: Wallace and Gromit return online. “Oscar-winning animated duo Wallace and Gromit will return for the first time in six years in a series of short films available on the internet.”
A friend of mine
is a filmmaker, and is actually working quite regularly editing, shooting, doing all sorts of stuff that doesn’t involve being some director’s driver. Unlike most, John didn’t go to film school and do that whole scene – he just started making movies. One of his early trilogy of shorts has made its way to iFilm, and it’s hilarious. It’s called Dutchboy Racer, directed by John Hepworth, John Ashmore, DoP. John and I did lunch to discuss a possible role, but he decided to go another direction, so this isn’t my cinematic debut. What I’m really waiting for though is John’s first feature, a sci-fi extravaganza whose development title is “HydroBeef”.
I lost one other entry
on the weekend, which was essentially an ode to Montreal, and my neighbourhood. Last weekend was full of parties, full of art, full of expressive, intelligent, engaged people just busting out with creativity and life. I spoke with 2 newly working filmmakers (doing it locally), a bucketful of artists who are doing a group vernissage next weekend (I’ll try and scan the invite soon – it’s nice), a writer named Yann Martel who’s publishing his second novel Very Soon Now, a guy who does relatively naive watercolors – but then scans them and does minimal, subtle processing in photoshop, which moves the work in an entirely different direction.
Interesting
news about people’s online behaviour today. Wired News reports that people focus much more on text than graphics at online news sites.
It raises a lot of questions – but the preliminary one is “which online news sites really use lots of graphics?” I can only think of the single little photo (usually about 200×200 or so) that most sites put up. And an image like that doesn’t provide the detail that a well-printed newspaper photo has.
It also brings to mind McLuhan – is the web a hot or cool medium? TV was cool and movies were hot – it’s all about resolution and the infinitely higher resolution of film as opposed to NTSC-standard pixels. The imagination is even higher res, so radio was/is hot, not cool like TV. I tend to think the web has elements of both, and that’s what this study might point to.
