Today's Beautiful Link
21/7/05 21:17![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eredienLaika is a new movie studio, concentrating on animated films.
They've got up a trailer for a movie called "Moongirl". Go look at it. Keep watching past the chipper sidekick squirrel.
Notice the small things that they've put in: the sound of the metal lid of the jar as it is screwed on against the glass. The particular whap of flat leaves--as opposed to branches--in the face. The whorled fresnel lenses and paper screens in the structure of the moon.
The beautiful starry catfish--very definitively, a catfish--splashing out of the sky.
Have you ever read a victorian novel, and the character--Jo March, perhaps, or someone out of Dickens--is shocked, suprised, delighted? The phrase they utter every time is "O!" Just like that. The one exclamation point is essential, as is leaving off the h--if you put it on it's a slightly different emotion.
Sometimes it's even on its own paragraph.
When my brain sees things like that trailer, it tries to think, "this is like something I'd see in a dream, crisp and clear and utterly beautiful." Or perhaps, "Most people don't think of catfish as anything beside interesting; but they've made it be gorgeous here. Look at how its feelers flutter." Or even, "this is something I'd never have thought of, given my own brain. Thank you for letting me look at and delight in your vision; it refreshes and delights."
And after my brain is trying to talk and do all its thinking at once, these things all sift like sand and stones to the bottom and up to the top comes floating just this sense of wonder.
"O!"
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After I clean the bathtub and put in the first load of laundry I will come back here and begin to post about what I have been thinking about all day: Dunsany, The Worm Oroborous, Peake's idea of Gormenghast, Lud-in-the-Mist, and why these writers and the way they think are affecting my current writing projects in terms of 'natural experimentations' in form and style.
They've got up a trailer for a movie called "Moongirl". Go look at it. Keep watching past the chipper sidekick squirrel.
Notice the small things that they've put in: the sound of the metal lid of the jar as it is screwed on against the glass. The particular whap of flat leaves--as opposed to branches--in the face. The whorled fresnel lenses and paper screens in the structure of the moon.
The beautiful starry catfish--very definitively, a catfish--splashing out of the sky.
Have you ever read a victorian novel, and the character--Jo March, perhaps, or someone out of Dickens--is shocked, suprised, delighted? The phrase they utter every time is "O!" Just like that. The one exclamation point is essential, as is leaving off the h--if you put it on it's a slightly different emotion.
Sometimes it's even on its own paragraph.
When my brain sees things like that trailer, it tries to think, "this is like something I'd see in a dream, crisp and clear and utterly beautiful." Or perhaps, "Most people don't think of catfish as anything beside interesting; but they've made it be gorgeous here. Look at how its feelers flutter." Or even, "this is something I'd never have thought of, given my own brain. Thank you for letting me look at and delight in your vision; it refreshes and delights."
And after my brain is trying to talk and do all its thinking at once, these things all sift like sand and stones to the bottom and up to the top comes floating just this sense of wonder.
"O!"
--
After I clean the bathtub and put in the first load of laundry I will come back here and begin to post about what I have been thinking about all day: Dunsany, The Worm Oroborous, Peake's idea of Gormenghast, Lud-in-the-Mist, and why these writers and the way they think are affecting my current writing projects in terms of 'natural experimentations' in form and style.
