If you, like me, have ever gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and just let your mind wander, imagining What would I do if I had a hundred dollars? then this is fuel for that fire, right here: ~ Bleep Labs ~

(In case anybody missed it at BoingBoing.)
















Which, really, brings me back to the classic endearing/noisy electronic noisemaker/gizmo, the Drum Buddy. For those of you bold enough to wish for a thousand dollars. Dream on, gizmo lovers, dream on!!

I have collected my confused musical recommendations in one place, again... for those of you with too much money and an ear for inspired madness.

This illustration is by Elisa Arguilé. It has nothing to do with the list, but it's pretty nice, innit?

Waah! Waaah! We can't make animation as dumb as the videos they show on MTV2 and BET and stuff! It can't be done! Animation is too smart to do it!

Hey MALARKEY! Look at this stuff. As dumb and stupid as anything Christina Aguilera can do in real time, but painstakingly recreated with dolls. Willis O'Brien would be wicked proud!! Thank Fous D'Anim for keeping us up-to-date.

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controlroomcopycan, originally uploaded by froodmat.

Froodmat bringin it to you from Germany. Again and again and again and again. Nobody does it to a digital camera like the FROODMAT.

Gangpol und Mit is just like the Bran Flakes, except that instead of being from Australia they are from Germany, or France, or something. Alright, France then. But don't worry about it. They sound like they're from Liechtenstein if you ask me.

I think this fits in pretty well. With other post-Deeee-Lite bands like, er, The Avalanches or something? Ladies and gentlemen, The Bran Flakes!

It is July, the air is heavy, and your hi-fi is begging to whisper the peaceful melodious sounds of tropical paradise. Oblige the old thing, will you? Xtabays World is a whole grass hut packed to the palm-tree rafters with old technicolor LPs to download, massage gently into your scalp, rinse, and repeat.

The links alone will sustain that feeling of floating in Don Ho's kidney-shaped pool, for weeks on end.

Ahhh.

Summer.

Pretty arrsome student flim here, entitled Astronauts - a winner at Annecy, I'm told.

Check out the amazing Rabbit also, if you haven't seen it.

Thanks to cartoonbrew!













PS check out the mysterious contents of THE THING at the Secret Fun Spot. It's, umm, not what I had guessed... I don't know about you.

Have you tried buying a t-shirt online? It is a lesson in frustration. There are amazing concepts being turned into shirts and then, like small children's balloons, let go into the stratosphere never to be seen again. I am particularly upset about not getting to walk around with the image at left, from huskworks, on my chest. Grrr. I guess I will have to buy a white Hanes wife-beater and like it!

This has been all over the animation blogs lately, so you have probly seen it by now. If not, take a few minutes and absorb this animation treasure, The Thief and the Cobbler. It was obsessed over by the artist, Richard Williams, mangled by The Man, and distributed as a movie that the animator never intended to make.

Now there's a re-edited version, motivated out of love rather than profit, and the roughness of the edges makes it that much better. Stick it to The Man and enjoy it on YouTube for free!! These are amazing times we live in, no? Thanks to Cartoon Brew for waking me up to this.