A teaser for ‘3 Inches a Second’ (B. 1958) HI. I am David Daniels. American dimensional animator and film director, technologist, visual inventor, and the artist best known for creating StrataCut—a topographical ‘shape over time’ clay animation technique that sculpts motion directly into layers of geometry before revealing cross sections back in stop motion, one…
SAN DIEGO Born Halloween / 1958 Conversation with a little tree / 1961 – Outside the apartment, it was my first ‘self reflexive’ memory. Aware of myself and the world as temporary things, bound together in a strange moment of mutual awareness. Began Sculpting in Claytown / 1963 with Shelley and Cary – I remember…
Absolute money corrupts media, absolutely ——————————————————————————————————— 1. The Re-Civilization Event of the 21st Century. Earth has half a dozen billion glowing rectangles now filling human pockets. Each carries inside it a world of customized mind journeys, daily scroll habits, and ritual digital hypnosis. Look up. A hundred thousand satellite boxes buzz in space. A million…
Q; Why do I have a spatial web page top line listed on my Strata Cut site? In 2014 – I co-founded a convergent spatial relocalization software company YOUar.io , with Ray Di Carlo, Carlos Calica, Oliver Daniels (my son), and most importantly George Blikas – who has grown into an amazing CTO for the…
I have been reading a lot of Jean Baudrillard and Guy Du Bord recently. “Simulation and Simulacra”, and the “Society of Spectacle”, respectively. We have entered a new dimension of bread and circuses, where there (generally, for the most part) is plenty of bread, objects, things, toys, entertainment on demand, and branded experiences, reaching a…
This Stop Motion Magazine article is a good timeline and story of the history of Strata-Cut. It has some key spelling errors like ‘Alec Winter’ who should be Alex. Other spelling and missed names are partly my fault, and partly the authors. I am rambling and repeating words at times; it is largely an unedited…
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Article about David Daniels on Screen Slate!
The Crude and Chaotic Art of “Strata-Cut” Claymation
http://massappeal.com/an-interview-with-the-claymation-master-who-helped-melt-mtv-michael-jackson-and-pee-wee-herman/