Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:
♦ Two days ago, Neil Gaiman’s beautiful white German Shepherd, Cabal, died unexpectedly. The blog post Gaiman wrote about Cabal was one of the most heart-wrenching eulogies I’ve ever read. He describes how he found Cabal back in 2007 and what the dog meant to him. And the end of his post brought me to tears. It’s lovely, and you should go and read it.
Unconditional Love by Kimberley Butler
Please to enjoy this deliciously demented live-action, stop-motion film, Stanley Pickle. In Victoria Mather’s short movie, “Stanley never goes outside. He likes to play with his clockwork toys and every night his mother kisses him good night. Stanley is twenty. The trouble is that Stanley thinks this is all quite normal, until an encounter with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down….” The film has won 33 international awards.
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Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:
♦ Marking Time.
I am obsessed with calendars. Not too obsessed, mind you, but I have four wall calendars and two desk calendars at home and another wall calendar in the office. Without these calendars, I’d never know what day of the week it was let alone the date. Below are some of the calendars I’m referring to in 2013.
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice.” ~T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Today’s cheer comes in the form of two charming holiday shorts. First up is Season’s Gweetings! by Aloke Shetty (director) and Rajiv Eipe (animator) of RawShark Films, which describes the stereotypical guests you might find at a holiday party (did you know I used to wear glasses?). The animation is a lot of fun, as is the youtube description:
From us to you and from you to someone and from someone to someone else and from someone else to their neighbours and from their neighbours to everyone and from everyone to Alec Baldwin…Season’s Gweetings!
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The next video is for Molly—gnomes! Lovely, squatty gnomes! A Little Christmas Miracle has everything you could want in a Christmas video, like gnomes! And Santa Claus! And body humor! And, best of all, Krampus! The video comes from Llamallama, a creative collective started by Yannis Konstantinidis and including Christos Lefakis and Ian Koons. Via.
