Happy Easter! Here’s an artist’s impression of how it probably started.
Video Wall 7
Some crackers in this one.
- Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie – Directed by Oren Lavie, Yuval and Merav Nathan. One of those that slowly build, and you start thinking, ‘Wow. I wish I’d thought of that.’ Found via the Flatpack Festival’s blog.
- How To Tell If A Relationship Is Over – Tony Roche. Tight ‘as a toiger’ sketch/short film from people who’s names you wouldn’t have recognised in 2003, but would have said, ‘Give them a Job!’. Someone did. Tony Roche has now now worked with Armando Iannucci and written for ‘The Thick of It‘. Whilst more clearly starring The Mighty Boosh‘s Julian Barrett. I do think he’s a bit better than Noel. Maybe he just hasn’t SO obviously sold off his integrity. Maybe Noel doesn’t give a flip about integrity and just wants a laugh and some fruit loops.
- Snake by Frightened Rabbit – Bluestar Animation. For some reason when I saw the front image of this I wasn’t too bothered. But for some other reason I decided to click on it. Glad I did. Very fun.
- Owen Benjamin Ep2: Bad Breath Friend – Crackle Comedy. Bit of fun here from the Americans. Surprised there hasn’t been more of an innitiative in the UK for well funded comedy content for the web.
Long Awaited Video Wall 6
No particular reason for not putting up this video wall, just didn’t make the time. Soz. If you want to see most of what goes on here first. Check out our favourites on YouTube.
- Star Wars: Retold By Someone Who Hasn’t Seen It – Joe Nicolosi In his own words “…I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top. I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with her narration.” Interpretative goodness.
- Green Grass - PhylactereCola. This company’s based in Quebec and they have some really, really nice ideas and techniques. This has got a making of that I’ve included at the bottom of the post, which makes the video even better.
- Presto - Pixar. Awooga! What more do you really need to say. It was oscar nominated and it’s by Pixar. Possibly their best short yet? It really harks back to the Tom and Jerry times of writing.
- New MacBook Wheel – Onion News Network. These people are just amazing. The resources that go into it out strip any comedy that appears on TV in the UK at the moment. Why’s it all so cheap and rubbery now? Anyway. I get annoyed with all the Mac obsessives queuing up to do indignant favours for Steve Jobs. He has lots of money now, just give him a steak sandwich. Yes, Mac does a lot of things incredibly well, but it does make some poo too, which people are more than willing to swallow (I won’t make a link for that one).
Here’s that making of I told you about:
It’s 176 past 289… or 4:20am last Thursday
Whilst planning for a trip to New York and the implications of time zones, we got thinking about time as whole, or more precisely, the Gregorian shackles that are the UNITS of time that surely should have been chucked out the window with the shilling.
Why have ‘they’ never brought in metric time? Possibly for the simple reason that for the next 100 years everyone would be asking each other, ‘What’s that in seconds?’. 10 also isn’t as round a number as you think. It only feels like it because we run out of numbers when we get to 9. What makes clocks catchy is the fact that you can divide them into quarters, ‘Oh, it’s about quarter past 5′. Easy! Can you divide ten into such a socially convenient shape. NO! If ‘Ten’ had 12 numbers in it (i.e. we added the additional numbers ‘Gwek’ and ‘Pif’) we’d be on course for a much more rounded 10. Now we can start making some sense with blowing down Greg’s Old Dusty Calendar.
Now that we’ve established that ’10′ is officially not-that-good, we can go about cracking into shape these crappy days, weeks, months and years we’ve been putting up with. Most things we base these units on are stuff spinning round each other, and what’s good for measuring circles? Degrees. We already measure heat and angles with them, it’s seems crazy we’re not already measuring time with it!
So, 360 degrees in an hour, day and year? Can it work? Can We handle it? Of course not! That’s the beauty. Human’s have got to a stage where we’ve avoided evolution. 360TimeTM is a Darwinian kick start. What’s more, 12 divides into 360 in many nice socially convenient and overly precise ways! What the newly proposed TenTM‘s affects would do to that harmony, I’m not going to consider, neither should you. If that’s not already good enough for you, our years are already 365.25 days long. That means we all get to keep the ideal 360 day whilst GAINING a 5 and a quarter day shut down every year. It’s the dark, cold, secluded holiday people just don’t make time in their busy hussle-bussle life styles nowadays.
So, most things not considered, degrees hold the key to a universal system that makes EVERYONE better off, even if that means dead. The immense upheaval required for everyone to learn the new system would only be beneficial to tomorrow’s stupider generation. The only question unanswered is, what name should this new, partially beneficial system have? A name that would suitably reflect its practicality and the confusion and pain it would cause. An unrelated stream of alpha-numeric code? Maybe with a skull and crossbones character? Or no name at all, so people would have to stay inaudible when they meant the word?
May my thoughts be with you and those that fall in the 360 Days War.
4mations Top Users
At the beginning of January that laser-kitten laden, 4mations website named us as one of their ‘Top Users‘ which was nice.
Thanks.
You can see our 4mations page at: http://www.4mations.tv/DiceProductions
McCartney & Ringo Reunion
Found this oldy. Drawn back before the divorce, it now as a wierd ‘let’s frame the bitch’ sentiment to it… I like that.
All About Law Illustrations
Over Christmas I was asked to do a set of illustrations for several blog characters and a MILFy careers advisor for allaboutlaw.co.uk
Now get back to work or you’re getting a lump of coal next Christmas! God knows Santa’s got to streamline his production costs somehow.
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