Re: [-empyre-] movement and animation

2010-02-12 Thread Johannes Birringer
Dear all: thanks, Tom , for your exquisite responses to my questions about qualities, affects and perceivabilities/perceptions of movement in the experience of motion (sensorymotor), and movement in animation or images (and i of course implied dance and all kinaesthetic forms not least dance f

Re: [-empyre-] movement and animation

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Ward
assertion" or "films of putative fact", neither of which get my vote, despite any descriptive power they might be argued to have). As John Grierson once said "Documentary is a clumsy description, but let it stand." The same could be said of "animation" . . . Best wis

Re: [-empyre-] movement and animation

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas LaMarre, Prof.
Johannes, Wow! What a cool set of questions! Maybe I can begin with these questions about moving images and the movement-image... Initially, due to certain received ways of thinking about world, we're probably tempted to separate the production of movement (the moving image) from the experie

Re: [-empyre-] movement and animation

2010-02-09 Thread Johannes Birringer
hello all: thanks for such a stimulating discussion, and i am also anxious to learn more about Japanese manga and how Tom reads content/narrative, and their impact, or impact of the "animation machine" on our perception of what movement is. In fact, i had wanted to ask - after reading the e