Cartoon Brew – THE animation blog – recently started Cartoon Brew TV: their own video channel dedicated to animation gems of all sorts and species. The latest addition to this new collection is ‘Dinner Time‘, perhaps “the most significant cartoon in animation history”, according to Cartoon Brew founder Jerry Beck, who discusses the animation with … Continued
It must be said, every year TodaysArt Festival brings something really stunning. For example, at the 2006 edition we witnessed a great performance by Structet that took Wagner’s ideas for a Gesamtkunstwerk to the next level with a piece called Building Music in which the huge atrium of The Hague’s city hall was overflowing with … Continued
This week is Hoogerbrugge’s week. Besides the release of his monograph, Hoogerbrugge just announced the launch of the new Prostress website. Prostress 2.0 is a follow-up to his 2006 web project “designed to explore a cure for the painful side effects of the human condition.” Prostress 2.0 seems to expand on that concept, albeit without … Continued
Year of the Fish is a modern take on the Cinderella story set in a massage parlor in Chinatown, New York. Independent filmmaker David Kaplan has taken a low budget approach to rotoscoping. The film was shot on miniDV. Each frame was then converted to a high definition frame, processed and ‘artistified’ using Synthetiks painting … Continued
House Industries is making a film about 102 years old Ed Rondthaler, founder of Photo-Lettering, former president of the American Literacy Council and author of The Dictionary of Simplified American Spelling. They already put a fragment online on their website. Rondthaler illustrates the ambiguities between spoken and written English. It’s really, really sweet. (Thanks to … Continued
Skeletons scarry? Not when they consist of the bones of Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny or Road Runner. The South Korean artist Hyung Koolee makes ‘life’-like skeletons of famous cartoon figures like Felix the Cat and Tom & Jerry using the techniques of paleontologists. They look very cute and the funny thing is they pose in … Continued
Every year TENT. – an art space in Rotterdam – presents the TENT. Academy Awards. This is a competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animation from the Dutch art academies. This year the winner of the Public’s Choice Award was Edward Cook with his short documentary on a hotdog stand. Yael Assaf … Continued
Getting verbally abused has never been so funny. You suck at Photoshop is a very successful and absolute hilarious parody on those thousands of home made tutorials on the web showing you how to do all kinds of tricks with Photoshop. In this series, Donnie the host, is a rude and self-righteous swank who uses … Continued
Sure we have respect for those people who spend all their spare time making a Viking boat out of 15 million ice cream sticks or a scale model of the Beijing Olympic Village out of 140000 playing cards, but real admiration we reserve for people like Josh Logue and his crew. For the Australian indie … Continued
Sometimes an image can trigger some happy moments of reminiscence. For instance, a music video that shared quite a lot of familiarities with the work of Chris Cunningham, started us to wonder what ever happened to Cunningham. We wrote a few words on this and a visitor of SubmarineChannel asked us if we heard anything … Continued
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