Blog stuff and film stuff, today.
It remains to be seen if it is actually Alice-related, but the Penguin books blog hints that that they will “soon be embarking on a experiment in storytelling.” The question as yet unanswered is “What has a grin and six tales?” To see a lovely picture of a six-tailed Cheshire Cat and to be notified when more information is released in March (though isn’t it March already?), visit penguin.co.uk.
According to science fiction author Rudy Rucker’s blog entry of February 6 (www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/02/06/carrollian-syllogisms/) [Yes, I know it’s a month old, I’m still catching up], he is contributing an interview for an upcoming volume of articles entitled The Spaces of Wonderland. He also includes some silly syllogisms inspired by Carroll, a nice link to the LCSNA website, photos of Moffett Field (Sunnyvale, CA), and a sketch of a “beanstalk bridge to infinity” featured in his upcoming novel.
Here is a short but pointed animation of a Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Owl and the Panther,” by animator and video artist Nick Fox-Gieg:
www.videosift.com/video/Peace-Through-Strength-Nick-Fox-Gieg.
From LCS member George Wallace is another short film made with his students: “We read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and then did the filming out in the countryside of Nagano last September. It is hardly Orson Welles but I thought perhaps you might be interested to see some Japanese university students’ interpretation of the Carroll story.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfq6Q7LianI
