Please Say Something
On the subject of animated shorts, i present to you the greatest thing you will see all month. I am in awe of this. For one, the style is utterly original. It’s truly something new and unique. The storytelling is […]
Month: August 2012
Destino: The Walt Disney/Salvador Dali Collaboration
You might think i’m being facetious, maybe i have an animated video that just LOOKS like what a Disney/Dali collaboration would look like, but no, i kid thee not. In 1946 they worked together on a video for the Fantasia movie that […]
The Underground City of Derinkuyu
In East Central Turkey exists an impressively large underground city built in the 6th to 7th century. It was originally a complex natural tunnel system used by early Christians to escape persecution and conduct their ceremonies but around the 7th […]
Descent Into The Underworld
We all know i’m writing a Dieselpunk Opera so there’s no point being coy about it. We all know i won’t actually begin making music for some time (months) but in my spare time i work out the stories (although […]
Battle Royal, The Count Meets The Duke
Speaking of swing, here is one of the greatest big band knockdowns you’ll ever hear. Duke Ellington and Count Basie teamed up to rock the house on this track and honestly, if this doesn’t do it for you, you have […]
Modern Swing(s)
In my spare time i research 20s, 30s and 40s music and tropes for…uh…. no reason, never mind. But in one of the cheaper ideas for a post, i typed in modern swing and got really cool pictures..of… swings! No […]
Victorian Puppet Opera: Master Peter’s Puppet Show
A Puppet Opera. How could i pass this post opportunity up? You think such a thing would be by some daring new theater company, at the very least a contemporary work, since the, say, 90s, but no. Mater Peter’s Puppet Show is […]
The Franklin Expedition (or People Who Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World)
In 1845 Capt. Sir John Franklin, famed Artic explorer, set off to finish what he started: mapping a sailing route through the Arctic above Canada so ships could sail from Greenland to Russia across a Northwest Passage. He had lead […]
I, Pet Goat II
Well THIS is rather interesting. Heliofant, a small independent animation studio based out of Montreal has made this REALLY interesting short which passionately depicts the film makers’ thoughts on the political and spiritual state of the current world. Heavy handed? […]
Russian Futurism
Futurism was embraced in Pre-Revolutionary Russian heartily by a small but ambitious group of artists and poets. They published their own manifesto (OF COURSE) called A Slap In The Face Of Public Taste. (points for a good title) They spawned […]