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IT'S ALL PIPES!!!

Sys Rq — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:35:56 -0800

Brazil's new water conservation campaign: Xixi no Banho! (slyt)

Giles Timms

serazin — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:57:20 -0800

Animator Giles Timms is doing interesting work (that has apparently already been discovered by laughing squid and boing boing but is still worth checking out.)

Get Your Animated Series On

Who_Am_I — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:06:05 -0800

David Rees clip-art masterpiece Get Your War On has been featured here before, but now you can enjoy it without reading. So far:

Spock is Greek?

Sys Rq — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:06:56 -0800

Star Trek: The Animated Series + Shatner (previously) "singing" (previ|ously) Common People (previously) = THIS.

2008 Animated Short Film Oscar Noms

jonson — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:31:26 -0800

The 2008 Oscar nominated animated shorts are online. Via.

"The art of cartooning is vulgarity," Bakshi asserts.

Astro Zombie — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:52:08 -0800

Coonskin. In 1975, animator Ralph Bakshi made a film, Coonskin, that so impressed the Museum of Modern Art that they immediately set up a special screening, causing Al Sharpton to lead the Congress of Racial Equality in surrounding the building in protest. Roger Ebert responded in surprise to the controversy, saying "What's going on here? It seems to me a fairly interesting movie (with a skillful and innovative mixture of animation and stylized live action) is being used as an philosophical Ping-Pong ball. Dozens of black exploitation films open every year, all of them freely using racial stereotypes and all of them heavy with sex and violence. But they aren't ambitious movies--they're intended only to kill an hour or two. Now comes 'Coonskin,' an attempt to do something really provocative and (God help us! ) even artistic, and suddenly it's the target in an ideological shooting gallery." But the Village Voice was less kind, saying the film was "the product of a crippled hand and a paralyzed mind." The films was dropped by its distributor and didn't really find an audience until it was released, with several new names, on home video. The film is a difficult piece of satire, mocking the conventions of Blaxploitation and deliberately borrowing images from America's racist imagination. But it's origins are in the folk tales of Uncle Remus, the tradition of the toast, the writings of Chester Himes, and Yoruba imagery. Additionally, the soundtrack is by the superlative Chico Hamilton. Richard Pryor, Spike Lee, and the Wu Tang Klan have all sung the film's praises. But why not see it for yourself and decide (YouTube links): Part one; part two; part three; part four; part five; part six; part seven; part eight; part nine; part ten.

dry wit in action

nickyskye — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:39:51 -0800

The New Yorker now has animated cartoons. Animating by Ring Tales.

Don't go in the basement!

Slap*Happy — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:56:59 -0800

Sally Cruikshank intends to put all of her animations on YouTube, including her opening credits for Ruthless People, the Seseame Street Feets too Big short, and don't miss the Oingo Boingo assist on Face Like A Frog. She's very active in the comments section of some of her videos, too, answering questions and participating in the discussion of her work.

Oscar's 2007 Best Animated Short Videos

JPowers — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:37:22 -0800

"Best Animated Short" is the Oscar category that (arguably) gets the least love. But why? They're often the most accessible, usually coming in at less than 10 minutes in length. Thus, for you consideration, here are direct links to three of the five 2007 nominees: "Maestro", "No Time For Nuts", and "The Danish Poet" (via).

Cyriak

fungible — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:08:27 -0800

Cyriak's animation mix an excellent montage of animated gifs by a true master of the form. (youtube)

Lenticulations

crunchland — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:14:49 -0800

Lenticulations :: Animated 3D Multiple Lens Photographs

Aeon Flux, animated Series.

countzen — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:36:48 -0800

Aeon Flux, animated Series. This may kill all your time today. With the release of the new Aeon Flux Movie, they are releasing some of their animated shorts on their Overdrive application. Unfortunately, I can't provide a direct link to it, since it goes through a flash interface. You can get their by clicking on the 'movie' link on top. Requires IE, Flash, and probably windows only.

super monk

crunchland — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:29:25 -0800

Super Monk [.mov, 35mb, animated]

Stick People

terrier319 — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:57:10 -0800

Ok fun Friday despite all the tragedy going on in the world ....

A Monty Python art lover, perhaps?

taz — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:41:10 -0800

(Danger! Danger! Silly .gif images ahead!) A little something to file under "wacky web": ballOOns Museum German web site, featuring classic paintings and sculpture with a dollop of goofy animation thrown in for fun. After you enter, click "Gemälde" and "Skulpturen" in the new window to view the galleries.

where Psyop comes in

eddydamascene — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 19:15:57 -0800

Psyop Anthem You'll never notice you are dyin' just as long as you keep buyin'. Unabashed pro-consumption animated short. [warning: 34MB mpeg. via everlasting blort]

Time for Space Jiggle

bluedaniel — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:13:16 -0800

Experimenting with images using animated .gifs, Jim Gaspernini presents stereo images on the screen by simply putting the right and left images in an animated .gif. (more inside)

sillygwailo — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:58:09 -0800

sodaconstructor allows you to construct basic shapes using lines, joints, and "muscles" and adjust the settings (gravity, and I'm guessing that f and k stand for force and kinetics but I could be wrong) to create "living" creatures.

southisup — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:25:54 -0800

Animated GIF's are good for something. PhotoDude's answer to the image and bandwidth theft double whammy. Got a smile out of me.