So here she’s asleep, she sees a crab and her color starts to change a little bit. Then she turns all dark. Octopuses will do that when they leave the bottom. This is a camouflage, like she’s just subdued a crab and now she’s going to sit there and eat it and she doesn’t want…
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magic and fantasy and labour of creating the first animated movement
Charlotte Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the pioneer of animation. Her film “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” that she begun making in 1923 and released in 1926 was the first and the oldest surviving feature-length animated film. Reiniger made more than 70 films over her career. Reiniger fled Germany to England in…
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo
micro world. macro beauty.
THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification. Klaus Kemp has devoted…
Human. The Creator. Wind. The performer.
Incredible wind-powered kinetic sculptures in a “dreamscape about the life and work” of Anthony Howe. “A Kinetic Mind” by Elisabeth Rudge.
Whistle Kites
After visiting the kite museum in Weifang (China) last winter, a small obsession with nantong kites begun. As it is growing, the research into [making] them produced this little jewel today “The spectacular kites made in the Nantong countryside are simple structures, but wonderful to see and hear. They are built to carry large and…