Global Mechanic

Posts Tagged: I send you this cadmium red

Retrospective #6: Revving Up Classical Music

We’ve covered a bunch of different genres and media that we work in over the last few posts of the #GMretrospective – from animated commercials and community-building film projects, too retro gaming and music.
This week, I thought I’d share with you yet another kind of art Global Mechanic Media likes to gets its hands into: theatre.

I Send You This Cadmium Red

 

Last October, our art director, Bruce Alcock, was involved in an intriguing project with Daniel Brooks, one of Canada’s most renown theatre directors. Read more

The History of Colour


We came across a pretty neat webpage, or rather an entire web exhibit, entitled Pigments Through the Ages. The site gives visitors an entire history of manufacture and use of different pigments. Whether you’re a colour nerd or not, there’s lots to discover without feeling bogged down by chemistry or unexplained jargon. (I discovered what egg tempera is and the difference between violet and purple! Cool!) Read more