Friday, May 20th, 2011
This Oscar-nominated animated short from Josh Raskin takes a half-hour 1969 interview with John Lennon conducted by the 14 year old Jerry Levitan, distills it to 5 minutes, and crazies the heck out of it. The animation illustrators and even expands on Lennon’s words delightfully, making it an absolute joy to watch.
The pen illustrations were by James Braithwaite and the computer illustration by Alex Kurina.
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Although you couldn’t see it in the current strip (#590), I showed an image of Dub’s T-shirt over on Facebook: it’s a royal blue shirt sporting a “Rhyme Bandits” logo, parodying the Time Bandits logo, of course. People seemed to like it, and although readers always lie and say they would totally buy stuff and don’t once it’s actually available, I figure *I* would love to have one of these, so why not?
And so, the Rhyme Bandits T-shirt is now available for pre-order from the Multiplex Store. It is $18.99 for standard sizes, and (as always), I have to say, if you are a woman and like wearing Ladies’ style shirts, or you wear especially large (2XL+) or small sizes of even Men’s shirts, you should definitely consider pre-ordering if you like this design. At conventions, I sell basically two sizes: Mediums and Larges. I can’t afford to keep extras of every size, unfortunately.
I’ll keep orders open for three weeks (through June 10th), and if I’ve made 15 orders, I’ll print them up. If not, I won’t, and everyone will get their money refunded and be sad.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
One of my favorite short films in recent memory, the Oscar nominated 2006 live action short out of Belgium Tanghi Argentini probably borrows a little from Shall We Dance? (the wonderful, original Japanese version, I mean), but is so charming and so well told that it hardly matters. It’s 14 minutes long, so maybe wait ’til lunch, but otherwise I believe it’s safe for most workplaces. (There’s no nudie bits, and if there’s any swearing in it, it’s in Dutch.)
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
I often think of film (and comics) as a narrative medium, but every once in a while, something comes along to remind me that it’s not; it can be bigger than that, broader than that. It can be art.
“The Mountain,” a three-minute long, juxtaposed sequence of time lapse photography paired with a gorgeous piece of music from Ludovico Einaudi (whose music was used so incredibly well in Shane Meadows’s 2006 masterpiece This Is England), is simply breathtaking. It certainly generates a powerful emotional reaction that neither the images nor the music on their own would.
Check out Mr. Sørgjerd’s “The Aurora” over at Vimeo, as well. You can like TSO Photography on Facebook or follow him on Twitter.
