"like steven siegel with a show tune"

I admit, I was protecting this adorableness from a possible classic ant downvote.
*Cuddles "Wildlife" to cheek*...I am SO glad you liked it!
>> ^ant:

>> ^AdrianBlack:
Absolutely adorably fun, it is SO full of little things, I had to pause many times to appreciate it fully. Excellent post, Orriteropo!
...I hope Ant finds this.

You could had told me!! I just watched and voted. Wait, ants don't have red clown nose.
bugs

Thanks for the promote

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
*promoterino!

>> ^AdrianBlack:

Absolutely adorably fun, it is SO full of little things, I had to pause many times to appreciate it fully. Excellent post, Orriteropo!
...I hope Ant finds this.


You could had told me!! I just watched and voted. Wait, ants don't have red clown nose.

*bugs

Thanks for this awesome link!!
I love that show -- you know what, I worked for that company in Berlin on an Asterix film and I'm sure the little critters in that video were just heading into design as I was leaving. They have such a knack for cute characters. The world needs more of that kind of humour. Love the ants getting ready for work haha...

Cat's Cradle is such a weird film! I never really 'got' it, but I adored the shaggy linework. I'm a huge Driessen fan. There are a couple of newer ones he's done with split screens that show the same story from different perspectives -- or other splits like land, sea, air.. I'd really like to see those again.

It's great to see such amazing animation here.
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Have you seen this before? http://videosift.com/video/Ted-Siegel-s-Wildlife

I only posted it because your comment on "Cat's cradle" got me to watch it (loved it btw, the moral would have be be "be kind to spiders"?) and then that reminded me of this.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, I posted it because I thought you and Tara would like it... but also because it's just too good not to share. One of your other postings reminded me of it, so then I had to track it down.

I guess it doesn't really fit in with ant's downvotes, so it should be safe enough for him to find, unless he's particularly curmudgeonly at the time
In reply to this comment by AdrianBlack:
Absolutely adorably fun, it is SO full of little things, I had to pause many times to appreciate it fully. Excellent post, Orriteropo!

...I hope Ant finds this.

Have you seen this before? http://videosift.com/video/Ted-Siegel-s-Wildlife

I only posted it because your comment on "Cat's cradle" got me to watch it (loved it btw, the moral would have be be "be kind to spiders"?) and then that reminded me of this.

I have not been following the American health care debate as closely as I'm sure many citizens of that country are. My synopsis from afar is that the bill that was passed was not what Obama wanted. The kind of bill desired morphed into something that is only, as @longde pointed out, better than nothing. Coming from a country that has universal health care already, I am somewhat baffled by the strong resistance universal health care has in that country (except by corporates and lobbyists allowed to profit from disease.)

When I learned that the bill became a several thousand page behemoth does make me think that the final version should have been written by Alan Siegel and his team. At least then it might also be intelligible.