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Pixar Art Exhibit at MoMA, with Podcast
yodelingjedi writes "Pixar's CG models, paintings, pencil drawings, maquettes, color scripts, and sketches are the subject of the special exhibit Pixar: 20 Years of Animation, now being held at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC until February 6 of '06. A complete Pixar film retrospective is being shown as well.
What's especially cool is that MoMA, like some other museums, is providing a Podcast you can load into your mp3 player and listen to as you're standing beside a specific artwork. Be sure to check out MoMA's RSS feed and listen to the Exhibition Guide (entries 670 to 688.) Each mp3 file corresponds to a numbered artwork.
A link on the Pixar exhibit page, Listen to the audio program, brings up a Flash presentation with the same audio as the Podcast, but of lower quality. It does have sample images though. Perhaps MoMA should provide an enhanced Podcast? Enjoy!"
it's like a sociological phenomenon.. pixar is very "in" and "cool".. which is nice, I really like it - refreshment from disney doing old tricks for years now. It's funny to see how pixar is at moma being displayed, while they don't have that much work to display yet. However, their work is groundbraking. In Tokyo there is Ghibli museum of Studio Ghibli, which is animation studio famous for work of Hayao Miyazaki (spirited away etc..).. Hopefully, one day soon, pixar could have such a museum, or more of a display if you will, with permanent hands-on display of how their work is done, and all of their works in one place. On a sidenote, I really like podcasts, they turn me - the lazy bastard - into actually "reading" TFA :)
The only things I've seen more of than Pixar's shorts over the years is original Star Trek episodes. If you, like me, are Pixar'ed out, then detox go and watch some awesome more National Film Board of Canada films:
http://www.nfb.ca/trouverunfilm/?v=h&lg=en
WAY more material here. (anyone remember the Jumblies stamp movie! oooh that was great!)
This mis-use of podcast is what causes similarly clueless people to say things like, "Why did they need to create this word, podcast, when all it means is an http link to an mp3 file?"
A podcast is typically an audio presentation that you can subscribe to receive on a regular basis, simplified with RSS, and tools that sync the audio up to your player du jour. There wasn't a word to describe this succinctly, so "podcast" was born.
What MoMA has done is provide an audio file you can download on your audio player to explain an exhibit.
Now pass me a kleenex.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
Far more accessable -- we all have cell phones, but we don't all have ipods.
http://newmedia.walkerart.org/aoc/index.wac
A podcast is being setup, but Art On Call was there first.
-- dieman - Scott Dier
Everyone knows that the best animated short ever is Bambi Meets Godzilla. Check it out on wikipedia.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_Meets_Godzilla
http://religiousfreaks.com/I was lucky enought to attend the opening for this exhibit. I was stunned. The drawings and models are amazing. I would highly recomend that everyone make an effort to go an see it.
kiwi
(And I don't work for Pixar...)
Oh, how nice. A running commentary of what people can listen to while enjoying the exhibit. I am Deaf. What options do I have to enhance my visit to this exhibit? Will a docent hand me a well-thumbed, stained transcript?
Just another worthless feature for the masses.
It's nice to see the work of this "Pixar" guy finally getting some widespread recognition. I think the MoMA show is really going to open things up for him.
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