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Whoa: big-time blast from the past. This is a cartoon from Sesame Street, from long, long ago. I always found it troubling, because … well, because the Martian looks really odd, and maybe more because she has a bow on each individual hair. How do the bows stay on? And yet now, i think it’s …
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“Introducing Cat! The new compact, selfish dog.” David Mitchell’ Soapbox: David Mitchell ponders the origins of the word Camelopard
I was talking with my friend Barry about the cartoons on TV today — Thomas the Tank Engine, Max and Ruby, and the dreaded Dora. Barry wondered where the morals of the stories were. What lessons were they teaching? I said that we grew up on Bugs Bunny, and there were no morals there. Very …
Through I Let My Fists Do the Talking , I found xtranormal, which lets one make animated movies by making scripts with camera cues, dialogue, sounds, etc. Here’s yesterday’s blog post, rendered in LEGO-like animation. I was aiming for a "The Show with Ze Frank" editing style, and I think that aspect came out OK. …
UblUO0LjPUg The best part of the Super Bowl this year was the commercials. Ah, who’m I kidding? This was the best Super Bowl in years. Exciting, tense, closely fought. Great defensive performances from both teams, clever strategizing on all sides. Bill Belichick and his staff made a great call asking for a review of a …