This strange and impressionistic paraphrase of Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner is by Anders Ramsell, who painted all 12,597 frames using only water colors. The edit features dialogue and music from the film and the radical compression of the plot—edited down to just over half an hour—gives this painted film a dreamy, surreal texture. (Via Boing Boing, which I’m sure all you hepcats follow anyway, but this film is too lovely not to share again, in case, y’know, you didn’t already see it somehow).
Category: Art
Letter to Gaugin — Vincent van Gogh
Superiority — Ron Cobb
Little Red Riding Hood — Arthur Rackham
The Intrigue — James Ensor
The Fairy Tale — William Merritt Chase
Goya’s Parasol/Disney’s Snow White
“Will You Be My Wife?” (Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast)
Cinderella — John Everett Millais
Little Red Riding Hood — Charles Burns
“The psychology of Snow White: What does she hope for?” (Donald Barthelme)
The psychology of Snow White: What does she hope for? “Someday my prince will come.” By this Snow White means that she lives her own being as incomplete, pending the arrival of one who will “complete” her. That is, she lives her own being as “not-with” (even though she is in some sense “with” the seven men, Bill, Kevin, Clem, Hubert, Henry, Edward and Dan). But the “not-with” is experienced as stronger, more real, at this particular instant in time, than the “being-with.” The incompleteness is an ache capable of subduing all other data presented by consciousness. I don’t go along with those theories of historical necessity, which suggest that her actions are dictated by “forces” outside of the individual. That doesn’t sound reasonable, in this case. Irruption of the magical in the life of Snow White: Snow White knows a singing bone. The singing bone has told her various stories which have left her troubled and confused: of a bear transformed into a king’s son, of an immense treasure at the bottom of a brook, of a crystal casket in which there is a cap that makes the wearer invisible. This must not continue. The behavior of the bone is unacceptable. The bone must be persuaded to confine itself to events and effects susceptible of confirmation by the instrumentarium of the physical sciences. Someone must reason with the bone.
From Donald Barthelme’s novel Snow White.
Merchant at a Table Near Window – Abraham van Strij
Reclining Man (John F. Kennedy) — Willem de Kooning
Illustration from Beauty and The Beast — Walter Crane
Hell Under, Hell Above, Hell All Around — James Ensor
Monhegan’s Schoolteacher — Jamie Wyeth
Gotteron — Balthus
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