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In 1872, California Governor Leland Stanford took a bold stand on what was, at the time, thought to be an unanswerable question. He postulated that, when at full gallop, all four of a horse's hooves left the ground. He hired photographer Eadweard Muybridge to settle the question once and for all. Eadweard Muybridge - his friends called him Mr. Big-Head. The town children called him Li'l Santa when...
In my recent post on pioneering photography, I mentioned that action shots of horses had revolutionized equestrian art ( CLICK ). Here's an example. On the left is George Stubbs' painting of Baronet with Samuel Chifney (1791). On the right are frames of Eadweard Muybridge’s galloping racehorse (1878). As you can see, even the great George Stubbs - one of England's finest equestrian artists - painted...
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D uring the early nineties when I was trying to start a career in animation, my research basically narrowed down the list of essential reading: Frank and Ollie's Illusion of Life , Eadweard Muybridge's The Human Figure/Animals in Motion , Steven Katz's Film Directing: Shot by Shot , Preston Blair's Film Cartoons/Cartoon Animation (as part of the "How to" series by Walter Foster) C apping that list...
I was wondering this morning why it is that narrative paintings always seem to fall so flat for a modern viewer (i.e. me). Not just those cheesy C19th paintings with titles like A Soldier Returns; even paintings by artists I find more sympathetic — Rembrandt, Goya, Velazquez — seem very obviously unconvincing when they try to [...]
Gallop! A Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Butler Seder Gallop! A Scanimation Picture Book is one of those books I bought for a child in my life, but was reluctant to hand it over when the fateful day came. The...
Speed Racer At the risk of overdoing it with the TV- and movie-related items (too late!), I have one more post: In New York magazine, Speed Racer visual effects supervisors John Gaeta and Dan Glass dissect the film's influences, which range from Miyazaki’s Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro to Elvis Presley's Speedway to the photography [...]
I found myself chuckling in amused recognition on Sunday while reading Rebecca Solnit's Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times, "Men Who Explain Things." Solnit, for those unfamiliar with her work, is the author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost...
This is one of those topics an old-time feminazi might have taken up at a CR session, while absent-mindedly scratching her hairy armpits: The experience of being the object of benign condescension from certain types of men. Not all men practice this art of sermon-giving to women, but some do, and the experiences always tend to be memorable. Rebecca Solnit, an author with many books under her belt,...
Film cameras slice fluid seconds of time into individual pieces, allowing scientists and laypeople new insights into events happening in high speed. Case in point: in the late 1870s, people didn't know whether a horse trotting ever had all four...
A very important (and well to-do) man tells Rebecca Solnit knowledgeably about a book she's actually written herself, and then he is stunned speechless, refusing to believe that the book is hers. This is typical of the "silencings" of all sorts that have long been at the heart of what it's meant to be a woman.
Yesterday (how did I miss it') was the birthday of Eadweard Muybridge. He was not only a talented photographer, but he created a camera with such a fast shutter speed that he was able to capture the motion of a galloping horse - and change the way we looked at it forever. hat tip to Carl Zimmer at the Loom, who figured out to make this a movie. check it out Fresh from The Greenbelt
