Cartoon Physics/The Revenge of the Tangible

sadmanbarty

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Silly walks, rubber legs, extendable necks, MC Escher as cartoon, the way caterpillars move, worms, oozing, undulating, stretching, bouncing, bulging, expanding balloons, hallucinations of walls curving and rippling, clocks melting. Time-reel manipulation, sped up and slowed right down, similar manipulation of the gravity field, heavy, leaden, sunken down, loping, bouncing, floating off.

we're lucky here on dissensus. you'd have to pay him a fiver to type that up for you sitting next to the tate modern
 

sadmanbarty

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the cartoonishness is about making violence non violent (so that kids can watch without being frightened).

so if something's stretchy of rubbery or bouncy or what have you it doesn't matter if it gets hit by a cannonball.

so this music is hyper-kenetic without being violent in any realistic way.
 

sadmanbarty

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a big thing in the last 10 years is for vocal performances to have this cartoon physics quality


the "what" ad lib 47 seconds in splatters against a wall

 

luka

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Seem to remember slinkys being a simile Reynolds relies on a lot.

Something very satisfying about the different speeds and in the bend and stretch. Delicious to watch

 

version

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"Clouds, mountains, trees, people are all wiggly. Only when human beings get to working on things they build they try to make out that the world isn't really wiggly. But here we are, sitting in this room all built out of straight lines, but each one of us is as wiggly as all get-out."


(Don't watch this if you suffer from epilespy, there's a bunch of flashing lights in it.)
 
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