Blog post 'retro cartoons'
retro cartoons
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somthing in my head space clicked yesterday, i remembered the existance of a cartoon called 'Dreamstone' which was one of the two most formative media nuggets in my life, i had two videos of dreamstone, both of which had warn to nout be the time i was 10, so i was delighted to find a sizeable chunk of it available on you tube. Now my pritty hard-line stance agenst piracy remains in place, but rare / overpriced / hard to find stuff is pritty much fair game (which i have just lost).
Now previous pokes at the nostalga beast have usually been disappointing, quite a lot of the material from this time involves the same plott modulated slightly every week, and though overbaring plott archs are mostly missing from both of the cartoons im waffeling about this morning dreamstone did gradually reveal its back-story through episodes lie 'day-dreem bubble'
To look at dreamstone in isolation: its super high fantisey. the gandalf-style wizzard character is wonderfully verbose ocasionally using compound words which dont actually exist, i think that rubbed of on me. It also introduced me to complex multi dimentional shapes. the dream-makers abode is a wonderfull example of a multi-planer intra-spacial meta-scaler place, one dimentional doors, portholes, and their wonderfull fusiion to create a totally magical place where the imigination can shape reality. The apex of this was my memory of the rubbihly named 'planet dreamstone' no photos of this exist however its beautiful and misterious cosmic geometry was probably the setting of my initial and strongest reaction to art.
Finally, turns out that the LSO did the sound-track, and you can tell, its ultra-epic
i think if i ever end up being a parent, i would like my children to watch this series, it provides a real and physical link to the section of the brain which cold science has turned off. Now days people are encouraged to sneer at the magical, dismiss it as childish. Dreamstone revels in showing us what this logical and cold approach removes from our life, even an adult must supress a sence of wonder at the beautifully vivid world expressed in this show. I dont know if it has a moral as such. i think it taught me to never loose the ability to be struck with wonder. if a voice says 'thats not possible, how childish!' it should be silenced.
next time i have a few minutes free im gonna talk about Starcom
The other formative seriese
Now previous pokes at the nostalga beast have usually been disappointing, quite a lot of the material from this time involves the same plott modulated slightly every week, and though overbaring plott archs are mostly missing from both of the cartoons im waffeling about this morning dreamstone did gradually reveal its back-story through episodes lie 'day-dreem bubble'
To look at dreamstone in isolation: its super high fantisey. the gandalf-style wizzard character is wonderfully verbose ocasionally using compound words which dont actually exist, i think that rubbed of on me. It also introduced me to complex multi dimentional shapes. the dream-makers abode is a wonderfull example of a multi-planer intra-spacial meta-scaler place, one dimentional doors, portholes, and their wonderfull fusiion to create a totally magical place where the imigination can shape reality. The apex of this was my memory of the rubbihly named 'planet dreamstone' no photos of this exist however its beautiful and misterious cosmic geometry was probably the setting of my initial and strongest reaction to art.
Finally, turns out that the LSO did the sound-track, and you can tell, its ultra-epic
i think if i ever end up being a parent, i would like my children to watch this series, it provides a real and physical link to the section of the brain which cold science has turned off. Now days people are encouraged to sneer at the magical, dismiss it as childish. Dreamstone revels in showing us what this logical and cold approach removes from our life, even an adult must supress a sence of wonder at the beautifully vivid world expressed in this show. I dont know if it has a moral as such. i think it taught me to never loose the ability to be struck with wonder. if a voice says 'thats not possible, how childish!' it should be silenced.
next time i have a few minutes free im gonna talk about Starcom
The other formative seriese
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