A Whole New World

This weekend I went to ACMI Gallery after watching a kids 3D movie, Monster in Paris. Being a mentor in RMIT foundation studies mentoring program, I had to stick with this movie. But on the plus side, my fellow mentors and I get to discover the history of motion pictures in the exhibition. I’ve found the huge transparent “first” lucite television interesting, the first video game with that simplistic tennis simulator appealing and how we’ve managed to have the Thomas Edison peepholes at some point in history is somewhat outlandish. Though what had hauled me the most is the arrival of film, while observing how the invention of colour TV greatly impact film industries and the cinema. Films have been evolving as a result of the constant discoveries of past filmmakers and the invention of technologies. Like the Lumière brothers who invented a new photographic technology to project films into screen, George Méliès discovered yet another cinematic technique of special effects, adding significance to the film productions. Speaking of projections I did a mini abstract, black and white video using one of the exhibits just to see how cool it looks.

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