The Art of Old School Animation

Old animated film is fascinating to me. Mostly, it's the process that intrigues me because it's magic without the aid of technology. If the electric grid went down, you could still create animated cartoons, the old school way. These days, cartoons are computer generated. Where's the art in that?

From some reason, I feel the need to archive this video by posting it on my blog. Old school animation is a complex art form. This video takes us from story line conception, drawing, sound effects, all the way through to completion.

A Vacation Souvenir

It was an instant karmic event.

J2 found a stick of gum on the sidewalk, and convinced his brother, J1, that it was from the hotel room and got him to eat it. Then, once it was in his mouth, J2 yelled "ewww, you're eating sidewalk gum!!!!!", turned around to run, and ran smack into the corner of a square stucco (hence the complimentary scrap marks) column.

I keep trying to tell them about universal law, someday they'll believe me.

Weighty Matters

The internet is like one big hook-up. Over the last five years, I have found or been found by every person that I ever knew, and many I did not. Some people, I've avoided, other people, have avoided me.

It all began with email, then instant messaging, and now "social networking". That's what the nice people I work with refer to things like Facebook as, just fresh back from a seminar. Five years from now, one of them will refer to it as "crack book" and marvel at their cleverness.

What did Mark Twain say about everything being late to Cincinnati?

Anylatediscovery, the first thing my girlfriends do, many of whom I've not seen in thirty years, is report on their weight. Without fail, every one of them, from every walk of life, will tell me how much weight they've gained over the years.