Ballerina Rc I

Contains multiple textures. Inspired by Richard Calmes photography.

Rent is Due – Breakdancing

A real treat, boy dancing on the street!

Dance for Four

Earliest Animation

~The oldest known form of “animation”.~
Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau unveiled an invention in 1832 called the Phenakistoscope, a device that is largely considered to be the first mechanism for true animation. The simple gadget relied on the persistence of vision principle to display the illusion of images in motion.

The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Arrayed around the disc’s center were a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it were a series of equally spaced radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc’s reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images that appeared to be a single moving picture.

While Plateau is credited with inventing the device, there were numerous other mathematicians and physicists who were working on similar ideas around the same time, and even they were building on the works of Greek mathematician Euclid and Sir Isaac Newton who had also identified principles behind the phenakistoscope.

Hope you enjoy the moving pictures,

Leo

Imagimotion # 6 Minerals and Spirographs

Dedicated to the souls of those who perished, were wounded and all those affected by the terror acts.
“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation”
Hope it works for you, as it worked for me.
Leo

Funky New York

Scenes from New York circa 1940’s
Music by David Nederland – Tell Me About Oriental Philosophy
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Containing great old photographs by:
Brett Weston (originally Theodore Brett Weston; December 16, 1911, Los Angeles–January 22, 1993, Hawaii) was an American photographer. Van Deren Coke described Brett Weston as the “child genius of American photography.” He was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler.
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Todd Webb (September 5, 1905 – April 15, 2000) was an American photographer notable for documenting everyday life and architecture in cities such as New York, Paris as well as from the American west.[1] His photography has been compared with Harry Callahan, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and the French photographer Eugène Atget. He traveled extensively during his long life and had important friendships with artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams and Harry Callahan. His life was like his photos in the sense of being seemingly simple, straightforward, but revealing complexity and depth upon a closer examination. Capturing history, his pictures often transcend the boundary between photography and artistic expression.

Enjoy the funk,
Leo

Petrodollars Tango

A tango with undertones of what ails Argentina; economic, moral, ethical and governance collapse.
Enjoy the dance and the message behind the dance.
Leo

Imagimotion #3 Trapped in Gemstones

This is a unique piece of filming, animation and science coming together. Tried to envision how events may have occurred to have encased live beings and preserve them for eternity. The world has been around for billions of years and many species have preceded human beings, so this example is a testimony that what comes goes and the circularity of life.

Please enjoy the show and share it if you like,
Leo

Imagimotion # 2 – Stardust

Used morphing as the primary vehicle to express the changing nature of elements and how the stars have contributed to everything on Earth.
Everything changes all the time, inevitably, randomly and we don’t know where it will lead us…

Enjoy the show – peace,
Leo

Mystical Tango Magic

To end the year on a high note, here’s a tango from the heart.
Music by Tanghetto – Remix by me.

Have a wonderful 2015!
Leo