Posted in Movies, Videos, tagged Animation, Art, Arts, fairy tales, film, Folklore, Jiří Barta, Krysar, Movies, Pied Piper, Rat Catcher, Stop Motion, Television, Videos, Watch In Full on March 30, 2013| 10 Comments »
Posted in Movies, Videos, tagged Animation, Art, Blog, Dina Velikovskaya, Entertainment, Family, film, Filmmaking, Grandparents, Movies, My Strange Grandfather, Short Film, Stop Motion, Videos on March 22, 2013| 7 Comments »
Stop Motion short films throughout the month at www.lilywight.com
Today’s pick ~ My Strange Grandfather (2013) by Dina Velikovskaya.
Posted in Music, tagged A Fine Frenzy, Art, Blog, Design, film, Filmmaking, Movies, Music, Photography, Short Film, Stop Motion, Videos on March 12, 2013| 11 Comments »
Why not lose yourself in another stop motion short film?
Lost Things (2010) written and directed by Angela Kohler and Ithyle Griffiths.
Music “Sleepwaking” by A Fine Frenzy.
Posted in Movies, Videos, tagged Animals, Animation, Cartoon, cute, film, Magic, Movies, Nature, Out Of A Forest, Slow Show, Stop Motion, The National, Tobias Gundorff Boesen, Videos, White Rabbit on March 9, 2013| 8 Comments »
Tobias Gundorff Boesen presents his remarkable short film, Out Of A Forest (2010) set to Slow Show by The National.
Have you seen…
Posted in Movies, Videos, tagged Animation, Arts, Entertainment, film, Movies, Short Film, Short Movies, Stop Motion, String Doll, Videos, Zealous Creative, Zero on March 7, 2013| 5 Comments »
Watch it, love it and share your thoughts on Zero (2010) a Stop Motion short from Zealous Creative.
Posted in Movies, Videos, tagged Animation, Arts, Christopher Kezelos, Cute Bunny, Cute Rabbit, Entertainment, film, Free, Gothic, Like Tim Burton, Short Films, Short Movies, Stop Motion, The Maker, Videos, White Rabbit, Zealous Creative on March 4, 2013| 7 Comments »
View in full Zealous Creative’s wonderful Stop Motion short, The Maker (2011).
Written and directed by Christopher Kezelos.
Posted in Movies, Videos, tagged Animation, Arts, Entertainment, fairy tales, film, Like Tim Burton, Movies, Oscars, Paul Berry, Sandman, Short Films, Short Movies, Stop Motion, Videos on March 2, 2013| 10 Comments »
You may never sleep again!
This wonderful Oscar nominated animation by Paul Berry should provide a clue about this month’s blog theme…
Posted in Videos, tagged Bafta, BBC, claymation, David Borthwick, Entertainment, fairy tales, Movies, Stop Motion, Tom Thumb on August 25, 2012| 2 Comments »
Posted in Puppets/Dolls/Automata, Videos, tagged Animation, Commedia dell'arte, Covent Garden, Entertainment, History, Jan Svankmajer, Marionettes, Pulchinella, Punch, Punch & Judy, puppets, Samuel Pepys, Slapstick, Stop Motion, swazzle, Theatre, Tony Hancock, Victorian on July 13, 2012| 13 Comments »
We could not allow Puppet Month to go by at The Arcade of Arts & Arcana without wishing a very Happy Birthday to Mr. Punch who is celebrating 350 years of terrifying minors with his anger-management issues.
Here are a few Punch facts to peruse if the pictures haven’t made you run screaming from this post ~
* Punch & Judy performers are known as “Professors” and are sometimes assisted by a “Bottler” who corrals the audience, collects money and provides musical accompaniment.
* Mr. Punch is a manifestation of the mythological Trickster archetype. His current anglicized form was adapted from the sixteenth century Neapolitan character Pulcinella from the Italian Commedia Dell’ Arte.
* Diarist Samuel Pepys recorded Punch’s début in London’s Covent Garden in 1662.
* Punch regularly beats the other characters with a wooden baton known as a “slapstick”, a name now used as a collective term for a genre of physical comedy.
* The Punch & Judy Show was originally intended for adults. Contentious characters such as The Devil and Punch’s mistress Pretty Polly were sidelined in the late Victorian era as the performances were adapted for children.
* The device which creates Punch’s familiar rasp is called a swazzle.
Click the smiley for lots more information 🙂
Finally, a little treat from Stop-Motion Maestro Jan Svankmajer. Don’t have nightmares, Blogsprites!
Posted in Art, tagged Czech, Entertainment, Graphic novel, July, Marionette, Pelham Puppets, Photographs, Pinocchio, Prague, Puppet, Puppetry, skeleton, Stop Motion, Summer 2012, Theatre on July 3, 2012| 24 Comments »
Hello Blogsprites!
Summer 2012 is a total wash-out here in the United Kingdom so I will endeavour to make this month at The Arcade of Arts & Arcana as enchanting and enticing as possible!
July will be dedicated to strings and things; to the cute puppet friends who delighted us in childhood to the creepy, pant-wetting, spindle-limbed horrors that still haunt our adult nightmares… no? Just me then 😉
I also hope to squeeze in a few reviews and recommendations for some unusual Graphic Novels and present some Blog Awards whilst saying thanks for those I have recently received.
I have updated and launched a brand new album in the Gallery (you can click the header tab to visit, free entry as usual) or simply click the sample pictures below…
Click the smiley to try another post 🙂
Posted in Art, Macabre, Videos, tagged Animation, Arts, claymation, Entertainment, film, Mound, Movies, Stop Motion, Stop-Motion Animation on March 23, 2012| 5 Comments »
Updated 26/02/2015
This is truly the stuff of nightmares. I’ll be sleeping with the bedside light on tonight!
Posted in Movies, Puppets/Dolls/Automata, Videos, tagged Animation, Arts, Entertainment, film, Jan Svankmajer, Movies, Stop Motion, Stop-Motion Animation, The Street of Crocodiles, Trailer, trailers, video, Videos on March 23, 2012| 2 Comments »
Updated 26/02/2015
I know I’m late to the game here but this is amazing. I only discovered Street of Crocodiles after reading Bruno Schulz for the first time, embarrassingly only a few days ago. Gotta start somewhere.
EAT YOUR HEART OUT, DAVID LYNCH.
On a side note, Bruno Schulz is my new obsession. I will facebooklike him in my heart for ever and ever and ever. I’m aware that I’m a huge geek because I’m fangirling over a dead Polish author with a very small body of work, a man who was most likely a bit creepy.
Example A:
This is an old picture and the quality is compromised clearly, but LOOK AT HIS FACE. Stop staring at me like that, stop it. No.
In any case, the short novel The Street of Crocodiles / The Cinnamon Shops are online. Go read a book! (On a computer screen.) Even the cover…
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Posted in Movies, Puppets/Dolls/Automata, Videos, tagged Animation, Arts, Entertainment, film, Movies, Stop Motion, Stop-Motion Animation, The Maker, video, Videos on March 21, 2012| 7 Comments »
Updated 26/02/2015
This is a simply amazing and incredible trailer and you need to see it now! xx
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