March 19, 2012 • 2 notes
ForYourArt Announces Around the Clock: 24 Hour Donut City, a 24-hour event from noon on March 24 to noon on March 25 This is the kind of event I’d program if I were the director of some arts program. An excuse to have donuts during a film showing. Brilliant.

ForYourArt Announces Around the Clock: 24 Hour Donut City, a 24-hour event from noon on March 24 to noon on March 25

This is the kind of event I’d program if I were the director of some arts program. An excuse to have donuts during a film showing. Brilliant.

January 16, 2012 • 7 notes

I’m always amused by stop-motion. Always. I’m amused at the sheer idea of it. What the audience perceives to be a continuous action in real life, in actuality is a slowed down, laborious process, where each frame is carefully designed and orchestrated.

Think about the calculation of timing and everything the next time you watch a stop-motion film:

  • Typically 24 frames per second
  • The image changes about every 2 frames.
  • 12 pictures per second, 60 sec/minute
  • That adds up to about 720 pictures/minute

So the next time you watch a stop-motion movie, just recognize that someone orchestrated hundreds and hundreds of singular, solitary frames just so that you can enjoy one minute of their film.

July 21, 2011
Christian Marclay’s The Clock Once in a while there are events that remind me how much of a film nerd I was, am, and still could be. This is one of those times. The Clock is an experimental film that has a total running time of 24-hours. Here’s a better description of it: Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time, excerpted and edited together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized to local time wherever it is shown. The result marks the exact time in real time for the viewer for 24 consecutive hours. Now, when I heard an ad for this on KCRW, my brain literally expanded. Also, it reminded me of an Andy Warhol film, Empire, which is an 8-hour film that depicts the Empire State Building through a single static shot. The Clock is going to screen at LACMA on Thurs, July 28 at 5pm and end at 5pm the next day. 24 hours of consecutive footage in a single piece of work. How awesome is that? I really want to go to this, even if it’s only for a couple hours.

Christian Marclay’s The Clock

Once in a while there are events that remind me how much of a film nerd I was, am, and still could be. This is one of those times. The Clock is an experimental film that has a total running time of 24-hours. Here’s a better description of it:

Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a 24-hour single-channel montage constructed from thousands of moments of cinema and television history depicting the passage of time, excerpted and edited together to create a functioning timepiece synchronized to local time wherever it is shown. The result marks the exact time in real time for the viewer for 24 consecutive hours.

Now, when I heard an ad for this on KCRW, my brain literally expanded. Also, it reminded me of an Andy Warhol film, Empire, which is an 8-hour film that depicts the Empire State Building through a single static shot.

The Clock is going to screen at LACMA on Thurs, July 28 at 5pm and end at 5pm the next day. 24 hours of consecutive footage in a single piece of work. How awesome is that? I really want to go to this, even if it’s only for a couple hours.

December 14, 2010

Montage of 2010 Films

Yup. It’s definitely that time again where people start doing their “Best of _____ 2010” lists. Let the lists of disposable pop culture commence. I still haven’t seen a lot of these movies, either.