Video Round up 3

O.K. Its the video wall again. Woop and indeed Di Doop.

• 'Grey' by Ivan Rusev. There's no real nitty gritty details about this guy which is shame. Think he's Canadian... or Bulgarian. This has really inspired me. The way that everything's drawn and animated finally makes me shake off all the snobbishness I picked up studying animation and the world of Richard Williams. The thing about Flash animation it really helps retain styles of illustration that would normally be deemed 'incorrect' in terms of it being a 3D object. It also means you just get to spend more time worrying about the most important thing, the story! So thanks, this has really given me a kick up the bum. But remember kids, Flash can make you lazy.
• Fight scene from the undefendable, 'Undefeatable'. If we're going to be naming and shaming, 'Godfrey Ho' directed it. In the words of the YouTubian who posted it "This fight is complete with knife licking, shirt tearing, gratuitous shirtlessness." I think special thanks to all the cast involved is needed too. "Yeah. See yer."
• Food Fight by Stefan Nadelman of Tourist Pictures. Brilliant video, racking up well over 3million on YouTube so far. Its a food reinactment of the major wars of the last century so it's meant to be sobering I guess, but funny, 'cos it's food. Here's more details about it.
• Hogan Knows Depression by WTF-TV for Comedy.com (expensive domain name for sure). It's funny and it's like something we would make, but I get annoyed by the faceless 'Blam!' logos they put on these. It's all about the brand, and that's just a smiley face. How am I meant to interact with that?

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I Like... David Cowles' Illustration

David Cowles does animation too, but I'm always impressed when someone can make a representation of The Beatles that stands out against the rest. David's illustration style obvously has a lot of Picasso influence and it's interesting to see how that converts into very commercial caricature. I'm dissapointed that this style hasn't really carried through into his animation though, it'd look great! There's no local links or anything, I just like. 

Video Round Up 2

• The Black Hole by Phil Williams & Olly Sampson - Great film that won the Virgin Media Shorts competition recntly. Perfect, short premise for a quirky film. Love the character development, without any words.
• Crime Fighter by Robot Chicken - Robot Chicken is an 'Adult Swim' program strangely co-created by Seth Green of Austin Powers (sort of) fame.
• Don't tend to go for satire as it dates very quickly, but this is just a very nice, just sarcastic enough quick fire of events from ITN.
• Cyriak's shouldn't be down at the bottom there. Doing very well for himself at the moment making relatively low tech, hypnotic, GIF avatar-based, repulsive, mahem animations. Just the trick. 

Ceci n'est pas un T-shirt

As Ian astutely pointed out, the next phase in degraded fashion design will be to sell T-shirts with pre-yellowed arm pits. If you want a 'Ceci n'est pas un Rolf Harris' T-shirt, get in touch or leave a comment and I'll try to sort it out at cost price.

Louis