{"id":148,"date":"2014-08-12T22:19:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=148"},"modified":"2014-08-13T03:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T03:43:57","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-the-animation-of-alexeieff-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: \u201cThe Animation of Alexe\u00efeff\u201d (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team of Alexe\u00efeff &amp; Parker are considered to have created the first embodiments of digital film, achieved by robotically tracing swinging shiny pendulums filmed at slow exposures that left ghostly trails, what they dubbed \u201cillusory solids,\u201d which were compared to falling stars. Famous for his grueling pinscreen animation technique (which also resembles pixels), Alexe\u00efeff occasionally illustrated on the side with his pinscreen contraption, such as for the opening images of Orson Welles\u2019 feature film \u201cThe Trial\u201d (1962). Original header for the 2010 Montreal Mirror publication of this comic strip movie (p)review: \u201cCozy as a bed of nails!\u201d (To see full-sized, keep clicking on the image to open it in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alexeieff1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-151 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alexeieff1-665x1024.jpg\" alt=\"alexeieff\" width=\"665\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alexeieff1-665x1024.jpg 665w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alexeieff1-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alexeieff1.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"FAB Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team of Alexe\u00efeff &amp; Parker are considered to have created the first embodiments of digital film, achieved by robotically tracing swinging shiny pendulums filmed at slow exposures that left ghostly trails, what they dubbed \u201cillusory solids,\u201d which were compared to falling stars. Famous for his grueling pinscreen animation technique (which also resembles pixels), Alexe\u00efeff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}