Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film has an interview with fiercely independent animator Bill Plympton. I met him once back in 2003 at a film festival in Chicago and he was the most engaging and approachable guy in the entire place. I attended one of his talks and enjoyed the spectacle of him selling his various wares out in the theater lobby.
He’s got an excellent web site where you can spy on him as he animates and see a wonderful trailer for his latest feature film, Idiots and Angels.
By Artie Knapp (USA – ArtieKnapp.com)
Illustration by divaDzine
BEFORE THE SUN had even broken across the horizon, young Larkin Wyley was anxious to start his day. Larkin was confident he was going to make a paleontology discovery so big and so grand, that it would put his name in the Kid’s Hall of Fame.
As his parents drove him to the digging site, it was hard for Larkin to contain his excitement.
“Just think, in a couple of hours I may be holding something millions of years old!” said Larkin.
“Well, that would be something, Larkin. But remember, paleontology is hard work. The most important thing is to just have fun today,” said his dad.
“And if things don’t turn out like you had hoped, that’s okay. Just keep at it,” said Larkin’s mom.
Larkin appreciated his parents’ advice, but quickly reminded them about the local farmer who had discovered a fossilized dinosaur egg many years before.
“Where there’s one, there’s sure to be more!” said Larkin with great excitement.
Then the Wyley family drove up a long country dirt-road, where Larkin’s grandparents owned land that stretched as far as the eye could see. And it was there that Larkin knew he would find his T-Rex.
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Per l’Italia! More of our story!
This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy. His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy. This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa.
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Reading and illustration by Alessandro Cima
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DOWNLOAD PINOCCHIO – CHAPTER 13
Per l’Italia! More of our story!
This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy. His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy. This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa.
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Reading and illustration by Alessandro Cima
All audio stories are Copyright © Candlelight Stories, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Do not distribute copies of our MP3 audio or video stories. They are for your personal use. If you choose to burn our MP3 stories onto a personal CD, do not make copies of the CD or distribute them to other people. Also, do not sell CDs containing our audio stories. All audio stories are copyrighted by Candlelight Stories, Inc.
I’ve never seen a film about making ink. This is a film by Tate Young for The Printing Ink Company. It features Peter Welfare, President and Head Inkmaker, showing us the entire process of mixing and testing colors. How often do you get to watch a film about a guy who seems to really love his work?
As neighborhoods in the United States begin to explode and disappear off the face of the earth due to a rapidly disintegrating infrastructure, distract yourself for moment and watch this film of how San Francisco looked just after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Incredible footage. These days stuff like this happens without even having an earthquake. You’re just sitting at home in America watching your TV and suddenly your children are on fire in their bedrooms and your entire neighborhood is an inferno.