If you don’t know anything about being a painter, Andy Warhol clears it all up in this short film clip. This is the entire 20th century in art summed up to perfection by a raving genius.
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Animation: Educated Fish
Here’s a 1936 cartoon from the Max Fleischer studio. Little fish need to go to school under the ocean. But one little fish doesn’t behave so well and gets hooked by some dangerous trouble.
Animation: Sensology
Animator, Michel Gagné, has just premiered his latest film. Sensology is a visualization of music played by Paul Plimley (piano) and Barry Guy (bass). The images actually look like the sounds they accompany. I couldn’t help thinking all the way through the film that the pictures were exactly how the notes sounded. I’m normally very hard to amuse with shapes that illustrate music, but this piece is short and good. My favorite part is the machine-like animation near the end.
Via Cartoon Brew
Animation: Dante’s Inferno In Under 2 Minutes
Filmmaker Declan Moran made this under 2-minute version of Dante’s Inferno which is based on a book called Dante’s Inferno: A Comedy’ by the Brothers Grim & Grimy (undead). I like it. Dante’s actual book is so full of colorful Italian whining that I find it almost unreadable. I mean really, the nasty old fellow used his trip through the underworld to take out his revenge for every little insult he ever suffered at the hands of almost anyone he ever met. Insufferable. Well, suffer no more, the Inferno is here in short form!
Super Fun Browser Game: Doodle Blast
Here’s a super fun game that will have you drawing all kinds of lines to try to guide the dropping balls into the cup. Sounds easy. Try it. It gets harder and pretty close to insane.
Special Treat For The Anti-Defamation League: How to Build a Mosque
Since the Anti-Defamation League has just decided to support the mission of bigots opposed to the building an Islamic center in the vicinity of the World Trade Center site in New York City, I thought I’d offer them a special presentation on the building of a mosque.
Another suggestion for all bigots like those who work at the Anti-Defamation League would be to schedule a field trip to a local mosque to see just how well-treated one is upon entering a mosque. If you have never been inside a mosque I would recommend going. What you imagine goes on inside a mosque is most certainly not what goes on inside a mosque. Give it a try sometime. Get to know the people inside the building and when you start to feel really bad about the way you have behaved, just chalk it up to your own uneducated imagination.
Here’s an article about the raging anti-Muslim attitudes spreading across the U.S. and Europe.