Stan Vanderbeek: The Computer Generation part 1 

Sweet find! So archaic looking, yet visionary at the same time.

This is so amazing. This was the year I was born, 1972. To think much of what we do in digital art started so long ago, yet seems so new. Of course, it has advanced, but this tablet was extremely advanced even for now. Very interesting and/or funny points. The sounds around 5:01, sounds like a cash register - funny. Then around 6:13 Mr. Vanderbeek's comments and giggle about what if it could simulate a paint brush. This is like time travel. Fun and informative.

Thanks for a brilliant 1972 film from the time when actually very much was in it´s cradle. You sence the ingenuity, the visions and what a highly technical knowledge the artist indeed had to possess. Video synthesizers and oscilloscope art is somewhat forgotten compared to the music synthesis and the legacy there after, well known to most of us.

what a great video! It allmost made me cry, brilliant!

great!!!

Thanks for this.

Stan this was the same type of things Xerox gave Job and Gates. You done a great job. You need to draw and paint pictures like current 01/22/2012 arts paint on canvas showing brush strokes and layers of paint. You need to go from 2 dimensions to 3 dimensions.

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Stan's work was inspiration for Terry Gilliam's animations.

so crazy. literally talking about the electronic paintbrush as a joke and now is come to basics when digital illustration comes in. plus everything they talk makes a lot of sense nowadays and they didn't even know how to use a computer entirely. amazeballs

So apple didn't invent the tablet.

My litlle brother painting in paint

Apple never claimed to invent the tablet, nor the smartphone, nor the computer, nor the music player.

It's as if i'm watChing a caveman drAw oN a cave wall... Truly the dark ageS of comPuter to human rElAtionship K

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