Category: video

Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow

December 14th, 2010

I know it’s cruel to post a long-discontinued item in the heart of the year’s most hectic shopping period. My apologies to anyone who would immediately add Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow to their shopping or wish list.

Here we have a plastic cow that “drinks” water from a trough (meaning, you put its head down and it acts like a vacuum hose), which then mixes with imitation milk tablets housed in its stomach.

The luscious, giant cow lips and come-hither stare are unnerving. I feel…dirty.

And the final product is not exactly appetizing.

Purely from a collector standpoint, these must be rather valuable.

Watch the commercial, if you dare:

And if your thirst for retro toy horror has not been quenched, why not visit Baby Alive? Or the Baby Alive follow up post?
The Sandman

December 3rd, 2010

My friend Ryan shared this the other day, and it is spectacular. “The Sandman” is an interpretation of a chilling European folk tale, featuring a wonderfully crafted villain.

If you are at all into stop motion animation (or delightfully nightmarish creations)…DO NOT SKIP THIS VIDEO.

Thanks, Ryan!
The Girl With the Prefabricated Heart

November 15th, 2010

Over the weekend I got to see a rare Hans Richter film: Dreams That Money Can Buy.

The story involves a man who realizes he can see into the minds of others, and opens a business selling custom made dreams to troubled clients. Each customer encounter is followed by a surreal dream sequence.

My absolute favorite was The Girl With the Prefabricated Heart. I couldn’t find the entire clip without a remade score, but you can get an idea from this. If you enjoy strange dolls, and clever satire of consumerism and manufactured beauty, this is NOT to be missed:

Here is an abridged version with the original soundtrack. Click to hear its scratchy, vintage glory:
Bottle

September 29th, 2010

This is a beautiful little stop motion film about two long distance correspondents (of sorts) who share fragments of life through messages in a bottle. Whether you choose to view the ending as nihilistic or transcendent, I dare say it’s rather poetic.
Dot: The World’s Smallest Stop Motion

September 22nd, 2010

Here is a very unique stop motion film; the smallest known to exist. Various objects in the film show the scale. This is an impressive piece of work!

Professor Fletcher’s invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman. It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics.

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Desktop Goodies

August 21st, 2010

The image above…perhaps designed to be mildly unsettling…is nowhere NEAR as unsettling as this (originally un-ironic) piece of Thrift Horror:

Quite possibly my favorite comic panel of the month:

Now onto a little anatomy…

Nice legs…

If I had the proverbial “thinking cap,” I might want it to look a bit like this:

And speaking of thinking…perhaps “brain bats” are a great descriptive metaphor for certain mental states.

In my humble opinion, “vacation hair” may be among the least of his problems.

Fish heads, fish heads…

That photo reminds me of this extremely surreal video:

And now to cater to my love of flying squirrels (can anyone really be unmoved by this degree of sweet awesomeness?)…

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Day and Night

July 22nd, 2010

A truly innovative animated short by Pixar. Quite imaginative!
Typewriter Music

July 13th, 2010

What is it about the old fashioned clicking of typewriter keys that makes me so weak in the knees? Check out this antiquated device as it accompanies a short orchestral performance by Leroy Anderson:

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Plato’s Republic in Clay

June 22nd, 2010

I’m going to refrain from commenting too much on this, since the implications of this video are quite profound and I’d like to let everyone form their own impressions. I certainly find it rather powerful.

Here is an adaptation of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in clay:

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Mark Ryden: Pink Lincoln Time Lapse Video

May 24th, 2010

Since people seemed to love Mark Ryden’s time lapse video of Incarnation, here is a time lapse/tribute to Pink Lincoln, which I recently saw at the Gay 90’s Old Tyme Art Show.