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the critic tedg:

…the core experiment was in how to work with sex.

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What’s going on here is that the third dimension allows a presence, a presentation of body that the flat screen simply cannot. Excepting the standard vocabulary of “in your eye” tricks, all the animation and modeling has gone into Susan’s body. Not just her shape, which is expected, but subtle details of that shape. Particular attention is spent on how she moves, with a sensuous grace that is designed to be seductive. Yes, I know it is not obvious, but watch the beginning half again and note how surrounding women are presented, before we enter the action, second half.

Look at how many computing cycles went into the way her clothing moves on her body. The cloth does not move as her skin does, but over her skin, emphasizing the womanly movement of the dancer that was used for the motion capture. Study how this compares to sexually-designed Japanese animation projects. See how clearly different and more human Susan’s movements are from those of the other characters, especially the humans — except for the women that surround her in the first half.

These things are highly, highly engineered. This studio is the most severe in this dimension. These releases are strategic probes into competitive progress on cinematic advantage. Its all about how to leverage the technology to capture eyeballs. Pixar cannot respond to this. Well played.

MEMORANDUM
From: Center for Net Art Preservation, Antwerp
To: “Nasty Nets”
Re: First Post

You have written us regarding some archival issues pertaining to your “first post” from August 2006, by your member “jmb.”
The title of the post consists of the English word “stretch” with many extra letters so that it appears elongated. Accompanying it was a jpeg image that moved from side to side using the “marquee” html tag. Several members of your group recall that it was a photo of a stretch limo.
Unfortunately the image has been removed from the site where jmb “hotlinked” it so it no longer appears in the post.
Moreover, current browsers such as Firefox 3 do not read the marquee tag.
The post could be restored if jmb kept a back-up copy of the image. We could recreate the marquee on an older browser and screen capture it to make a Quicktime movie.
Unfortunately it would then no longer be part of your blog environment and would load much more slowly.
In any case, we regret to inform you that we cannot assist you with these services.
On examining the peer reviewed discussions on noted ListServs we find considerable dissent over whether blogs are art or just “meta.”
Some of your own members have published scholarship and criticism attempting to explain the site in terms of “found objects” or “found film” but these arguments are not the consensus view.
We are very sorry.

paintings by Carolyn Swiszcz

drawing on brochure by jim woodring

all by Dale McFarland

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