Archive for August, 2009
Recycled Monsters
Friday, August 28th, 2009These monsters are made from various bits of waste by Brandon Jan Blommeart. More can be seen in his flickr set called eco_station.
Pitchfork's View Of 2000-09 In Music
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Over at Pitchfork they have started to compile their end of the decade lists of best albums and best tracks (the tracks are up now, albums are coming up later in the year). This is accompanied by a series of articles about various aspects of music in this decade. It’s worth a look even if it is just to violently disagree with their chosen top 100 lists.
Little Old Men: Custom Qee Dog
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Sketchbook: Creepy Insects
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Aniboom: Holiday Animation Challenge
Monday, August 24th, 2009In the middle of August is probably not the best time to post a Christmas animation but I have just entered my short “Walking In The Air” into the Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge. Submissions are open till the 31th August if you want to enter one yourself.
Click here or on the picture above to see the animation.
Chalk and Blackboards
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009This beautiful video was made by Yanni Kronenberg and Lucinda Schreiber for the Australian band Firekites and their song “Autumn Story”. I love the illustrations and the simple set up that was used to it’s full potential.
Saturday Cartoon: House Of Tomorrow
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009This is full of quick fire jokes from the master of animation, Tex Avery. I don’t think you could get away with some of this anymore (see if you can guess which parts) which is probably a good thing. Very funny and very of it’s time.
10 Dimensions
Friday, August 21st, 2009This simple but effective animation attempts to explain quantum physic’s principles of dimensions in a visual way. I really enjoyed it and thought I’d been taught something until I read the comments on Boing Boing. Accurate or not, it’s still very interesting if you like this type of thing.
Collings And Herrin Podcast: Live
Thursday, August 20th, 2009I’ve been listening to the Collings And Herring Podcast for quite a while now. Full of ramshackle talking and the odd bit about things going on in the newspapers, it is usually done in the comedian Richard Herring’s attic when Andrew Collins brings over his laptop to record on its internal mic. It’s very funny but not for people with delicate ears. If you listen to podcast number 57 you can even hear some jingles I made for them (and Richard’s own special way of being grateful for my efforts).
This week they are doing a 5 day live run of the podcast in front of an audience at the Edinburgh Festival. These are then put up on iTunes later in the day for people who couldn’t attend to listen to. Click here or on the picture above to get the podcasts.










