Baby, It's Cold Outside: Perhaps it's unethical - well, it's certainly incestuous - to draw your attention to one of
madamjujujive's great links on
quonsar's brilliant
Meepzorp blog ("
Where, thank the Lord, it is always Friday" -
Christian Science Monitor, 18.12.76). But what about linking two?
Bouncing Baby and
Gulp are two great Flash pieces that address the question of nurture; motherhood; the oral nature of pleasure; the ontology of fuzzy gratification; the metaphysics of the transition from womb to nipple and other meretricious bullshit justifications for fun.
posted by Carlos Quevedo
on Feb 7, 2003 -
3 comments
Strangely compelling. YELLOWTAIL is an interactive software system for the gestural creation and performance of real-time abstract animation. Yellowtail repeats a user's strokes end-over-end, enabling simultaneous specification of a line's shape and quality of movement. Each line repeats according to its own period, producing an ever-changing and responsive display of lively, worm-like textures.
If you like the Java version, you can
download the full screen version with sound.
posted by Wet Spot
on Feb 6, 2003 -
11 comments
Best. Episodes. Ever. Though I think they're wrong about the worst. In honor of the upcoming 300th episode of
the Simpsons, Entertainment Weekly looks back at the 25 best episodes and 1 worst. May the arguments, and uneeded meme generation, begin.
posted by eyeballkid
on Feb 1, 2003 -
128 comments
Love or fight is a little animation by Boris Hoppek, and while visiting, don't miss his
bimbo sculptures. Then, take a quick spin over to
Noodle Town to meet the residents. And if you haven't yet overdosed on cute, visit the 10 second flash animations at
itching hands...these quirky little primitives and stick figures seem to be quite the rage among illustrators.
posted by madamjujujive
on Jan 25, 2003 -
5 comments
Mark Fiore is a Californian political cartoonist, whose work may be familiar to those of you in the States, but who is new to me.
His
animations are topical as well as funny.
posted by essexjan
on Jan 9, 2003 -
2 comments
Pinpin Lelapin ...While surfing on a Singapore site called
FlashMove, I came across a zany Flash site: A wonder bit of inscrutable Japanese-inspired
French animation from
Studio Tanuki in the form of
Pinpin Lelapin, an adorable pink balloon bunny rabbit who farts on people. In addition to the giddy animation and stylised artwork on the site is the unique "Super Mario"-type run-and-jump navigation.
(Note: Mostly in French, with some Japanese and broken English. Contains Flash, music, farts, giant mecha battles and a Sailor Moon parody.)
posted by Down10
on Dec 28, 2002 -
8 comments
Animated chinese characters. Using the web and a bit of javascript this site draws Chinese ideographs. The site might be useful to some people but I'm just fascinated by watching the characters being drawn and by the idea of usring the web to teach people to use the
ancient technology of writing.
posted by rdr
on Dec 12, 2002 -
10 comments
Flash with no name - think you've seen every bizarre Japanese flash? Good chance you haven't seen this one yet. I am at a loss for a title. This is not safe for work. This is not safe for children or small animals. Do not take with medication. Mock the message, not the messenger.
posted by madamjujujive
on Nov 21, 2002 -
29 comments
I don't know about any of you, but after weeks of
politics, I am in dire need of a little light-heartedness. Party down with me to
one-t, a cool music video with great artwork! Or if that's a little too edgy for you, maybe a good old-fashioned
super orgy porno party is more your style. Not really in a party mood? Well, don't let politics get you down, stay loose, stay cool, and just be sure you don't
ride the fence..
quicktime files, crank up the volume, and not really risque but probly not work safe.
posted by madamjujujive
on Nov 6, 2002 -
17 comments
Braingirl - she's brainy, she's bizarre, she's curiously compelling and she has a sidekick named Bag Boy. See all 8 episodes. Flash & sound effects alert, and not safe for work unless you work at a pretty funkified place.
posted by madamjujujive
on Oct 18, 2002 -
13 comments
Cruelty. (.swf file) Via the NYT Review of Books. Felix Jung hijacks your cursor (briefly) for a poetry break.
posted by Skot
on Oct 14, 2002 -
6 comments
Kodocha calls it
quits. Kodocha Anime, one of the best known and most reliable anime fansub
tape distributors, is closing down operations. Why? Because everything's going
digital. [more inside]
posted by Slithy_Tove
on Sep 23, 2002 -
3 comments
Friday Flash! A new take on an old song, chock full o' irony -- Flash animation to Slim Whitman's
There's a Rainbow in Every Teardrop You're Cryin'.
posted by sparky
on Sep 6, 2002 -
2 comments
What is the AniMatrix? A direct-to-video release of 9 animated shorts (comic book style, pure CGI, etc) by 7 directors looks at possible visions of the world pre-Matrix. Looks like it could be an interesting collection.
posted by mathowie
on Sep 5, 2002 -
27 comments
Homer Simpson is Canadian, says Groening. In Montreal for a performance of "The Simpsons", Matt Groening noted his dad was born in Canada and Homer is named for him so...
