Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
Sometimes any attention is good attention. Reminds me a lot of Android 207.
Animated by students at Kingston University, London
This animation is just plain fun. Poltergeist from Dadomani Studios, Dario Imbrogno animator
Saw this a few years back and it’s been a favorite ever since. A badger just wants to sleep, but the world won’t let him.
Nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for short animation.
Escalade from Birdo Studios is a simple story of keeping up with the Jones’, and the costs.
ATTENTION! ROGUE VIDEO ALERT!
I’ve shifted to an every other day posting schedule and what happens? On an ‘off day’ I feel the need to move to some ancient beats, namely Kraftwerk.
The Forest from David Scharf at huesforalice.com.
Antonia is a 12 year old girl. She often has daydreams, in which she wanders of in to a magical far away forest, were she hides from the problems of the real world. One day, however, her father takes drastic measures and she has to face a decision.
Is your inner peace an utopian state until you have finally escaped the grip of the society and its rules? Or is affirmation a faster way to your personal luck? And what are you supposed to do, if you have to answer this question at the age of 12?
The Legend of the Scarecrow from Carlos Lascano is a multiple-award winning animation telling the story of a scarecrow who wants to make friends with the birds and why crows are black.
You can find more at Mr Lascano’s website.
The British short Extn.21 has won multiple awards, deservedly so I would say. Directed by Lizzie Oxby, it is…
…a short film about one man’s desire to be heard. The film uses an innovative blend of atmospheric stop-frame animation, live action performance (a live action head on a stop-frame puppet) and digital effects to create a dark world of uncertain reality.
(with apologies to The Who)
As I mentioned the other day I’ve been wanting to rename this blog (and me, for that matter) for quite a while. Well, I finally got around to figuring it out and making it happen.
Welcome to The Ruffled Crow.
Ruffled Crow - pastels by Mike Beeman. Visit him at http://pastelsbeeman.blogspot.com/
The new name is even more accurate than the previous. “But I digress” has certainly been a good term to describe my writing, it’s also the way I experience the world. Everything is distracting and I tend to wander down odd little paths of thought constantly. This causes a lot of noise in my head and, as a result, can be rather annoying to me, and sometimes others.
“The Ruffled Crow” is a much more specific characterization of me and how I feel most all the time.
A ruffled crow, in my experience, is a particularly uncomfortable bird.
By nature, crows are bright and expressive birds. They are known to be quite inquisitive and if something interests them they will peck and worry at it until they either break it, figure it out, or collect it. (pick any two or all three) A crow has no problem telling you what they think, especially when you annoy them, and just about everything annoys them.
I would imagine that anyone who has been around someone like me would recognize the signs of ADHD in just the short descriptions given above. Back in the 1960’s I was diagnosed as hyperactive and it was assumed I would grow out of it. Now days doctors understand that that is not always the case. I’m currently in the process of getting it dealt with finally (in ways other than ‘self-medication’) and I’ll likely write more about it and the depression that comes along with it in a later post.
So… Welcome, again, to this little corner of the intertubes. While I primarily focus on animation and art, anything that catches my crow-like sensitivities is fair game and I will undoubtedly write at length about it. (fortunately for you it’ll get edited down to near-readability before it’s posted. sometimes…)
I want to be sure to acknowledge, and thank profusely, PurpleEevee909 over at Deviant Art for my avatar. When researching ‘ruffled crow’ I came across the image and it cemented the decision on the name. It is most awesome and perfect.
Please feel free to comment on whatever I post – in fact I’d truly appreciate it if you would as it is one of those little things that make blogging worthwhile.
The Murph by Rendezvous
Animated by Scott Benson
I was reading a big book on evolution at the time, and wanted to do something involving the progression of life and how it marches on despite it’s fragility. These concepts are in the final video, but it started taking on a life of its own.
You can read more here, and be sure to stop into Mr Benson’s new site at www.bombsfall.com, he’s a talented guy.
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