Body cinema: Lucy McRae – video selection

September 9, 2010

Visual artists, documentary filmmakers, animators and dance screen artists became a natural part of Body cinema… So, I’ve picked up video selection by former ballerina and ethereal body shaper Lucy McRae

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Lucy McRae: Metallic Skin
Photo taken from todayandtomorrow.net

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Knitting, embroidery, crocheting and needlepoint in animation and stop motion

July 30, 2010

Animation, stop motion and computing have a lot of possibilities and techniques for expressing ideas and stories… Following last posts regarding textiles, I simply got an idea to collect few animated and stop motion films which were designed with the help of knitting, crocheting, embroidery and needlepoint…

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Science Project: Temperature by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
hand-stitched cotton doily, 2005

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Freestyle football video selection

July 8, 2010

It’s been a while since I haven’t blogged about sport in art context… Yeah, it was last year’s book review about Haruki Murakami’s ‘What I Talk About When I Talk About Running‘, right?! Well, since everything is about football now… I’ve made a Freestyle football video selection for this post… Frankly, I was inspired by some TV show I saw tonight after the game between Germany and Spain on World Cup 2010 South Africa…

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Photo by Zitzitoune taken from flickr.com (cc)

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