http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com Musings on Animation and stuff Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:28:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every being strives after pleasure, and it is in pleasure that happiness consists. -- Epicurus There's a party in my tummy! (So yummy! So yummy!) Carrots in my tummy! (Party-Party!) -- Brobee the green monster As a parent and the Artistic Director of an animation festival, I get to see a lot of TV animation for kids. ... http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/12/15/there%e2%80%99s-a-party-in-my-tummy-the-yo-gabba-gabba-revolution/ (written for 2008 Warsaw Film Festival) Hide the children, put away your daughters, he is coming. That prevert of the Baltics, Priit Pärn. The barely-a-man looks like a dressed up caveman. Just try and talk to him. Hear those grunts? They’re real. This Estonian creature is a danger to all that ... http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/12/15/beware-of-parn/ In Mad Men, advertising guru Don Draper tells a colleague that “advertising is based on one thing: Happiness. And you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car… It’s freedom from fear. It’s a billboard on the side of the road that screams with reassurance that ... http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/12/15/mad-men/ Best short animation of 08. #1 --by a mile I am So Proud of you, Don Hertzfeldt like watching the world through the eyes of a fly. Absurd, tragic, hilarious, poignant depiction of identity, family, life. No particular order for the rest of the mortal lot: Chainsaw, Dennis Tupicoff, Australia Letter to Colleen, Andy/Carolyn London, USA Drux ... http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/11/25/pimp-picks-2008/ Animation lost a pal late last night...and more than that the world lost another good person. And I don't mean that in a glib, he's dead so let's say only nice things sorta way. Emru Townsend was truly a good person. He was compassionate, sharing and positive to the point ... http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/11/12/emru/ Nifty cover by, who else, Theodore Ushev for upcoming book. First one I've written that doesnt have anything to do with hockey, animation or my fucking childhood. Fiction, you might even call it. I wouldnt though. Non-fiction? No, not really. Does it matter? Frank Remley has a job at a parking ... http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/10/29/drivin-cars-and-the-people-inside-them/ Interview with Kenneth J Harvey for Ottawa Xpress prior to his appearance in Ottawa at the writer's festival. http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/10/29/kenneth-j-harvey-interview/ Interview with Canadian writer Bill Gaston for the Ottawa Xpress http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/10/29/bill-gaston-interview/ http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=15375 http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/10/06/book-review-taking-the-stairs/ http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=15430 http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2008/10/06/the-lit-pimp-hunter-s-thompson/