This short animated film is Peter and Joan Foldes' second and last film together. Its bleak subject - the end of the world caused by a nuclear apocalypse - reflects a widespread preoccupation in 50s Britain which would soon lead to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
Apocalyptic, if more fundamentalist, are the cartoons of the Hungarians Joan and Peter Foldes, Animated Genesis and A Short Vision. The latter film, inspired by the irritatingly righteous, albeit naggingly plausible, spirit of C.N.D., insists, with its strong sculptural visuals, pointedly reminiscent of Henry Moore's wartime sketches of Londoners sleeping safely in tube shelters during the blitz, on making us feel, in skin and sinew, the unleashing of an atomic device that melts the bone under the face and snuffs the last spark of life from a blackened, superfluous, and shameful planet. The cartoon film, too, can be a moral sledgehammer.
We all love some Ghostface Miguel going after reader , BUT how about Ghostface Miguel and ghostface Peter going reader like how Stu and billy did in the first scream movie, but not to kill her just because they want her to be theirs and only theirs.
Finally finished my portrait of the twelfth doctor :D
This piece was largely inspired by that one post with the 9th doctor absolutely slaying in the background while rose watches the destruction of (earth?).
I actually enjoyed this piece so much, I'm going to have a little print made for myself. If anyone else would like one let me know :D
tell you what tho if there's one thing about this episode that nails it for me, it's exactly that sense of having someone's number. there's the way that juno used that phrase himself obv, but like The Thing Is that Juno's been able to see right through him from literally day one. both that he wasn't who he said he was but also that there was enough of something real to get hung up on and haunted by the thought of him for all that time after. and how the most frustrating part of Train From Nowhere is that so much of the real Peter Nureyev is so close to the surface, practically begging Juno to See Him again, and Juno's too wrapped up in his own insecurities and unwillingness to look.
heeheehoohoo and now the turns have tabled and it's like. oh he's trying to do the stone cold haughty thing that lasted all of twenty-four goddamn hours in Man In Glass and now this is after they've had a whole year together. like ofcourse he's physically incapable of saying those words without idk blacking the fuck out or something (which. I am EATING that WiTH mY MOUTh HE CAN'T GIVE UP HOPE. THE THING THAT TIES HIM DOWN IS ALSO GONNA BE HIS SAVING GRACE) and that whole scene makes it clear that it obviously doesn't matter what other move he tries to pull because Juno's come far enough in his own right to have conviction in that knowledge. disappearing again is pretty much all he's got.
Accordion to zither : a musical ABC / Peter & Donna Thomas.
This is part of a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!
Today's book is another ABC- but a very musical one this time. It features both the instruments, as well as a colorful abstract letter for each one. It includes both popular instruments such as violins and flutes, as well as less common ones such as washboards and dulcimers.
Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.
Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at UIowa here.
--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student
^When discussing accordions, you can't not include Weird Al Yankovic.^