What Has Been Going On While I Blogged Not Neither Did I Sleep:

The ASIFA Comic Con pages have just been updated including a map of the booth location.

Eric Goldberg has been added to the Saturday ASIFA State of the Animation industry panel. Still looking for animators to fill time slots over the weekend.



ASIFA at Comic Con

A lot of stuff has been going on during the time I have been doing a rewrite on my eBook Animation on a $how$tring. Got all the pages into Acrobat. Still need to do all the linkage and interactive indexes. I need to switch over to writing syllabi tomorrow.

Did label art and final notes on the Evening With interview DVD today. Eric Graf is doing a great job. Got the box art back yesterday.




An email from Tom Sito today. Good news, he is back Blogging with a new site. I have missed his blog.

Subject: Tom Sito website

Dear Larry,
Hello from hot and amazingly muggy Taipei. I hope you are coping with all the stress of planning the Comicon presentations. I'm not sure if I told you, but I am here directing a 3D short
for their National Museum. Anywho, I just wanted to let you know that I changed my blogg address to my new website, http://www.blogger.com/www.ThomasSito.com. For July 5th I got up in the middle of the night to write a reminiscence of Raggedy Ann & Andy. You might like it.

Hope all is well. Keep cool.
-Tom

This one came in a couple three days/daze ago: Finally, an easy place to get Fischinger.

Subject: News item: NEW Oskar Fischinger DVD release

OSKAR FISCHINGER: TEN FILMS DVD



Center for Visual Music announces the first DVD in a series: Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films. This long-awaited DVD contains ten of Fischinger`s classic animated Visual Music films including:

Allegretto
Motion Painting No. 1
Study nr. 6
Kreise
Spiritual
Constructions
Walking from Munich to Berlin
and more.

Special Features include home movie footage of Oskar and Elfriede Fischinger in Berlin c. 1931, never-released early animation experiments and tests, a selection of photographs and paintings by Fischinger, Film Notes by Fischinger and a Biography. The DVD features high definition digital transfers,
digitally remastered audio, and many preserved films. NTSC, region-free. $30, private home use. Produced by Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles. Ordering and other info is at:
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/DVD.htm

If you love animation, or modern art, or computer graphics, consider it a must.

- Leonard Maltin (reviewed on his Video View syndicated radio show June 28)

Decades before computer graphics, before music videos, even before Fantasia (the 1940 version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), master of absolute or nonobjective filmmaking. He was cinema`s Kandinsky, an animator who, beginning in the 1920`s in Germany, created exquisite visual music using geometric patterns and shapes choreographed tightly to classical music and jazz.

- John Canemaker (New York Times)

CONTACT:
Center for Visual Music
Los Angeles
213-683-1514
www.centerforvisualmusic.org

Not sure what I can add after what Leonard and John said but me too. It
is a must.  ¶ 10:34 PM