Let's get surreal!

 I just saw this short (6 min.) video that combines two great artists from entirely different genres' - Salvador Dali' and Walt Disney. They collaborated on this.

It's a long way from those joyful Disneyland characters...with the art by Dali'. And it actually has a pretty melancholy feel throughout, which the Dada artists could embrace. But then there's going through the sadness to finding moments of bliss, which also both these story makers would agree upon.

I was made aware of this short video by Open Culture's newsletter last week...

The sto­ry of Des­ti­no goes way back to 1946 when two very dif­fer­ent cul­tur­al icons, Walt Dis­ney and Sal­vador Dalí, decid­ed to work togeth­er on a car­toon. The film was sto­ry­board­ed by Dalí and John Hench (a Dis­ney stu­dio artist) over the course of eight months. But then, rather abrupt­ly, the project got tabled when The Walt Dis­ney Com­pa­ny ran into finan­cial prob­lems.

Now fast for­ward 53 years, to 1999. While work­ing on Fan­ta­sia 2000, Walt Dis­ney’s nephew redis­cov­ered the project and 17 sec­onds of orig­i­nal ani­ma­tion. Using this clip and the orig­i­nal sto­ry­boards, 25 ani­ma­tors brought the film to com­ple­tion and pre­miered it at The New York Film Fes­ti­val in 2003. Des­ti­no would receive an Oscar nom­i­na­tion for the Best Ani­mat­ed Short Film, among oth­er acco­lades from crit­ics.

The clip runs 6+ min­utes and fea­tures music writ­ten by Mex­i­can song­writer Arman­do Dominguez and per­formed by Dora Luz. In our archive, we also have another version that features a soundtrack by Pink Floyd.

Personally I like the Pink Flyod version (having heard it many times before)...here it is:

NPR has more on the Disney-Dalí collaboration. Listen to their audio report here.

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And a note from North Carolina following the floods...

Dominic Travertini did a drone video on a debris flow in the area of Black Mountain on Oct. 29. THis is an area I had never been to, and it's amazing to see the powerful mud flow that came down from the mountains.

He made several other videos of the area, in case you're interested. I won't post any more here though. Thanks Dominic!

Today's quote:

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. 

-Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)