Post 703 - The October 2024 Sketch Dump - It Beats Just Watching TV

 Now to figure out what to do with them... hey, make cartoons!

Wheeee!

 

All images (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

Post 702 - ASIFA Central October 2024 Newsletter!

 Oh the bandwidth, the bandwidth!

(cc) 2024 ASIFA Central

Post 701 - Deja Moo!

 Hang around long enough, some things just seem to repeat themselves!

Post 700 - Benjamin Franklin and A Republic - Editorial in Big Rapids Pioneer 20 September 2024

I considered first just making a comment about the essay, but the piece is so well written that I decided to lift it straight from the readers' page of the Big Rapids Pioneer.  That it needs to be said, in a region of Michigan where the erosion of civility and intellect is at times stunning, emphasizes the concurrent erosion of who we are as a nation -- and what it means to exist as a supportive society.  End of soapbox.  

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Post 699 - The Beans and Animators - Blending Art and Melody!

                This only took six renders to fit into the blog! Woo-eeee!  A better copy is on Vimeo 

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Post 698 - Evolving Slide Show - Astro Boy and Diplomacy

This is evolving - time restraints squeezed out the discussion from the recent ASIFA Central retreat.  I figure if I leave it here, I'll get around to filling in the gaps sometime...someday...somewhere!

The translation of information struck me by the comparatively minimal number of characters in the Chinese translation.  5000 years with a language must certainly offer the opportunity for denser meanings to each character - something that I suspect may take longer to understand than your typical Rosetta exercises.

"Let's Rocket" - ominous in the current international climate!