Based on a true story
This is my favorite song by my favorite fictional 80s rock band, Love Handle.
This line always gets me: “Like a ninja of love, repelling down from above, you snuck your way right into my heart.”
The kids spent 45 minutes this morning sitting still on the couch, listening to this and other Phineas and Ferb songs.
While reading Alan Moore’s graphic novel, Watchmen, last night, I came across a scene that was painfully familiar. One of the main characters, Dr. Manhattan, had left earth as an outcast because he feared his powers were harming those closest to him. Alone on the desolate deserts of Mars, he constructs a crystal palace, and I thought, “I’ve seen this before.” This is the exact same thing that happens in Frozen.
I pointed it out to Gabi, and she also saw the similarities. Then I had the idea to overlay the lyrics from the Frozen Song over the artwork from the comic, estimating it would take about two hours to do it well. And I wanted to get started right away! However, since it was already 11:30 at night, Gabi persuaded me to do a quick Google search to see if this was already a thing.
The internet didn’t let me down.
There was an article in Slate from back in March showing exactly what I imagined. Alex Wolinetz made the original, and it was just what I had in mind.
Disneyland’s original prospectus: Boing Boing has an in-depth look at the original plans behind the development of Disneyland.
Happy Sunday!
I love this song. It makes me happy every time I hear it.
Frame by frame and sequential images from various animated films for study and appreciation.
I would have expected a lot more images making up each 1 second clip of animation. Cartoons have a surprisingly slow frame rate, but still manage to make everything look fluid and smooth.
Kevin Kelley points out the value of the public domain.
It is in the interest of culture to have a large and dynamic public domain. The greatest classics of Disney were all based on stories in the public domain, and Walt Disney showed how public domain ideas and characters could be leveraged by others to bring enjoyment and money. But ironically, after Walt died, the Disney corporation became the major backer of the extended copyright laws, in order to keep the very few original ideas they had — like Mickey Mouse — from going into the public domain. Also ironically, just as Disney was smothering the public domain, their own great fortunes waned because they were strangling the main source of their own creativity, which was public domain material. They were unable to generate their own new material, so they had to buy Pixar.
Just imagine the amazing things that could happen if the copyright on the Star Wars saga, Harry Potter, and the Chronicles or Narnia expired and those works entered the public domain. There are already imaginative remixes of all those works out there, but they ride the fine line between fair use and copyright infringement.
What could artists using modern mediums create without worrying about being sued?
