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Category Archives: digital storytelling
Thingu
The great Martin Weller passed on this brilliant re-telling of John Carpenter’s The Thing using Pingu’s stop-motion animation as the medium muse. The special effects as seen through claymation are brilliant. Martin and I share The Thing as our favorite … Continue reading
Just when you thought it was safe to eat yams
OK, with this I finally feel like I did a Yams Meme assignment, and I must say it was fun. Though to be fair, Giulia’s Silence of the Yams totally rules. I was thinking about options, and it occurred to me … Continue reading
I Yam what I Yam
I wanted to play with the Yam meme, but unfortunately spent all day playing with animated GIFs (my true love). That said, I still wanted to make a showing so I went for a quick pun and found an easy … Continue reading
Jason and the Argonauts Animated Movie Poster 1.0
I was inspired by Michael Branson Smith’s awesome American Werewolf in London animated poster this morning, so I went around searching for some possibile posters to animate. I came across an awesome Jason And the Argonauts poster that breaks the … Continue reading
Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice…
Ted Knight ruled. P.S. There is something wrong with the installation of GIMP on this new Mac I am using for animated GIFs that’s making them crappy quality an much heavier, but I am working on it.
Potty Humor
Another take on this ds106 assignment. Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country. Image credit: Think2Create’s “Squat Toilet”
Lampadato
Lampadato is an Italian term meaning a sunlight tan, but the way Alan Levine’s translation machine get’s at it is much better: I love this assignment, and it made me go back to an Italian film I watched recently, Gomorrah … Continue reading
Tag Feeds for a variety of Blogging Platforms
I have been syndicating in new blogs for ds106 over the last two weeks, and it’s cool to see such a wide variety of platforms syndicating cleanly into the ds106 site. As of now I count seven six different platforms: … Continue reading
1966 Batman Bricked
Via CartoonBrew This is absolutely beautifully done. Miles, Tess, and I have a shitload buttload boatload of Legos hanging around the house now. I think I have to start getting into brick films with them. Start by recreating simple scenes … Continue reading
Slave Leia meets the Garbage Pail Kids
Via this post on Super Punch Slave Leia gets the Garbage Pail Kids treatment from Luis Diaz. I love the whole idea of mashing up Garbage Pail Kids with some other fan franchise, or even doing your own like the awesome … Continue reading