Blah Girls
This just proves that there is no end to the number of ways a person can recycle an idea. This is Ashton Kutcher’s new online show called Punk’d, Pop Fiction, Blah Girls.
Ed Rondthaler
Ed Rondthaler is, without question, the man. He founded Photo-Lettering, Inc (PLINC). He founded the International Typeface Corporation (ITC). He was the president of the American Literacy Council. He wrote the The Dictionary of Simplified American Spelling. He’s 102 years old.
The unstoppable House Industries purchased all the old Photo-Lettering films a few years back and while we all wait to see how they’ll update and distribute the mythical catalogue, they’re producing a documentary on Ed w/ Erich Weiss. The above↑ is a trailer of sorts.
Acetylsalicylic Acid (Bufferin™)
by Ben Coonley
Previously (Constant Dullaart)
More of these by Constant Dullaart. More of these by Ben Coonley.
Beautiful Losers.
If you don’t know, you better ask somebody…
If you need a little creative inspiration, I highly recommend you see this film:
Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.
I saw an early cut of this with Felipe at Swerve Festival last year, and it’s theatrical release is rolling out now.. definitely worth your time & dollas.
PPM#17 in SD
Dean Spunt has a record label called Post Present Medium. He puts out records by a bunch of cool bands like Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko, David Scott Stone, and of course a few No Age records. The latest PPM release is a DVD compilation of videos from their roster and extended family.
Tomorrow (Sunday) night, old friend Mario is presenting a preview screening at his new ‘night’ called ‘Too Many Creeps‘ (every Sunday at the Whistle Stop, 2236 Fern St., San Diego).
Jennifer and Kate from Mika Miko will be there to play records too. Screening’s at 9pm. You should go.
‘Where are you going?’
Dancing Baby
The Dancing Baby, also known as “Baby Cha-Cha”, refers to a 3D character and 3D-rendered animation of a baby dancing for several seconds. The video, one of the earliest examples of an Internet phenomenon, became popular in 1996-1997 after being distributed widely over the Internet. The dancing baby originated as a collection of experimental testing data and files, ultimately released in Fall/1996 as a product sample source file with the ground-breaking 3D character animation software product “Character Studio” that is used with 3D Studio Max (both products from Autodesk). The original sample source file was produced and prepared by the original Character Studio development team (Michael Girard, Susan Amkraut, John Chadwick, Paul Bloemink, John Hutchinson, Adam Felt) of Unreal Pictures and Kinetix (Autodesk). Part of the original Dancing Baby data consists of animation keyframes that were manually and automatically generated in the “Biped” portion of the Character Studio toolset. Contrary to popular misconceptions, the original Dancing Baby animation data (keyframes) were not created using motion capture at all.
Double U.
I know you all have probably seen this already, but in case you missed it:
Rumor has it that it’ll be out at your local cineplex before November 4th.