Archives for “animation”
Sadly, the VLC app on the iPad choked on the 720p video of Mamoru Hosoda’s Summer Wars that I managed to find. But that just meant that I had to watch the movie on a laptop like Jobs intended. However, this hiccup didn’t take away from the resounding amount of pleasure that I took from [...]
I recently saw this amazing piece of animation done using only Google Docs. It’s really impressive how people are able to use what are now basic business tools for decidedly non-business purposes. Also, it’s an indicator of the ubiquity of animation these days and how the rules of animation exist outside of cinema. Click here [...]
The Vancouver International Film Festival 2010 (VIFF) gets underway this Thursday September 30th which means that my cheap downtown pizza consumption will skyrocket in the coming weeks. I’ve been working my way through the festival guide in both paper and app form and have found that I still prefer the paper guide. It bugs me [...]
Recently Stephen Wichuk, Emily Carr’s awesome animation tech, gave me a DVD of animation by Vancouver’s own Stu Hughes and Ben Jacques who used to do animation under the name of Crystal Beard. I had seen some of their work when attending Animatron at Little Mountain studios a few years back, but this was the [...]
I wish I had come up with “Kung Fusion,” but I didn’t. It’s the title of a chapter in Vijay Prashad’s book Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity, which is now on my must-read list. I’m happy to see that chapter is available in Google Books, so I [...]
I’ve been thinking about the adoption of the martial arts in Western culture for a while. However, it’s really been on the front of my brain since this spring when watching The Boondocks. I had noticed it right from the title sequence where Huey is brandishing a sword. In particular I was really blown away [...]
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