July 30, 2008

delta 1

The New Television Workshop at WGBH supported the creation and broadcast of experimental works by artists. One of their projects was the Music Image Workshop, which was primarily a project of Ron Hays, who used the Paik-Abe videosynthesizer to create elaborate visual scores set to music.



this is H O T

May 8, 2008

critters buggin



ew. this gives me "tingles", "douche chills", etc. etc. is it the music or the claymation? possibly a potent combination of the two. yecccccccch.

March 30, 2008

xylophone of bones

Spook Sport by Norman McLaren.

Program Note: "The story suggested here is that at the bewitching hour of midnight, spooks and ghosts arise from their graves to cavort about and make merry."



I love that the Cast of Characters includes Sun, Place and Time. The colors are unexpectedly nice too.

January 10, 2008

free love, bathtub gin...



How great are these titles? I'd forgotten how totally kaleidoscopicical they were! Also, here's the "stinko blotto" clip. I must be a gay man because I love Rosalind Russell.

the munchers







Screenshots from The Munchers. Isn't the tooth decay guy cute? I'm a sucker for cute villains. The curvy slice of bacon is pretty cute too.