An adult woolly mammoth and offspring, brought to you by the National Film Board of Canada (1979);
I love stop-motion animation, but I have to say the style of this short made me wonder if Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer or the Heat Miser were suddenly going to show up...
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It's time now to talk about two of the greatest mentor figures in the literature of the fantastic. You know their stories well, I'm sure, but the parallels between them are eerie:
Lots of people have been sending me email to let me know that Coral Ridge Ministry is airing a program linking Darwin to Hitler.
My big Christmas present this year was an external flash unit for my camera. Which means that, among the 354 (!!) pictures I took while at my parents' were a bunch playing with different flash settings. Why? These two pictures should give you the idea:
It was sort of amusing when people started doing kitsch holiday commercials in a CGI version of those old quasi-claymation holiday specials (Rodolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the like). I'm ok with hipster irony, at least to a point.
I miss the National Film Board's productions. In its hey-day it did great things, esp in studio D.