|
Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 8, 2022 15:27:22 GMT -5
So, about week and half ago I noted that legendary Croatian comic artist 'Jules' Radilović passed away, and now I've just learned that another legend, cartoonist, animator and graphic designer Borivoj 'Bordo' Dovniković has passed at the age of 91. Dovniković, an ethnic Serb, was born in the eastern Croatian city of Osijek (relatively close to where my parents grew up), but moved to Zagreb in the late 40s to attend art school. He got his start doing editorial cartoons for newspapers but then moved on to doing fully scripted comics and, most importantly, animation. He was among a group of young animators working in Zagreb during the 1950s who really put the city on the map of international animation and their studio, Zagreb Film, became immensely popular for a time (even producing an Oscar winning animated short in 1962). Dovniković produced a number of animated short films that were featured in international film festivals and picked up a number of awards. This one, Krek, from 1968 is one of his best loved: And I really like this one ( Curiosity): All the time he was involved in animation, Dovniković was also doing graphic design for advertisements and marketing campaigns, and producing comics (for children and adults) and political cartoons - and he kept doing the latter well into the '00s. (You can see some samples of his comics work at his entry in the Lambiek Comiclopedia).
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 8, 2022 18:38:48 GMT -5
Pioneering visual effects artist and director Douglas Trumbull has passed at 79. Trumball directed Silent Running and Brainstorm, but was probably best known for his VFX work on 2001, Blade Runner, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Definitely time to break out Blade Runner again in his honor.
|
|
|
Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 8, 2022 20:38:21 GMT -5
Trumbull's decades-old practical effects still put most modern CGI to shame, as far as I'm concerned. The man was brilliantly creative and resourceful.
I rewatch 2001 every year or so, and each time I am mesmerized. This is what the future really looked like!
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2022 23:51:05 GMT -5
his miniature work on Blade Runner is STUNNING. . . remains a stellar showing to this day.
|
|
|
Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 9, 2022 17:40:28 GMT -5
Aw, man. Just saw that pioneering funk singer Betty Davis has died at the age of 77. Most of the obits I'm seeing, like any articles about her you can find online, emphasize the fact that she was married to Miles Davis for a few years in the late 1960s. That's not really the most important part of her biography (even though she apparently turned Miles onto rock/funk musicians like Hendrix and Sly Stone, which in turn influenced his music on albums like Bitches Brew). What's important is her all-too-brief solo career in the first half of the 1970s. She only recorded a few albums, but they are awesome: fun, funky, wild, and raunchy. She was considered ahead of her time in many ways and she influenced a lot of later musicians.
|
|
|
Post by impulse on Feb 9, 2022 17:46:16 GMT -5
Aw, man. Just saw that pioneering funk singer Betty Davis has died at the age of 77. Most of the obits I'm seeing, like any articles about her you can find online, emphasize the fact that she was married to Miles Davis for a few years in the late 1960s. That's not really the most important part of her biography (even though she apparently turned Miles onto rock/funk musicians like Hendrix and Sly Stone, which in turn influenced his music on albums like Bitches Brew). What's important is her all-too-brief solo career in the first half of the 1970s. She only recorded a few albums, but they are awesome: fun, funky, wild, and raunchy. She was considered ahead of her time in many ways and she influenced a lot of later musicians. Oh, man, that sucks! I discovered her several years back. Her music was great. Very funky and very dirty. Very sex-positive and pro woman for her time.
|
|
|
Post by Mister Spaceman on Feb 9, 2022 17:58:39 GMT -5
Betty Davis was amazing. Her four studio albums are all stellar from start to finish. Funk at its rawest and sexiest. She most certainly deserved to be a big star. A shame she faded so quickly into obscurity. There's a 2017 documentary on her (Betty: They Say I'm Different) that she agreed to be interviewed for but, if memory serves, she refused to appear on camera.
|
|
|
Post by commond on Feb 9, 2022 18:07:54 GMT -5
I know what I'll be listening today.
|
|
|
Post by Mister Spaceman on Feb 9, 2022 20:24:16 GMT -5
In November 2019 a local movie theater hosted a Douglas Trumbull tribute weekend and I had the privilege of being on a panel with him at this event. He was a very down-to-earth and friendly fellow. He was quite disenchanted with the business side of Hollywood but that hadn't muted his love for making films. He spoke at length about a passion project - the ultimate immersive movie-going experience - that he was developing in his Massachusetts studio. Such a shame that he couldn't see it come to fruition. Rest in peace to a true visionary.
|
|
|
Post by foxley on Feb 12, 2022 6:29:33 GMT -5
Sister Janet Mead, who had an international hit with a rock version of the Lord's Prayer in 1974, was buried today in Adelaide, having passed away of Jan. 26th.
|
|
|
Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 12, 2022 7:55:29 GMT -5
Sister Janet Mead, who had an international hit with a rock version of the Lord's Prayer in 1974, was buried today in Adelaide, having passed away of Jan. 26th. I totally remember that, I was in the first grade at the time. It always stuck me as pretty weird - if my older siblings didn't have some K-tel type compilation album with that song on it (so there was evidence of it being real), I would have thought it was something I'd dreamed as a kid.
|
|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Feb 14, 2022 8:28:14 GMT -5
Ivan Reitman, director of such classic comedies as "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes," passed away overnight. He was 75.
Cei-U! Bummer!
|
|
|
Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2022 10:59:59 GMT -5
Ivan Reitman, director of such classic comedies as "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes," passed away overnight. He was 75.
Cei-U! Bummer!
Sad news. The first half of "Stripes" (ending with the graduation from boot camp) is among the funniest movies ever.
|
|
|
Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 14, 2022 12:03:06 GMT -5
Sad news. The first half of "Stripes" (ending with the graduation from boot camp) is among the funniest movies ever. Totally agree. If they could have found a way to stretch that boot camp part over a full 90 or so minutes, it would have been a damn near perfect comedy.
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Feb 14, 2022 12:18:35 GMT -5
In a connection to our world, Ivan Reitman was also producer of Heavy Metal, which in part explains why so many SCTV members did voice work, since there were also Canadian animation groups involved. I read that he started out at CITY-TV, in Toronto, along with Dan Ackroyd.
Interestingly, his mother was a survivor of Auschwitz and his father was a resistance fighter, before they emigrated to Canada, when he was 4 years old.
Also produced a couple of David Cronenberg's ventures, in the mid-70s.
|
|