My Music Video Holy Grail...

I love YouTube. I fell in love with it early, with the classics (All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa) But there has been one place where it has always let me down...that Holy Grail that just didn't seem to exist online. It was a barely remembered song with a kick-ass video that I remembered from my Sophomore year in college (my Mtv Year) Michael Penn's "Look What the Cat Drug In (Long Way Down)" I always thought the song was pretty good, but that VIDEO...

It's taken over 10 years, but tonight, for the first time, I found it on a random Google Video search. My holy grail. (Be warned, you will probably have to sit through a dumb commercial)



...crap. Not as cool as I remembered it. (Still pretty damn sweet, though!)

Any other holy grail videos out there? What can't you find?

MUTO - Graffiti Animation

Holy crap!

Muto is a project started by "Blu", who is apparently a graffiti artist from Italy, and who is one part Salvador Dali and one part tripping acid. Creepy, gorgeous stuff. The amount of work and imagination that went into this just stagger me.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Via GiantMonster

15 (Painfully) Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs

I shouldn't be posting. I really shouldn't. It's late, and I've got TONS to do this weekend.

Instead, I made the mistake of checking Drawn!, and found this gem...15 (Painfully) Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs.

It was obviously created by someone a bit younger than me, who has fond memories of cartoons like "Mighty Max" and "Pro Stars" (what the heck?) But after having listened to every entry on the list, I'm now humming the "Animaniacs" theme to myself, and desperately wanting to watch an episode of "Batman the Animated Series". (And where is my "Pinky and the Brain" entry!?..."They're Pinky and the Brain! Pinky and the Brain! One is a genius, the other insane. They're labrotory mice. Their genes have been spliced! They're Pinky, Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Braaaaaaaaain!" - Pure Genius!)

Animation Mother-Lode!

It seems like more and more great animation is hitting the net. What would these guys have done if the net wasn't here? Has there always been this much great stuff out there, just waiting for some film festival to pick it up!?

Let's Start the Show with Don Hertzfeldt! - Dan Hertzfeldt creates some of the funniest cartoons on the planet.

Off The Wall Episode 1: "Lady Troubles" - Wallby tries to pick up chicks. How creative and fun! I totally want an entire series featuring Wallby!

Christy Karacas - Space War and Bar Fight - Animated surreal violence. Christy Karacas is the MAN!

Ray Harryhausen's Creature List

Wow. I never knew the name Ray Harryhausen, but I most certainly knew his films. I remember very distinctly renting 'Clash of the Titans', oh, 452,987 times between the ages of 7 and 13. Seriously. Ask my parents, they'll back me up there.

So when I ran across this amazing page of Ray Harryhausen monster creations, I was beside myself with glee! There's Bubo the owl! And that kickass cyclops from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad!

Visit this beautifully realized page of links and revel in the nostalgia. Be amazed by how many times you have been thrilled by this man and his creatures.

(then, when you are done with the walk down memory lane, check out these killer Animated 3D Multiple Lens Photographs...this chinesejetpilot site rocks!)

Check that Crazy Cat!

I always wondered who they got to do those hip little characters for cocktail napkins. Now I know!

Seriously, though, this is a truly inspiring video. Splatters of paint in the hands of the artist known only as Elio turn into the greatest little characters! I love what he does with the TV!



One critique, though...HOW THE HELL DOES HE HOLD HIS PEN LIKE THAT!?! It hurts my hand just to watch!!!!!

(found on Drawn!)

Linerider...or What I Spend My Day NOT Doing

It's such a simple, simple thing. Draw some lines on the screen. Press Play. Watch your little dude on a sled (with a stylin' scarf) barrel down the lines you just drew.



All day, I sit. Forcing myself NOT to play with this site. Cigarettes are less addictive.

Go here. Click Play. Or watch the movies that other people have made of their tracks, to give you some ideas of the possibilities.

Just make sure you don't have anything to do for the next few hours...

kiwi!

Wow, this animation is sweet, funny, clever and heartbreaking all at once.

Amazing job for a student project...

found on drawn.ca

Run Wrake's Animated Short, "Rabbit"

Wow. Yeah, you could call this strange...Run Wrake's animated short, "Rabbit". Found on Drawn.ca, my favorite site on the net.