This is an astonishing mix of art, music, history and drama. All done with sand.
(via @bostonbibliophl, @ryenna, @abbylibrarian)
I did something a bit like this the other day (a bit being about .5%, ha) with some spilt breadcrumbs on a background of dark, knotty wood. It felt great. I thought I'd invented it (no one ever accused me of lack of self-esteem...). Now I've seen the real thing. Wonder how hard it would be to build a sand tray and projector thingie?
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Wow.
ReplyDeleteI bet you could do it on the cheap. It looks like they are just filming her doing that on a light table (piece of plexi with lights under it). You could set up the table and put a cheap web cam overhead and we could watch it live!
My father used to tell my brother and I that he invented the two-fingered peace sign. I believed him for a while. Apparently I've always been a bit gullible. I would've believed you. :)
Holy fuck. That's amazing.
ReplyDeleteSo many ways to tell stories.
Yes. And yes. So simple. If someone would do that with English history, I'd pay to watch.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this!! I found a circus one! These are fantastic!
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That's a fun one. Except for that creepy kid's laughter. The part I love is when she puts the tips of all her fingers in and suddenly it's something completely different. Magical.
ReplyDeleteOh, god, then there's this... totally unrelated but I couldn't help myself. From Lithuania, perhaps?
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If you go to the National Film Board website (www.nfb.ca) and search under animation, you'll find demonstrations of all sorts of animation techniques using this basic method -- including ink, paint, sand, beads and so on. You can also see a boringly 60s short doco of Norman McLaren drawing sounds onto his animation film strips (no kidding -- he literally draws the sound track). The pure amazing strangeness of that is worth putting up with the terrible earnestness of the doco technique.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm behind the curve :) Ah, well, it makes me happy to get there, even if I'm late.
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