Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:
♦ Look at this beautiful little monster! My friend Laura shared this photo on Facebook, and I just fell in love with this baby Amazon Milk Frog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix). I used to collect toy poison dart frogs, so this sweetheart just charmed me completely to pieces. See image by Dariusz Kucharski here.
Written and directed by Daniel Thron, Spoiler is a post-apocalyptic zombie film that manages to mingle horror with a bit of sorrow. The official description:
The zombie apocalypse happened—and we won.
But though society has recovered, the threat of infection is always there—and Los Angeles coroner Tommy Rossman is the man they call when things go wrong.
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:
♦ For those of you who dream of singing in the rain or in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, or who dream of multiple covers of Rhianna‘s “Umbrella” (by the by, I love those covers), or who might prefer a less monochromatic Mary Poppins (though, of course, why would you?), have a gander at one of the images from photographer Patricia Almeida‘s umbrella installations brightening the public walkways of Barcelona (clicking Almeida’s name will take you to her Flickr account, where you can see several more photos). Via.
Foxes, foxes, everywhere!
First up is Metro by Jacob Wyatt, a beautifully designed short fantasy film (and such wonderful colors). I love that the fox is a white shadow and that the underground is like a forest. Metro was Wyatt’s student film at the Brigham Young University Center for Animation. Via.
Second is another girl and fox film, A Fox Tale, made by four students—Thomas Bozovic, Alexandre Cazals, Julien Legay, and Chao Ma—for their graduation film at Supinfocom Arles. The action sequences with the two brothers were quite thrilling to watch, but I particularly liked the fox-like movements of the girl. L’animation est tellement incroyable! Via.
And, finally, a trailer for Feral, an upcoming short film by Daniel Sousa, that is about neither girls nor foxes, but it’s beautiful to watch , and it is connected, thematically at least, to the short films above by the idea of the line that separates the civilized from the wild, as suggested by this description: “A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.” I can’t wait to see the entire film. Via.
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently, for this my fiftieth Magpie Monday post:
♦ This image by Jeremy Dower makes me happy. Based in Melbourne, Dower uses Photoshop to create his digital 2D paintings, and his other work is equal parts cute and creepy. HUH. magazine has some more images by Dower in case his site still isn’t loading well. Via.
