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Sweet Salt
While taking a break from devouring the newly served up morsel, the Animate! book: Rethinking Animation, I thought I would take some time to see what animators I could snack on-line on. So there, lo...
View ArticleJapanese Classic Cartoon(1933)
Here is a nice piece of inspiration to kick this week off. I am no expert at Japanese animation but I liked the Fleischer likeness of this cartoon. I also really like the inventiveness of the scenes...
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Prince Achmed in Detroit
Animation news on a local note...Lotte Reiniger's silhouette gets cast onto the big screen this weekend (June9-10) as the Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) overshadows the Detroit Film Theater. Oh and...
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Simply Helen Hill
Riding the pink bike of Helen Hill made me blue and smiling tears. In a happy coincidence, I witnessed the beautiful contradictions that make up the spokes and sprockets of the life and films of Helen...
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Ottawa International Animation Festival
I just returned from the Ottawa International Animation Festival. I mean...really...I just got home. So this is a quick post to tell you who won. The big winners include Persepolis (Feature film),...
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Sleeping Betty
I know, I know...what the! But, here I am finally awoken from my 'Sleeping Betty' sort of slumber. Alas, no Prince Charming came to my rescue but at least it was a horse's swift kick that has jolted...
View ArticleDon't be BLU!!
Here is a fantastic animation that picked me up out of my doldrums! I don't know much about the Italian artist named BLU but here is his website. All I can tell you is that this film was done for the...
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Naoyuki Tsuji DVD
Here is a nice after-image to the last post, Naoyuki Tsuji!! It is very hard to find information on the independent animation scene from Japan so I was very surprised to find this DVD collection of...
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Happy New Year...I think!
Well, last year was full of upheaval for me in this here bunny hole. I am still trying to pull this proverbial rabbit outta the hat and find a place in this here Trickfilm of an industry. But, I will...
View ArticleJulia Pott
I have a crush on Julia Pott and her short film, My First Crush! I know everyone must have seen this by now but I just wanted to scrawl my opinion on the bathroom wall about it. It's like finding one...
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Jillian Tamaki
Instead of trying to put together a 'Top 10' list for 2007 comics (which would take me forever to do), I'm just going to put them out there as I go through the stack....Jillian Tamaki's, Gilded Lilies,...
View ArticleMichael Dudok de Wit
Sunday inspiration posts was something that I used to do and it was initially inspired by a Masterclass by Michael Dudok de Wit. In his presentation, Michael talked about Creativity and how everyone of...
View ArticleJuan Pablo Etcheverry
A good follow up to the last post is this beautiful stop-motion animation, Minotauromaquia (2004), by Juan Pablo Etcheverry. The film explores the creative demons/inspiration of the one-and-only Pablo...
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Ericailcane
Well, talk about the dark pit of our psyche: Ericailcane certainly sews the knitted folds of my gray matter into a black-pearl-stitched cranial cozy. It is covered in a menagerie made in formaldehyde,...
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Sunday Inspiration: Julie Morstad
A book which I picked up last year was Julie Morstad's Milk Teeth (published through Drawn and Quarterly's Petits Livres series). Since I have recently been afflicted with cross-hatch-itis, Julie's...
View ArticlePanique Au Village
I don't know how I stumbled across this crazy Belgian stop-motion series, Panique Au Village, but I am so glad that I did!! It just makes you want to get all the toys out of the closet and off the...
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Peter and the Wolf
Don't worry, I wasn't just 'crying wolf' when I said that I was back posting again, I just went away for a week. So, here is the delectable morsel that was waiting for me when I popped my giant head...
View ArticleKat Fight
You know the saying: if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all! Well, needless to say, as I am licking my wounds, you can chase yer tail to Caspar Konefal's Katfight!! I saw this last...
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Florence Miailhe
I have been putting off writing about Florence Miailhe for awhile now and what do you know, AniPages beats me to it with a great article about her!! So, I will just direct you to that and the two films...
View ArticleBlu - Muto
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.I know this is old news, but, I thought it would be a good crack in the wall to lead me back to my br o ke n animated thoughts.I don't know what...
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