Tales From The Riverbank 2 - Two Ways of Seeing a River
Tales From The Riverbank 2 – Two Ways of Seeing a River
Seascapes haven’t been the only marine subject this summer – as I said in the first of the riverbank posts, I have gone back to drawing the River Thames more since the Big Burn Out after Lockdown 1 where it was the only nearest subject I had, and it became stifling as much as I tried to vary it. Boats have been a frequent subject in my work included messing around with boats and Kingston Regatta,…
One of the most amazing things about poetry is its seemingly infinite capacity for interpretation. To illustrate that fact, TED-Ed launched a great poetic experiment. We gave one Walt Whitman poem to three of our in-house animators, and asked them to interpret it using three different styles of animation. They were each given a recording of the text to work from, which was supplied by three local poets who also interpreted the text using their voices. The result? A stunning video that breathes three very different lives into Walt Whitman’s timeless poem, “A Noiseless Patient Spider.”
