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If I can’t have a book trailer like that, I don’t want one at all.
Awesome. No, awesome doesn’t do it justice. It’s MORE than awesome.
Unbelievably brilliant.
I don’t know whether to be inspired or give up. That was brilliant, more than awesome, and lots of other great adjectives.
All: Yeah, this pretty much blew me away.
marta: When I posted it, I did worry for a sec that you might see it and be sort of flipped out about the cut-up-text element!
That was amazing! I liked the way the letters walk off at the end. Truly inspiring.
Morning, I have to run out for work but I will be back to comment.
@John – Oh I flipped out a wee bit.
cynth: That was my favorite part, too! (I thought it was a visual metaphor for either quotation or plagiarism. :)
fg: I must have crossed some sort of blogging threshold — people stopping by to comment that they’ll be by later to comment again. Maybe I should install a time clock alongside the reCaptcha form, ha.
marta: Some scripts just write themselves.
ha ha, well now I am back to drop a thought in the pool.
It is a wonderful animation and as I watched it I was reminded of my student days. In particular the studies of two friends who were on probably the best graphic design/illustration course in the UK. I was studying across town but would often go hang out in their studios, talking about work and drinking coffee. I liked to do this as the place alive with all sort of young people busily doing projects. Secret worlds, things under the floor boards, stories of strange experiences and fantasy characters – it was all being invented there in animation, illustrations, short films etc. Full of possibilities and youthful energy.
Ooh – I love this! There’s a wonderful UK artist Su Blackmore who makes beautiful installations from books. Gorgeous
fg: Always love to see the ripples in the pond spreading outwards; I almost never can anticipate the direction someone is going to go with these posts.
When my brother was studying to be an architect, a number of his courses required him to build models, in one medium or another, of projects to satisfy one program or another. Sometimes I was privileged to see these models in progress, sometimes I just got to see the end product. But it never ceased to amaze me to see the dull dry words of the programs take wing in his hands, whether he was folding things, cutting them up, sawing and gluing them, inserting tabs into slots, and so on. I don’t think I’d ever have been able to be an architect, but oh how I longed to be able to make things out of other things like that.
Kate: Alas, I couldn’t find a blessed thing online about Su Blackmore. (Also checked “Sue” and “Stu” in event of a typo.) But I love to see artists crossing over into other media and back again!