January 2010
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This Oscar®-winning animated short from Chris Landreth is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who, 30 years ago, produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Ryan is living every artist’s worst nightmare - having lost his ability to create and succumbing to addiction, he panhandles on the streets to make ends meet. Through the use of...
National Film Board of Canada (iPhone app)
The National Film Board of Canada can take pride in creating one of the best apps currently available for the iPhone (itunes). The app gives incredible access to several decades of the best short films and full-length features that have been released under the NFB’s auspices. Canada has a rich tradition of subsidized filmaking, and this app ensures that the filmmakers find the broader...
Watch“Walking,” Ryan Larkin (1968)
Animator Ryan Larkin uses an artist’s sensibility to illustrate the way people walk. He employs a variety of techniques—line drawing, colour wash, etc.—to catch and reproduce the motion of people afoot. The springing gait of youth, the mincing step of the high-heeled female, the doddering amble of the elderly—all are registered...
WatchIt’s been years since I’ve watched any late night talk shows, and so the recent Leno/Conan thing has been just slightly off my radar. I knew Letterman was getting his shots in, but I didn’t know he was being as publicly aggressive with his feelings towards Leno as is seen in this clip.
I have a strong feeling that late night television is going to get a little more interesting,...
Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island... →
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI—Less than two weeks after converging upon the site of a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake, American anthropologists have confirmed the discovery of a small, poverty-stricken island nation, known to its inhabitants as “Haiti.” […]
Watch“Timelapse Coal Fired Horror Plant” by Jeff Grewe.
This video is at once beautiful and terrifying; either a perverse celebration or condemnation of modern life. Artistically speaking, it is truly well done.
welcome to north america
I just phoned my mom long-distance from my cell phone for an hour and a half.
My skype cost: $2.25.
What my cell carrier would have wanted: $27.
So, yeah, the old model isn’t exactly working.
snapping my fingers in a Z formation
George Bernard Shaw: I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.
Winston Churchill: Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.
Overheard: “Langer always likes to dredge up 9/11. Imagine how much more insufferable he’d be if he had ‘survived’ the holocaust.”
“It’s not a stroll in the park, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. ‘Drifts’...”
– A book about how to do one of my favourite things! Aimless walking for discovery and adventure Mythogeography: a guide to walking sideways (via somethingchanged)
This appeals to me beyond words. (via thedarkspark)
“Every heart to love will come
but like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still...”
– Leonard Cohen
Bono calls for internet controls →
A decade’s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators — in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can’t live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least sympathetic among us.
As Bono would have it, the fledgling songwriters of a decade ago were cashing in on their album sales. Which is weird, because the vast majority...
Muphry's Law
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The principle that any criticism of the speech or writing of others will itself contain at least one error of usage or spelling. Coined by John Bangsund in a 1992 article in The Society of Editors Newsletter.