{"id":309,"date":"2009-08-03T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T03:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-08-03T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T03:44:06","slug":"vincent-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/vincent-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to work on animations for my installation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/tag\/dispersalreturn\/\">Dispersal\/Return<\/a>, but I just can&#8217;t concentrate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhizome.org\/\">Rhizome<\/a> fairly recently <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/editorial\/2810\">posted<\/a> a Vincent Collins animation, <i>Fantasy<\/i>, which I finally got around to watching tonite.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Era_8CuPLYc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an extremely mesmerizing video, and it&#8217;s similar in structure (objects melting into one another) to what I&#8217;m working on, so I decided to scour the internet for more about Vincent Collins. I found his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/vince_collins\">myspace<\/a>, he&#8217;s doing CGI animations now. His <i>about me<\/i> is incredible, here&#8217;s a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Computers were available, but they cost a million dollars and you need a roomful of scientists to operate them. I swear to God.<br \/>\nI went to a demonstration of one of these machines, but they knew I couldn&#8217;t afford to buy their crummy system, so they kind of ignored me.<br \/>\nThere were a couple of guys there that were phony as hell. Both of them had &#8220;Calvin Klein&#8221; embroidered on their shirts, as if it was their own goddam name, or something. One guy was the kind of a phony that has to give himself room when he talks. He kept saying he would buy two or three of these systems right away. What a goddam phony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also came across <i>It Depends on your Perspective<\/i> from <i>Sesame Street<\/i>, which was also animated by Vincent Collins.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uw4XgiNRUnA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t thought about that animation in years but when I saw it again I instantly remembered how much I&#8217;d loved it when I was a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to work on animations for my installation for Dispersal\/Return, but I just can&#8217;t concentrate. Rhizome fairly recently posted a Vincent Collins animation, Fantasy, which I finally got around to watching tonite. It&#8217;s an extremely mesmerizing video, and it&#8217;s similar in structure (objects melting into one another) to what I&#8217;m working on, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[708],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-vincent-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}