Thad Povey Response 1/14/08

I found the sparse drum beat really appropiate music for the rhythmic editing and movement of the film. I especially enjoyed the blending of geometric shapes and lines with the filmed footage. The first shot of the man with the blue background and white cloudlike lines looked really cool, almost cartoon-like but also part real footage. The movement of the shapes did get dizzying , due in part, to the quick tempo mjazz drum beat, but it balanced that frantic energy with calmer moments of filmed footage (like the hands holding the parrots). Some of the effects from scratching the film and drawing on it looked very interesting, especially how the outlines were drawn on around a man in one part. I am also curious about painting on film because I found a lot of that very visually captivating. The moving paintings created very cool animations and vibrant changes of color. I also liked when there were close-up shots of numbers and comic book pictures and how it created animation from originally still images by chaging the speed and by only using select parts and pieces to almost create new compositions. Pretty cool stuff.