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Clare de Lune

Cathy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:22:42 +0000

I felt like listening to this today.

Unfortunately, I can’t find my favourite of its movie appearances – The Scent of Green Papaya – so I’ll have to play a scene from from the movie and the music separately. Apparently it’s in Twilight so the piece is all over the YouTubes.

Here’s the papaya scene:

Here’s the Debussy:

The animation is from a free MIDI animator.

A Break from Baking

Cathy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:01:10 +0000

I’m getting married in less than a week (eek!) so I don’t think I’ll be able to do the daring baker’s challenge this month.

Meanwhile, I saw this little video this morning and it cheered me up (just a wee bit little bit stressed out at the moment!):

The music is Spoon’s I turn my camera on – which reminds me, I have to make my wedding mix…

Cutest Rabbit Hand Puppet Eva!

Cathy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:36:49 +0000

A friend sent me a link to this most amazing hand puppetry…

Because I can’t help reading the comments, I found this stupidly amusing (it’s a guy having a conversation with himself):

koolaiddew (6 hours ago) Awesome

    koolaiddew (6 hours ago)     dude i loved your comment…you seem like such a cool person

    koolaiddew (6 hours ago)     i am a cool person….trust me

I should really get a life…

Bears, Bunnies, Oh My!

Cathy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:11:56 +0000

Studio Daily has links to a couple of wonderful Flash animations in an interview with Darren Price from Nexus Productions (you have to scroll down the article to get the video links – sorry won’t let me legally embed!). First there is Potapych: The Bear Who Loved Vodka which is a beautifully animated and quite sad little story about a drunk who adopts a bear and teaches him how to drink. Apparently based on a true story.

And Hare in the Gate, an amazing piece of animation featuring a hare/rabbit who travels through a myriad of cinematic genres and iconic scenes. It was for a Motorola ad and is somewhat mindblowingly wonderful. Unfortunately, I don’t think the ad made it downunder.

Merry Christmas!

Cathy — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:41:01 +0000

Mark Frauenfelder has put together a singular post of his video picks from the past couple of years of Boing Boing. Highlights include the famous Bank of America’s employees’ cover of U2’s One (which came with a cease-and-desist letter from Universal, it’s since been removed from YouTube but you can still watch it here with commentary) and the much cooler cover by Johnny Marr and that guy from Arrested Development (which hasn’t been pulled from YouTube at the time of writing):

There’s also a link to 10 Zen Monkey’s post on subversive Christmas cartoon re-dubbed. This is just freaky:

Another cartoon mash-up, Pulp Xmas:

For fans of cheesy pop, Danielle Dax covers the Beatles’ Tomorrow Never Knows (if you’re not there’s some video of the Cowsills doing Folsom Prison Blues):

This piece of snow covered Moscow in 1908:

And the Scandinavian way (apparently!) of opening beer (they teach it to 12 year olds): link (YouTube embed was disabled, meanies!).

Finally, they did link to the wonderful zefrank whose site is a christmas present in itself (try out the singing elf card) and his silly Chrismas video.

Brilliant!

Cathy — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:50:17 +0000

This guy swears he can’t play, he’s used video cuts to simulate it. I think he must have some musical talent though: Amateur

Some More Freaky Photo Journal Videos

Cathy — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:05:57 +0000

One guy (Noah) took a pic of himself everyday for 6 years but this is my favourite, it’s called “Living My Life Faster – 8 years of JK’s Daily Photo Project” and involves some very cool hair effects.
Living My Life Faster – 8 years of JK’s Daily Photo Project on Vimeo

“Me” Cool Experimental Film

Cathy — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:00:08 +0000

AtomFilms – Me

The idea is simple, the result is stunning. On November 1, 2001, artist Ahree Lee began taking daily digital snapshots of her own face; and she has continued this project every day since. In 2004, Lee compiled all of her daily images into a montage with a wistful musical score. In the fast-paced parade of images you’re about to see, each second of screen time represents about one week’s worth of pictures.

It’s kind of freaky, the way her face keeps the same expression the whole way through.

The Answer is Crates!

Cathy — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:29:24 +0000

I totally agree that there needs to be more crates in this world. Check out the video! Aram Bartholl via Wonderland