Retinal Persistence

Retinal persistnce allows the human brain to store a visual image of something that we are seeing for a few hundred milliseconds. This allows for the brain to see the images as moving like in a flip book.
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_02/i_02_s/i_02_s_vis/i_02_s_vis.html

Abelardo Morell' Photography

Abelardo Morell is a photographer who was born in Havana Cuba and is most know for his camera obscura photographs. Of his recent work these are my favorites. I love how he captured these beautiful images of a place that is close to my hear (New York City). I find it so incredible how he is able to capture the beauty through such a unique method that is over a hundred years old, its just incredible

Stage Door and Technology in Broadway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BXKfT5FQ3E&feature=player_embedded#! time: 42 sec the arch of lights


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFcWrMVPo14&feature=player_embedded time: 33 sec fake umbrellas thrown in the air in the background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFjxMGM36Hk&feature=player_embedded time: start to end, the screen with the computerized background

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaU8pXPWBqE&feature=player_embedded time: best seen at 4:10 microphone in ear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AL3qpCbJqM&feature=player_embedded time: 6:04 the elevator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nP1wx3eSfI&feature=player_embedded time: 2:47 Galinda flies
wires attached to her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr2xIjDX_tg&feature=player_embedded time: 22 sec wall of lights

Dope Pics

I found these on my friends tumblr and felt that i needed to share them

Madama Butterfly video

I thought that overall the animation was pretty good, kind of weird at times. For example the metaphor with the fish. I have no idea why that was used. The director used the original music from the opera which I thought was a good tribute to the opera. The ending where the geisha commits sapuku was done really well. Instead of stabbing herself in the stomach the director chose for the geisha to completely strip herself to the bare metal of the doll was crazy, so sick.

Todays Version of "Bread and Circus" and Baroque themes used in Commercials

Bread and circus entertainment was a method used in ancient Rome in order to get the citizens of Rome to like the government and not revolt. The Roman's would allow citizens to come to the gladiator matches for free and while there receive a free meal (bread). The only thing in today's society that is close to that is probably a movie theater even though you have to pay for both the film and for food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkB9OT2XVvA

Juan Carlos Delgado's Ice and Farineli the "castroti"

Recently Juan Carlos Delgado set up a exhibit in Columbia were he froze bronze sculptures over a period of weeks. He's creativity is what sets him apart from other artists that I have seen. Overall I really liked where his imagination took him with this piece. Farineli was a 18th century opera singer who was renowned as the best "castroti" in the world. He was called a "castroti" because he was castrated as a prepubescent boy in order to make sure that his beautiful voice would not change. This led to him getting a disease that is found in post-menopausal women. I understand why they would do this but I feel that the act of castration is barbaric and its not right to take a mans "junk" away from them.