Here is Anouk Ricard for you. Yep. 

This is just a spectacular article, written by a regular ol' punter like you and me, except he worked with the Coen brothers on The Big Lebowski. If you have ever loved a Coen brothers movie, or formed a mental image of southern California, you should take fifteen minutes and check it out.

The rest of the website is pretty fine too.

This site has some images of Diebenkorn paintings to go with the article.

This site has lots of uproarious movie quotes in one convenient place. Frau Blücher?

François Macré - Thriller (reprise A'cappella 64 pistes)




Go visit Crowolf on Flickr. Like a cross between a Ouija board and a Lite Brite, which is needed.

If anyone missed EBN when they were first around, you should spend a few minutes at their lovely internet website.

You will find lots of great Jack Dangers beats and weird, distressing and obsessively well-executed media mashups from the Clinton era.

Photoshop Disasters = funny!

That is great.



For once I wish I was Banksy.

WFMU is looking out for you, and for me... and they have found Brian Bress's video for Wounded Lion.

Hey, great!



And for all you guys looking for some great 1930s or 40s Halloween tracks, check out these collections. All those songs from the Betty Boop/Cab Calloway/Louis Armstrong Halloween films, plus a bunch of other obscure stuff that you will like a lot. Plus some hair-raising photos of Hollywood starlets being scared by pumpkins, and the like.

Hey! I love Sylvain Chomet and he was written up to sound like an arrogant French geezer in the NY Times yesterday. 

This Desperaux mouse looks just like the mechanic who fixes the bicycle machine for the Wine Mafia in Triplets of Belleville, (not to mention that he also bears a strong resemblance to Cheburashka) so I don't know if it really counts as a "new" character design, but whatever, please list Mr. Chomet in the credits. So that more people will conceivable watch Triplets, which is one of the greatest movies ever made. Really.

(Even though Mr. Chomet left Nicolas de Crécy (one of the single most talented artists in the world of animation/bandes dessinées) out of the credits for Triplets. After Mr. de Crécy did the art direction, until he left the production. Which makes the present controversy a little ironic, I think.)

I love you both, Sylvain and Nicolas. Please make another movie together OK?

(PS the picture above is from the little-known, but beautiful and hilarious short La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons. Go watch it.)

My friends make videos on youtube and they are great:

One by Darryl Blood!



One by PROBOT!



Who knows who made this thing:

Forget it. Just read the WFMU blog.



Get lost for many days at Sacred Destinations. Stained glass and gargoyles 4 U!

OCTOCAT you can watch them here ... thanks Cartoon Brew



Also **unbelievable** Sea Orchestra from Shy the Sun, who made Tale of How. There are a bunch of amazing ads from United Airlines - including one by SSSR, another favorite of mine - that need to get watched.

Big thanks to Cartoon Brew for pointing these out!

Thanks to Neatorama



Also, Get Back Up Again, a collection of old 45s, is the best thing I have ever heard. Buy it if you can.

Someone collects Mayor McCheese paraphernalia.

Errr... is this helpful? This?

Here is the site for Massimo Giacon. Some very relaxing music awaits.
Thanks WFMU.

The buzzing you feel is not your phone.
















Here is Houseplant Studios collection of curios for us. Thanks to Metafilter!

SECRET FUN BLOG

Perfect! Thanks WFMU



PES strikes again... thanks to Cartoon Brew.

All Hail Ernie the Bugbot!

Garuda looks excellent.


Thanks to Cartoon Brew for paying attention.

No need to panic, it's only a new film from the best animator we have: Hayao Miyazaki. It is called Ponyo on the Cliff or some such. If you haven't seen all of his other movies, you are simply wasting your time. No I am not kidding. I don't care if you are 5 or 50. Go see all of these movies immediately. Then get ready for this new movie.

Here are some great sci-fi covers courtesy of John K. I never read these books, but I often admire the wacky covers. Now I can enjoy several of them at once!

I would enjoy Mr Potato Head 4x as much if I had 8 arms.

My wife crocheted a matryoshka this morning while I was sleeping. What would she do without me?













Make sure you wade into the waters of Questionaut, the latest from Amanita Design. They are very consistently terrific.

Yay WFMU!

This is one of 80 handpainted Mexican monster trading cards. Thanks Boing Boing.

Thank you John K

I agree with metafilter - if you must drink, drink from this.

This is exactly why not so many blogs are needed. Especially this one. Everything you need is already at WFMU blog. Go, and understand.

Ow! Very lovely images from Edmund Dulac at Animation Archive. Go!

