Tag: animation

  • Streetlights, The Musical

    Streetlights, The Musical

    I’m sure I searched for ‘cycling’ not ‘obscurely disjointed animation with brief hints of cycling’, but this is what I got. This could easily be David Lynch’s foray into a bike video, or The Mighty Boosh has a Ride in the City. Get Blixa Bargeld to score the soundtrack and you’d end up somewhere close…

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  • Lou Reed Draws The Line

    Lou Reed Draws The Line

    In which a Lou Reed interview is paired with line drawn animation while Lou waxes grumpy on The Doors, The Beatles, that album and how the Velvet Underground were the ultimate Rock Gods, at least in his own mind. Blank On Blank have produced a whole series of videos featuring some fantastic interviews from musicians and other famous…

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  • Cycle

    Cycle

      Based on a personal experience cycling from Tokyo to Kyoto. At the end of the trip in Kyoto I stumbled upon a tiny house with a sign that read “the world’s smallest Ukiyoe museum.” An old Ukiyoe woodcut print master ran the museum out of his home. Before I left he gave me a…

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  • Un Petit Tour Dans Paris

    Un Petit Tour Dans Paris

    Some more film folly for your weekend, with a delightfully animated jaunt around Paris on stationary bikes in pursuit of––what else could it be in Paree––love. “Dans un Paris aussi magnifique que romantique, alors que tout va trop vite, un jeune homme se promène à ‘bicyclette’. Mais sa simple balade va prendre une toute autre…

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  • The Lego Bike Shop

    The Lego Bike Shop

    Buying a bike these days isn’t a simple act. Usually it’s the customer who gets bedazzled by tech terms and a seemingly endless array of bikes to do different tasks, from riding down to the shops to jumping off a cliff-face. Oxburger Studios turn it around in Lego form and put the simplicity back where…

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  • Velodrool

    Velodrool

    Now for something completely different. Sander Joon from the Estonian Academy of Arts produced this brilliant hand-drawn animated short film, ostensibly about track racing and cigarettes, but underpinned by a darker narrative. If you enjoyed the classic Triplets of Belleville, you’ll take the time to watch this.

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  • Van Life: The Kombi Holocaust

    Van Life: The Kombi Holocaust

    The VW Kombi van, cultural icon of unreliability, has survived on its redoubtable cool factor all these years. And probably a lot of servicing and vital organ transplants. My 78 was notorious for not starting by key, meaning every parking spot needed to be carefully selected for a sufficient slope to jump start it, and…

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  • Paper Boy

    Paper Boy

    Paper Boy doesn’t care for delivering periodicals. Paper Boy wants a way out. Paper Boy just wants to live, and ride. Chris McNally and David Lauer bring art to life in this short animation, perfect for these days when sunshine has escaped and our only light comes from a screen.

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