Tag: Academy Award

  • RIP Irene Cara

    RIP Irene Cara

    Sadly we’ve lost Irene Cara, 🙁 Only 63? WAY too young. Fame was such an influence on me as a kid doing music – as well as my well-documented lusting over Mr Shorofsky, it showed the nuts and bolts of recording and music – and also made New York look glamorous. Irene was an important…

  • Norman McLaren & Geoffrey Jones

    Norman McLaren & Geoffrey Jones

    The names of Norman McLaren and Geoffrey Jones pop up quite a lot especially given my love of Len Lye – but apart from Geoffrey’s Snow I’d not seen their work. How wrong I was! These films would be dead certs for VJing sets, if I was still doing it. Proving that Oramics was around…

  • Paperman wonderful short animation

    Paperman wonderful short animation

    Not often I put ‘wonderful’ and ‘Disney’ in the same sentence – not recently anyway – but this short film definitely is both of those. A tribute to hand drawn animation, apparently it’s a new piece of software that replicates that mid 20th century animation style – and dare I say also a classic Japanese…

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