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.
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.)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
My friends make videos on youtube and they are great:
One by Darryl Blood!
One by PROBOT!
Who knows who made this thing:
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Forget it. Just read the WFMU blog.
Get lost for many days at Sacred Destinations. Stained glass and gargoyles 4 U!
Afanasy Nikitin was the first Russian to explore India, which he wound up doing in about 1466.
In history books you will find very little about his dealings with the Shuisky sisters, or Alnus Rugosa, or Das Brick, because I made them up.
Ali Qushji and Perkin Warbeck and Jami the Persian Poet were real people, who sadly never really had anything to do with Russia or Afanasy Nikitin. The Kreml, while a real place, was probably not as fun as it appears herein.
So abandon all pretence of learning about historical Russia, ye who enter here.