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I Am Not Your Grandma — But She Might Be

I REALLY like this video. It was a great way to start my morning. Brian Newman had tipped me to it, but it had sat in my ToWatch box too long. Glad it escaped.

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Must Watch: More Projection Mapping!

Is projection mapping the greatest thing since sliced bread? How can there be film festivals these days that do not feature this? It is too cool.

Thanks to Emily Johnson for the tip!

Update: That video went down, but here’s another example of projection mapping:

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This Is A Future Of Film (And My Fave Film Of 2010)

Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

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Let’s Animate All Our Favorite Films

Imagine a world where we draw tributes to all our favorite films. Thanks to VHX for tipping me to this

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Journey Around The World In Under 5 Minutes

I have long been working on a film about a man who walks around the world. Maybe the walking has been the problem. It’s slow food for a fast food world. Perhaps the film should have been this instead…

17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs.

WARNING: this short will make you want to quit your day job and travel.

Thanks to ThisIsColossal for the tip.

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Oh Yeah Wow! Great work with a great name.

Rippled from Oh Yeah Wow on Vimeo.

My friend Dan McGuire tipped me to this great video that ThisIsColossal.com sourced. Beyond being truly beautiful and incredibly well executed, the animators have a name (“Oh Yeah Wow”)I am jealous of — and that doesn’t happen too often.

I love that I can be inspired every day and still know that I am not seeing even close to all there is. There’s so much great work out there. May it never end. Oh yeah wow.

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Films Are Magic

How great is it to be lost into a short, transported, and then to recognize — know again — what you have known for so long: that movies are magic.

Out Of A Forest from Tobias Gundorff Boesen on Vimeo.

Okay I really like The National, and I really like stop motion, and beautiful lighting — and yes there is a part of me that is a sucker for both nostalgia, innocence lost, and cute furry animals, so…

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