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Disney Completes Dali Animation
jbottero writes "Wired News has an interesting piece on a Salvador Dali animation coming out of Disney Studios. It seems that in 1946, Walt Disney and Dali teamed up on a short film called Destino. The film was shelved for money reason, and now, 57 years later, Disney animators has finished what Dali started. The six minute film will be shown in theaters next year before a Disney feature film. The remnants of the aborted film include 150 storyboards, drawings and paintings, which have sat for the last half-century in the Disney vaults. Notably, some of the project was modeled on the animation program Maya. An interesting quote from the article, Dali describes Walt Disney as one of America's greatest surrealists."
I recently did a project that was about Salvador Dali. What a great surrealist! Here is a link for any interested in browsing some of the pieces hosted by the Dali Museum. http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org
IANADA (I Am Not A Dali Afficionado) However, He was a pretty famous artist, known for his surrealist works. You've probably seen his stuff, think about liquid clocks... Check out more of his works at This site
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Salvador Dali was a Surrealist painter who's one painting "The Persistance of Time" is hanging over my computer right now.
One of my favorite surrealist, even though he was overplayed as it were. I also enjoy Giger and Escher also.
Check out a gallery of his works at:
http://dali.karelia.ru/html/dali.htm
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
So what happened originally you ask? Here's an excerpt from The Straight Dope:
For more related articles, here are some great links too:
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/1-30/feature
http://www.abstractdynamics.org/archives/2003/06/
http://www.animagic.hpg2.ig.com.br/destin1.htm
(This last one has images of conceptual art designs too!)
-Mr. Fusion
This month's issue has several images from the movie, along with a photo of Dali and Disney together during the collaboration.
It really was worth the hype. Disney himself (grandson of the Walt) introduced it, and was justifiably proud of it. It's being introduced to compete for an Oscar. The joke was "imagine having your animated short up against Salvador Dali and Walt Disney."
Anyway, it's a surprisingly effective melding of Dali imagery and Disney animation. The animator at Disney who had done the original work is still alive and still working at Disney, and worked to finish the movie, and the original soundtrack was restored for it.
It's short, but if there's a screening, it's worth going just to see it. There's so much detail that the video transfer will be meaningfully less.
He also made some scuplture, some music, and a deck of terot cards
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He even made a cook book. Serously.
Here: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/8013/dali/d
Pollack,Van Gogh :)
Seurat,Ummm... not sure but google for "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" and I could get it
Shakespeare
Faulkner
most likely Somebody funded by the NEA in the past 20 years
Ummm... Madonna?
Andy Warhol
???
Tolkein
Salmon Rushdie (rather apt name eh?)
I know and it's on the tip of my tongue... he did the Reichstag and some carribean islands... oh got it: Christo. Can't remember the first name, if any.
Spielburg
???
Jimi Hendrix
???
Buster Keaton?
Janis Joplin.
That was a fun quiz, and as you can tell, I didn't cheat.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
If you are a Dali fan, you MUST eventually make it to the museum in St. Petersburg, FL. There you can stare at the HUGE paintings and get sucked into their depth.
I think they have somewhere > 200 of his works in total. They have historical information on him as well as some of his sketch books and sculptures as well as pictures of him.
I liked the pictures of his pet ocelot.
The eighties book : american psycho, the author was Bret Easton Ellis The gal singing is Janis Joplin
You can see Un Chien Andalou here, enjoy!!!
Go hug some trees.
The dude who splashed paint on canvas spread on the groud.
Jackson Pollock
The dude who cut off his ear and painted sunflowers.
Vincent VanGogh
The dude who started off those dotty paintings.
The dude who made that picture of a pipe that says it isn't a pipe.
The dude who wrote Romeo & Juliet.
Shakespeare
The dude who wrote those books where he was going on and on about all the stuff he was thinking and doing and you couldn't figure out what was fact and what was fiction the grammar didn't work out anyway pretty damn boring book that was.
Faulkner
The dude who cuts animals in half and suspends them in formaldehyde.
Did Leonardo DaVinci have formaldahyde. I don't think he's right...
The gal who made an exposition out of her own dirty bed.
The dude who painted a can of soup.
Andy Worhall
The dude who composed the Ring.
No, not that other dude who wrote about the Ring.
Tolkein
The dude who wrote that book and then all those Arabs went medieval on him, only he hid.
The dude who wraps buildings up like a parcel (and his wife, too).
The dude who directed E.T.
Steven Speilberg
The gal who made those nazi films that died the other day.
The dude who poured lighter fluid over his guitar and burnt it on stage.
Jimi Hendrix
The dude who wrote the book about killing lots of people while using lots of snobby eighties brands.
Book is American Psycho, author is _________.
The dude who was in that black&white film where the front of a house falls over, but he's standing where the window comes down and there's no glass in it.
Buster Keaton
The gal who sings about wanting a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin
Pretty close, my cultured friend!
;-)
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Answers below
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Jackson Pollock
Vincent Van Gogh
Georges-Pierre Seurat
Rene (Francois Ghislain) Magritte
William Shakespear (although his existance as an historical figure is questioned, like Homer)
James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce
Damien Hirst
Tracey Emin (won the Turner prize with her soiled bed)
Andy Warhol
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (also notable for contributing to the Apocalypse Now soundtrack)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Salman Rushdie
Christo (Javacheff) (his wife is a co-wrapper, not wrappee)
Steven Spielberg
(Berta Helene Amalie) "Leni" Riefenstahl
(James Marshall) "Jimi" Hendrix
Bret Easton Ellis
Buster Keaton (indeed a great source of inspiration for "Jackie" Chan Kong-sang)
Janis Joplin
Full names are from wikipedia..
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Dali was not Spanish, he was actually Catalan, from a place called Port Lligat (Yigat) in northern Catalunya.
I've just noticed that /. doesn't seem to let you use accented characters, neither can you use the XHTML character entities, such as Ampersand+iacute;
Anyway, for those that don't know, or can't tell in /., The 'i' in Dali's name has an accent on it, which is important as it completely changes how you pronounce his name, Da-li, not Dah-lee, with the stress on the the 'li' rather than the 'Da'.
"I don't do drugs; I am drugs."
Salvador Dali
And he was right.
Turn it on, Salvador!
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
I AM SURREALISM.
As usual, he was right.
And my favorite quote of his (also my email sig):
The only difference between me
and a madman is that I am not mad.
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."