Earlier in 2013, I had reservations about sliding into a purely visual record of my media intake but by late summer/early autumn those reservations had completely slipped away. I published virtually nothing but screencaps and album covers during this time, focusing in the former case on several DVDs of classic animation from Warner Brothers, Disney, and other midcentury powerhouses. The wacky exaggerations, bright colors, and wide-ranging selections spun a comfortable cocoon whose visuals-first approach certainly synced up with the age of Instagram and Pinterest.
Subjects include individualized round-ups of cartoon favorites like Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop, a collection of diverse documentary subjects, a resonant quote from Carl Jung, a visual highlight from each decade (including my first rewatch of Fire Walk With Me six months before my return to Twin Peaks), and the organization of a half-year's images into a single page.
A Saturday of Classic Cartoons: 90 images from my animation viewing marathon, 10/5, my highlight from this period, extracts dozens of screenshots from a rich midcentury mine of animation.
AUGUST
More albums I listened to in mid-summer, emphasis on seventies and eighties (across quite a few different genres)
Another ten screenshots - shorts I was watching for a year-by-year "alternate Oscars" poll
A collection of cartoons from various sources
Another ten screenshots, exclusively of an early Warner Brothers character
Another ten screenshots, mixing different cartoon characters and studios
Another ten screenshots, highlighting later work from Mickey Mouse's co-creator
Another ten screenshots, brought to you by the Fleischer brothers
Another ten screenshots, bringing the icon into the (sadly) post-Code era
Another ten screenshots: the mouse in glorious monochrome
Another ten screenshots, drawing Mickey from two different collections
Another ten screenshots, with Disney in eye-popping color
Watching and screenshotting TV/webseries episodes, shorts, features, and video essays
Albums I listened to in late summer 2013
Quotes from Carl Jung, accompanied by references to 2001 and The Giver
Another ten screenshots - after many shorts, a return to feature films (all first viewings)
Another ten screenshots, including several experimental shorts
SEPTEMBER
What I posted besides screenshots in a mostly visual summer
Introducing a gallery page with all of the Watchlist screencaps in one place
Another ten screenshots, featuring a classic from each decade (including my first-ever rewatch of Fire Walk With Me)
Another ten screenshots - over half belong to Don Hertzfeldt
Another eclectic grouping of screenshots from a variety of forms
Another ten screenshots: eight recent shorts and two features all from within a decade of each other
OCTOBER
Screenshots cover a nonfiction line-up
Another ten screenshots: iconic feature films of directors from Eisenstein to Tarantino
Another ten screenshots of short films, this time veering in the opposite direction from animation
Brief Q&A about a project where students interview World War II veterans
Saturday morning cartoons extend all day long as I finished a number of animation DVDs and collected screenshots
(I covered this period on Episode 17 of my Patreon podcast)
Next: Classics & Completionism (October 2013 - February 2014)
(in which I round out my yearlong visual viewing diary by filling various gaps)
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