November 12, 2009

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Lou Reed The Musical Terminator - "No Money Down"

If 'The Matrix' Were a Charlie Chaplin Film... and Russian

Amusing Father Comments Becoming a Show

shit-my-dad-says.jpgUh oh, someone told CBS executives about Twitter, and now they want to get involved. Don't worry; they aren't starting accounts or anything. They're just purchasing the rights to the notion of a dad saying humorous things and developing the funny, popular account shitmydadsays into a sitcom:
CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 700,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.

"Will & Grace" creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are on board to executive produce and supervise the writing for the multicamera family comedy, which Halpern will co-pen with Patrick Schumacker. Halpern and Schumacker will also co-exec produce the Warner Bros. TV-produced project, which has received a script commitment.

The comedy's title will change if it gets on the air.
Wow, that sounds like it will probably be terrible. But I suppose it makes sense. Television can't survive more than a couple years without seeing Jerry Stiller as a screaming father.

Mike Stimpson: Lego Photo Artist

Karl Pilkington Gets His Round Head and Hangdog Face Animated

ricky-gervais-hbo-animation.jpgYou should really be listening to the Ricky Gervais podcasts. If you are already, good job. If you're not... well, fine, but not listening because you "hate things made of sound" because they make you use your "brain eyes" is no longer a valid excuse (usually that would be a valid excuse). Soon, the audio series will be coming to HBO in the form of animation! No more using your brain eyes! You'll be able to use your eye eyes!
Here are a couple previews:



Pat & Mat (1982)

Jon Gosselin Goes Back in Time

Saturn at Equinox

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How would Saturn look if its ring plane pointed right at the Sun? Before last month, nobody knew. Every 15 years, as seen from Earth, Saturn's rings point toward the Earth and appear to disappear. The disappearing rings are no longer a mystery -- Saturn's rings are known to be so thin and the Earth is so near the Sun that when the rings point toward the Sun, they also point nearly edge-on at the Earth. Fortunately, in this third millennium, humanity is advanced enough to have a spacecraft that can see the rings during equinox from the side. Last month, that Saturn-orbiting spacecraft, Cassini, was able to snap a series of unprecedented pictures of Saturn's rings during equinox. A digital composite of 75 such images is shown above. The rings appear unusually dark, and a very thin ring shadow line can be made out on Saturn's cloud-tops. Objects sticking out of the ring plane are brightly illuminated and cast long shadows. Inspection of these images may help humanity understand the specific sizes of Saturn's ring particles and the general dynamics of orbital motion.

November 10, 2009

Sony Commercial for Magic Headphones


Director/Designs/Animaton/BGs: Kristofer Ström
VFX/Compositing/Animation: Eric Buchholtz
Music/Sound Effects: Douglas Holmquist
Producers: Bart Yates, Nicholas Wakeham
Studio: Varelsen

Shearing Time

Oliver Sacks on Visual Hallucinations... Including Cartoons!

The Crazy Art & Design of Jordy van den Nieuwendijk

The Art of Robert Burden

The Hubcap Creatures of Ptolemy Elrington

hubcap-creatures

The Location Designs of Armand Serrano

Cookie Monster goes into Withdrawl



From 1990, the final appearance of my favorite Sesame Street comedy duo, Ernie (Jim Henson) and Cookie Monster (Frank Oz).

Of course I like Ernie & Bert, Kermit & Grover, and all of Jim & Frank's other great double acts, but there's something about seeing Ernie & Cookie together that I always really enjoyed.

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