Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation
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Book Yet!, October 20, 2011
By Mark Malamud - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation
(Hardcover)
I admit I was a bit nervous about yet another ILM book, but I have
nothing but praise for this one. In addition to a fabulous collection
of images (de rigeur for any book of this sort), this is the first ILM
book I've seen that is also chock-full of in-depth quotations from the
people who actually worked on its various SFX projects throughout the
years. In fact, this book is essentially built around the words of
people from the very top all the way down to those who were hands-on
with the tiniest details of any production. My ***FAVORITE*** ILM book
to date. Highly recommended!
More About the Author
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Biography
Pamela Glintenkamp is an award-winning documentary media producer. The
subjects her films have explored include Frank Lloyd Wright, Vermeer,
the photography and politics of Tina Modotti and the architecture of
Frank Gehry. Her work has been presented at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the National Gallery, and on public television. Glintenkamp has
also been a media consultant to the Stanley Kubrick Archive in
London.
Ms. Glintenkamp's background includes academic training in art and
design history, practical experience in museum education, and over 10
years of experience in the film and television industry in Hollywood.
For over two decades, she has acted as producer/writer/director in the
creation of linear and interactive media for arts/cultural
organizations.
One of her most recent production has been a film commissioned by the
National Gallery, Washington on Vermeer's painting 'A Lady Writing'.
Glintenkamp was one of only four filmmakers chosen to produce short
evocative films for an innovative series 'Focus on Four Masterworks'.
Each filmmaker was asked to produce a program without words, which
would inspire further inquiry into a particular painting. The Vermeer
film was shown continually in the Gallery's theater for the month of
August, 2010, and is now featured on the Gallery's Artbabble space at:
www.artbabble.org/video/ngadc/vermeer-light-delft.
Glintenkamp was responsible for conceptualizing and producing 'The Art
Spot', a short program designed to bring the fine arts into children's
daily lives and aid in the development of creative thinking. The
project was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and
commissioned by the Independent Television Service as part of its
special children's initiative. The spot aired on PBS nationally for
over 3 years and was selected to be part of an in-classroom media
literacy program.
Glintenkamp produced the audio tour for the Frank Gehry-designed Walt
Disney Concert Hall. For this project, Glintenkamp was responsible for
interviewing Gehry, Diane Disney Miller (daughter of Walt Disney),
conductor / composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, and directing Tony-Award
winning actor John Lithgow who narrated the program. The tour was
launched at the time of the opening of the Hall in 2003, and since
that time has been enjoyed by over 100,000 visitors.
In 2008, Glintenkamp was engaged as a media consultant to the Stanley
Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts, London. She was responsible
for conceptualizing a website / online presence for the Archive, as
well as media enhancements for a traveling exhibition and the
development of an oral history archive.
In 2011 Glintenkamp produced a 20-minute exhibition video and five web
video presentations documenting the conservation of the painting
'Gallery of the Louvre' by Samuel F.B. Morse (the inventor of the
Morse code). The painting is the cornerstone of the collection of the
Terra Foundation for American Art. The video programs will travel with
the painting on a multi-year post-conservation tour, beginning with a
one-year exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington.
Glintenkamp received a Bachelor of Arts degree in the History of Art,
Magna Cum Laude from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and
was a Fulbright Scholar in the History of Design at the Victoria and
Albert Museum in London.
Book Description
Publication Date: November 1, 2011
Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is an extensively
illustrated oral history of the multiple-Academy-Award®-winning visual
effects company founded by George Lucas in 1975. Its tale begins with
a small team of craftspeople, engineers, and artists who pioneered
analog effects that had never before been attempted or realized on the
screen for Star Wars. Industrial Light & Magic continues their story
through the effects facility’s mind-bending work, over the following
three decades, on more than three hundred films—from optical printing
to the digital and computer-generated-effects era. A behind-the-scenes
record of the state-of-the-art innovations that have driven
moviemaking magic, the book features candid stories from the
filmmakers, artists, and technicians who were there, breaking barriers
and changing the history of cinema with their early work on cultural
landmarks, such as the Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, E.T.,
Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park.
Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation is the first and only
book to focus on the company’s work during the last sixteen years,
detailing its creative and technological innovations on dozens of
blockbuster films. Through firsthand accounts of the problem solving
that has pushed the art form of visual effects to its limits and
created visual experiences that could only have been dreamed of in the
past, the book features extensive commentary by George Lucas, Dennis
Muren, John Knoll, Scott Farrar, Roger Guyett, Ben Snow, Rob Coleman,
Lorne Peterson, and many others. Their accounts are supplemented by
more than 400 images from many of ILM’s breakthrough movies, such as
the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Transformers, Iron Man, and the
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, offering a crash course on the most
groundbreaking visual effects created today.
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