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Tiki. The Best Animated Films of All Time, According to Terry Gilliam. Terry Gilliam knows something about animation. For years, he produced wonderful animations for Monty Python (watch his cutout animation primer here) , creating the opening credits and distinctive buffers that linked together the offbeat comedy sketches. Given these bona fides, you don’t want to miss Gilliam’s list, The 10 Best Animated Films of All Time. It was published in The Guardian back in 2001, before the advent of YouTube, which makes things feel a little spare. So, today, we’re reviving Gilliam’s list and adding some videos to the mix. Above, we start with The Mascot, a 1934 film by the Russian animator Wladyslaw Starewicz. His work is absolutely breathtaking, surreal, inventive and extraordinary, encompassing everything that Jan Svankmajer, Walerian Borowczyk and the Quay Brothers [see below] would do subsequently….
The magic of Tex Avery’s animation is the sheer extremity of it all. About Walerian Borowczyk and his 1964 film Les Jeux des Anges, Gilliam writes: Behance | Home. TheDieline.com - Package Design Blog. Winterhouse.
Kindness & Humility. Arts & Architecture. Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980. Design Observer. Aqua-Velvet / Art. Design. Illustration. Typography. Saul Bass on the web - beta. Disquiet. Tintin Törncrantz. Francis Picabia, Prenez garde à la peinture, 1916. © Francis Picabia. In the literature, paintings, and press of the 19th-century Paris, the creature most often compared with the ballerina was the racehorse; like racehorses ballerinas were animal machines – fleet, swift, smooth.
In the 20th century, dancers became automobiles: driven, motorised, mechanised. In the transition … Everyday Listening - Sound Art, Sound Installations, Sonic Inspiration. RaymondScott.com. DECONSTRUCTING DAD: Raymond Scott documentary film by Stan Warnow. RaymondScottArchives's Channel. RAYMOND SCOTT on Myspace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads. Why I love The Song "Powerhouse" “Powerhouse” is a 1937 instrumental musical composition by Raymond Scott, probably best known today as the iconic “assembly line” music in Warner Bros. animated cartoons.
In posterity it is by far the most famous of Scott's compositions, but in its time it wasn't as popular as his “The Toy Trumpet” nor as frequently recorded by other artists as “Twilight in Turkey.” In scripted comments read on the First Anniversary Special of CBS Radio's Saturday Night Swing Club, on which the Raymond Scott Quintette performed, announcer Paul Douglas indicates that “Powerhouse” was first premiered on that program sometime in January or early February 1937. Scott's Quintette (actually a sextet) first recorded "Powerhouse" in New York on February 20, 1937, along with three other titles.
It was first commercially released on the Irving Mills-owned Master Records label as Master 111 (mx. Structure Use in Cartoons The first use of “Powerhouse” in a cartoon occurred in the 1943 Warner Bros. LaBudde Special Collections Dept. | Raymond Scott Collection | University Libraries. Scope and Content of Collection The Raymond Scott Collection was donated to the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Mitzi Scott, Raymond's widow, in 1993. It contains music scores, photographs, correspondence, journals, diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, schematics, news clippings, production notes, and personal and miscellaneous items. The collection, which encompasses much of Scott's career until 1980, has been organized into 11 series that occupy 28 boxes and an oversized drawer. A 12th series of audio material, primarily open-reel tapes and instantaneous-cut discs, is housed in the Marr Sound Archives, the audio division of Special Collections.
The strength of the collection lies in over 400 manuscript scores by Scott. The collection also gives insight into the other side of Scott's career - that of inventor and electronic music pioneer. Audio material from this collection is housed in the Marr Sound Archives Biographical Sketch From 1939-41 Scott toured with a full size band. Julius Wechter & The Baja Marimba Band - Official Website - at A&M Corner. Julius Wechter. Julius Wechter (May 10, 1935 – February 1, 1999) was an American musician and composer who played the marimba and vibraphone. He also played various percussion instruments.
He composed the song "Spanish Flea" for Herb Alpert and was leader of the The Baja Marimba Band. Biography[edit] Born in Chicago, Wechter played vibes and percussion for the Martin Denny group in the 1950s. He began his long and successful association with Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass when he played percussion on the Tijuana Brass's first hit, "The Lonely Bull", in 1962. In his later years, he devoted himself to psychology, earned a Master's Degree, and served as vice president of the Southern California chapter of the Tourette Syndrome Association. He died at his home in California of lung cancer, a day after his song "Spanish Flea" was used in the Simpsons episode "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday".[1] Selected compositions[edit] References[edit]
Cocoa Bibelot. An interview with Craig Mod. SpiekerBlog. Typography. About iLT. I love Typography (ILT) was born on August 7, 2007. It exists because I have a passion for typography, type design, and lettering, and for the pages, words, and letters born of those disciplines. As a child I wondered why the teacher asked us to draw the letter a as an o with a tail, when, in my books, the a’s had an extra bit at the top. This site aims to make the subject more accessible, to bring the study of typography to the masses, if you will. It’s just about impossible to imagine a world without type, but at the same time type’s ubiquity has most of us taking it for granted. Who are you? I’m a British-born writer and publisher living in Japan Vietnam. I recently redesigned this site, and you can read more about that here. I have intentionally omitted my entire life history.
John Boardley Me elsewhere: The Book Bench: Comic, Sans Appeal. The war on Comic Sans continues with the latest salvo fired across the pond by the Guardian. There, Dan Hancox argues that there are more important issues to worry about than a font. Indeed. And yet I can’t help but leap into the fray. Comic Sans is, let’s be honest, aesthetically null. It’s a faux-jaunty, watered-down typeface, a corporation's idea of informal joviality. It's the Hawaiian-Shirt Friday of fonts. It’s a bad joke. The font was invented in 1994 by Vincent Connare for a software package called Microsoft Bob (which is included in Time magazine's list of the fifty worst inventions of all time, along with Agent Orange). What sets Comic Sans apart from equally egregious fonts like Curlz MT?
These obviously incongruous uses make Comic Sans a rich mine for comedy. Sorry the entire world can't all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Comic Sans is that rare thing: something we've hated so much for so long that it’s become rather dear to us. (Photograph via: Monsieur Poulet.) Hitler freaks out over Comic Sans MS. Maurizio Mansueti. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Maurizio "ErMan" Mansueti (Torino, 22 dicembre 1962) è un musicista e compositore italiano. Produttore, musicista e compositore di musica elettronica, si è occupato del rapporto tra musica, strumenti vintage e tecnologie. Suona il Theremin dal 1999, particolare strumento musicale che viene suonato muovendo le mani attorno a uno spettro sonoro.
Nel 2009 pubblica l'album da solista "Theremin, the way I feel", dedicato all'invenzione di Leon Theremin e pubblicato come "Timeless Sonic Factory". The Transistors[modifica | modifica sorgente] È il fondatore della band The Transistors, band attiva dal 1995. Con The Transistors ha partecipato a eventi: "Sound Fetish", progetto di arte sonora curato da Steve Piccolo, presentato alla Biennale d’Arte di Venezia nel giugno 2005 (Biennale di Venezia) ed entrato a far parte dell’archivio sonoro del MOMA.
Nel 2008 esce Modern Landscape il nuovo album firmato The Transistors per Funky Juice records.