Sonic!

Heh! Ah Sonic. The good old days.

I thought this flipbook was really awesome when I saw this clip. Props to the creator. The old vintage style of motion pictures kinda brings back the feeling of naive belief of magic and wonder experienced when you're a kid (well, it does for me anyway) and everyone remembers Sonic the Hedgehog!

Loopy - loop

I thought a bit about my comment on House of Stairs II about the whole "repetitive loop" but that seems to be a reoccurring theme in most of Escher's works. Like in Reptiles, Ascending and Descending, Drawing Hands, Metamorphosis III...and so many more -but just to name a few of my favourites. I do however believe the loop works better in these works than in House of Stairs II. The 'story' shall I call it works better because it's on small scale. Whereas the grandeur in House of Stairs II was, in my opinion, too ambitious and destroys the delicacy of a simple concept of a continuous cycle. In saying so, I much prefer House of Stairs I than II. The continuous loop was presented in the play on perspectives in a nice 'bite size' for the viewer without the need for the additional over the top replica in scroll. Proves the point that sometimes less is better than more.

Reptiles, 1943, MC Escher, lithograph.

Ascending and Descending, 1960, MC Escher, lithograph.

Drawing Hands, 1948, MC Escher, lithograph.

House of Stairs II

I knew there was a House of Stairs but I didn't know there was a House of Stairs II!! MC Escher was just such an obsessive guy wasn't he?

This work would have been so much more amazing if it weren't a repetitive loop. Not that it isn't an insane lithograph. It's incredible! Look at it, he uses a single source of light for the multiple dimensional planes stitched together in one drawing. ...but still the repetitive loop.

House of Stairs II, 1951,  M.C. Escher, lithograph.

You know I actually thought the little critters were cute back in the twelfth grade but now...yugh. Still extraordinary though.