Visions of Frank
Animations based on the wordless Frank comics by American cartoonist Jim Woodring. From the out-of-print DVD Visions of Frank: Short Films by Japan's Most Audacious Animators.
The latest Frank book is the excellent Weathercraft.
Niclas
Important stuff
The Hypernaut!
"It Came from... Higher Space!" by Alan Moore, Stephen R. Bissette and Chester Brown. From 1963, Book Three, published by Image Comics in 1993. Scans via Again With the Comics.
The 1963 series was a satiric homage to early Marvel Comics (with occasional nods to DC characters). The Hypernaut story is also inspired by Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 novel Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
Frank Quitely's cover to Judge Dredd Megazine #301
"Make Mistakes, Get Children" by Chris Ware
Here's a page I scanned a few years ago for a friend. It's from Chris Ware's excellent book collection The Acme Novelty Library.
"A lot of different people took a lot of different things from that movie!"
via youtube.com
Girls Are Not To Be Trusted by Derrick Comedy. (3:42)
Digitalisering och kopiering: Om musik, e-böcker, fildelning och nutiden
via slideshare.net
Bildspel från min presentation för Länsbibliotek Dalarnas IT-utbildning 2010 den 20 maj 2010.
Current View: Cinematic
"You're a liar, everybody has rain gutters!!"
via avclub.com
Steve Coogan in Hamlet 2.
A Practical Guide to Racism: Office Hours
via youtube.com
Starring The Office's Ellie Kemper, who was interviewed by the AV Club last month.
The CIA-funded "Animal Farm" (1954) [VIDEO]
via youtube.com
Animal Farm is a 71-minute long animated film by the British animation studio Halas and Batchelor. It's based on the classic George Orwell book, which was picked by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-Language novels between 1923 and 2005.
The film is somewhat notorious for having been covertly financed by the Central Intelligence Agency, back when then were sponsoring anti-communist art. (The CIA's involvement is apparently detailed in this book.)
Nevertheless, it's a pretty good film, and only devolves into propaganda towards the very end. (By the way: It's 83% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, but only six reviews are counted. The lone dissenting voice, worth 17%, is a two-line review from "Staci's Guide to Animal Movies".) You can watch the entire movie on YouTube.
Get Out [VIDEO]
Slightly disturbing animated short film by Charlotte Boisson, Julien Fourvel, Pascal Han-Kwan, Tristan Reinarz, and Fanny Roche. In French, with English subtitles. (7:42)
2010 Oscar Nominees for Best Animated Short Film [VIDEO]
I already posted Logorama (the winner) and Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty. Here are the rest of them.
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1. French Roast
Written and directed by Fabrice O. Joubert.
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2. The Lady and the Reaper (La dama y la muerte)
Written and directed by Javier Recio Gracia.
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3. Wallace & Gromit in: A Matter of Loaf and Death
Written by Nick Park and Bob Baker, directed by Nick Park. This one's a TV rip, and the film is 29 minutes long. It might be better viewed on DVD or Blu-ray.
