easter eggs

I’m sort of loath to highlight a commercial, but this British ad for Sony Bravia LCD widescreen TVs is one of the most oddly beautiful and mesmerizing examples of motion-stop animation using clay I’ve ever seen. It’s simply a really love little film: I discovered this at Duncan’s TV Ad Land, which also features making-of … more…

It’s August, which means it’s disgustingly hot and there’s crap at the multiplexes and kids are getting ready to go back to school, if they’re not already there. Suckers. I, proud university dropout, am of a mind with Mark Twain, who never let his schooling interfere with his education. But I can’t help but feel … more…

Dey cannot has cheezburger — iz two fatning.

I’ve gotten emails from a bunch of folks over the last week or so about the latest Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon, by Ruben Bolling. (It’s from June 16, 2007; you’ll need to click on the calendar to find it when the next toon is posted.) And now seems the right time to point it … more…

Wise Geek has an, um, interesting new tool called Which Movie Reviews Should I Believe? Here’s the pitch:

‘Evil Dead: The Musical.’ It sounds like a joke, but it isn’t. Well, it IS a joke, but it’s meant to be a joke.

Charlie Kaufman is the ultimate self-reflective geek…

I recall that golden age of the early 1990s when Saturday morning was a witty wonderland of live-action weirdness like ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’ and ‘Beakman’s World’ — which turned kiddie variety and educational programs into bizarro performance art — and cartoons that were more in the vein of classic Bugs Bunny than focus-grouped marketing ploys.

Um, Houston, we have a geek classic…

Perhaps it’s not surprising that half a decade after 9/11, the PTSD of New Yorkers is beginning to show up on film… and now on DVD.