Sentences with phrase «magic lantern»
The phrase "magic lantern" refers to a type of early projector used to display pictures or slides on a screen. It is an old-fashioned device that uses a light source, a lens, and slides to create visual projections. Full definition
It is not lost on Ndalianis that cinematic precursors of phantasmagorical magic lantern shows often shared the same exhibitive and commercial space with the sensorial fairground experience more generally.
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Made by skilled artisans, these objects range from beautifully illustrated books to papier - mâché anatomical models, exquisite magic lantern slides, taxidermied animals and bisected human skulls.
In 1958, The New York Times wrote of their «gossamer lightness» and the way «the circular and oval shapes seem like magic lanterns, one within the other.»
It's the end of another exciting visit to the digital fabrication laboratory for Year 7 students at Melbourne's Lauriston Girls» School as they work with US educator and «tinkerer in residence» Jaymes Dec to design and make magic lanterns.
In 2001, he designed the Maison Hermes store in Ginza, Tokyo in the design of a traditional Japanese magic lantern.
Ceramics and Pop Art sit in these pages alongside magic lanterns, demarcating the early origins of cinema, before moving on to an exploration of new technologies.
The week's reviews: art in lights in Times Square; magic lanterns at the Whitechapel Gallery; and an epiphany of sorts at the Sandham Memorial Chapel
Long before blockbuster art exhibitions, crowds were wowed by these traveling shows, in which stories were performed with magic lanterns and rear projections that created dancing shadows and frightening melodramatic effects.
The works evoke the sensations one might have experienced in a 19th century cabinet of curiosities or magic lantern show.
W. Butcher & Sons, Alice in Wonderland, London, 1905 - 1908, Magic lantern slides issued in the Primus junior lecturers» series, number 778d.
He is sitting in the dark rubbing it like a magic lantern and asking GOD for just one more win over Romney.
While waiting for the show to start, you can watch a «Victorian» astronomer give a magic lantern show of findings in astronomy in the year 1880 and, if there is time, take a stroll into the adjoining Space and Time galleries.
Gas batteries also run the magic lanterns that provide entertainment for middle - class families every evening after dinner.
«Bring back the magic lantern,» mutters one respected scientist as a cherished slide reaches escape velocity as it flies across the audience, ricocheting off several elderly members of staff before finally embedding itself in the guest speaker's dentures.
Nalluri echoes the magic lantern shows Dickens» father enchanted him with as a child in the glowing colors of wintry London.
Jack O» Lantern is an ex-Global Guardians member turned Justice League Europe villain, armed with an Irish brogue and a magic lantern.
As if he'd rubbed a magic lantern, his wish was granted.
Contemporary teens Sunni and Blaise return in this third series installment to Scotland's Blackhope Tower, where they are pulled back in time through a magic lantern to the dangerous world created by Renaissance artist and sorcerer Fausto Corvo.
«A magic lantern and a switch of store - bought hair.»
You may be pretty anxious about this project; you may be dreading it; you may just wish you could rub a magic lantern and have one appear.
☞ Founded in 2015, Lumo Amuzo is the indie publishing label of Montreal game maker P. D. Warne ☞ Creator of the Larklamp Game Lantern — a magic lantern game system for playing tabletop games made of shadows ☞ Before Lumo Amuzo, Warne made videogames for fifteen years with Lucas, Double Fine, Hololabs, and Ubisoft studios
In the end Zelda used the magic lantern to expose Ganon to the light, weakening him, and then the Wand of Gamelon to bind him in chains and reseal him into the Book of Koridai.
Always rooted in the medium of film, Tony Oursler conjures sculptural and immersive experiences using technologies that hark back to magic lanterns, Victorian light shows, camera obscura and auratic parlour tricks, but that also look forward to the fully networked, digitally assisted future of image and identity production.
In the main show we have nine hundred items: books, comics, film clips, props, globes from the nineteenth century, magic lanterns... So precious items, pop items and also artist's projects: Dara Birnbaum, Pierre - Jean Giloux, Larissa Sansour, Isaac Julien, Conrad Shawcross.
The effect is as though the paintings were of stained glass, or were magic lantern slides, and it takes a moment to realise that they aren't somehow backlit.
A 2006 Hunter MFA grad, Sampson lives in Brooklyn and thinks about things like 19th century phantasmagorical use of color, the psychology of the shadow, magic lantern slides, Donald Judd's use of translucency, and Paul Scheerbart's essays.
Inspired by early cinematography, magic lanterns, and 18th century...