saw a far-reaching and remarkable film on Friday evening at Harbin called
"The Painting"...
... {"Le tableau" (original title)} (2011) ...
with its cast of characters of a ‘caste’ system of ‘All Dones,’ ‘Halfies’ and ‘Sketchies,’ - 3 types of “people” – which are animated characters in the film - in various stages of artistic completion, but which also reflected their social station in the film, and a kind of social psychology (if one can say this about an animated film), for access to privilege or freedom, as well as avoidance from harm …
All the animated characters act out their "lives" within paintings that move and develop, and in which the viewer/audience is a part of, or enters into as observer …
All the animated characters are seeking "the painter" as a kind of quest, with so many French themes (e.g. Harlequin, romance, adventure, the 'theatre') in the film ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Vtk9jhfmw
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The film inspired me to get my drawing and art supplies out, and begin to create pastels in the Harbin pool area today … which I did …
The film “The Painting” which only depicted a human at the end is a great
model for building a virtual Harbin (and virtual earth with realistic, interactive avatars) in the Oculus Rift or other digital masks
or goggles, as well … in terms of imaginative-ness, shift in perspective, as well as immersion (per Packer and
Jordan’s 2001 book “Multimedia”), and in many others ways.
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... added this blog entry to
Virtual Worlds wiki subject at WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)
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... also saw a pileated woodpecker up close at Harbin up past the meadow area near where I camped in my car, on Saturday, and wondered at how hammer-like and hard and thin its neck and head are ... especially as an evolutionary adaptation ...
Such a development over 10s of thousands of years, for making a living, is fascinating as an adaptation ...
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