Create Digital Motion - 2009: The Year You Learn Processing

Yes, I know that 95% of you reading this blog are more interested in traditional movies than in experimental video, but tough titty, it's my blog, and this is what I'm interested in right now :) As soon as SXSW starts up I'll have something to post about movie-wise too.

Create Digital Motion has declared 2009 as The Year You Learn Processing. Peter Kirn is going to help us all fulfill our new years resolutions to learn how to program with a series of tutorials, starting next week. I'm stoked.

related: Processing Hack Week

Processing Radiolaria creator

Radiolaria study, originally uploaded by flight404.

Robert of Flight404 is building a radiolarian generator in Processing that evokes the famous lithographs of Ernst Haeckel:
all manner of distractions - Blog Archive - Radiolaria creator, pt. 1

Headspace

Bob Sabiston, who you may know as the lead programmer and artist behind Waking Life and a host of other films, has his first iPhone application available on the app store: Headspace. From what I can see without having downloaded it yet, it's a sort of 3d, flowcharty/outlining tool that could work as a whiteboard for just about any project.

David Hudson joins IFC.com. | Indie Eye | Film | IFC.com

Film blogger musical chairs! GreenCine Daily's überblogger David Hudson (who I am quite fond of) is starting a new blog at IFC in his same daily everything-happening-in-the-world-of-film format, and Aaron Hillis (who I am also quite fond of) is picking up David's post at GreenCine.
David Hudson joins IFC.com. | Indie Eye | Film | IFC.com

Twitch - THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS

Twitch is reporting today that one of my favorite books, and probably my favorite piece of cultural satire, The Futurological Congress by Stanislav Lem is being adapted for the screen as animation.

Best film news of the week by far: Israeli animator Ari Folman, director of the brilliant Waltz With Bashir, will next direct a film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress.

Lem, of course, is the iconic Polish science fiction author who penned Solaris and is seeing a bit of a resurgence on screen lately. Anybody adapting any Lem is fantastic news for fans of intelligent science fiction but this particular director directing this particular story has the potential to be positively jaw dropping. Congress is a bleakly absurd bit of comedy that revolves around a near future dystopia in which - amongst other things - the government is drugging the water supply, triggering hallucinations in the lead character. Folman has already confirmed that he will be employing the same animation technique he used in Bashir for this and anyone who has seen that film is well aware of just how strong Folman is when it comes to manipulating concepts of memory and reality.

WALTZ WITH BASHIR’s Ari Folman Tackling Stanislaw Lem!

Diagonals this Saturday at Red 7

larytta - souvenir de chine - video directed by k�rner union

YouTube - larytta - souvenir de chine - video directed by k�rner union

Sorry, Thanks trailer

The Sorry, Thanks site has been updated with a trailer, a blog, and more information about the movie. We're waiting to find out about our first screenings, and info about them will be posted to both the movie site and here posthaste.