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Granny O'Grimm, Logorama, and the Facebook or Blogger dilemma

it's been a couple of days since i posted something here i've been replying, finally, to many friends in Facebook and by the time i am done there, it's too late to post here but even if it's great to be in touch with many of my Mexican friends and some Californians i don't see around here via Facebook

i do like writing and chronologizing much more here!
in my good old blog
there something about this way of writing, careless
that i like much better than facebook, starting with the visual interface
it's so busy there!! anways, finally, am back homs &
so here, somehow reposting from last Saturday's adventure
to the movies, where I watched ALL the nominated animated shots
here what i wrote there and some of the youtube shorts

just watched all the short films nominated for an Oscar this year...
if you can watch them, don't miss them, they are a delight!
there's a new Wallace & Gromit short is included
A Matter of Loaf and Death
and a super-trippy film called Logorama
(with violence and strong language warning)...
some stories are a delight, some make you laugh,
and a ...couple make you cry..

my favorite was Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
a superb character and mood, here the full movie
in case you can't watch them on the big screen
it's refreshingly funny



and she's was nominated she's planning to go to the Oscars
and this is her message to the Hollywood stars...



if you are in the San Diego area
the Ken Cinema in Kensington are showing them!

the Oscars are this Sunday
and even if Wallace & Gromit are long time favorites
i really hope that Granny O'Grimm or Logorama
win the Oscar
Logorama is a quirky idea that works in many levels
a subtle message is hidden behind the violence and the use
of all these brands... and check out the villain of the film

Jan Svankmajer

when i saw the version of
Alice in Wonderland
by Jan Svankmajer
i knew his world of animation
had to be a very surreal one
of course my favorite character
has to be the White Rabbit
here the scene of how he came to life



and
i found tonight
this little weird animation too
tma/svetlo/tma
(darkness/light/darkness)
from 1989!

strange but great

this strange animation
the style is unique
old-school animation
the story is weird
and the bread has a face...
und das Brot hat ein Gesicht...

the strawberry fields - remix

a bit weird, but I think is cool



and if you are up for some more from the same author
enjoy his/her version The Three Little Pigs
it is fun!

do you know how it is like to be a tree?

i found this neat little animation on youtube
based on a little hike of a 6 year-old kid talking about
how it is to be a tree
he says he was a tree once, in his 1st life
a cute little tale
hope you enjoy



here a description from the author
A rotoscoped animation using unscripted footage from a hike in the woods with my 6 year old brother Julian. I rotoscoped it by hand drawing every frame, using a wacom tablet, even the titles. If you have time, visit my illustration website at:
http://vocaleyes.com/benarthur/