Star Wars, Legoand stop motion? Impressive, most impressive. But even more impressive was that the video, created by YouTuber Fancy Pants Productions, was simply an entry to an animation contest on Bricksinmotion.com. Winner, winner chicken dinner!
When office supplies take the time to offer me sound advice I listen. Stop motion with a message from San Francisco based designer Mike Afsa. See the older hints here.Via Max and his Viewers Like You.
To help get your week started here’s some stop motion inspired inspiration courtesy of LEGO who remind you that “great ideas just click” as seen in their infectious short film, CL!CK.
Not only is it awesomely cool that Wes Anderson’s film adaptation of Roald Dahl’sFantastic Mr. Foxwon the Special Filmmaking Achievement Award from the National Board of Review, but for him to create a stop motion acceptance speech to go along with it is just as brilliant.
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If you’ve seen the film you’ll completely understand and enjoy the online version of “Whackbat”.
When stop motion and a flip book meet in a dark alley, smoke acid, make bad decisions and then engage in some brutal lovemaking, 9 months later you get VIDEOGIOCO (which, from Italian, appropriately translates to “video game”).
PES, one of today’s masters of stop motion filmmaking (Western Spaghetti, Game Over, Fireworks), has given us another film to fawn over. This time it’s a peeing peanut. Yes, a peeing peanut. Co-starring a ruby red fly and a gold plated fish swimming in an ocean of jewelry. You know, standard stuff.
When the combo platter of graffiti artist Blu and artist/filmmaker David Ellis get together the possibilities are limitless. The appropriately titled COMBO is one of those possibilities. Though not as impressive or groundbreaking as MUTO (Blu’s 2008 must-see masterpiece), COMBO is certainly a visionary collabo that must be seen to be appreciated.
Wes Anderson’s film adaptation of Roald Dahl’sFantastic Mr. Fox (due out this Novemeber) get’s two new featurette treatments; one a behind the scenes look at the making of the film narrated by Jason Schwartzman, and the other features Felicity Dahl (Roald’s wife), Anderson’s inspiration for Mr. Fox (Dahl himself) and his fantastic world (their country side home).
Behind the scenes of Fantastic Mr. Fox:
Click here or the image below to view Fantastic Mr. Fox: The World of Roal Dahl from Apple.com:
Is there a better way to welcome you back from the last holiday weekend of summer than with a couple of Japanese stuffed animals playing ukuleles? I didn’t think so. The Ventures(who are, incidentally, “the best-selling instrumental band of all time” according to Wikipedia) classic “Walk Don’t Run” performed by the Japanese ukulele duo U900.
And coincidentally, here’s The Ventures 1964 performance of “Walk Don’t Run” in Japan:
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