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Broad.Cat 2011 Barcelona, Spain

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:43:35 GMT

"Hi Mich, and all you fellow artists out there; I welcome you" - Pablo opened with this greetings, during his first SKYPE interview at the Broad.Cat 2011 festival, hosted by Mich Micenmacher, Director at the festival.

Pablo and I were invited to attend and participate in the lecture series called "Beyond The Screen", and amazing presentation of past and present, art-on-screen lectures that strive to not only entertain, but motivate, influence and educate their audience (1st hand), regarding the artistry of those auteurs of communications and motion graphics.

When cultures are brought together to experience a highly advanced look at all the aspects of communications art, the experience can actually be fun. The event took place at the "Auditori Imagina TV" Theater, a high-tech facility built to answer the demand for multi-media entertainment; the most advanced in Barcelona, I'm told by insiders. My sense of it is that I could have requested an ISDN feed to the theater, however we used SKYPE and piped in into their booth. That being stated, I'll direct your attention to the fact that they had interpreters feeding into each seat via headsets. I'm sure there was a lot more going on there then I was aware of. None the less, an amazing time we had interacting with the audience, which was the goal of the conference; to interact.

The audience was shy and probably filled with some of Spain's leading artists who attend the festival every year. Pablo and I are always humbled by those artists who devote such time to the love of their craft.

At the start of the conference, Pablo and I could see and hear the theater filling up. It was quite exciting to know that we were about to be transported to Barcelona where Pablo would be describing the projects that he worked on.

We watched "A Clockwork Orange" Trailer along with several projects such as Thomas Crown Affair" Polo Sequence and the somewhat controversial trailer from the movie "Zardoz" staring Sean Connery, but what the audience really wanted to know more about was Pablo, the artist; what his influences are and his process for creating.

Here is the series of commercials that Pablo spoke to the audience about. As promised, Here are some of the projects that Pablo spoke of during the conference.

There is a slide show of the event from our perspective. If you have any photos from your perspective, please send them to me and I'll post them here.

See you soon everybody! Peace and love from Pablo and his family.

BEECHNUT FRUIT SOURS MULTIPLE SCREEN SPOT - CLIO AWARD 1965

JAMBOREE PROMOTIONAL SPOT -MUSIC BY PABLO'S LONG TIME FRIEND, RANDY WESTON - ONE OF THE GREATEST ETHNO-JAZZ PIANISTS TODAY.

OH DAD, POOR DAD - TRAILER VERY FUNNY TRAILER SHOWING PABLO'S CREATIVE EDITING STYLE, BOTH PICTURE AND SOUND USED TO PUNCH EACH GAG.

video submitted by: angycabuti who is on Vimeo

Pablo Ferro Conference at Broad.cat 2011 from BaseMOTION on Vimeo.

PABLO FERRO IN HOUSTON -

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:34:09 GMT

I'm horribly remiss in my posting duties. Especially in light of the fact that Houston happened 2.5 weeks ago. In either case, what we experienced there was an amazing revelation to the fact that the "Art Community" is alive and well. It lives within the academic structure of museums and universities, with great contributions from private sector.

Houston Art center, including the great MENIL gallery and the Museum of Fine Art is just the start of an amazing infrastructure of culture, deeply rooted in traditional art and old Texas wealth. What an amazing testament to the notion of romantic American history. It is the best kept secret in Texas, and I would venture to say that many consumers out there are not aware of this amazing jewel, available to the general public to visit and fall in love with.

The event was planned by Fernando Brave, of Brave Architecture (in Houston), along with Rice Design Alliance and the AIGA. We must thank A number of people for very specific things that happened during the show. I'll do this in my next posting regarding this article.

Untill then,

Allen

NBC PEACOCK 1959 - ANIMATED BY PABLO FERRO

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:58:06 GMT

NBC PEACOCK - ANIMATED BY PABLO DURING THE LATE 50'S

This is the project that Pablo animated for "Elektra" studios. Pablo states that he actually picked colors and shot it as well. He was not the designer though, so he's not taking credit for that, but who wouldn't want to be creatively attached to such a beautiful design as this?

BURLINGTON MILLS - ANIMATED USING "SCRATCH-OFF " ANIMATION

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:31:58 GMT

So, I'm sitting with my father, having our morning coffee, and we get to talking about "scratch-off" animation; a technique used in classic frame-animation where one numbered and taped the cell with black opaque tape and shot each frame as you pulled the tape of to reveal the full cell. That's how Burlington was created.

Note: This specific project is shot in reverse in order to reveal the pattern as it stitches onto the frame.

Here is a copy of the story board that Pablo made, showing the process that I will explain later on in this article.

And Here is the still of the full frame.