I used to see Ryan around downtown Toronto. Met him in Kensington Market and he asked me if i'd heard of Ryan Larkin. I said that I had and that I loved Walking and Syrinx, which i had seen in multimedia class in high school ( i went to a high school with a media arts program and it's own radio station, Stephen Leacock ) and that they had influenced me to take the path of the artist/musician. (i've done a lot of busking in my day and written music for theatre and dance performances also) He said, "I'm Ryan Larkin". I didn't believe him at the time because i didn't realize Ryan had fallen from grace and this guy was pretty scrawny and derelict and had chapped lips and was overall not too appealing, a street guy. Years later i was playing with a bunch of guys in a band called The Subtonic Monks and one of the percussionists was Chris Landreth, who worked for Alias at the time and helped to develop their Maya software. I did a video interview with Chris about his animations with Phil Pendry from the CBC, for a show we were working on called Studio Scan. This was before the release of the animated short, Ryan, which Chris was working on at the time of the interview. Chris went on to produce some amazing animations, one of them is about Ryan Larkin's story, it's called Ryan, and he won an academy award for it. His other two that i saw, The End and Bingo the Clown are good too. Not sure what he's up to lately but will look into it. I think my fav Ryan Larkin short is the first one i saw, Walking. I wish i had believed him when he told me he was Ryan Larkin but i guess i was not fully present in that moment. There is another story about when i met the two south park guys, Trey and Matt, at the same cafe where i had met Ryan, or that same hood anyway, near that Cafe and that was BEFORE South Park was even a thing. I was teaching computer graphics and design arts at a local university and they asked me if i knew Adobe After Effects because they wanted to learn how to use it. That's another story however...
Mr. Larkin was a comet. The best freehand animator that ever lived. I still wonder why genius is so often tied to mental illness...l have dealt with that question too often with people in my own life.
This posting is a fine example of what happened to TH-cam. When it was posted it has gotten nothing but positive comments. I've seen similar neglected clips. Some Russian wanders in two years ago and leaves an unnecessarily nasty, unjustified, and uncultured attack on the piece. Let this obvious matter speak for itself for the ugliness that invaded this site and others like it.
Jon and Dick were my neighbors in San Francisco before we all moved north, they to Canada. Jon taught me to play guitar and introduced me to Merle Travis and Doc Watson. Talk about a life changer. I hope they are alive and well. All my best to them and thanks for the great animated film.
Worst film I saw ever. Something on the crossing of getting into psychosis, taking acid and dissociating at the same time. Had to take a break from my chores for an hour to get back in touch with reality. Same goes to my wife. I don't understand how someone can “like it” or how this can be considered art. This is just a guy drawing his schizophrenic madness.
I think the film is trying to reflect the improvisational side of street music, the way ideas from the performer's head transition into another. It doesn't really have any plot or anything, just constantly-changing ideas and pictures. If you don't really like it then that's fine by me but that's just what I see the film to be.
Ryan's work is brilliant, but I hate what digitization does to it, it makes what was supposed to be fluid and beautiful, chunky and disconnected. RPG. 🚯☢
The buskers who inspired and scored Street Musique are Rick Scott and Dick Tarnoff who you see in the opening scene. This was Rick's first professional dulcimer gig in a career that has spanned almost 50 years.
I first saw this in 1973; I've seen it hundreds of times, I own a DVD copy (legit), and I never tire of it. Today it's as fresh - and refreshing - as it was the first time. Thank you, Mr. Larkin, and may you and peace find each other.
I see so much of myself in Ryan. A fascination with street performers, people without an agenda, noticing the subtle movements of life. I pray for anyone else out there, to anyone who thinks like me, that things work out for you. It's easy to be pessimistic, but please don't give up hope. For the three of us: you, me, and Ryan.
Apparently he worked freehand, by flipping from a finished drawing while producing the next one, alone, at an astonishing rate (obviously). The "Spare Change" film seems to be a product of Rotoscope drawing along with previously drawn series. Also genius regardless.
I'd love to have met Mr Ryan Larkin in person... He was such a great person as creator of these wonderful animations and characters from the fantastic trips.
John Whitney is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of computer animation. Throughout the 1950s, the 1960s and the 1970s Whitney has pioneered many computer animation techniques, first with mechanical analogue computers, and then moving to digital computers. In 1961 psychedelics were still research chemicals, and the psychedelic influence on culture has been yet to emerge
I met Mr Larkin in his homeless days in Montreal, I was homeless too....what a genius!!! He could make a flipbook for you in minutes, made one for me at the Old Brewery Mission, but I was stuck with my own demons and sold it......wish I held on to that...
And the people, when they found him, Stood still with awesome fear. No more they saw the beast's rude hoof, The furtive, clownish leer; But the lightest in that audience Went silent from the place, For they knew the look of a god released That shone from his dead face. - William Wilfred Campbell
I used to see Ryan around downtown Toronto. Met him in Kensington Market and he asked me if i'd heard of Ryan Larkin. I said that I had and that I loved Walking and Syrinx, which i had seen in multimedia class in high school ( i went to a high school with a media arts program and it's own radio station, Stephen Leacock ) and that they had influenced me to take the path of the artist/musician. (i've done a lot of busking in my day and written music for theatre and dance performances also) He said, "I'm Ryan Larkin". I didn't believe him at the time because i didn't realize Ryan had fallen from grace and this guy was pretty scrawny and derelict and had chapped lips and was overall not too appealing, a street guy. Years later i was playing with a bunch of guys in a band called The Subtonic Monks and one of the percussionists was Chris Landreth, who worked for Alias at the time and helped to develop their Maya software. I did a video interview with Chris about his animations with Phil Pendry from the CBC, for a show we were working on called Studio Scan. This was before the release of the animated short, Ryan, which Chris was working on at the time of the interview. Chris went on to produce some amazing animations, one of them is about Ryan Larkin's story, it's called Ryan, and he won an academy award for it. His other two that i saw, The End and Bingo the Clown are good too. Not sure what he's up to lately but will look into it. I think my fav Ryan Larkin short is the first one i saw, Walking. I wish i had believed him when he told me he was Ryan Larkin but i guess i was not fully present in that moment. There is another story about when i met the two south park guys, Trey and Matt, at the same cafe where i had met Ryan, or that same hood anyway, near that Cafe and that was BEFORE South Park was even a thing. I was teaching computer graphics and design arts at a local university and they asked me if i knew Adobe After Effects because they wanted to learn how to use it. That's another story however...
