And how 'bout that part where that little critter eats the boom box?

August 21, 2007 9:20 AM

Minilogue / Hitchhiker's Choice. A curiously engaging 4 minutes and 13 seconds of whiteboard animation. The visual ideas are all over the place, and they move really fast, so don't blink or you'll miss entire subplots.
posted by flapjax at midnite (17 comments total)

Reminds me, in a way, of William Kentridge. Also reminds me of that Space War link a few days back. Cool stuff.
posted by billysumday at 9:45 AM on August 21, 2007

Found this a few months ago when I was all about the whiteboard animation. It's really incredible.
posted by DU at 9:50 AM on August 21, 2007

Loved the music.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 9:50 AM on August 21, 2007

Sweet. They should make something like that for MS's touchscreen table thingy.
posted by fungible at 11:37 AM on August 21, 2007

awesome.
posted by juv3nal at 11:59 AM on August 21, 2007

It kind of hypnotized me - maybe because I didn't blink. Very cool.
posted by rtha at 2:21 PM on August 21, 2007

Yes, it's a lovely video! And there are more at Ljudbilden & Piloten's blog.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 3:10 PM on August 21, 2007

Hey thanks for that blog link, soundsofsuburbia. Should've sniffed around the webs and found that one for inclusion in the FPP, but it was just too late last night when I made it: I fell into bed immediately after hitting "POST".
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:33 PM on August 21, 2007

Hey thanks for that blog link, soundsofsuburbia. Should've sniffed around the webs and found that one for inclusion in the FPP, but it was just too late last night when I made it: I fell into bed immediately after hitting "POST".
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:33 PM on August 21, 2007

Wow, how'd that happen? Now I've misspelled your username twice, soundofsuburbia. Sorry 'bout that.

BTW, what is the soundofsuburbia, anyway? A thousand lawn sprinklers all going at once?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:36 PM on August 21, 2007

Cool video! Loved the music, too.

And the name soundofsuburbia just makes me think Ben Folds Five every time I see it. Rockin' the suburbs, indeed.
posted by lazaruslong at 6:35 PM on August 21, 2007

This is great. Anyone know what the music is?
posted by 40 Watt at 7:40 PM on August 21, 2007

Phenomenal textures on a whiteboard. Talent and class went into the making of this.
posted by Eideteker at 7:49 PM on August 21, 2007

Never mind- after looking around their site, it looks like the music is by Minilogue.
posted by 40 Watt at 8:48 PM on August 21, 2007

oops. And that's on the link on this post.

I really oughtta stop Internetzing before bed.
posted by 40 Watt at 8:53 PM on August 21, 2007

BTW, what is the soundofsuburbia, anyway? A thousand lawn sprinklers all going at once?
...
And the name soundofsuburbia just makes me think Ben Folds Five every time I see it. Rockin' the suburbs, indeed.

I think dosc.
posted by juv3nal at 10:18 PM on August 21, 2007

wow. that is really cool. i'm going to have to check out more of this stuff. and to think i'd never even heard of white board animation before.
posted by mosessis at 8:16 PM on August 22, 2007