{"id":4313,"date":"2010-04-08T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-08T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T05:05:05","slug":"giving-life-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/giving-life-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Life to the Unmoving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stop-motion films never cease to entertain me. The very elementary process of arranging anything — no matter how inert originally — into a sequence with subtle differences can give that thing a wonderful life and meaning. You can take post-it notes<\/a>, clothes<\/a>, legos<\/a>, murals<\/a>, junk from your garage<\/a>, or the art store<\/a>, light beams<\/a>, snapshots<\/a>, parked trucks<\/a>, and of course stationary people<\/a>, not to mention puppets, and transform them into the most dynamic beings. With web cams and simple software, almost anyone can make a stop-motion sequence which gives life to the unmoving.<\/p>\n

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Recently artist Liam Stevens<\/a> used pencil, paper, exacto knives and much time to craft a lovely retro stop-action music video. The juxtaposition of hand-drawn roughness and seamless hi-tech video is particularly charming.<\/p>\n

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A still from his short piece, and a collection of the characters he used above.<\/p>\n

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I am convinced that one could (and someday someone will) make a stop action film from anything visible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stop-motion films never cease to entertain me. The very elementary process of arranging anything — no matter how inert originally — into a sequence with subtle differences can give that thing a wonderful life and meaning. You can take post-it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}