After I wrote my last post about the dearth of innovation in film, I happened to read Anthony Lane’s New Yorker piece on Pixar, “The Fun Factory”. It made me slap my forehead in an “of course!” way. Lane starts out as a skeptic, ready to debunk the myth of Pixar as the den of [...]
I’ve been a huge fan of StoryCorps since I discovered it a number of years ago. What I love most is listening to the dynamics between family members, the feeling of intimacy that being in that little trailer with someone else’s mom, or dad or siblings evokes and the barriers it pulls down between those [...]
Snuck away from the reading to watch a few choice entertainment-y morsels. So, while I am still *fishing*, thought I’d spread the awesomeness. Credit for originally posting this goes to Maria Popova of Brain Pickings, who curates the best stuff online and shares it with the world. The work is by Egor Zhgun, a popular [...]
The always dark and creepy world of Tim Burton is now on Twitter, in the form of a crowdsourced project. For fans of his 6-part micro-cartoon titled Stainboy, this will be a whole lot of fun. While Burton is not the first to crowdsource a story on Twitter, this controlled experiment will likely produce something [...]
Looking back at Moustapha Allassane, one of the earliest African animators, made this brilliant satirical animated film in 1966 – roughly the end of colonial era in most of Africa. Allessane who was born and raised in Niger, is the director of over 25 films and still works and teaches film in his home country.
Sometimes, marketing and advertising can be brilliant. This is one such occasion.
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