Archive for 'Cartoons'
Monkeys With Car Keys - First Steps
Welcome to “Monkeys With Car Keys”>
This is the first of many many many videos which we are producing and will be posting online in the coming weeks and months. The official website itself isn’t ready yet, but will be soon. A preponderance of funny shit with people and puppets will proliferate even as […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Beginnings, Culture, Television, Cartoons, Ooo - that's neat!, The Small Picture, Web 2.0, Short Videos, Comedy, Art, Puppets, Future.
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Big Buck Bunny - Open Movie Project
The Peach Open Movie Project has released “Big Buck Bunny”, a very clever and well produced short CG animation created by the Blender animation community. Blender is an open source animation program that rivals many commercial pro-software offerings.
Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
Big Buck Bunny is impressive not just for the technical […]
Posted: May 30th, 2008 under Beginnings, Culture, Cartoons, Ooo - that's neat!, Web 3.0, Short Videos, Comedy, Art.
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Threedie Ceegie - Name Dropping Redux
I know I posted this earlier but I just now got around to posting it on YouTube and thought I’d stick it back up here again:
Cheers
Posted: May 9th, 2008 under Odds & Sods, Cartoons, Threedie Ceegie, Internet, Short Videos, Comedy, Art.
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Things Are About To Get Busy.
Things are about to get busy for me.
According to my Horoscope - which, I assure you, I never consult:
The time is ripe for you to dissect less
and build more.
I had, of course, already arrived at that conclusion myself and was in no need of any arbiter of the passage of stars to tell me this […]
Posted: May 8th, 2008 under Odds & Sods, Beginnings, Culture, Personal, Cartoons, Ooo - that's neat!, Metaphor, The Big Picture, Internet, Web 3.0, Short Videos, Business, Art, Money, Puppets, Future.
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Republican Space Rangers
I found this snorkingly funny episode of Republican Space Rangers through a Twitter post from Wil Wheaton.
Think I’m gonna go rip me the head off a chicken now.
Cheers.
Posted: May 2nd, 2008 under Odds & Sods, WTF?, Cartoons, Ooo - that's neat!, Metaphor, Dickheads, Short Videos, Comedy, Art.
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Ollie Johnston - Thank You
The last of the great nine:
Thanks to Mystery Man for the link to the YouTube video. He has a great collection of worthy insights on the creation of cinema.
There’s a lot I’d like to write about Johnston and Thomas and the others from that time - and how their work blended with the performance […]
Posted: April 20th, 2008 under Cartoons, Endings, Short Videos, Art.
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LEJO! More Great Puppetry
These things seem to be coming to me in waves. My friend, Fred, sent me a link to the site of Lejo - a Dutch puppeteer who does the most amazing, simple and charming work I’ve seen in years.
Enjoy this sample:
My wife Karen and the late […]
Posted: April 5th, 2008 under Culture, Television, Cartoons, Ooo - that's neat!, The Small Picture, Internet, Web 2.0, Short Videos, Comedy, Art, Theater, Puppets.
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Peace Symbol Turns 50
The Peace Symbol is 50 years old.
I didn’t know until today that I was roughly the same age as this wonderful icon.
There are numerous posts out there in the inter-tubes commenting on the 50th anniversary of this iconic combination of lines and a circle which has meant to so much to so many for so […]
Posted: March 18th, 2008 under Beginnings, Old Media, Culture, Society, Cinema, Cartoons, Metaphor, Free Speech, The Big Picture, Language, Art, Monkeys, Advertising, peace, Future.
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Ha Ha - Your Medium Is Dying
The Simpson’s is still the best reflection of what’s really going on in North American culture. It’s always great when some form of popular culture outpaces the ability of “serious nitwits pundits” to accurately assess the state of the nation.
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I found this over at LiveLeak - which is what I have to go do […]
Posted: March 18th, 2008 under Old Media, Culture, Society, Television, Cartoons, Endings, Metaphor, The Big Picture, Short Videos, Comedy, Art.
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World’s Oldest Animation - 5,200 Years Old
Don’t throw out that old crockery in the back of your cupboard!
Forget Winsor McCay and his fabled Gertie The Dinosaur - although I adore his extraordinary ability to capture the motion of life even in his still cartoon illustrations.
The Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub blog reports on a post by the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies blog […]
Posted: March 11th, 2008 under Beginnings, Cool Tech, Old Media, Culture, Cartoons, Ooo - that's neat!, Metaphor, The Small Picture, Holy Crap, Short Videos, Art.
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