Commentary &Photos 10 May 2009 08:24 am
Cherry Blossom Festival
Photographed by Steven Fisher.
Where do all the cherry blossoms go when Mother Nature is tired of them? You guessed it.
We’ve had about ten days of drenching rain and thuderstorms that has brought New York into a soggy depression. It’s exhausting. The NYYankees had to leave town to be able to play a dry game. Oddly enough, they went to humid Baltimore which was, at least, less damp.
We’re looking forward to a day of sunshine and dryness, as was predicted by the weatherguys for today.
How do you depict the contemptuous disregard for the beauty of cherry blossoms in animation? It sounds like it might be a complicated effect scene. There’s something about animation that doesn’t allow you to have the layers of subtlety that a live, still photo can offer. Perhaps the only way would be to use painting to get the point across, abstract painting. It would probably have to be an expressionist image.
If you wanted to do it in cgi, you’d have to do a photorealistic version which would be pointless and souless. You’d have to find some abstract way to represent things other than with little doll images. Perhaps that could be a challenge that no one would take up.
I know, my vision is biased and limited. It’s all those molting cherry blossoms.
Another great picture by Steven Fisher.
on 10 May 2009 at 4:04 pm 1.Kellie Strøm said …
The last two photos in this recent post by Mick Hartley show drifts of fallen blossom in London streets:
http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2009/04/to-borough-market.html
on 10 May 2009 at 8:00 pm 2.Chelsea Kopacsi said …
Oh.. I’m sure they’ve done soemthing similar in an animation somewhere. We just haven’t found it yet lol.. none the less fab photos. I’ve always loved cherry blossoms myself.