My friend told me about this artist, Hine Mizushima, and I absolutely adore her! I love all her art. She does felt and needle work stop motion! Really cute and right up my alley! I've made softies and felt needle stuff, not nearly not as beautiful as Hine Mizushima! Check her stuff out!
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Today I was looking at some photos and found these cute cat pictures! Photo cat, music cat, and science cat: PMS cats!
Yesterday I had a headache and stayed home from work. Thank God I did because I discovered a documentary on Francesca Woodman on Netflix. FW (1958-1981) was a photographer who committed suicide when she was 22. She photographed nudes in black and white and they still are relevant today. It's so sad she died, she had so much talent.
I recently discovered the app, Vine, from a stop motion short from my teacher's company StudioNos. They interviewed Meagan Cignoli who uses Vine as a stop motion tool. Yes it is the quick and easy way to make a 6 second short, but hey, everyone is in a hurry and has a short attention span.. Anyway I really like it and I'm going to use it everyday to get back into stop motion. Here are some of my videos! Yamiken Hori took 4 years to make this 30 minute stop motion movie called Junk Head. It is really great! It has all the concepts I love: a mysterious world, cute creatures, violence, blood, dystopic elements, corridors, and an impossible mission! He also has an Indiegogo campaign for the sequel, that I contributed to! You can read about it on Kotaku. Check it out, really worth watching! Last night I watched Ray Harryhausen: Special Effect Titan on Netflix, by Gilles Penso. It was so good! It was about how RH inspired so many directors including Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, Steven Spielburg, James Cameron, Terry Gilliam, Guillermo Del Toro, Nick Park, Henry Selick, and Phil Tippett. It also included interviews, models, and footage over a 5 year period. All these directors praised RH and called him the grandfather of stop motion. In fact they loved him so much, they actually copied a lot of his work and put it in their movies. One line from the movie, "Imitation and copying is a form of flattery". I couldn't believe all this homage footage! In the documentary, RH also explains how he made his stop motion films, from the 1950's, which included "inserting the puppet" into an action scene, with the actors. Read more on RH's website.
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