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From: alberto lirio  Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 7:01 PM
To: mike@linder.com
Subject: Lindercom: muybridge

Message:

Hello
I'm a teacher in Portugal. Some years ago I made a paper after your
"http://www.linder.com/muybridge/muybridge.html". I'd like to present it to my students but it´s not available anymore... is there any chance to make it possible ?
Thank you for your time. Hope to hear from you soon.
best regards

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De: Michael Linder mike@linder.com
2 de novembro de 2008 02:44

Hi Alberto,

Sorry, but the Edward Muybridge files no longer exist -- a big data loss that destroyed much of my early web work, and no traces remain.

Thanks for remembering.

Michael

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De: Alberto Lirio
2 de novembro de 2008 03:58

Not quite:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.linder.com/muybridge/muybridge.html
still links to previous layouts !

I'd be very happy with your permission regarding the use of this material in my classes (introduction on multimedia for 12th grade students). Also, I´d like to understand why Muybrdge became the main subject of one of your "early web work"s. Thank you !

Hope to hear from you (again :)

Best Regards
A. Lírio

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De: Michael Linder <mike@linder.com>
2 de novembro de 2008 04:43

This is truly amazing, Alberto. I am in debt to you. Seeing these pages, I’d long thought lost, brings back many memories.

Please, use whatever you like. I’m delighted to share.
 

My Muybridge project was born in the very first days of the Internet in 1995. There were no HTML page composition programs and the great debate was over whether Web images should be JPG or GIF in a world where 28.8 modems were the primary source of connectivity.
The first GIF animation program had just come out and the notion of actually animating images was as exciting then as the later arrival of streaming video and Flash movies. It seemed a miracle at the time.
I’d always been interested in Muybridge’s photography for its iconic value. There was something significant to me in the gridline images of people and animals in motion that seemed a mix of poetry and science. A few years earlier, a friend had given me a book of Muybridge images and the idea of actually seeing these still sequences move once more was too intriguing to pass up.
 

I believe I was the first person to animate the images and put them on the Internet. I’d never before seen them actually move in any medium, though I’m at a loss to explain the reason why. After my site premiered, there was enormous interest in Muybridge’s work and I was deluged with email from filmmakers and advertising agencies looking for guidance on copyright issues. My research indicated all the images are now in the public domain.
To me, Eadweard Muybridge was a new media maker for his day, and I was inspired by the parallels in his innovative use of photography. It seemed a perfect echo of the thrill and excitement of the early days of the Internet. Were there lessons for us to learn from Muybridge’s work? That’s what I wanted to learn as I researched his life.
 

As new technologies came along, I applied them – just as Muybridge moved from stereopticon photography to photo journalism to panoramas and motion. The first tools that allowed stitching of panoramas allowed me to recreate what I believe would have been Muybridge’s vision from a century earlier. You’ve found that movie at http://web.archive.org/web/20010122054800/www.linder.com/muybridge/panorama/movie.html.
The wild, adventuresome live Muybridge lived was equally fascinating and I proposed a movie about his life to the U.S. public broadcasting network, PBS. They declined, but I’m still fascinated by the idea of seeing a modern recreation of Muybridge’s galloping horse experiments. Perhaps some day...
 

Hope this helps, and I am so delighted that a new generation, just opening their eyes to the wonders of imaging, will have an opportunity to be exposed to this media pioneer.

Bravo!
 

Michael
 

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