Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
3.02.2012
The Masters of Comic Book Art (1987)
The 1987 documentary MASTERS OF COMIC BOOK ART with Harlan Ellison interviewing Eisner, Kurtzman, Kirby, Ditko (!), Neal Adams, Wrightson, Moebius, Frank Miller, Sim, and Spiegelman.
2.21.2010
Behind the Scenes: Up In The Air Typography
Indie Wire interviewed Reitman, and asked about the film titles:
When did you come up with the title sequence; it perfectly sets the tone for the movie. What was your goal there?
“I figured you put a camera in a plane, you put it up in the air, you point down, you get aerial footage, right? I really thought it would be that simple. It was so complicated. Every time you see aerial footage in a movie it’s from a helicopter at 12,000 ft. To get it from 25,000 ft, first we went up with a jet and we had a camera that was going through this bubble system, except the optics weren’t good enough and atmosphere was giving us trouble. Then we went up with a propeller plane and the pilot had to wear an oxygen mask to get up that high; we took a camera out on a wing, we went digital instead of film, and then the camera would not go straight down, so they’d have to put the plane into a dive to get the camera to go down. I mean it was just like unreal how hard it was to get this footage. But I’m really happy with the results and of course it made for fun opening titles.”
Watch the Up in the Air opening sequence at MakingOf.
Apple also has a good behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the sequence.
8.03.2009
Why Does Art Work?
Neuroscientists using neuroaesthetics, a new scientific field, are attempting to unravel why a Picasso appeals to the human brain. “The job of an artist,” Jonah Lehrer writes for Psychology Today, “is to take mundane forms of reality—whether a facial expression or a bowl of fruit—and make those forms irresistible to the human brain.” Lehrer draws off research by V.S. Ramachandran who found that artists employ “deliberate hyperbole” that makes it easier for people’s minds to decipher what an image really is. "A Martian who came to earth would be very curious about why all these people go to museums and look at 2D representations," Ramachandran says. "Why does art work? That's the question we're trying to answer."
Source: Psychology Today
5.25.2009
This Could Be An Interesting Read
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, cognition and fiction by Brian Boyd
Brian Boyd's thesis is that current literary criticism - or "Theory" as it is hubristically known - has failed because it regards fiction purely as a cultural construct, ignoring the minds that create and consume it. Viewed in the light of evolution, however, stories acquire a new depth. Better yet, literature provides an untapped source of material to study the mind.
"Evocriticism", as Boyd calls it, is not new - literary Darwinists have been preaching this creed for more than a decade (New Scientist, 3 March 2007, p 38) - but the professor of English from the University of Auckland has some novel and thought-provoking ideas, and his book covers an impressively wide terrain.
Via: newscientist.com
4.08.2009
Indianapolis Museum of Art Walking the Walk on Transparency
Indianapolis Museum of Art Director Maxwell Anderson’s recent lecture, Through the Looking Glass: Museums and Internet-Based Transparency is an important statement of the value of openness. Not simply a good talk, the IMA is actively walking the walk.
10.01.2008
7.07.2008
I Love Good Book Covers
It's the cover from George Mann's new book. It's got a great Late Victorian, steampunk, playbill, circus poster look to it. It's not released yet, but can be pre-ordered through it's independent publisher, Snowbooks.
According to the website, it's the first in a series hoping to appeal to fans of steampunk, alt-history SF, Jim Butcher fans and Dr. Who fans:
The Affinity Bridge is the first novel in a projected series detailing the adventures of Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury and his delectable assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes. The novel is set in an alternative version of Victorian London in which the industrial age has come early and steam technology has revolutionised the British Empire. Victoria is kept alive on the throne by a primitive life support system and her agents do battle with the enemies of the Crown, both physical and supernatural. The Affinity Bridge follows Newbury and Hobbes as they investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot, whilst attempting to solve a string of strangulations attributed to a mysterious 'glowing policeman' and deal with a zombie plague that is ravaging the slums of the capital.
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