Le Building

We now have a new reason to hate the french! There is a school in Paris named Grobelins turning out sick student animations in an obvious attempt to embarass Americans. Check out Le Building to see what they are up to. Then check out this making of video and realize how much 2d/3d intergration they are doing. Bastards!

>>>> HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN HOLT <<<<

FAF (presumably) joins me in celebrating the birth of the first in a long line of Holt offsprings! It may be of interest to note that John Gay, the man who stated "Sure men were born to lie, and women, to believe them," was also born on this date in 1865. There's a son of a bitch born every minute.

MINDGAME rocked me like McRorie never could.

Holtler & I, girlfriends in tow, saw MINDGAME on sunday as part of the New York Asian Film Festival 2005. Not only was the introduction to the film by the festival staff delightfully enthusiastic, the film was awesome too. Giddy like a school girl I was after its 104 minutes of animated delight. We all really enjoyed it, even JoHo, who in spite of his slugish hangover still managed to mumble "was good" in approval. I could go on and on about it, but Ben Ettinger over at ANIPAGES DAILY already did it for me.
In conclusion, wether you have to buy the DVD, catch it at a special screening, or download it on the internet, don't miss MINDGAME.

AHHHH!

oh god.. what did I do? I knew there was a reason years ago I grew a beard.. because I look like I'm 12 without it. I look like some dude that did something naughty or something. That's it. the stache' is coming back.. I'll just have to survive for another 2 weeks and look like a weazel. Lindy sure will be shocked when she sees someone that looks 12 as her BF..

Grew myself a Mustache..

Well, Thar' She Blows! I took these because I sort of decided to grow a handlebar mustache, and it'll soon be gone. I guess it sort of got out of control and now Lindy is threatening to shave her head unless I get rid of it.. which will be scary..

Hey guys, we ever gonna get together?

Seems like we're all super busy with professional stuff now, which is good given that we were pretty much doing nothing 3 years ago( most of us)anyhow, I have a little more vacation time at the new place, so I could potentially travel a bit. It'd be good to see everyone after a seemingly long time. I bet you all have like 4 kids each and a cocker spaniel in the yard right? Probably going bald, and stuff.At least it feels that long ago. anyhow, just throwing that out there for shits and giggles.

Disney fonts

This is a list of most of the fonts used a Walt Disney World. They even give you links to buy the fonts and a list of free knockoffs. Freakin sweet.

¡¡¡ HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARRYL ¡¡¡

FAF celebrates the birth of DARRYL BLOOD amongst mere men.

because we need more trolls.

I dreamed that I had come up with a clever plan to interview Robin Williams for a fake TV show. The plan was that I would drive to his famous hospital for homeless children.Don't know where I got the idea that he owned a hospital, but anyhow, I drove up and a guard asked me what I wanted. I told him that I thought Robin Williams was doing an awfully good job taking care of all those poor homeless kids and I was part of a film crew who would like to ask him some questions about how he runs it. He amazingly agreed and let me in. Anyhow, Williams drives up in a rusty old pickup truck,Just like the one my grandad used to own. He was in a foul mood too.I started some stupid conversation about the hospital, which I knew nothing about. I also tried to crack a few jokes but realized that I sucked at telling them and he was obviously not amused. He told me about how he had gotten started on Mork and Mindy, and how that before that there was this 1960's reality show( way ahead of it's time) that took 12 comedians and pitted them against each other. It sounded like a miserable experience, with most of the comedians being really nasty, mean people who were only funny in a fake way on stage. I asked him if the hospital was open for visitors. Yup, he said, and he took me in and showed me around. Everything was painted with silver roof paint, so I was almost blinded, which he thought was sort of funny. I started to feel like ole' Robin was really a prick. So I decided to make some rude comments, like telling him that that Robots movie was stupid and that he acted like a crack addict on TV, and that how "good mornin' Vietnam was really just him getting over his cocaine addiction or something like that. He thought that was really funny, and the more insults I made, the more he laughed. It made me pissed and I ran away but I couldn't find an exit. All I could hear was his mananical laughter. I wonder what I was thinking about before I went to sleep.

more JOY thru POO

A doggy poo is born and searches for the meaning of life in this heartwarming tale penned by Korean children's writer Jung-Saeng Kwon and is lovingly brought to the screen by director Oh-Sung Kwon. Really. I'm not shitting you.
You have to see it to believe it. (thanks to Frank for the link)