La Planete Sauvage

La Planete Sauvage (The Fantastic Planet) is an animated sc-fi French film from 1973 Directed by Rene Laloux. Apparently there is a remake planned for 2010, I really hope so. I remember seeing it on SBS a few years ago and thinking it was awesome. Here's the beginning of the movie.

I've come across it again because Planet Sauvage is the name of the new season of P.A.M. which includes some amazing jewellery.

I dont really know if the new season was influenced by the movie or not, because the name Fantastic Planet on its own without the aspects of the film is enough to describe the new season. Here is a pic of the P.A.M. "Rock Necklace" I'm quite fond of.

And on the theme of fantastic planets, I really want this digitally printed "Glory Scarf" from Trust Fun. Apparently the (I assume digitally printed) scarves' patterns are mathematically valid fractals that they have created, each one uniquely different. I love fractals. When I was younger my Dad always used to show me pictures of different ones in his New Dawn and other alternative science magazines.

Trust Fun is run/creatively saturated by Shane Sakkeus and Jonathan Zawada. They are the same peeps that did Petit Mal of which the first issue is now available to read online.

As far as I remember, my limited understanding of fractals was that it was a geometric shape that on its edges had smaller versions of itself and then those smaller shapes had even smaller versions of themselves on their edges and so on and so forth. So they appear pretty often in nature, eg snowflakes. Snowflakes have ever decreasing scales of themselves repeated throughout the form. Apparently Jackson Pollock (the artist) used fractals in his artwork. Here is a fractal.