Within the context of watching Sesame Street as a child, most of their short cartoon clips seemed completely normal. Outside of such a context these clips are small surreal bits that seem better matched with Sprockets than Sesame.
...and just because I couldn't resist, the Count's origin with Cookie
Monster. The best part - Cookie's exit at the very end!
via Vimeo, Boing Boing and assorted tweets... this is awesome!
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo
from ted.com
Perhaps my favorite game for the Commodore 64 - Impossible Mission. While it may look clunky by today's standards, the "sprite" graphics moved very fluidly for an early 80s game. Relish in the low-bit glory that is IM: "Stay a while. STAY FOREVER!"
Great short, poppy song with a pretty cool video as well! Tokyo Police Club - Tessellate
What can I say... they're awesome!
I can't seem to go a month without extolling the virtues of the words and music of Gil Scott-Heron... probably just where my headspace is at right now. This video is a gem. Transports me to a place I've never been and time I'll never know. Hope you dig it.
Quite some time back I was fascinated by a series of comics that presented a surrealistic allegory of society called Tales from the Beanworld. Now enjoying a cult status revival through Dark Horse Comics which currently has a web comic online and through the re-issuing of all previous material in 2009.
If you are familiar with Larry Marder's bizarre creation, you, like me, are probably glad it's back. If not, check out the web comic. You may be a bit lost in the mythology, but there's something refreshing about a comic that's not superhero-based. I encourage people to check it out, with a healthy suspension of reality, and get ready for a CHOW RAID!
The Chow Raid from fashionbuddha on Vimeo.
Canadian Norman McLaren's pacifist satire during the Korean War. Music was done by painting "waves" directly onto the film stock's "soundtrack" strip. Much of his early animation was done the same way (painted frame by frame). Check him out on Youtube. He won an award in 1953 for best Short Form Documentary for this piece. The scenes with the wives and babies was originally pulled by the government which provided the grant for the film and was only reinstated in the 70s. Twisted, poignant, and mildly disturbing.