Blog Categories: Learning, Interview | Site Categories: 2D, Art, Education and Training, Films, Short Films

 

Diary 1
Still image from the animated short Diary 1 by Tsvika Oren.

 

Tsvika Oren has been deeply involved in animation for the better part of 30 years - creating, teaching, writing, judging, jurying…

Sound Design For Animators - free webinar

Posted In | Blog Categories: Sound, Learning, Announcement | Site Categories: Education and Training, Films, Music and Sound, Technology

David Sonnenschein, professional sound designer and author of “Sound Design: the Expressive Power of Music, Voice, and Sound Effects in Cinema” has invited me to co-host a free sound design webinar for animators (all filmmakers are welcome!) on March 17, 2011 at 9:00 am PST / noon EST.

William Kentridge - 5 Themes

Posted In | Blog Categories: Exhibitions | Site Categories: Art, Short Films, Stop-Motion

 

Kentridge - The Main Complaint
Still image from The Main Complaint by William Kentridge. (Image courtesy of "Duckrabbit Speaks.

 

A grand show of early animation and current work by South African artist William Kentridge.

What Does Cave Art Have To Do With Animation

Posted In | Site Categories: Art, Films
Lascaux-aurochs
Lascaux caves: image of aurochs

 

Could the paleolithic men and women who created these rock wall paintings have been the prehistoric ancestors of current animation artists?

Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011

The Animators' Picnic
Pumpkin carving at the Animators' Picnic. 

 

It’s time for the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011.

Tricky Women: Women In Animation

Posted In | Blog Categories: Book Review | Site Categories: Art, Books, Education and Training, Short Films, Technology

 

A compilation of essays on women in animation, Tricky Women: Women In Animation is a very welcome addition to current critical writing on the subject.

But Is It Art?

Posted In | Blog Categories: YouTube, Op-Ed, Mass Media, Commentary | Site Categories: Art, Films, Internet and Interactive, Technology

 

YouTube
Screen shot from youtube.com

 

Two billion videos are viewed every day on YouTube (YouTube fact sheet). Twenty-four hours of video are uploaded every minute.

Is any of it art? And does it matter?

 

Warfare As Gaming, Gaming As Warfare

Posted In | Blog Categories: Pop Culture, Op-Ed, Mass Media, Commentary | Site Categories: Awards, Films, Games, Internet and Interactive, Short Films, Technology
Post-Newtonianism 04
A still from Josh Bricker's video "Post-Newtonianism"

 

Josh Bricker’s video “Post Newtoniansim” runs real footage warfare (Iraq?) side-by-side with gaming warfare. But the viewer’s response is the real subject of this film.