Tag: animation

The .Gif Friday Post No. 398 – Smooth Hit WIN, Clap Hands & Tripping Down The Hall

Escalator Arm WIN

WakeUp
Tripping Down The Hall

[Found in here, in here and here. That top one is pure Buster Keaton. Kudos to whoever you are.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 394 – Camel Bite, Dog Catcher 2 & a Van Halen Embarrassment.

Camel Bite

Dog Catcher 2

Van Halen Embarrassment

[Found here, here and here. Related .gif here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 393 – OmeletPizzaWave, Busy Street Scramble & Hydraulics Hop

PizzaWave

Busy Street

hydraulics

[Found here, here and here.]

The Friday .Gif Post No.390- Little Mail Guy, Balalaika Belly & Two Mad Golf Balls

Little Mail Dude

Balalaika

Golf Ball Splat REVGolf Ball Splat

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 387 – Foldytown, Catwalk & Silo Man

Foldytown

catwalk

silo man

[Found here, here and here.]

Saturday Matinee – Pushing Hay, The Ballad of Holland Island House & The Tom Stormy Trio featuring Rhythm Sophie

Pushing hay [via]. Makes me itchy just watching it.

“The Ballad of Holland House” is based upon a true story.

Holland Island sits in Chesapeake Bay, near Wenona, Maryland. The five-mile-long island was settled in the 1600s, and at one time had a population of 360 people and 70 buildings. Erosion ate away at the island, which sat on silt and clay, and the residents moved away between 1914 and 1918. The island’s church was moved in 1922, and only one house remained standing. It was built in 1888. For decades, the water ate away at the island, and the last remaining house finally collapsed in October of 2010. What’s left of the island is now a marsh, home to hundreds of sea birds. See pictures of the island and the house -and the cemetery- at the Baltimore Sun [via].

How ’bout some retro rockabilly from Budapest?

The Tom Stormy Trio (featuring Leipzig’s Miss Rhythm Sophie) is just the thing to wrap up this edition of The Saturday Matinee.

Have a great Passover / Easter, folks.

The .Gif Friday Post No.380 – If Dogs Were Cats and Cats Were Dogs & Sky Swing

If Dogs Were Cats
Here's Your Tuna
Sky Swing

[Found here, here and here.]

The Saturday Matinee – ANIJAM, Tommy Pederson & Frank Leightner, John Prine & Iris Dement

“Anijam” was a 1984 animation experiment created by Marv Newland, and appeared in the movie/video series “Animation Celebration.” No plot, just an exercise in surreal animation focused on an odd character named “Foska.” (Watch for some early computer animation sequences.)

“ANIJAM was created by 22 animators, each doing a different sequence. The first drawing of each sequence is the last drawing of the previous sequence. The animators did not know what action came before, or went after their own sequence. The animators were free to create any animation that they wished. They were required to begin and end their sequence with Foska.”

So where do we go after that level of bizarre? How ’bout this:

“The Flight of The Bumble Bee” [ca. 1900] on trombone is VERY tough to do. I could barely double-tongue on trumpet (dugga-dugga), or triple-tongue (dugga-ta-dugga-ta-dugga) but that guy was quadruple tonguing (dugga-dugga-dugga-dugga) on a trombone at high speed. Spike Jones’ band was awesome.

John Prine & Iris Dement at Sessions at West 54th (full concert) February 2014 [via]. The only thing I have against John Prine is/are his forced rhymes, but his voice and songwriting makes up for it. After all, it’s a Big ‘Ol Goofy World.

Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for more fun.

The .Gif Friday Post No.353 – Happy Halloween!

Tim Burton's CakeTim Burton's Cake 2

“Tim Burton received this handmade cake from his animation team and it’s basically the coolest shit ever.”

[Found here. More Samhain stuff here.]

Saturday Matinee – 4 Shorts, A Really Happy Dude, Captain Beefheart & Little Feat

Four shorts in under 90 seconds, with balloon animals.

What a happy guy. After those two vids, we gotta walk it down.

Here’s Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band (1974) with “Upon The My O My.” We’re not quite at ground level yet, and since we neglected to honor Mardi Gras last week, let’s amend and repair the accidental and unintended oversight with this:

Little Feat performing “Dixie Chicken” with a lineup including Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt & Jesse Winchester on The Midnight Special in 1977. Very cool.

Have a great weekend, folks, and always remember.