Strange short films
Jan. 8th, 2019 11:31 pmSo while I was back in New Jersey over the holidays I met up with Ingrid who I had not seen in quite a while. Nick and Almost[0] were also there. Anyway we made strange short films with vegetables. Ingrid had made the vegetables into animals, see, with cloves for eyes, and puppet strings sewn through them. We used a green backdrop that she had (which she intends to green-screen away) and put bright pink socks over our hands (which she intends to pink-screen away).
(Also she's going, to, like, dub over everything, so basically of what we recorded only the movement of the puppets will remain, but, whatever.)
Anyway yes we made strange short films with vegetables. There was a potato that Ingrid had made into a mouse, but I broke it, and when she put it back together it didn't look like a mouse anymore. I thought it looked like a tapir, but Ingrid didn't know what that was. When Nick arrived later, I asked him what animal he thought it looked like. "A tapir?" he responded, unprompted!
(It may be noteworthy that the one other time before I'd ever been to Ingrid's house, we also made a strange short film, although that one has since been lost to time.)
Anyway, eventually Ingrid will edit these and they'll appear somewhere. Although possibly she might just put them on Facebook where not everyone will be able to see them. <shrug>
Anyway! While I was there I was reminded of the (often quite strange) short films we used to watch at PROMYS's animation night. There were a number of recurring ones, and I started trying to put together a list (just of the ones I remembered as recurring, not of all the ones I ever saw). Here were the ones I remembered:
Why People Smoke
Janko Visits the Magician
Foibles (As the Animator Sees Us)
Is it Always Right to be Right?
Donald's Fire Survival Plan
The Critic
Special Delivery
Closed Mondays
Regular Homotopies in the Plane, Part I
Regular Homotopies in the Plane, Part II
Some of these are well-known or have even won awards; others are so obscure you can't even find them on the internet as best I can tell (and I was only able to get the exact title by checking the Boston University library catalog, said library being where we got these in the first place). I'm wondering if anyone remembers any others?
In particular there's one particular one -- one particular very annoying one :P -- that prompted this, that for some reason I started thinking about when I was with Ingrid and Nick and Almost. It was... like, there was this gorilla walking down the street, right? And in the background was playing this short snippet from (what I now know to be) Beethoven's Minuet in G, repeated over and over, but, like, on a bassoon or something, not a piano. And as the gorilla walked down the street, people joined him, and the group kept getting larger. And there these, like, percussion beats added to the music, and things -- noisy things -- would happen in the animation in time with them. And there was this part where they all fell down a manhole, and so all the action was offscreen until they reemerged a bit later. Like I said, it was all really annoying. Here's a TOMT post I wrote about it, FWIW.
Anyway yeah. Neither Heidi nor![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
joshuazelinsky remembered even seeing this one. Likely I should ask some other people. But for now I am posting here. :P
That's all I had to say, really.
(Next time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
[0]Almost insists that her name should not be capitalized, but it's confusing enough in speech, it doesn't have to be so in writing as well.
(Also she's going, to, like, dub over everything, so basically of what we recorded only the movement of the puppets will remain, but, whatever.)
Anyway yes we made strange short films with vegetables. There was a potato that Ingrid had made into a mouse, but I broke it, and when she put it back together it didn't look like a mouse anymore. I thought it looked like a tapir, but Ingrid didn't know what that was. When Nick arrived later, I asked him what animal he thought it looked like. "A tapir?" he responded, unprompted!
(It may be noteworthy that the one other time before I'd ever been to Ingrid's house, we also made a strange short film, although that one has since been lost to time.)
Anyway, eventually Ingrid will edit these and they'll appear somewhere. Although possibly she might just put them on Facebook where not everyone will be able to see them. <shrug>
Anyway! While I was there I was reminded of the (often quite strange) short films we used to watch at PROMYS's animation night. There were a number of recurring ones, and I started trying to put together a list (just of the ones I remembered as recurring, not of all the ones I ever saw). Here were the ones I remembered:
Why People Smoke
Janko Visits the Magician
Foibles (As the Animator Sees Us)
Is it Always Right to be Right?
Donald's Fire Survival Plan
The Critic
Special Delivery
Closed Mondays
Regular Homotopies in the Plane, Part I
Regular Homotopies in the Plane, Part II
Some of these are well-known or have even won awards; others are so obscure you can't even find them on the internet as best I can tell (and I was only able to get the exact title by checking the Boston University library catalog, said library being where we got these in the first place). I'm wondering if anyone remembers any others?
In particular there's one particular one -- one particular very annoying one :P -- that prompted this, that for some reason I started thinking about when I was with Ingrid and Nick and Almost. It was... like, there was this gorilla walking down the street, right? And in the background was playing this short snippet from (what I now know to be) Beethoven's Minuet in G, repeated over and over, but, like, on a bassoon or something, not a piano. And as the gorilla walked down the street, people joined him, and the group kept getting larger. And there these, like, percussion beats added to the music, and things -- noisy things -- would happen in the animation in time with them. And there was this part where they all fell down a manhole, and so all the action was offscreen until they reemerged a bit later. Like I said, it was all really annoying. Here's a TOMT post I wrote about it, FWIW.
Anyway yeah. Neither Heidi nor
joshuazelinsky remembered even seeing this one. Likely I should ask some other people. But for now I am posting here. :PThat's all I had to say, really.
(Next time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
[0]Almost insists that her name should not be capitalized, but it's confusing enough in speech, it doesn't have to be so in writing as well.
