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A Series of Creative Breakthroughs — The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), the oldest surviving animated feature film.

Over a decade before Disney’s Snow White, German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger spent three years making this adaptation of The Arabian Nights. Using hand-cut cardboard and lead silhouettes, her team animated each frame individually.

They developed an early multiplane camera and used a wax-slicing machine to create magical transformations. Stars were pinholes of light, waves were layered tissue paper, and moonlit water was silver paper. Reiniger was also one of the first filmmakers to attempt a portrayal of openly gay lovers on screen. by @asteriaresearch

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𝔄 𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔣 ℭ𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔅𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔰 — 𝔇𝔬𝔱𝔰

Norman McLaren made a film in 1940 with no camera and no microphone.

He drew the images directly onto film with pen and ink. He drew the soundtrack the same way — marks on the optical track that, when run through a projector, produced clicks, pops, and buzzing tones.

No lens. No recording equipment. Just a hand, a film strip, and the understanding that cinema is, at its core, just light passing through marks on a surface. by @asteriaresearch

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A Series of Creative Breakthroughs — La Jetée, 1962

Chris Marker was a filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and digital artist.

He was also, in 1962, the person who made an entire science fiction film out of still photographs.

He broke the fundamental assumption of the medium itself — that cinema needed to move.

#ChrisMarker #LaJetee by @asteriaresearch

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A Series of Creative Breakthroughs –– 009: The Beosound 9000

The compact disc had already upended music. In 1996, at the peak of the format, Bang & Olufsen upended the player: instead of another black box that swallowed the disc, David Lewis stood six CDs upright behind glass, on view. Breaking the machine open and turning its mechanism into the thing you looked at.

Bang & Olufsen Beosound 9000, designed by David Lewis, 1996. Pictured: the 2024 Beosystem 9000c, a restored and recolored edition of the original.

#Inventions #Sound #CDs by @asteriaresearch

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A Series of Creative Breakthroughs –– 008: The Model B3

In 1925, at the Bauhaus, a 23-year-old Marcel Breuer looked at the tubular-steel handlebars of his new bicycle — strong, lightweight, already mass-produced — and reasoned that if the material could be bent into handlebars, it could be bent into furniture. It was the first ever piece of tubular-steel furniture.

Marcel Breuer, Model B3 chair, 1925. Manufactured by Standard-Möbel.

#Bauhaus #MarcelBreuer by @asteriaresearch

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De-age research from @artbyjah__ at @asteriaresearch by @asteriaresearch

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A Series of Creative Breakthroughs –– The Original Macintosh, Apple, 1984

Photograph from Byte, Vol. 9 No. 8 (August 1984)

The original Macintosh was designed by Jerry Manock and Terry Oyama with guidance from Steve Jobs. They designed it tall and narrow so it took up as little desk as possible, and so the screen sat at eye level. The proportions were meant to read as friendly.

The Macintosh 128K, released January 24, 1984, was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface.

#byte #apple #macintosh by @asteriaresearch

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BOOK CLUB 001 — A Primer of Visual Literacy
written by Donis A. Dondis · MIT Press, 1973

In this book, Dondis argues that seeing is a skill, not an instinct.

Her core claim is that visual communication is a language — with its own alphabet, grammar, and syntax — and developing the visual sense is something like learning to read, with the same need for training. by @asteriaresearch

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1960s RCA prototype of an LCD screen designed by George Heilmeier.

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A Series of Creative Breakthroughs –– 001: Liquid Crystals

Liquid crystals were discovered in 1888. A chemistry curiosity, a strange phase of matter that didn’t fit neatly into “solid” or “liquid.” For nearly a century, no one knew what to do with it.

Then in the 1960s, RCA looked at it differently — and saw a screen. by @asteriaresearch

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A Series of Creative Breakthroughs –– 007: The Colorado Springs Experimental Station

In 1899 Nikola Tesla built a wooden laboratory on the high plains outside Colorado Springs — chosen for its thin, dry air and violent mountain lightning — to house the largest coil he had ever made.

Inside, his “magnifying transmitter” threw twenty-two-foot bolts of man-made lightning, testing whether the earth itself could carry power to anywhere on it, without a single wire.

#power #science #tesla by @asteriaresearch

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A Series of Creative Breakthroughs –– 005: The Generator Project

The first “intelligent building”: a reconfigurable retreat of 150 mobile cubes that responded to its users — and, if left unchanged too long, got bored and proposed a new layout of its own.

Frazer also introduced the idea of an interactive physical interface: “As parts are added to the three-dimensional model the microprocessor control unit interrogates the structure to discover the present state of its configuration. A television monitor screen displays statistical data, analysis or just shows projections of the current state of the model. The tape recorder stores the image of the model for future use for further calculations and the production of working drawings.” — John Frazer

Cedric Price, 1976–79 (unbuilt). Computational systems by John & Julia Frazer.

#CedricPrice #Architecture by @asteriaresearch

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