November 2007
230 posts
FANTASIA (1940)
Fantasia (1940): Walt Disney's Experimental Art...
Walt Disney had a dream. It was to create an audio-visual fantasy only possible with cartoons and the vision of artists. It was released in 1940 and nearly sent Disney broke. Yet while it was not an instant hit, it is now, 60 years later as popular as ever and still making money for the Disney Corporation. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. There was so much that was...
“I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing - that it was all...”
– Walt Disney
“The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own...”
– Walt Disney
“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes...”
– Walt Disney
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But...”
– Walt Disney
“We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth,...”
– Walt Disney
EROTIC BODY CASTS
The Spice Of Life: Erotic Body Casts
The art of Jamie McCartney begs the question- where is the dividing line between pornography and erotic art? McCartney doesn’t make the answer easy because he depicts the erotic world without the restraint normally exhibited by serious artists. He goes where no other artist normally goes when he depicts erect penises, for example and then challenges us to see them as objects of beauty. It...
Maasai Culture
The Maasai (also spelt Masai) were once the dominant peoples of the plains of East Africa. Now they are restricted to portions of southern Kenya and Tanzania. There are about 300,000 to 380,000 Maasai. They speak a variant of the Maa language which is spoken by several tribal groups in Kenya and Tanzania with about a million speakers in total. The Maasai are famous for their fearlessness as...
How The Maasai Came To Exist: Maasai Oral...
This origin myth tells of a time when there were two tribes, one consisting only of females, and the other only of males. The women’s tribe was called the Moroyok. They raised antelopes, including the eland, which the Maasai say was the ancestor of all cattle. Instead of modern cattle, sheep, and goats, the women had herds of gazelles. Zebras carried their belongings, and elephants were...
“One head cannot hold all wisdom.”
– Maasai proverb
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“Defeat is one of the stepping stones to being a winner.”
– Maasai proverb
“Daylight follows a dark night”
– Maasai proverb
The New Crowd: Misha Gordin Photographs 1996 -... →
The Poetry Of The Conceptual Photographer: Misha...
In the darkroom of Misha Gordin the vulnerability and poetic nature of the human form is explored and revealed. He does not discuss his technique, he says that revealing his artistic secrets removes the magic of the illusion. What is known is that these images are created using traditional photo-chemistry in the darkroom and not on the computer. In Misha Gordin’s vision repetition and...
Nowadays
Nowadays I live a secluded life. From my front porch I can see a rainbow diving in to nearby pond. When I return home from the forest, I bring a smell of a bonfire with me. At night I listen to mysterious calls of an owl and feel much in tune with nature. I live through four definite seasons. With the crisp winter winds carving the deep snow and return of the birds in the early spring. ...
Misha Gordin: I Remember →
“A photograph has always been a lie. We can not freeze time, we are not 2...”
– Misha Gordin
Educational Podcasting: Revolution In The Way...
Its official! Educational podcasting has become a runaway success. In recent years some of the most prestigious universities in the US have embraced podcasting as a new way to reach students. First it was just lecture notes, but now it is full lectures recorded in real classes and to many peoples surprises, the most popular lectures have larger subscription bases than many famous television shows....
“Something revolutionary is happening. A large number of people around the world...”
– Richard Muller, whose Physics for Future Presidents class airs on iTunes.
The Advent Of Ipod U →
Long before iTunes U became a reality in May 2007, universities were creating podcasts and calling it iPod U. This Ars Technica post is from 11 December 2005 and was already foreseeing the growing future of educational podcasting.
The iPod Lecture →
Article in the Los Angeles Times 24 November 2007
Attending Philosophy Lectures In A Truck
While other truck drivers talk to one another on their CB radios, Baxter Wood prefers to pass time on his weeks-long routes by sampling from an academic smorgasbord. He has listened to classes on astronomy from Ohio State University, geography from UC Berkeley and behavioral endocrinology from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, which makes podcasts available through its website but not iTunes U. He...
“It’s like electronic schizophrenia, I can hear voices in my head, and...”
– Arthur Marquis, who graduated from UC Berkeley’s law school decades ago, found Dreyfus on iTunes lecturing on philosophy and then bought an iPod so he could listen to lectures on his treadmill or outdoors.
“It was something we couldn’t easily do before the digital age”
– Dan Mogulof (UC Berkeley)