Video Friday

A big part of my introduction to comics was through Superman, and when I was growing up I loved all things Superman. I knew everything about his origins, his girlfriends (all with the initials L.L.), his villains (the main one of whom also has the initials L.L.—hmmm), his Fortress of Solitude, his dog, etc. Couldn’t get enough of him. My mom will tell you how I tried and tried to get my hair to form into his curl and never did quite manage it (if only I’d known then that when I grew up my hair, when long, would be wavy enough to make the Superman curl on its own!). In honor of my long-abiding affection for the Man of Steel, I offer today one of the Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons from the early 1940s, recently added by Warner Bros. to their youtube channel, along with the other original eight—check out the fantastic animation!

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Magpie Monday

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:

♦ Art Nouveau portraits.

Artist kishokahime created a series of Art Nouveau portraits of fantasy heroines from the 1980s (film and animation). I do prefer my Art Nouveau a little more ornate, but these portraits are lovely. Check out her deviantART gallery for portraits of  Anastasia, Sarah from Labyrinth, Odette from The Swan Princess, Thumbelina, Crysta from Fern Gully, The Childlike Empress from The Neverending Story, Malta from The Sea Prince and the Fire Child, Lili from Legend, Black Lady from Sailor Moon, Sorsha from Willow, and Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice, with more to follow. Below is the first in the series, the Lady Amalthea from The Last UnicornVia.

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Video Friday

I was completely charmed by The Saga of Biôrn, which was the 2011 Bachelor film project from Denmark’s The Animation Workshop, “an international centre of knowledge and development for animation (and related) professions and businesses” (check out their Facebook page, too). The Saga of Biôrn was created by Benjamin J. Kousholt, Daniel D. Christensen, Mads Lundgaard Christensen, Jesper A. Jensen, Jonas K. Doctor, Steffen Lyhne, Pernille Ørum-Nielsen, Frederik Bjerre-Poulsen, and Jonas Georgakakis. Here’s the official synopsis:

Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior’s afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he discovers that the right death isn’t so easy.

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Magpie Monday

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:

♦ I’m really digging this photo of a sink draining, probably because the illusion of an eyeball is also just a bit freaky. Here’s the skinny courtesy of BoingBoing, one of the several places I’ve seen this image this week:

Liammmin, a redditor, caught this incidental eyeball in a swirling drain. The origin story has a good moral: “My friend said something around the lines of ‘Liam, you take too many photos.’ So I ran around the room taking photos of everything and showing him all of them, then this happened and we got spooked.”—the moral being, “If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.”

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Video Friday

Heavily inspired by science fiction films of the ’60s and ’70s and shot with a minimal budget, Seed is a short film by Tyson Wade Johnston (check out some of his other shorts at the link). The official description:

Set in the year 2071, where technology has brought mankind to the brink of colonization on a planet named Gaia, one astronaut takes on an isolated mission and discovers unearthly horrors that could bring an end to human life on this planet.

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