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Smigly: What’s your stimulus package?

Posted by Anne on November 30th, 2009

My boss Eamonn found Smigly by Allen Mezquida. Wonderful. Great blog, too. – So what’s your stimulus package? Seriously, now?

Jailbreaker and Hank Williams

Posted by Anne on September 8th, 2009

Write a one-sentence summary of this video.

OR: Which sentence best summarizes this video for you?

A sheriff manages to capture a jailbreaker.
A jailbreaker meets an upright citizen who captures him.
A short dog manages to outtrick a tall dog in a striped shirt.
A poor fellow simply can’t win against someone who is already [...]

New Yorker Animated Cartoons

Posted by Anne on June 16th, 2009

Rod introduced me to the New Yorker Animated Cartoons podcast. Here are a few:

You can get the New Yorker Animated Cartoons as a podcast on iTunes. The iPhone app http://www.RingTales.com/iPhoneNY on my iPhone sometimes stalls – pity! But the podcast is better anyway.

Anne in Wonderland

Posted by Anne on January 1st, 2009

You simply must see the great Disney exhibition at Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich, which traces the European images that inspired the look of Disney’s films. I had some surprising insights. And the gauches, pastels, oils and paintings on celluloid produced in the Disney Studios are just delightful. (Exhibition through 25 January 2009.)
As I was [...]

Pluto’s Christmas Tree (1952)

Posted by Anne on December 24th, 2008

Donald’s Snow Fight (1942)

Posted by Anne on December 19th, 2008

Batmobile

Posted by Anne on July 3rd, 2008

BMW has come out with a very cool concept car called GINA that looks like it should be sold in a sexshop. Watching the videos loving the skin on this transformer car, I was reminded of Batman, a favorite of the latex scene. As kids, we used to drape blankets over our shoulders and run [...]