On the last day of 2005, I hope you all look back on the previous year with good memories. It’s been fun blogging, meeting new people, and reading other’s thoughts as well. Hopefully I can continue bringing you enjoyable links and stories in 2006. Thanks for all the support! As the final post for 2005, [...]
If you have iChat or AIM, try adding ‘SantaClaus’ into your buddies list. You can chat with him, play games, and tell him what you’d like for Christmas! I keep him around all year long to add some festive cheer during my Internet wanderings.
Carole Horst with Variety reports on the charming effect of clay animation on movie-going audiences: Computer generated 3D images dominate the short history of the animation Oscar. But this year, two front-runners — DreamWorks’ Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride from Warner Bros. — both use film’s [...]
I’m in Iowa right now, home to the W.P. Kinsella-inspired film, Field of Dreams, but I haven’t seen any baseball-playing ghosts. However, on the way to Urbandale and Des Moines yesterday, my wife and I witnessed: 1 dead cow on the side of the road with a gaping wound across its chest (I think it [...]
Thanks to Cartoon Brew for bringing animation fans this news: the original puppets of Santa Claus and Rudolph (from the treasured Rankin/Bass holiday special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) have been found. Long thought lost, the puppets were found among the holiday decor of a former Rankin/Bass employee. The puppets have been purchased by TimeandSpaceToys.com and [...]
