Bicycling Into the Aether
Well crafted animation by filmmaker Lorenzo Veracin depicting the famous trippy bike ride of LSD inventor Albert Hofmann on April 19, 1943.
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A Life Lived in the Rat Race
Leave it to the French to author the final word on Corporate Darwinism. “Switch” is a short film by Jean-Julein Pous and Pierre Prinzbach intended to convey “…a methaphysical thought about time. It’s the destiny of humanity through a character and its different choices, materialized by doubles of himself.”
Legolas Never Slayed a Dragon…
And you feel somehow shortchanged. Well, thanks to BioWare’s upcoming release, Dragon Age, you can finally satiate your desire for RPG dragon slaying in state of the art CGI. And you thought you still had some free weekends left in 2009…
Cartoon Animals Wage Resource War
“Yellow Cake,” is an animated short that teaches us something about global trade, hegemony, and the exploitation of the third world. It’s pretty heavy stuff for the genre, but, then again, this is pretty much exactly how I envision a nation of Toms dealing with a nation of Jerrys.
Weird Japanese Face Animator (Emu POTW)
This Japanese site will take any portrait-like picture that you upload and automatically convert it into a blinking, nodding, quasi-zombie animated template ready to model various animal heads, wigs, and facial hair.
It’s easily good for 45 minutes of time wasting. Fun, fun.
Link via BuzzFeed.
Belgian Matrix-Like Anime
Here’s an astounding animated piece by CGI savant Jean-Paul Frenay, entitled Artificial Paradise, INC.
Trials and Tribulations of a 4-Bit Spaceship
I don’t know what inspired this life introspective as seen through the eyes of a classic arcade game protagonist, but it seems to be the sort of thing that we post here, so I’ll just stop blabbing and comply.
Beavis & Butthead Resurrected in Promo
Mike Judge recently resurrected his dynamic duo of Beavis and Butthead after a dozen years out of the limelight. They seem a bit rusty, though commercial endorsements were never really their thing.
Disney/Marvel Conglomerate Announces New Releases
Two media giants combined forces today, promising to change our national film landscape forever. With the acquisition of Marvel Comics, Disney Corp has made a bold bid to incorporate popular superhero themes into its more traditional titles. Here is an exclusive sneak peak at some of its upcoming projects…