"Fitzcarraldo" -- Werner Herzog -- Phonograph + Jungle

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

dir. Werner Herzog

d.p. Thomas Mauch

with Klaus Kinski

Alternate 'A Scanner Darkly' Pitch -- Ghost Cinema -- Animation

(I found this via the Total Dickhead)

    

Scanner Darkly Pitch from Brian White on Vimeo.

What a different aesthetic than Linklater's adaptation; I really dig it.

Much more surreal and genre inspired.

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

dir. Richard Linklater

Although I have respect for Linklater,

and I think he did a commendable job with Scanner,

the visual style I always was always unsure about.

Why the choice to rotoscope?

And why rotoscope so closely to the real?

I suppose it gives a slightly "unreal" quality to the image all the way across the board, but, at the same time, I wished it were either more real or more stylized.  That might be strange to say, since A Scanner Darkly is one of those Dick novels which avoids planting both feet on the same plane, but I do feel it's the case.

Animation is quite versatile and expressive because each frame can be produced without regard to limitation, save for the trace of the human eye; to confine it to what a human body is capable of is to work against the craft.  At the same time, we never really get to witness the genuine acting or emotions of the actors on screen... which is also unfortunate, because that's what animation doesn't produce: human faces.

Still, the animation in Linklater's Scanner is not quite trying to be real.

It's uncanny, but also not.

It's life trying to be a drawing, which is stranger than a cartoon trying to be real.

Now I'm just babbling.

I'm glad a film was made; it exposed more people to one of PKD's better stories, and did so in a respectful manner.

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JUNE 8th, 2013 UPDATE:

I had meant to cross link to my other post about the CGI Audrey Hepburn ad, but forgot.

So here's the link now:

First Post: Digital Audrey Hepburn -- Galaxy Chocolate, "Chauffer" -- Framestore

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[ The Virtual Audrey ]
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Osamu Tezuka -- Japanese Mangas

recently found a lot of Japanese Tezuka Mangas.

I'll do some page-scans of some interiors

whenever I get a scanner hooked up.

there's about 30 in total

(29 to be exact)

a bunch of hard-cover editions,

some paperbacks

many of which have never been released in English...

like this one up above: "Rainbow Parakeet"

(read about it at Tezuka in English.com)
[i think this is my favorite of the photos i took]

other titles in here:

- Buddha

- Three-Eyed One

- Zero Man

- Black Jack

- Astro Boy

- Princess Knight

- I.L

- Jungle Emperor Leo

- Hitorino (Phoenix)

- Ikki Mandara...

...

I'm missing some I know...

some of them are from this collection called:
"The Best Collections of Osamu Tezuka"
aside from being a nice, Hardbacked treatment of his work,
they also feature some of his great self-portraits on the back...

Osamu Tezuka

(via wikipedia)

...photographing 

books 

is 

weird...

"dust & plastic" -- an ode to lost toys -- photography

Light was nice coming through my window this morning,

so set up a quick still life of my toy camera.

an LED with an orange/tungsten gel on for the fill.

"Dust and Plastic"

yup...

 another photograph of an old camera...

...that's what this blog is turning into...

[ see photos from this camera ]