Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook
A short animated film on the life of the great Japanese artist Hokusai.
This won the 1978 British Academy Award for Best Short Factual Film, and was written, directed, and animated by Tony White.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
via Cartoon Brew
Pork and Beans
The dysfunctional family of internet celebrities come together for this Weezer song.
Flip Flop express
A video compilation of McCain’s greatest lies. Is it really that hard to keep it straight?
Anthropology
If you missed it, here’s Victor Solomon‘s series of five short movies based on Dan Rhodes‘ Anthropology. Non love stories…
Watch as: Quicktime – MPEG-4 – Flash Video
Most annoying piece of television?
Here is what appeasement means:
to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.
Kudos to Mathews, who can be quite frustrating at times, for tearing down one of the biggest misnomers in American politics.
Watch it (warning: you might want to tear your hair out while watching this).
SNL: Clinton the Sore Loser
Pretty good skit by SNL. Watch it.
High Maintenance
Mechanical sex is the worst.
“High Maintenance tells a personal story about the power struggle in a relationship through the high-concept conventions of the sci-fi genre.”
A short movie by Phillip Van.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Ticklinks: Politics as unusual
Congress Debates Merits Of New Catchphrase
White House Press Secretary Spins Wife’s Tragic Death As A Positive
None of Us are Free: Burma
The None of Us are Free campaign, fronted by MTV, wants to “raise awareness about the hundreds of thousands of people that have suffered at the hands of the military regime in Eastern Burma.” The effort became even more relevant “due to this weekend’s cyclone that ravaged the area, killing thousands.”
Part of this campaign, is the short movie Burma, written by Carl Le Blond of creative agency Ogilvy & Mather, Amsterdam, and directed by Shilo Design.
Visit None of Us are Free.
Blue
Slow, especially hard when you are following the exciting Indiana Primary results come in, but it is mesmerizing. Here is how the filmmaker submitted the film:
The idea of the course (Film & Architecture) was to create a small documentary about the subject “Documenting Dessau”, which is the city where the course takes place. It is a small city in former East Germany, south of Berlin, known only for the Bauhaus building and some other modern architecture examples, mostly from Walter Gropius. Instead of going the obvious way and document Dessau as the Bauhaus Stadt, I decided to look at the city from the perspective of the people who live there, in the case us foreigners arriving at a small and decadent city and trying to live there. It is the city as experiences and not as place.
Nice.
The Sixty Million Dollar Man
Steve Nash is the world’s first recycled man: made from waste!
A retro-tastic spoof of the 70s hit show The Six Million Dollar Man.
Viral for shoes, directed by Danny & Ezra. Visual effects by The Mill.
Watch it. (Quicktime)
Flash Video here.
Florian
Two lovers meet one another on a bridge. All is well until tragedy rises from the water.
A short movie by Andrew Gibbs.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Texting Your Way To Love
Somewhat cliche but very true. One of the comments:
Genius! Genius! Dude that was awesome! You describe my life as a single man in NY!
Yes. It is that exciting!
Glass, a Portrait of Philip In 12 Parts
Saw this at Full Frame Film Festival. Wonderful portrait of a man whose music I admire more than anybody else’s. It wasn’t the standard documentary on an artist where the film is dedicated in making the subject look grander than they are. The Scott Hicks film is quite intimate, I never realized Glass was a closet Buddhist (he denies it). The filmmaker and the artist doing bring a certain humility to their tasks. Both practice their art because it intrigues them.
The 2008 Debate
Who wants to be a president of the United States?
The Clinton / Obama Debate we’d like to see in an animated short from political cartoonist Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher. Animation by Digital Steamworks.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
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