This guy is awesome. Probably the best engine sound impressionist in the entire world EVER. To bad there is not some engine sound championship or Olympic event because this guy would win hands down.
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Kees van Dijkhuizen compiles the entire year’s worth of cinema into one neat package and ties it up with a bow for you and me. That would be 1 Year, 342 Movies, 12 Months of Production, in 7 Minutes.
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So neat..yup, that’s what this is. These super-clever animators at Australia based Dee Pee Studios have painstakingly drawn images in the air with glow sticks..yes freaking GLOW STICKS…captured the drawings frame by frame, assembled them into animations and ta da a little bit of light magic for the video for Lucky by All India Radio….
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I distinctly remember promises of flying cars, the elimination of paper, and household robots.
While I have always thought the idea of flying cars foolhardy (you see what happens with accidents on the ground…all we need is those idiots crashing over our heads…shudder). And the elimination of paper and printed books is horrifying to me (Kindle be damned). But that robot thing, now THAT was always an idea I was all about.
As a child sitting in my GATE class reading about that rosy robot-filled future I could hardly contain my excitement. I couldn’t wait to have my own robot. As the years passed I realized I had been hoodwinked. There were no personal household robots fetching our slippers, making us dinner, walking the dog. They had LIED to me. I must admit I was just a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
Well I am happy to announce that that bitterness over my robot-less life has finally been lifted thanks to the
kindness of my husband. For Christmas he gifted me with my first household robot and while he will not be bringing me my slippers anytime soon he is awesome and just cleaned my living room and dining room floors yesterday. I am the proud owner of an iRobot Roomba and I love him beyond reasonable understanding.
The jury is still out, but I am leaning towards the name Isaac with Karel also still in the running. Roo has been a possible option and for some reason Charlie. Please feel free to offer suggestions or preferences in the comments. There is a picture of the little guy below for inspiration.
PS – For those who think I may have forgotten about the the eventual Terminator-style uprising of the robots I have not. I just realize it is inevitable and we may as well enjoy them in the meantime. Besides having a Roomba may save me from a deadly viper attack.
This beautifully done piece is the work of Benjamin Ducroz a mediagraphics designer at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. He used a surprising variety of materials and sources including 3D, paper, inkjet printed frames, watercolors, water and ink to create this lovely animation. The result is a little bit of magic.
Here are a few stills from the making-of set. Be sure to visit Ducroz’s website to see more of his work.
And the final result…enjoy!…
PRESS + from benjamin ducroz on Vimeo.
The sound design was done by Samuel Acres.
All pictures are the property of Benjamin Ducroz.
It is amazing what kind of fun 25 cents (or hm was it fifty?) and a gumball machine can lead to. Mustaches are funny, stick on mustaches are even funnier.
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Music: Annette Hanshaw, I Want to be Bad, 1929
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“Really man, you keep me in stitches. Stop..stop…my sides are hurting!”
Photo courtesy of ♡Blackangelツ’s
Not sure if there is a bit of English in here or not. Don’t know, don’t care. But I AM sure I love it.
The teacher…those glasses, the hair, the coat…swoon.
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I was in the mood for a classic Christmas cartoon so I went a huntin’ and turned up this little gem from 1948 “Hector’s Hectic Life”. I love the colors in this one!
This oldie-but-goodie tells the tale of poor Prince the family dog who gets blamed for creating a mess he had nothing to do with. Faced with being tossed out in the cold and no hope of Santa bringing him any gifts things don’t look good for old Prince.
That is until his mom discovers the real culprits, three adorable but naughty puppies that had been left on the doorstep. All’s well that ends well.
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The animation was done by George Germanetti and Steve Muffatti. The story was by Joe Stultz and Larry Riley. Music was by Winston Sharples. Directed by Bill Tytla.
PS – No idea why the cartoon was eventually named Hector’s Hectic Life when the dog is actually named Prince. I guess the producers liked the alliteration factor *shrug*
