Martha Colburn for Electric Literature

Artist Martha Colburn animates a sentence from Author Diana Wagman’s transcendent, funny, harrowing tale of a young womans first sexual relationship after a mastectomy. http://www.electricliterature.com/electric-literature-store.html

Wagman is the author of three novels, most recently Bump.

Music by Nick DeWitt.

Single Sentence Animations are creative collaborations between writers published in Electric Literature and contemporary visual artists. The writer selects a single sentence from his or her work and the animator creates a short film in response.

Electric Literature is a bi-monthly anthology of short fiction dedicated to reinvigorating the short story using new media and innovative distribution.
Visit us at http://www.electricliterature.com/

Evil Of Dracula

by Martha Colburn

Bio

Evil Of Dracula

1997 / 2 min

“A Hypno-Physycho-Vampiric spazzm of fanged advertisements with money-hungry, blood-thirsty grins. This animated film in FANGTASTIC color is enough to cause a line-up at your local Blood Bank. Made with home-spun special effects of funnel-vision and hand-colored film. With a Blood Draining soundtrack by the legendary Lyrical Monster Song Master Jad Fair and musical madman Jason Willett. Originally super-8.”

Video excerpt

Hat tip:  Songs in Braille

Song of the Spindle

by Drew Christie

drewchristie.com

Music by Spencer Thun

 

Tokyo Slo-Mode

by Alex Lee

Music Credit: Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke …And the World Laughs With You

Shot on the Canon T3i and starter lenses

Follow Alex on twitter for updates on upcoming projects

 

via Max | The Grasshopper

Music From A Dry Cleaner by Diego Stocco

Almost everyday, on my way to a local bakery, I walk in front of a dry cleaners. 
When they have the front door open, I hear a lot of interesting sounds coming from their work equipment. Eventually, the different mechanical and steam sounds sparked something in my mind, so one day I asked the owners if I could record a piece of music by using their machines as musical instruments.

I used a puff iron, press and dry cleaning machines, a washer, clothes hangers, and a bucket full of soap. 

The bass and lead sounds were created from the buzzing tones coming from the conduits and engines. 

There are no additional sounds from any traditional or electronic instruments. Enjoy!

by Diego Stocco

More info and pictures are available at the Behance gallery 

Diego on Twitter 

Previous posts featuring Diego Stocco

 

Lan-Chiann Wu

Firefly Dream

Fireflies at Nightfall

View of Chiung-Ling Farm  

Old Friends Meeting 

The Good Earth 

Impromptu Concert at Coral Lake

Li Bai’s Moon

Reflections of the Past 

Journey of Life

Winter Breeze

Old Street in Sanxia 

House of Souls II 

Lantern Festival I

Lan-Chiann Wu

Gallery

Current Exhibition:  

Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for the Arts and Crafts:

“Three Paths to Expression”, three women artists group exhibition, Alta Loma, California,

February 28 – September 30, 2011

Ray Bradbury: Literature is the Safety Valve of Civilization

via openculture.com

First Digital 3D Rendered Film (1972)

It was created in 1972 by Ed Catmull (the founder of Pixar) and Fred Parke with a little help from my dad. I also think that this is the only digital copy of it.

The best part of this film is not even the 3D rendering itself, but the outtakes and “making of” footage that has been interwoven throughout, including footage of a plaster replica of Ed’s hand onto which he is meticulously mapping the polygon vertices that make up the three dimensional model (around 1:30). That’s really remarkable. The math that we take for granted for rendering 3D was being invented, real time, to create this video. (Ed’s credited for having working out that math to handle things like texture mapping, 3D anti-aliasing and z-buffering.)

More about the film here.

via Robby Ingebretsen | nerd plus art

Women by Robert McGinnis

‘Robert McGinnis (born 1926)is known for his illustrations of over 1200 paperback book covers, and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffanys (his first film poster assignment), Barbarella, and several James Bond films.’

– Wikipedia

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Hat tip: The Painted Anvil

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via howtobearetronaut.com

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Linnea Hoover

by Linnea Hoover

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