tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28810133972580874602024-09-08T23:38:05.595-07:00The Burning TheatreWrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172777358311977015noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881013397258087460.post-2562183072421199872012-04-05T09:14:00.000-07:002012-04-05T09:14:36.983-07:00#3: L'arrivée d'un train á La Ciotat (1895)There are people who like trains, and then there are people who REALLY LIKE TRAINS. Most of them are toddlers and graffiti artists.* Once upon a time, in an overgrown public park, a drunk carrying a 40 in a paper bag offered to take me to the rail yard and teach me how to tag trains in exchange for piano lessons. Then, he proceeded to scrawl my name in Sharpie on a utility room door. I shouldWrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172777358311977015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881013397258087460.post-42024222455079927242012-03-16T09:19:00.000-07:002012-03-16T09:19:05.451-07:00#2: The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)The experimental sound film featured in this post was another collaboration between William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and Thomas Edison. It was a test for Edison's new "Kinetophone", the first device that added sound to moving images. The sound for this particular film was recorded live, but Edison never really bothered to synchronize sound with film when he started to market and sell the Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172777358311977015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881013397258087460.post-91510926316572073212011-01-27T09:48:00.000-08:002011-12-23T20:05:44.400-08:00#1: Blacksmith Scene, W.K.L. Dickson (1893)Blacksmith Scene was one of the first shorts recorded by W.K.L. Dickson for the Thomas Edison Company. It's brief, but it's pretty amazing, considering the technology. I'm interested to find out more about the machines used to film (kinetograph) and view (kineteoscope) this short. I've read about them before, but I'll have to look everything up again. Here is the craziest thing, taken from a Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172777358311977015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881013397258087460.post-5643524063476651202011-01-02T00:38:00.000-08:002011-01-02T00:38:37.929-08:00Letting Go/Picking UpHappy New Year! This is a brief housekeeping post to assure myself (as I have no readers, as of yet) that I can start over again, with this blog. In the past, it lacked focus. I got too obsessed with design elements that just weren't working, so I wasn't very motivated to add content. Oh, and instantly streaming every episode of old tv series on Netflix doesn't help, either. (Seriously, thatWrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172777358311977015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2881013397258087460.post-44519454918443441982010-03-31T18:08:00.000-07:002010-03-31T21:42:14.222-07:00...Action!...and so it begins. This is the second of several new blogs that have been eating up my time over the last several days. Basically, I blame Netflix and Lists of Bests for corrupting my better judgement. Unsure of what to watch next, one day I casually stumbled upon definitive lists containing a) All of the Academy Award winners for Best Picture, b) The Criterion Collection, and c) They Shoot Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172777358311977015noreply@blogger.com0