Various animators discussing what they learned from Miyazaki's films, broken down by specific scenes and in order of time. A really kind, really insightful piece.
Stross' insightful opinion intersects with my thinking about people with Empire (from Star Wars) stickers on their cars. It's amazing how people can so willingly miss the point of a story because something seems "cool."
Ello remains the only public social network that I have ever gotten a gig from. Baio's documentation of Ello's birth and death gets filed into my mind place board (hi Alan Wake 2 reference) for "How can we take back the creative side of the internet?"
Book Two of the Indian Lake Trilogy. It's Aliens to My Heart is a Chainsaw's Alien. Or I guess it's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors to Nightmare on Elm Street. Either way, it's was so exciting I stayed up all night one night to finish it.
The whole book played out in my head like a show or movie, fully formed. It was like a warm hug and I can only compare it to playing Zelda, but not the story in Zelda. More like just riding the winds in Zelda.
A perfect summary of the mental state of creating anything on the web right now. A bonus is being able to go to Cat and Girl's 15 year archive and watch the evolution of a great storyteller.
The sheer scale of the story they took on is astonishing. They called their baroque phase, and it is true. It feel like the type of story they wanted to tell if they could never tell another story again and the team just laid it all out there.
I fucking cackled at this movie. Surpassed Wet Hot American Summer as the pinnacle of teen movie satire. You're welcome to put that line at the bottom of a the movie poster.
This was more then a retelling of the original Evangelion series. This was re-do and it was fantastic. More coherant while still striking, and it used changes in animation tech to it's advantage. It is wild that it came out over 15 years. Also, this counts as four movies.
A documentary that took 40 years to make. I want to finally read Vonnegut this year (we'll see if it happens). A fact I love: Slaughterhouse Five came out when he was 47 and went through what seems like endless drafts. That resonates with me the same way Barnett Newman's process of Stations of the Cross does.
The BBC is slowly uploading every series on to YouTube. I love shows about craftspeople doing great work for people. It's also reminding me to see if I can easily stream This Old House yet.
Craig (Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) McCracken's three series Netflix show probably flew under a lot of radars and that's a shame. The three season arc is great and the animation is beautiful. It made me realize how much his shows influenced my storytelling and art. I wonder if I can find Foster's streaming anywhere.
A completely self-contained season, with a laser focus on the story it wanted to tell. Juno Temple and Jon Hamm were excellent. Emmys and awards are going to just get thrown at them.
