Arte. OA. School of Visual Arts Presents 99 Hours of Free Photography Lectures. FYI: Last week, photographer Dan Culberson flagged on Reddit a trove of free photography lectures available on School of Visual Arts‘ rich YouTube channel.
Elaborating, the photography blog Petapixel writes: Tons of hour-long lectures can be found on the channel’s Images, Ideas, Inspiration playlist, most of them photography related and all of them fascinating.You’ll find something for everyone on this channel—from a lecture by gallery rep Margit Erb talking about her close personal and professional relationship with the great Saul Leiter, to a talk by Dancers Among Us photographer Jordan Matter, to Jack Hollingsworth’s fascinating talk titled “Small Camera Big Results.”There are a total of 99 videos in that playlist alone—approximately 99 hours of education, inspiration, and ideas. Above you can watch Jack Hollingsworth’s lecture, “Small Camera Big Results.” Revisit Martin Scorsese’s Hand-Drawn Storyboards for Taxi Driver. Anyone who’s watched Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver surely remembers, or has remained haunted by, many images from the film, most of which — if not all— began as humble pencil drawings.
Like many major motion pictures, Taxi Driver began not just as a script but also as a storyboard, the piece of comic book-like sequential art filmmakers use to plan shots, camera movements, and character placements. Some directors, like Ridley Scott, spend time crafting detailed storyboards, while others, like the thoroughly improvisational Werner Herzog, don’t use them at all. Scorsese falls somewhere in between, sketching out storyboard panels that feel more like brief notes to himself and his closest collaborators.
You can see them alongside the Taxi Driver scenes they produced in the video above. “Storyboards express what I want to communicate,” Scorsese told Phaidon in 2011 for an article on the exhibition “Between Film and Art: Storyboards from Hitchcock to Spielberg.” Related content: Martin Scorsese Plays Vincent Van Gogh in a Short, Surreal Film by Akira Kurosawa. The idea of the auteur director has been a controversial one at times given the sheer number of people required at every stage to produce a film.
But it hangs together for me when you look at the films of say, Martin Scorsese or Akira Kurosawa, both directors with very distinctive visual languages and ways of moving the camera. Granted, neither director would be who he is without their crack teams of actors, writers, composers, cinematographers, etc. But it is part of their genius to consistently pull those teams together to realize visions that none of the individuals involved could fully see on their own. Though the final product may be the result of millions of dollars and thousands of hours of work by hundreds of people, the films of an auteur take shape foremost in the directors' mind's eye (and paintings and storyboards) rather than the writer's script or producer's conference room.
You can purchase a copy of Kurosawa's complete film here. Related Content: The Origins of Anime: Watch Free Online 64 Animations That Launched the Japanese Anime Tradition. Japanese animation has a way of seeming perpetually new and daring, but it now goes back at least a century.
Having carved out its own aesthetic and intellectual space in world culture, anime (even foreigners who’ve never watched so much as a minute of it know the Japanese term) continues to generate a distinctive kind of excitement in its viewers. That goes for relatively recent features that have already attained classic status, like the lush, simultaneously realistic and fantastical works of Hayao Miyazaki, the darker, deeper visions like Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, and the diversity of works in between.
But how did those qualities manifest in the very earliest anime? We can now easily see for ourselves, thanks to the selection of 64 Japanese animated film classics made freely available online, as a celebration of the centenary of the form, by Japan’s National Film Archive. You can also browse the National Film Archive’s online collection of early animation by director. Humor Secular - ¿De dónde vienen los bebés? (Créditos a...