Mr. Larkin was a comet. The best freehand animator that ever lived. I still wonder why genius is so often tied to mental illness...l have dealt with that question too often with people in my own life.
This posting is a fine example of what happened to TH-cam. When it was posted it has gotten nothing but positive comments. I've seen similar neglected clips. Some Russian wanders in two years ago and leaves an unnecessarily nasty, unjustified, and uncultured attack on the piece. Let this obvious matter speak for itself for the ugliness that invaded this site and others like it.
Jon and Dick were my neighbors in San Francisco before we all moved north, they to Canada. Jon taught me to play guitar and introduced me to Merle Travis and Doc Watson. Talk about a life changer. I hope they are alive and well. All my best to them and thanks for the great animated film.
Worst film I saw ever. Something on the crossing of getting into psychosis, taking acid and dissociating at the same time. Had to take a break from my chores for an hour to get back in touch with reality. Same goes to my wife. I don't understand how someone can “like it” or how this can be considered art. This is just a guy drawing his schizophrenic madness.
I think the film is trying to reflect the improvisational side of street music, the way ideas from the performer's head transition into another. It doesn't really have any plot or anything, just constantly-changing ideas and pictures. If you don't really like it then that's fine by me but that's just what I see the film to be.
É porquê realmente você não entende, Walt Disney é animação recomenda ao seu nível mental
There is always Disney for a clueless person such as yourself. Do not criticize what you do not understand.
And also, if his art does illustrate his "madness", does that invalidate it as a work of art??? Grow up.
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Ryan's work is brilliant, but I hate what digitization does to it, it makes what was supposed to be fluid and beautiful, chunky and disconnected. RPG. 🚯☢
woah!
The buskers who inspired and scored Street Musique are Rick Scott and Dick Tarnoff who you see in the opening scene. This was Rick's first professional dulcimer gig in a career that has spanned almost 50 years.
Thanks so much! I really wanted to know who those performers were!
Ryan's last film, never get tired of it. Rest in peace dude.
I just love Canada cartoons.
Darren Ross childhood for me. That opening theme with the green NFB dooooo wooo dooooo.
I first saw this in 1973; I've seen it hundreds of times, I own a DVD copy (legit), and I never tire of it. Today it's as fresh - and refreshing - as it was the first time. Thank you, Mr. Larkin, and may you and peace find each other.
It would be wonderful if you could upload a copy of this fantastic animation ripped from your DVD in better quality. Thanks!
quiero animacion experimental asi en la actualidad muchisismas gracias Ryan por existir
Beautiful work. I loved it
I see so much of myself in Ryan. A fascination with street performers, people without an agenda, noticing the subtle movements of life. I pray for anyone else out there, to anyone who thinks like me, that things work out for you. It's easy to be pessimistic, but please don't give up hope. For the three of us: you, me, and Ryan.
Hey... I havn't gave up. Have you?
Cool . . .
Who he is and what he did is like he's one of a kind. You call him a hero.
I love Ryan Larkin is such a shame how things turned out for him. :(
Wish he was still sharing his art... Thanks for posting!
That's actually a really cool idea.
what a genius mr. larkin ! INSANE !
What technique does he use? I think Norman Mclaren made use of this technics too
ishuokikalipe i believe it was called acid and alcohol xD no but seriously...drugs induced alot of his work. Check out his documentary called ryan.
Apparently he worked freehand, by flipping from a finished drawing while producing the next one, alone, at an astonishing rate (obviously). The "Spare Change" film seems to be a product of Rotoscope drawing along with previously drawn series. Also genius regardless.
This sounds dope. I would play this.
I'd love to have met Mr Ryan Larkin in person... He was such a great person as creator of these wonderful animations and characters from the fantastic trips.
Lindo, muy simpàtico. Inspirador.
genio total!!
John Whitney is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of computer animation. Throughout the 1950s, the 1960s and the 1970s Whitney has pioneered many computer animation techniques, first with mechanical analogue computers, and then moving to digital computers. In 1961 psychedelics were still research chemicals, and the psychedelic influence on culture has been yet to emerge
I met Mr Larkin in his homeless days in Montreal, I was homeless too....what a genius!!! He could make a flipbook for you in minutes, made one for me at the Old Brewery Mission, but I was stuck with my own demons and sold it......wish I held on to that...
What did the flip book contain?
still trippin' on acid...had to watch this. music plus visuals are sublime.
@ibeamy cant figure it out..
And the people, when they found him, Stood still with awesome fear. No more they saw the beast's rude hoof, The furtive, clownish leer; But the lightest in that audience Went silent from the place, For they knew the look of a god released That shone from his dead face. - William Wilfred Campbell
love <3
Ryan Larkin R.I.P
I've always loved trippy movies like this. They inspire me.
@@daveydudely9954 to use my imagination