>> ^gorgonheap:
I speak (in order of proficency); English, Apache, German, Korean, & Spanish. I've also dabbled in Hebrew and French.


Seriously? Holy Crap!

I would like to learn Mandarin since many of my colleagues speak it and speak English poorly these days. That, and I already can read Spanish, so I'd like to learn to speak/understand spoken Mexican Spanish for practical purposes living in the USA. (Reading and speaking are like 4th-grade-math and Calculus III). I have no interest in learning my native American Cherokee tongue unfortunately. I REALLY want to learn Greek and I think Arabic would be nice these days as well though I really don't have time to learn it.

I also have a limited knowledge of Japanese that I owe to anime shows. GAWD, what a LOSER!

I like animated shows as much as the next guy and I like Family Guy, but this is going to crash and burn so hard. I did enjoy the bear, though.
*woohoo

Ahh, the sorts of things that creationists ignore. I can see exactly where they cry foul too. The section where they show wolves evolving into wales over the course of a few seconds.

The problem so many creationists have is they see something like that and think/say "There is no way I can believe that something as different as a wolf can turn into a whale, they look so different." The animation shows it all happening quickly, and that's the only timescale they have, even if they try to think of 'a long time', they think tens or hundreds of years, human scale periods. They always come up short being able to understand and comprehend the evolution of animals because of that.

It's an inability to stretch their mind beyond what they know.

I figured the ending was basically like a flashback. I don't remember exactly how it went now, but I remember my thought at the time was it was simply the director showing the viewer the main characters alive one last time as a sentimental thing. But I didn't put too much effort into that analysis, anime shows frequently have vague endings. Also, I heard the last 4 or so episodes were not originally part of the series, but were added to please fans.

Halo sucks!!! I hate you, and I hate the game you like!!

I think Family Guy is hilarious, but certainly not my favorite animated show. Simpsons, Futurama and South Park are all superior shows, and Family Guy and American Dad are battling for fourth spot. Some episodes are great in all of them, but some are mere mediocre.

Still, this doesn't detract frm FG's "funny", because it still beats the living crap out of basically every single live-action comedy series or sitcom.

Obviously anime shows a side of the only culture ever nuked in the world. These people thought they had seen the end of time itself. There is a series of books that chronicles changes in anime and cultural influences in their animated media. First one is called "From Godzilla to Akira" I think. Cant remember the authors name but she did a 2nd book called "From Akira to Princess Mononoke".

very nice
any other new animated shows/dvds out? I loved JLU. Hear they may do a live action movie too...

Purdue Study Has Links to US Government:

"A newly released Purdue University animation showing how fire caused the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 claims to be independent but in reality has been federally funded and was conducted by individuals with direct links to the Pentagon and the White House."

Source
http://thetruthproject.us/2007/06/22/new-911-study-has-direct-links-to-government-pentagon-black-ops/

Purdue Study Has Links to US Government:

"A newly released Purdue University animation showing how fire caused the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 claims to be independent but in reality has been federally funded and was conducted by individuals with direct links to the Pentagon and the White House."

Source
http://thetruthproject.us/2007/06/22/new-911-study-has-direct-links-to-government-pentagon-black-ops/

This short can be found on the "The Animation Show" Vol.1 DVD by, Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt.
It is done by Alex Boduvsky and named Bathtime In Clerkenwell (2002)
Here is some text that came in the DVD booklet about it, very rich.

