5-15-08 Dave Fischer – The Thin Wax Line
Posted by gavortnik on May 15, 2008
Today’s post is yet another branch-off from my Monkey Man post two days ago. I got interested about the guy who did the Melt-Banana video for Monkey Man, Dave Fischer at the Center for Computational Aesthetics, which I suspect consists primarily of Dave Fischer.
The multi-faceted, multi-talented Fischer has made, or rather programmed, a number of movies, including a few other Melt-Banana videos. I say programmed because, as Fischer claims on his site: “Everything here was done in C and hand-coded postscript. No interactive software was used except vi and bash. All processing was done on ‘obsolete’ gear various companies & universities had thrown away.”
That includes this rather intriguing short, described by Fischer as “Anti-human propaganda made by bees” and with an appropriately alien, moaning (or buzzing?) soundtrack by Irene Moon (blog here). Titled internally as “EDUCATION ON HUMANS by supreme royal of BEE and examples from camera”, it goes by the more conventional (if you can call it that) name of The Thin Wax Line.
The rest of Fischer’s movies, including a cleaner copy of The Thin Wax Line, are available here or on his YouTube channel. I think you’ll be hearing more about him on this blog in the future.
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[...] it’s time to revisit the portfolio of Dave Fischer. You may remember him on this blog for his singular headscratching short The Thin Wax Line or, more apropos to today’s post, his singular music video for Melt-Banana’s cover of [...]