Category: These Are Those Things

That inspire, that I like, and that I hope you feel the same about

Lego: The Force Unleashed

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date March 9, 2010

Lego and Star Wars are like peanut butter and jelly. Stop motion and YouTube are their bread. There is such a huge supply of great work out there, we are ready to see the best of list of the genre. For now though, we are willing to venture that this is worthy of inclusion on just such a list. Hope The Younger wanted this placed in The Bowl but the violence is a bit intense for the young ‘uns, and we are not ashamed to confess our total love of these things anyway, so it’s landing here today instead.

Tags animation, LEGO, star wars

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MUTO a wall-painted animation by blu

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date March 3, 2010
2 Comments on MUTO a wall-painted animation by blu

I probably have posted this before, but what can I say? Blu has been one of my favorite filmmakers since stumbling across his work in a Chelsea Gallery. Do yourself a favor and dig around here for more of his work.

Tags animation, blu, graffiti

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Enjoy Your Work

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date February 25, 2010

Thanks to @narcissusholmes.

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John Fahey: Guitar God

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date February 23, 2010

He’s also been a great curator, releasing old-time recordings with wonderful packaging. I’ve never read his short stories, but I’ve retold many times my friend’s tale of how my pal drove cross country to sell Fahey a collection of RCA acetate classical music recordings, only to find Fahey living in his car because his house had become overwhelmed with his “collections”. Fahey paid him several thousand for the discs, and my friend felt bad because it felt like he took candy from a baby, but my friend was broke and needed the cash. It was the early days of the internet and a few weeks passed and my friend read how Fahey had just sold a collection of RCA acetate classical music recordings for TENS of thousands of dollars. Fahey may have seemed crazy, but he was crazy like a fox. I woke this morning to this song and it brought a smile to my face.

Tags curators, John Fahey

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All Creative Work Is Derivative

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date February 12, 2010

Thank you Nina Paley!

Tags Copyright Reform, Nina Paley

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Wanted: A Lifetime Subscription To Michel Gondry’s Work

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date February 7, 2010
2 Comments on Wanted: A Lifetime Subscription To Michel Gondry’s Work

If we could, we would subscribe. Michel’s work is so consistent, so mind-blowing. So joyful. So inventive. If we could bestow a “World Treasure” certification we would. He and his work would certainly have their own wing in The Ted Museum.

I can honestly say I have never learned how to see the world differently as well as I did the time I got to spend by Michel’s side as he directed “Human Nature”. He sees the world — and how to rearrange it — like no other.

Even a young mind absorbs this is something else afoot, with Michel’s brain. My son watched his work at a very young age, and holds him, like Charles Chaplin, as someone who does it all quite brilliantly — and makes the world a better place to live as a result.

This is his latest video: