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!
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:
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.
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.
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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A truly innovative animated short by Pixar. Quite imaginative!
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:
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:
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.
Why does Dinosaur Ballet make me so happy whenever I watch it? I just rediscovered this video after many months…
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