April 15, 2008 by coye
so tracey neal sent me a link to this article, about the worst outfit in the international male catalog, which in turn sparked my memory about my fave online zine from back in the day. Blair Mag, this site is so awesome, gay & campy & freaking hysterical!!!!
browsing thru their archives, (they only had like 5-6 issues), my fave features are Gay or Eurotrash, Vanity vs. Appollonia, Puppet Fight, the list goes on & on. sadly, the site has not been updated in ages, but luckily, the site still stands!
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April 7, 2008 by jef
Most people probably know Fantavision as a weird PS2 game, but nerds will know it as one of the first (if not the first) consumer computer animation programs for the Apple ][e. It was a bitch to use and you had about 6 colors at your disposal. But it did have rudimentary tweening and a timeline of sorts. I was pleased to run across this amazing video of an Aeriae music video made with Fantavision. The transitions, all of the scene stitching, and some of the major frame movement were done with Final Cut but still, each animation taken separately, it is a gorgeous feat, all done by Wade Clarke on an emulated Apple IIgs on an iMac G5. Wade said it took him 4 months in his spare time to produce the video. It had to be a ton of planning and hours of management of very tiny files. Bless you Wade!
Watch the video and then visit Wade’s making of AMay photo tour.
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