New Flashbook – Animals
note: Flashbooks have sounds, so LOWER YOUR VOLUME! When it finishes downloading (may take a bit), right click on black square, press PLAY, and flip pages! NOTE: If the right column interferes with the Flashbook then ZOOM OUT (CTRL-)
As an occasional follower of the TED talks and an old fan of Ze Frank’s web toys I had a kick when I discovered this by pure chance:
The short film “Dimensions of Dialogue (part 1)”, by Czech Claymation (and Animation in general) master Jan Švankmajer. The quality is not the best, but still good enough to get a good idea of his work. There are plenty of other videos by Švankmajer on Youtube worth checking out
The British painter Henry Fuseli (the guy that painted the hyper-famous “The Nightmare”) was an important influence on many painters, notably the great William Blake.
Fuseli’s painting on Hamlet confronting the ghost of his father
reminds me a lot of Blake’s style, as in for instance “The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve”:
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