Illusion of Movement with Don Hertzfeldt

I think I'll make these kinds of posts on a regular basis considering the eclectic and random nature of this blog and bring a little more structure of the site. I'm still gonna post the crazy shit I find on the net that interest me, now I'm gonna steer it in a certain direction.

Ok, with that out of the way, anyone who sorta reads what little I write on this blog before watching the videos with the bright, shiny colors and loud noises knows I'm a freak for cartoons and animation. I'd like to share with ya'll an animator I've known about for a long while now: Don Hertzfeldt. His animation and drawings are simple but still makes amazing and funny-as-hell animated shorts.

We'll start off with the Intermission shorts he did for the traveling Animation Show he did with Mike Judge a few years ago..


Welcome to the show...

Billy's Balloon


Ah, L'amour


Genre


Lily and Jim Pt.1


Lily and Jim Pt.2


Last but not least, we have the short that won him a little gold-man statue. It's so good I plunked down 20 bucks for the DVD and it's only a 9 minute film. :P

Rejected


He's got 3 more shorts I haven't had the opportunity to see: The Meaning of Life and Everything Will Be OK. He's traveling the country right now with a show called "An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt" with his latest work "I Am So Proud Of You". The last show date is in Los Angeles on November 30th, I hope I can snag a couple of tickets, it'd be pretty awsome to see it on th big screen and maybe even meet the man behind these twisted visions.

Head over to his website BitterFilms.com, be a consumer whore and support him. I'm sure he'll appreciate it with a cute cartoon blood orgy.

Urgent PSA!! Germs and You

5 Months Too Long?

Hey, anyone out there? Boy this place sure has collected a nice layer of dust since I've been gone. But, like a good plague, I'm back. Here to fester on the internet with things I find interesting. A good thing too, I'm very bored.

So with my first post in nearly 6 months, I'll drop some videos of new bands I've been listening too during my blog hiatus.

Menomena - Air Aid


We Are Scientists - After Hours


Man Man - Mister Jung Stuffed


Vampire Weekend - A-Punk


Wolf Parade - Modern World


Dr. Dog - Hang On


Deerhoof - The Perfect Me


Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal


Wow, a lot of new music. It's a nice change from all the heavy metal I listen to. Can't be angry all the time. Change is essential for growth.

Out Of It

Heya, everyone. It's been about 3 weeks since I moved out to Georgia. I've been kinda busy gettin everything straightened out. I'll have some pics for you all soon.

Grand Theft Auto 4

It's coming. Soon. Like, in a few months. How long has it been since San Andreas was released? 4 years ago? It's like an old friend who moved away, then comes back to visit for awhile. But now he's no longer got the hippy hairdo, packed on 100 pounds of muscle and manages to work the word "motherfucker" into every sentence. This how it seems to have worked out for the GTA franchise.

Now GTA4 is nearly upon us and it's looking pretty awsome.



Better graphics (thanks to the X-box 360 and the PS3) and the humor is still funny as hell (even though the graphics are nearing photo-realism).

Now I want to know what radio stations we'll get to listen to. What bands have lent their songs for said stations? What I really want to hear is the talk radio station that will most likely be there. Since GTA3 I always had the in-game radio set to the talk station. All the crazy characters, stupid-funny commercials and Lazlo.



I can't wait. Now I need a X-box 360. lol

The Mad Capsule Markets

I've said in previous posts that I like Japan. It's the only foreign country I want to visit before I shed this mortal coil. One Japanese export that I enjoy immensely is their music. I find their music to be more genuine than most of the crap that passes for popular music here in America.

One band that I got into years ago are The Mad Capsule Markets.

I forget where I first heard them. By sheer luck Best Buy carried what I believe is thier only American release.

One of my favorite albums: OSC-DIS (Oscillator in Distortion)

It's a shame they weren't more popular. They don't really have a defining genre. Songs on this album range from industrial, electronic, punk rock, rap rock, and even a surf tune. Which is all awsome.

This particular cd came with an extra disc with music videos off Osc-Dis and one from another album called Digidogheadlock.

Pulse


Midi Surf


All The Time In Sunny Beach


This next vid is by far the best song I have ever heard from them and one of my all time favorite songs evar. Thank you to whoever invented music videos!

Systematic


I'd like to get more of their albums, but Amazon has them listed as imports and are expensive as hell. Looks like I'll have to find them through bit torrent. lol

Spongebob Movie Classics

Here's a bit of awsome I found on Collegehumor.com. This clip has the voice-cast of the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants redubbing a scene from the movies Casablanca, Singing in the Rain and The Godfather.



It's like Mystery Science Theater 3000. I could totally watch The Godfather with this dubbing. Or maybe even redub the b-movie horror flicks of the 50's. That would be, as the hip internet kids would say, "teh awsom."

SeeqPod

As some of you have probably noticed there is a music player on the side of my little page of webspace. SeeqPod is its name and playing music is its game.

This is a cool little widget for your website or blog or, blech god forbid, myspace or any of the other idiot social-network sites. Just search for whatever music or band you like and it'll give you a list of what's availiable. Totally customizable and whole songs. Not just little shitty clips. I'm sure the RIAA finds this illegal too as they seem to think that even remembering music in your head is illegal copyright infringement. Fuck the RIAA!!!


SeeqPod - Playable Search

Technology rules.

Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator

Listen to his words....



Something to think about.

Crystal Caves of Naica

Here's an awsome vid from a cave in Mexico. This has to be the most amazing geological find in a long while.


Absolutely amazing the size of these crystals! And here's a link to a page from National Geographic explaining how they possibly came to be.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/giant-crystals-cave/

It's really cool to think there are pockets of giant crystals underneath our feet. Goes to show we know very little about our planet and the bounty of the unforseen discoveries ready to be shown in the light.

The Beatles?

I am always surprised by the bounty of entertaining videos youtube has to offer. Like this clip from what seems to be an LSD fever-dream of the Beatles.



SOMEBODY GET THIS MAN HIS EPILEPSY MEDICATION!!!

Dennou Coil

I have been watching anime for almost my entire life. The last 10 years or so I've lost some interest thanks in some part to Adult Swim's anime block. I do enjoy Hayao Miyazaki's films and some of the newr stuff coming out of Japan has knocked my socks off. Like Fooly Cooly and the new Witchblade series. Now thanks to the wonderful entity called the interweb I've found a streaming website called

http://animethat.com/

They got a ton of series they would never show on tv here in the states and a new intriguing one called Dennou Coil.

In 2026, eleven years after the introduction of internet-connected augmented reality eyeglasses and visors, Yuko Okonogi moves with her family to the city of Daikoku, the technological center of the emerging half-virtual world. Yuko joins her grandmother’s “investigation agency” comprised of children equipped with virtual tools and powerful metatags. She quickly crosses paths with Yuko Amasawa, an expert hacker of the virtual environment, as Amasawa relentlessly seeks to gain the powers of a mysterious cyber-entity known as Michiko. The protagonists are driven to unravel the mysteries of the virtual world in the shadow of a powerful hacker that came before them.



These are a couple clips from first episode (sorry it's only in Japanese with english subtitles)



I urge anyone who likes anime or animation in general to check out AnimeThat!, it's down there in the Missing Links section.

Zero Punctuation: Silent Hill Origins

Here's the newest review from Zero Punctuation. I love this guy's reviews and I love the games of Silent Hill.



I love Silent Hill. The creepy atmosphere just does it for me. It's a good variation to the survival horror genre, where I'm not blowing the heads off of zombies. A shame that the Silent Hill movie didn't capture that same level of creepiness.