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DN245: A Shadow of Blue – Carlos Lascano

Ever since I (and 9 million+ others) saw Argentinean director Carlos Lascano’s A Short Love Story in Stop Motion I’ve been dying to get him onto DN for an interview. It may have taken four years, but Carlos finally made it on to discuss his newest piece A Shadow of Blue, a beautiful mix of [...]

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Tumblr Steps into Video Creation with Storyboard

With a user base in excess of 52 million blogs it’s easy to imagine that tumblr could happily coast along doing what it does without feeling the need to diversify from its core offering (although the recent advertising flipflop may suggest otherwise). Unlike the introduction of ads however, the launch of tumblr Storyboard — dubbed [...]

Liberal Arts

Sundance London arrived a few weeks ago in a blaze of glory, sell out gigs and film screenings. It was a condensed version of the Utah festival, taking place in the O2 complete with appearances by Robert Redford and filmmakers. Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts was shown five months before general release and I was lucky [...]

Asides

• Artist Robert Valley's animation Massive Swerve may not have won any awards or been select for any festivals, but it does perfectly capture the exuberance of a chemically fuelled club night. #
• Kogonada continue the interesting series of films looking at recurring filmmaking techniques in the works of famous directors, with Sounds of Aronofsky, a short montage focusing on the sound work of Darren Aronofsky. Here are some of Kogonada's previous films featuring the work of famous directors: #
• Chad Turner and Ryan Todd strap on their space suits to provide a glitchy hit of cosmic animation dub style in Change for Copenhagen based Dub / Electronica act CHLLNGR. #
• Past DN guest Katy Davis has come up with a creatively novel way to combine her animation skills with the random voicemails of strangers in After The Beep Get things off your chest, sing, rant, bark or just breath heavily to this number: 07513 315164 (from outside the UK: 0044 7513 315164) and you may find that your recording turns into a Gobblynne animation! #
• An animated story of a lonely teacup from Swedish artist Linnea Sterte. #