Arclite Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 For those of you with twisted senses of humor, and like demented videos... Here's an episode from Don Hertzfeldt's "Rejected Cartoon's" <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobD Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 Le Ballon rouge was a favorite of mine as a kid in the sixties. Actually won an oscar. <embed id=VideoPlayback src=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=8080999735593908602&hl=en&fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application/x-shockwave-flash> </embed> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon BobD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 For those of you with twisted senses of humor, and like demented videos...Here's an episode from Don Hertzfeldt's "Rejected Cartoon's" <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> you post this while your post count is the mark of the beast, telling. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHe6FMs46o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHe6FMs46o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMK Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 twisted - maybe, sick for sure. LOVE IT! I laugh .....still do :) thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ESPI Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 "Rejected" still remains as one of my all time fave internet "things". I quote various parts of it rather frequently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjl Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 "Rejected" still remains as one of my all time fave internet "things".I quote various parts of it rather frequently. It's not an "internet thing", nor is Billy's Balloon. They are short films. Sorry for the hijack, but it hits close to home, so to speak: From Don Hertzfeldt's website: As Don often says, he shoots on film for a reason and prefers people to discover his work as nature intended, in a proper theater, TV, or on a well-made DVD: "there are many ways to see movies these days. they're not all good ideas. there is not a single film student anywhere in the world right now dreaming of making her first movie and premiering it on a ****ing cell phone. if you've only seen a movie on the internet or via some strange miniature device, in many ways you haven't really seen it yet. you're missing so much. youtube is great for home videos of your cat falling off the roof but it is not really the proper setting for "cinema." watching a compressed, blotchy video in a little window while checking your mail and visiting three other websites at work sort of downgrades it into a novelty. movies are meant to be seen in the dark, hopefully with an audience, and with your undivided attention. that last one is non-negotiable. "it is an inevitable thing to deal with and of couse we're not interested in harassing fans, i just hope people understand that what they're downloading is kind of the equivalent of drinking a glass of fine wine after it's been filtered through a sewer. it's not really the same wine after that" Freeing animated short films from the dungeons of the Internet was a large part of the motivation in creating the Animation Show: a semiannual theatrical tour that strove to find new ways to preserve and exhibit these kinds of films in their highest quality possible. Our own DVD series of Don's work meanwhile serves to get his stuff out there looking and sounding as good as possible outside of a movie theater. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave ESPI Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 KJI, no disrespect to Don H or his work as Ive seen it at many a film festival, but it is best known from the internet as it is considered a "short" and not exactly mainstream from american standards as proper cinema. Regardless; its still genius and timeless dark humor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjl Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Oh, yeah I know - it's all over youtube and the stuff pops up on content aggregators regularly as new generations of internet people rediscover his work every year or two. It just bums me out, for a number of reasons. Out here, we slave over our shorts and films, fixing minute details for months and years, as do the many dozens of modelers, animators, audio guys, layout guys, camera people, etc., etc., and then when you see it show up in a youtube video and it's been compressed down to a postage stamp, has compression artifacts all over the thing, the color's all screwed up, the audio's jacked, plus they're giving it away for free, it's like somebody stole the last 4 years of your work, pooped on it, stuck it in a blender and gave it away for free, and then 10% of the people taste your hard work blended with poop and go, "Man, that was really awesome!" I feel even worse for Don Hertzfeldt; since he's an indy animation guy, he is (probably) scraping by, and his income is directly tied to how many DVDs he manages to sell, whereas I draw a salary and am also backed by legions of faceless, terrifying lawyers. Yeah, I agree, though - his stuff is hilarious. I think I've seen all of his films in animation festivals where they usually bring the house down. There's something even more awesome about seeing something as simple (in terms of art) and ridiculous as his stuff projected on a giant theater screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arclite Posted December 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Thread Jack... even though its my thread. kjl, do you ever go to mammoth/june? If you're in berkeley you're awfully close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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