ALEX BUDOSKY is calling from somewhere in the 917 area code, in New York City where he and his family call home, and his cell phone signal is breaking up. "Basically the entire family emigrated because of, you know, hard times in Russia in the nineties. we left in December of '94, garble garble garble garble garble garble. Yeah. So it was a good choice, I guess." Never having found out what their alternatives were, I have to say I agree with his assesment, the former immigrant who arrived with only artistic aspirations and no English vocabulary to speak of, is now the animator of choice for pop act The Real Tuesday Weld with a singular style and a rising career as a commercial artist.
Budovsky, who was born in St. Petersburg in 1975, came to America with his family and settled in New York, where they all still live. The then not-quite-20-year-old set his sights on higher education, but the fisrt priority was a practical linguistic one. "I didn't speak English when I arrived," he says, "so I went to Brooklyn College and took some English as a Second Language classes. Then I took some film classes, and graduated as a sound designer, with an emphasis on film".
He graduated in 2000 with an aptitude in all the film basics, including editing, screenwriting, and photography, and discovered a program called Macromedia Director, which is now software generally used in business presentations. He began animating as a lark, without any formal training. "I was working as an electrician in the New York City ship terminal and doing film in my spare for fun", he says, "so I just had fun entertaining myself".
At a friends house, he happened to hear Where Psyche Meets Cupid, a collection of droll cabaret/electronica by Stephen Coastes, a.k.a. The Real Tuesday Weld. He immediately decided to make a video for the haded hip-hop/hot jazz ballad "Terminally Ambivalent Over You".
"I knew nothing about copyright", Budovsky says, "and one of my friends told me, 'You can't just use this guy's music. You have to at least contact him and ask for permission'. So I wrote him and asked for permission, even though the film was laready made. He gave me permission. I waited several weeks, and sent him the film". The Flash-animated depiction of a love-distracted prisoner on a Gramaphone assembly-line unfolds mostly in black and white with a few color accents, and barring the contemporary soundtrack and the ultra-clean frame, it could pass for a particularly accomplished product of the Kruschev-era Zagreb Studio of former Yuogoslavia.
Coates loved what he saw, and sent Budovsky sketches for the songs from his upcoming CD "I, Lucifer". Alex heard "Bathtime in Clerkenwell", decided it was destined to be a hit, and immediatly set to work on a vdieo. The demented product is full of confused humans, belligerent cuckoos, and princers dangling over assembly lines - icons that seem to recur often in Budovsky's work. Don't bother asking where they come from, though, because Alex doesn't have a clue. "I never even think about what I do. It just comes out on its own", he laughs. "I can't really explain how all those characters appear."
To Budovsky's surprise, once Bathtime started making the festival circuit in 2002, it began to pick up an array of prizes, and the notoriety led to more shorts and commercials. He's worked on campaigns for Lucozade and Converse, his latest short is a music video based on Geoff Muldaur's version of "Brazil". Budovsky reworked the song with the help of The Real Tuesday Weld and friend Girt Chatrou (who is a two-time world champion whistler). He couldn't secure an internet license for "Brazi", but most of the rest of Budovsky's work is online at his own Figli-Migli Productions web site. (It means "low jinks.")
Budovsky doesn't have any feature film plans at the momment; his work method wouldn't support it. "All of my films - I don't do any pre-production whatsoever", he says. "I don't do scripts, I don't do storyboarding or animatics. I just build the film shot-by-shot, and halfway through the film I don't know what the end is going to be". For Alex, up to this point, short form has been the way to go because of the amount of contol he carries on the prokect. "In animation, you're a king, and you're a god, and you can accomplish so much alone", he laughs but adds, "I do like to collaborate though. It's exciting to see where people's input can take you."

/my wrists hurt, probably typos

This animation shows the named storms from the 2005 hurricane season. During a re-analysis of 2005, NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center determined that a short-lived subtropcial storm developed near the Azores Islands in late September, increasing the 2005 tropical storm count from 27 to 28. This storm was not named and is not shown in this animation.

Credit:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Additional credits:
Sea surface temperature Data by Remote Sensing Systems and sponsored by the NASA Earth Science REASoN DISCOVER Project and the AMSRE-E Science Team.

NCEP Cloud composite courtesy of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

Storm tracks and strenghts courtesy of NOAA's National Weather Service.

Blue Marble MODIS data composite courtesy of the MODIS Science Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the NASA Earth Observatory.

Music created and produced by UniqueTracks. Fantasy (theme from Norma) - Vincenzo Bellini.

I went off family guy a while back. I just don't think it was a very funny show but then I tend to feel that most animated shows are weak. One exception though - McFarlane's American Dad is very good.

In 2005 Warner Bros. released, as bonus material on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 3, a rarely seen 1963 TV pilot called PHILBERT, one of the last things produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons before they closed shop. The live action/animation show starred William Shallert as Griff, a bachelor newspaper cartoonist who lives with his creation, a mischievous hipster cartoon character named Philbert. I was honored to do some audio track commentary on the DVD with animator Art Leonardi and voice actor Trustin Howard. When the show failed to sell (it was intended for ABC), Warner Bros. stripped the show of its laugh track, did some re-editing and released it as a 26 minute theatrical short subject. The version released on the Looney Tunes set is the theatrical version.

courtesy cartoonbrew.com

I know raven already published this one but my post is a live version and is longer so I thought I'll give it a try.

From wikipedia:
Tank! is the opening song for the anime show Cowboy Bebop. The song, composed by Yoko Kanno and performed by The Seatbelts, has an extensive Alto Saxophone solo, as well as a fil part at the end. The song is a Big Band Style Jazz piece with a rhythm part that combines a bass guitar and conga drums. The beginning of the song features a voice over from the show's main character, Spike Spiegel, which alludes to a heist taking place over the duration of the song.

Info about The Seatbelts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seatbelts

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This is an interesting animation showing how nano manufacturing might work.
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