"That would make Homer Simpson a Canadian".
He goes on to say the show will be on for at least another 14 years.
That should give us something to talk ab
iot.
posted by Blake
on Aug 5, 2002 -
24 comments
The Vancouver Company that created
ReBoot will be making a
CGI Spider-Man cartoon for
MTV. Neil Patrick Harris as Spidey, Lisa Loeb as Mary Jane and Ian Ziering as Harry Osborn will inhabit a
"seemingly realistic neon lit city of the immediate future". Will this show set a new standard of production for cartoons based on comics? Will MJ wear glasses?
posted by will
on Jul 30, 2002 -
23 comments
waking life is a
wonderful film, both for its amazing
animation and its uncommon attempt to bring the
mind-body problem to the
screen. Curiously, I found this film far more engaging than most of the other
films I've seen that use the 'false reality' mechanism. Should more films bring their philosophical subject matters directly into question, instead of relegating it to sub-text?
posted by kaibutsu
on Jul 13, 2002 -
71 comments
The next wave in Filmmaking? This summer, the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences, along with NVIDIA, will hold the world's first
Machinima Film Festival on August 17th in Mesquite, Texas.
Machinima is, simply stated, filmmaking within a real-time virtual 3D environment.
In an expanded definition, it is the convergence of filmmaking, animation & game development. Machinima is a very cost- & time-efficient way to produce films.
posted by lilboo
on Jul 12, 2002 -
11 comments
It's the plot, stupid.
USA Today runs their usual insightful commentary about the upcoming release of Lilo and Stitch. It obsesses over the absence of CGI graphics pointing to
Atlantis as evidence for the failure of traditional animation to draw box office. Funny me, I thought that
Atlantis bombed because of a plot better left in 50s serial format, a cast of sterotypes rather than characters, and no sense of humor beyind dirty French jokes repeated over and over again. And is huge success of
Pixar due to their pioneering animation, or their brilliant comic talent?
What causes FX myopia anyway? Granted I can understand why fanboys obsess over the wrong things in a movie. Do the studios set it up by trying to hype each new summer release as the next big technical development (while the artistic development gets trumped by
Waking Life and
Insomnia?)
posted by KirkJobSluder
on Jun 18, 2002 -
7 comments
Broken Saints is a beautifully done flash animation. A little anime in feel with some strange sonic diversions every once in a while. The pacing is a little slow for my highly Americanized tastes, but it's gorgeous all the same.
posted by willnot
on Jun 12, 2002 -
11 comments
Best. Transformers. Video. Ever. CGI render of a new VW Beetle transforming into a transformer with live background [1.5 meg mpg video]. Makes me wonder if a live-action Transformers TV show would work, with real actors and CGI rendered robots. I'd certainly watch it.
posted by PWA_BadBoy
on Jun 9, 2002 -
28 comments
I'm here to tell you about the ultimate sporting clash of the titans-
Air Hockey! That's right, the ultimate rec-room sport of the '70's is alive and well. There's
leagues galore including one in
Austin, Texas(home of numerous MeFite's.), and cool
Flash animations of some slick moves. Ever since I bought my first table at age 10 at a yard sale, this has been my game. Nice to know it's still out there. There's even places to buy nifty
tables if you're in the market. Me and the missus used to love playing at the local arcade on
this beauty with the nifty flourescent puck. Now drop the puck and play!
posted by jonmc
on Apr 7, 2002 -
3 comments
The new oddtodd cartoon I don't think that anyone has posted this yet. Oddtodd has released his newest cartoon. Man, I love that guy. He is da tits. (For those of you unfamiliar with that saying that means he is good/great/cool... you know, da tits.)
posted by aj100
on Apr 5, 2002 -
18 comments
Skeletor and Gang: What is it about the combination of stop-motion animation, He-Man action figures, and sped-up heavy metal that makes me laugh until I hurt?
"Skeletor, Mantenna and Grizzlor are having a party! Oh no! Moss-Man attacks! Defend us Squeeze!"
posted by emptybowl
on Apr 5, 2002 -
7 comments
Double Feature: An American History Test & "The Paula Principle" Larry David's experiment in web animation may be somewhat disappointing, coming from
Seinfeld's funniest writer, but the
Voting Booth Test that precedes it, about American presidential antics, is funny, informative, brilliantly presented and...damn
difficult! At least for us poor foreigners...[
Needs Shockwave or Flash or something. Just click on Play to get to the voting booth.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Mar 29, 2002 -
7 comments