Once you get your muse, you are sort of stuck with her. Even if the rest of the world shrieks with confusion. If you learn that you are to make dioramas of albino squirrels in the basement of your funeral home, well, just do what your muse says.

That is a stylish bird. From EnglishRussia blog.

This has everything possible in the world. The Internet Potato Chip Mascot Gallery.

Again, this is from WFMU blog. I am but a shadow on the wall of the cave.

Again, this is free. When I was growing up, this would have cost lots of money to see.

How do you perform on this quiz?

This guy has a show coming up somewhere but I left the newspaper on the T and I can't find any mention of it online. I'll let you know where it is later. SKUNK!

Yes Probot Productions is still turning the world upside down. I will have Spielberg's awesome German glasses. And I will ride around in a Fisher-Price Mini-Bus.

Build a 1944 Batplane

Yes I named my son after him. At least his middle name. So I feel great reading this appreciation of Louis.

It is also from WFMU. Why even read this when you could be reading WFMU blog?

Finally some great music!!! I heart Andrea Rocca.

Aaand look at the wonderful video to go with it. Thanks WFMU.

Giant Hat from 1915:

Maybe you don't need this so much. But I need it wicked bad.

Thanks WFMU, again.

Also, after wondering for years why Paperrad looked familiar to me, I noticed my kids reading Popcorn by Frank Asch. Very stylish and satisfying illustrations, totally gettin' jacked by the geniuses at Paperrad. Take a look.



Plus, don't look up Paperrad on youtube. NO!

Well Cartoon Brew finally woke me up. Check out these things, per them: Feel Like a Rocket


VOICST Feel Like A Rocket (HD) from Fons Schiedon on Vimeo.

or

Orderly Confusion. They are both great.

I can't believe how amazing the character design is for Hellboy II. I am not really a comic-book movie nerd. I really liked Hellboy, and I think Guillermo del Toro is the real deal (as is Mike Mignola!).

But this new movie has the best alien creatures I have seen since 1977, and I am as excited about seeing these weird things come to life as I was when I was 7 years old waiting to see Star Wars. Look at these guys!




Plus, check out the intersection of Gary Panter and Marvel Comics. I like to think of myself as more of a RAW guy than a superhero guy, but this meeting of the minds has Jack Kirby written all over it.

Thanks to Drawn! for writing this up.

Another great children's book for anyone whose kids love Halloween (in April): The Witch Casts a Spell. Fantastic spooky yet enchanting collage illustrations of Halloweenland by Barbara Olsen.

Well here is a double-whammy of goodness. I had posted earlier this video by Paul Walker, which is fantastic all by itself. Taking another look, I have deduced that Mr Walker is part of Margin Walker, which has several charming and clever animation videos available at their website.

One of them features Colargol by Tadeusz Wilkosz. Please go find out about him. Great Polish stop motion animations for you!!



Looks like Drawn! found him last year. I missed it. Maybe you did too?

If you were wondering where the Singeon site went, it went here. Apparently Singeon's mom found out about the other website, and threw it away.

No, I'm kidding. I don't know what happened to it.

Here is his myspace page, which is also lovely.

Hi!



Here are the dogs that inflate when the subway passes below.



Here are the Al Jaffe fold-ins from the New York Times today, in case you missed it.

Hmm... it's medieval, it's microscopic, and it's mythological. In short, it has everything I look for. The perfect blog item!

It is from the Kyushu Museum, via Pink Tentacle, via Monsterama. What a family tree!





I was going to post an image from Juan Ortiz's wonderful website, but he put a terrifying legal paragraph in there to prohibit using his images at all.




















By Heidi Kenney. Nice!

I remember the first few times I saw anything in YouTube-quality pixellated gristlevision, thinking that nobody would want to watch anything this grainy and murky - like an old Edison wax cylinder... yet here we are!

Lo, some things do look better when you can't make out the details - behold
"His Wife Is A Chicken."



Thanks WFMU!

Where do you go to find all those 18th-century Japanese monsters you keep hearing about? Easy! Go here. But bring a friend because it is very scary!

Thanks to Neatorama for finding this crazy junk.


My favorite Bugs cartoon. At least, it's the one that made the biggest impression on me as a 6-year-old. I am not a Bugsologist. Just like this has always been the only Star Trek episode I like, because it scared the Gleem out of me when I was small.


Yours for $525.00!


Just get the DVD. Seriously.

Try some of these. They are mighty strange, but have the ring of truth about them.

If you have to read anyone's blog, just read Modok's. At least he has a reason to be frustrated and full of himself.