Via UTNE
UTNE’s Kari Volkmann-Carlsen has been noticing a rash of Facelift epidemics… on Eighties Cartoon Characters.
She also ponders:
“So why are companies reinventing old cartoon characters instead of designing new ones? According to Kolodenko, playing off of parents’ nostalgia has proven to be a safer investment than creating unknowns in our poorly functioning economy”
Sigh.
Go check out the rest of her article at UTNE.
-Jeaux Janovsky
Via SXNEWS
American Gender Theorist Judith “Jack” Halberstam going to Sydney, August 1st, to deliver a lecture, titled “Queer Animation” at the Powerhouse Museum.
From the site:
“Halberstam will discuss the themes of social transgression and queer identity that permeate recent Computer Generated Image (CGI) animation in films such as Finding Nemo.
“I will link new technology to queerness and to radical ways of reimagining the world,” Halberstam told SX. Halberstam will also show clips from selected Pixar classics.”
Sounds pretty intriguing. If you’d like to read more, please go to the SXNEWS site.
-Jeaux Janovsky
Floyd’s recent post on the fredblogs reminded me of a great video of Daniel Johnston’s Monster Inside Of Me by Eric Fensler, of GI Joe PSA fame.
It’s no secret making awesome Flash cartoons will develop your physique like nobody’s business, as filmmaker Joel Trussell proves in this photo. Go, Joel! Here he is with two Channel Frederator certificates for jobs well done, for “Float (My Electric Stargirl)” and “War Photographer” (we owe him a third for “Paris is On”). The latter won Best Music Video and Producers’ Choice prizes at the first-ever Channel Frederator Awards. Thank for the picture, Joel. A pair athletic socks is in the mail.
– Eric
Inspired by Eric’s post, here’s a piece of Flapjack Fan Art I created for my pal and ol’ Cubicle Buddy: Thurop Van Orman, creator of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
This past Wednesday I attended a panel discussion entitled, Cross Cultural Traffic: Toying with Brands, Borders and Bootlegs.
It was hosted by The Korea Society and was a lively talk on and about Korean Toys, their origins, how they interrelate with Japanese, American, and their own Korean Pop Cultures.
The panel consisted of Eric Nakamura (publisher of Giant Robot Magazine), Joshua Bernard (editor of CollectionDX.com), and The Korea Society’s Seho Kim (creative director).
I think Eric summed it up best on his GR blog:
“The robots and such brought out a generation of creatives. Imagine a filmmaker like Joon Ho Bong, who made the Host. Did he watch monster films as a kid? Did he play with toys? Of course he must have. The geeks who collected toys are now in power at creative places, and look at what they’ve brought forward? A new world of creative minds.”
Of course, I eagerly took down notes and snapped a few pics. Enjoy!
We bet some of you are still partying while the rest of us are at work suffering through post BBQ hangovers.
Us? Way too much root beer and a HUGE hot dog/hamburger/ketchup/mustard food-fight.
Luckily, we (and you) have this episode of Channel Fred to get you over the post-Memorial Day blues.
And lots of aspirin.
—Boxhead and Roundhead - Safari, submitted by Elliot Cowan
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—Str33t, submitted by leBeat
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—Hold On, Hold On - Thief, submitted by Catherine Richardson
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Artwork by Joanna Davidovich
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