Comments on: Dear Santa, can I have one of these notebooks for Christmas please?

Dear Santa, can I have one of these notebooks for Christmas please?

ceri richard — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:37:29 -0800

Notebook is a short animated film by Evelien Lohbeck. Just graduated from the St Joost Academy of Arts in the Netherlands, she is already creating wonderful animations. And Notebook has just been awarded first prize in the Netherlands Online Film Festival.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:49:36 -0800

That's pretty cool. Something a bit disconcerting about watching a video on youtube of semi-animations of videos on youtube? metatube! But did her notebook have to be running windows? The White Stripes almost redeems that though. It's a neat concept piece.

By: Mblue

Mblue — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:07:01 -0800

I enjoyed that until the cheese food.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:27:49 -0800

So in the "wonderful" link she's playing "littlebigplanet?" Favoriting the thread, since I think it deserves some attention.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:07:36 -0800

that was cute. favouriting & making a comment for reasons ditto.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:32:09 -0800

Very fun, well executed. But who the hell eats a toast-n-cheese sammich with a knife and fork?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:34:49 -0800

the Dutch. they also put mayonnaise on their chips.

By: philip-random

philip-random — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:43:22 -0800

That first one's kind of inaccurate. I've never seen Windows XP boot that quickly.

By: Kalthare

Kalthare — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:43:21 -0800

I missed a bit of the toast segment, and had to rewind it. I reached for the wrong seek bar.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:45:51 -0800

That was brilliant, especially the toast. The credits at the end suggest a lot of people helped her out, which is hardly surprising given the complexity. There used to be some fantastic experimental animations like this, with the "meta" conceptual angle as well, done in the film medium a generation or so ago, but of course the tools make it much easier today. Conversely the ease of producing something simpler makes the fact that somebody bothers to do this much work interesting of itself.

By: photomusic86

photomusic86 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:59:58 -0800

It really is cool, isn't it? Great note about XP, philip-random.