[danstearns]

nice/smart parody of classic Czech children's show

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=a6Axpcb7Etk

[jahloon]

I played it twice.

Interesting.

[danstearns]

the sun goes up the sun goes down............
there's also a nice Kate Bush song about the potential woes of computer addiction called deeper understanding:

http://gaffa.org/dis...s/deeperun.html

but anyway, the original/real Pat a Matt was a lot of fun too, check this :

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=swoNFQFyhQk

(Christian Marclay eat your heart out!

[Kai]

I got to see a lot of quite strange animation of all sorts, including this stop-action type, from Eastern Europe back in the 80s when my housemate Kristen was taking an animation master class at Harvard's Carpenter Center. Apparently it was a popular medium there during the cold war because artists could slip in a lot of socio-political jokes at the expense of the regimes, under cover of the abstract, absurdist nature of it.

[danstearns]

Kai, on Jan 16 2009, 02:26 AM, said:

I got to see a lot of quite strange animation of all sorts, including this stop-action type, from Eastern Europe back in the 80s when my housemate Kristen was taking an animation master class at Harvard's Carpenter Center. Apparently it was a popular medium there during the cold war because artists could slip in a lot of socio-political jokes at the expense of the regimes, under cover of the abstract, absurdist nature of it.

yeah, there's a lot of great Czech animation,Jan Svankmajer of course (big influence on Quay's and countless others) and another great czech is Jiri Barta--if interested, try:

A Ballad About Green Wood (beautiful fairytale with a narrative directness savankmjer and Quay brothers almost never achieve--in fact my favorite Svankmajer tends to be his more direct, story-like pieces like Punch and Judy or The Flat,and the Quay's are a little different because the level of detail is so astonishing, especially in their later more ballet like poems such as Streets of Crocodiles and Rehearsal for Extinct Anatomies)
The Last Theft (an amazingly great vampire short with a tip of the cinematic acid bowl to both Nosferatu and Hour of the Wolf )
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (kind of his and his animated magnum opus, shot in an amazingly disconcerting multi-dimensionality)
The Vanished World of Gloves(especially the dictator and the ufo/godzilla/copshow movements)

A Je To was a little different in that it really was just a simple children's show.....but i still love it.

[danstearns]

anybody here seen this before?i was very impressed with this,and see it as a nice bit of inspiration as well, at least in as much as i think we should try to salute our inspirations and predecessors ,and, maybe just a bit, make them seem old-fashion in the process. i mean consider state-of-the-art 60's animated art etude-like shorts such as Svankmajer's game of stones, or et cetera.... in a lot of ways this is very similar, yet it stands apart as well for both its (modern) context and overall level of execution.a good lesson/inspiration/kick-in-the ass for us music makers i think---well,or at least this one. anyway,enough blabbering.... check it if you get a chance and think it sounds the least bit interesting :

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=uuGaqLT-gO4