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Category Archives: Video Friday
Video Friday
Today it’s all about stop-motion animation, a technique I love and admire (can you imagine the patience it takes to film a stop-motion film?). Here are three short films that use the technique for very different effects. First up is … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonio Martinez, circus, dryplate tinypes, Eduard Taberner, Facundo Ferreyra, Gypsophilia, Horska (song), Jason Levangie, music videos, Near the Egress (short), short films, Sticky Man (short), stop-motion animation, Sydney Smith
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Video Friday
More short films from my backlog! Today’s unifying idea is robots, though, in fairness, robots are incidental in the first film, and I might be stretching the idea of robots by including it (I’m assuming the walker machines we see … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Sims, Antonio Perez, Archetype (short film), Closest to the Hole Productions, Gerard Butler, Gumdrop (short film), Iron Man 2, Kerry Conran, Mark Walhberg, Ricardo de Montreuil, robots, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Stephen Lawes, The Avengers, The Raven (short film), Universal, Zachary Parris
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Video Friday
A trio of science fiction shorts should be a nice cap to the week, don’t you think? Clearing out more of the link backlog…. Blind Spot, written and directed by Matthew Nayman, is a great illustration of the frustration of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind Spot (short film), Dennis Liu, Matthew Nayman, Plurality (short film), Ryan Condal, short films, Stephan Zlotescu, True Skin (short film)
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Video Friday
Remember on April 1st when I said I would be taking a hiatus from Magpie Mondays until late May but that I would post some interesting bits in the meanwhile? Yeah, that all went down the drain. Not even a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hoffman, Arlet, bookstores, Dan Fryer, Joe Holgate, Owen Hewson, Richard Dadd, short films, The Bakery, The Last Bookshop
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