Gulp, the world’s largest stop-motion animation set, shot on a Nokia N8.
The making of Gulp.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Dot
Everyone, meet Dot, who’s the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8.
The making of Dot.
A Faithful Rain
I admit that there are times I take things for granted (from the small to the big) and it was such a timely reminded through my own experience of “What rain was this?”
I was relating to a friend on the story of how a group of us were complaining non-stop when we had just arrived in a village off Bintan; Indonesia for a “community project” and it had started to rain heavily. Being the typical ‘too cool to get out of our comfort zone’ we were just too absorbed and concerned on how are we going to get across while being transported in a sampan boat, how dirty our shoes would get because of the muddy road that we would have to walk on, how troublesome it’ll be to get to the destination we are going as there isn’t any proper shelter, our bags would get wet from the rain. Well, basically any complain you can think off, we said it!
But the moment we reached the orphanage that we were heading to, the Ibu came out with open arms started thanking us for coming, more importantly for “bringing rain along with us”. Little did we know that the village we were at was in the drought season and they did not have the luxury of having excess water for their dying crops. So this rain that we complained about was just the right thing that the village needed. Right at that moment, we were humbled by the fact that while we are all comfortable and complaining about how inconvenient the rain could be for us, there are others who needs them badly. Not only did it change my perspective towards life, but how that little mustard faith could make such a difference.
Be thankful, I ought to be.
Linotype: The Film
Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary film centered around the Linotype typecasting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, the Linotype revolutionized printing and society, but very few people know about the inventor or his fascinating machine.
The Linotype completely transformed the communication of information similarly to how the internet is now changing communication again. Although these machines were revolutionary, technology began to supersede the Linotype and they were scrapped and melted-down by the thousands. Today, very few machines are still in existence.
The highly-skilled operators of the Linotype are in a battle against time.
If their skills are not passed along to a new generation of operators, the machine will die completely. There is a small group of former operators that want to save the Linotype from the scrap yard, but some see this as a fruitless endeavor to slow down progress.This film is about a machine from the past, but that does not mean this is a sentimental fact-film lamenting the loss of a technology. We are compelled to dig deeper, and find what the Linotype has to say about the present and future.
Production started in August of 2010 and it will be released in early 2012.
Check out http://linotypefilm.com/ for more details about the film. Not quite sure if it’ll ever come to our shores aka Singapore (which I am still crossing fingers that MAYBE some nice people would do so) but for those who can get their eyes on watching it, please go support! Nothing like good sexy type, right?
