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Samara Walbohm writes:
After organising our bookshelf almost a year ago (see here), my wife (Jo) and I decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto.
Youtuber JosephPeed performs an uncanny real-life version of David Lewandowski’s unhinged animation.
And here, for comparison purposes, is the original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM
Yes. You did just see that. But you should probably watch it again, just to be sure.
Student Katy Beveridge created a series of phenakistoscopic animations by attaching cut out shapes to bike wheels then filming them spin.
In an effort to win Cully & Sully’s Cheffactor cooking competition, Alan Travers embarked on his first attempt at stop-motion animation: this step-by-step ‘making of’ his girlfriend Dee’s ‘legendary chocolate biscuit cake’.
Well, that’s just unashamed lobbyiNOMNONOMNOM
Director Sean Pecknold’s rather excellent animation for Fleet Foxes’ The Shrine/An Argument from the Helplessness Blues album.
We like this.
Somewhat in the style of Nick Park’s Creature Comforts (only without the brilliant claymation) Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is still awfully cute.
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp and voiced by Saturday Night Live’s Jenny Slate, it first appeared last year and, due to public demand, will soon have its own TV show and book.
This is the sequel. Watch the first one here.
Dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs by UK director Drew Stearne who sez:
The iPhone might be at the cutting edge of technology but it took a long time and many innovations to get there, take a trip through history and explore the people and technology that contributed to the iPhone becoming what it is today.
A short film by Oliver Trudeau. Which is awesome. Because ninjas.
‘Heliotropes’ (2010) by Michael Langan, live action and animation deftly combined to illustrate a 2008 poem by Brian Christian:
Heliotropes documents the parallel goals of man and nature, through the most primitive and sophisticated means, to simply stay in the light.
