twelve years ago, a painter by the name of anders ramsell painted 12,597 aquarelle paintings of blade runner, shot by shot, of the entire film edited down to ~35 minutes. it took two years of painstaking work, all done in his spare time after work each night.
the video circled around the web for a few years, and quietly disappeared from every single site it was hosted at.
a few months ago i spent a few hours digging for it, and finally found a copy of the original file.
i’m not sure how long it will last over at IA, so enjoy it while you can. it is a true achievement. 🙏
#filmPreservation #art #painting
@vga256@dialup.cafe
There was too much work that went into this for it just to be forgotten.
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Amazing! Thanks for posting the link.@vga256@dialup.cafe top tier work, thank you
@vga256@dialup.cafe wow I’m excited to watch this! What an incredible accomplishment for one person. It reminds me of the van Gogh movie which is kind of similar but painted by way way more people. I wonder if there are any other movies made by paintings?
@vga256@dialup.cafe @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io This makes me think we’re living in a Gibson novel.
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That’s incredibly gorgeous and disorienting. Now I want to see a Stan Brakhage version.
@vga256@dialup.cafe I will torrent this for as long as reasonably possible. It’s also on my NAS now and will sync to a cloud backup by tomorrow.
@vga256@dialup.cafe Wow!!
@vga256@dialup.cafe Seeding! Thanks for sharing!
Its like being inside a dream. I loved watching this so much. ❤️
@dwarmstrong@fosstodon.org cheers! :)
@vga256@dialup.cafe As much as I love Archive.org this is the type of threatened file for which personal data hoarding was invented. Your curatorial work is appreciated!
(Yes, I consider deep-rummaging the internet to find an almost-lost file, and then publicizing its availability, to be the very quintessence of curation.)
@ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com my pleasure!
@vga256@dialup.cafe this is amazing
@vga256@dialup.cafe this is wonderful. Thank you!
@ivenson23@mas.to my pleasure.
@vga256@dialup.cafe
damn. Awesome and why people like yourself, really, any of us who care about some end of the universe, and internet archive matter.
Library of Congress is another precious resource for archival data too.
@vga256@dialup.cafe
Spectacular.
Such work!
@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org hard to imagine the commitment that went into finishing it.
@vga256@dialup.cafe
Totally. It’s awe inspiring and maybe a little crazy. But the good kind.
@vga256@dialup.cafe this is one of the big reasons I love the Internet Archive (and all contributors :blobfoxheartcute: ). They host random stuff like this, when nobody else does.
