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Idea Recording Gear: Analog Versus Digital, The Smackdown

Once, my friend and Ronnie Dunn’s production manager Mike Adams happened upon me drawing in my little black notebook in which I record my set design ideas, doodles, and concepts, he exclaimed “Time to get an iPad, Analog Kenny!” I do own an iPad, and I do use it, and it got me to wondering: why don’t I use digital drawing applications more to record my thoughts? I don’t dislike sketching on an iPad, and in fact I’ve tried to get into it several times. The question I’ve asked myself is, why do I keep drifting back to using the old analog method of using a pen and notebook? (My old was a Moleskine, I’ve upgraded to a Strathmore notebook… Read More »Idea Recording Gear: Analog Versus Digital, The Smackdown

Zoetrope Sculptures are Cool, Trippy

Zoetropes may have been invented thousands of years ago (Wikipedia says around 100 BCE), the technology can still be used to today for some very cool effects. I first saw the 3D zoetrope effect at a Blue Man Group show with “dancers” off the side, and again at the Animation building at Disney California Adventures. However, I’ve not yet seen anything as cool as this, from designer John Edmark, professor of design at Stanford University: Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures from Pier 9 on Vimeo. The sculptures are 3D-printed, then animated under a strobe or a camera with an extremely fast shutter speed to achieve the movement effects. Cool. I highly recommend looking around his site, his mathematics-inspired sculptures are eye-catching as… Read More »Zoetrope Sculptures are Cool, Trippy