Here lies the residue of "The Animating Apothecary," a source of obscure ephemera and thoughts. Instagram? see - https://www.instagram.com/animating_apothecary/ also check out asifa.org and asifa.net - content (c) 2006-2026 Jim Middleton (一個古怪的老頭，總是揮舞著雙手，哈哈大笑。or -手を振りながらよく笑うクレイジーな老人 or 손을 흔들며 웃는 미친 노인 )
Trials and tribulations - in pharmacy, in the 1990s, in using a DOS animation software, and using a mouse to draw - and the 400x300 resolution was a real challenge for file size uploads!
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...but there you go!... Back when independent pharmacies had a fighting chance! |
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| Benny's First GIF - 1993 |
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| A test of a USB light board! |
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| Playing with a Flash-generated GIF - 2008 |
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| At-distance learning - 2008 (yeah, I fell of the ladder) |
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| When OfficeMax closed, the grid 3x5 cards were going for PENNIES! |
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| Made a silhouette study sometime in 1998 |
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| From an "educational video" that didn't quite go as planned, but it gave Brad Ambs, my wunderkind in the 1980s, an opportunity to practice for his pharmacy boards. He PASSED! (1991) |
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| The underrated actor, J Nathan Goolsby, showing his flexibility on Super 8mm film! (1974) |
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| I had to eat far too much cereal to film this - but it did get me banned from the Kellogg world headquarters (which won't exist as such much longer, sigh...a sustained-release curse from 1988) |
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And Melies had a wicked sense of humor - viva la France! From "The Eclipse" in 1907, based on an 8mm print I once had and transferred to video with a moderate level of success. Now to find out what else is cluttering up this external drive!
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A reworking of the earlier "peace" animation, with coffee inserted because, well, because coffee!!!
ALMOST done
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| (c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary |
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| (c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary |
And a bonus color test
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| (c) MMXXV - 2025 - Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary |
Tossing in some details and other experiments amid a November 2024 stack of sketches, representing several "works in progress" (I'll have to live forever).
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| (c) MMXXV - 2025 - Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary |
And a bit more play time -
And...
And now on to other doodles...more as this progresses...
And it's STILL silent! An evolving ASIFA Central project contribution...
Some more randomness, unsynched, with additional frames to the mix on 27 April:
And a final bit of whoopee for 19 June:
Mantra - Throw nothing out, throw nothing out!
Some dockside views for a bonus project -
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| (c) 2025 MMXXV Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary |
Recently uncovered, thought lost, but merely misplaced. Now permanently misplaced on this blog!
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| (c) 2024 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary |
And onward through the animal kingdom!
(c) 2023 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
And, heck - let's toss in some electron-free music:
