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Animation Recommendation

By Cinema

Fast Film stillFound online:

An extraordin­ary piece of anim­a­tion, screened at Cannes in 2003 but now avail­able on DVD from the film­maker. And at stut­tery old YouTube. Hat-tip to CartoonBrew.

The visu­als were achieved by print­ing out thou­sands of film frames (over 65,000 to be exact) and fold­ing them into three-dimensional shapes. The paper-objects were then pho­to­graphed and com­pos­ited in After Effects. I can’t even ima­gine the effort it took to mash-up hun­dreds of live-action films, often times with three to four films in each scene, and make it all work in a nar­rat­ive con­text. It’s an incred­ible cre­at­ive achievement.

I’ve just sent away for a copy.

Sporting Weekend

By black caps, Cricket, Football, Hammers, Lions, Rugby and Sport

A bad week­end for all the teams I fol­low. The hor­ror, the horror.

West Ham United CrestThe Hammers have now lost sev­en on the spin, haven’t won in eight and haven’t scored in 10 and a half hours 11 hours (a club record); The Lions became the second Wellington team this year to lose a major rugby final; The Knights have also lost sev­en in a row but at least scored a couple of times in Adelaide; The Black Caps rolled over and had their tummy’s scratched by Sri Lanka in that unwatch­able tour­na­ment in India and my Dad’s team (Torquay United) have also lost six in a row so there’s no res­pite at home.

Common sense says, like the crap weath­er, this has to change but I struggle to see when. West Ham could eas­ily get turned over by Colchester in the Carling Cup on Thursday morn­ing the way we are play­ing; the rugby sea­son is over; the Black Caps have to beat Pakistan to pro­gress in India and we nev­er beat them when we have to; I can’t see the Knights win­ning again this dec­ade and the future isn’t prom­ising for The Gulls (sorry, Dad).

Oh, and Newtown Athletic had the week­end off (or a ‘bye’ if you prefer) due to the long week­end. At least that isn’t a defeat…