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Monday, January 30, 2012

Meat Puppetry Experiment #2 - KVCC ANIM130 Class

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It's supposed to be a class on 3DS, but these guys and gals need their exercise.... Edit and render using Sony Vegas. Sound from the W...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Deconstructing Griffith - A Girl and Her Trust (1912)

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This ground-breaking one-reeler hit the century mark this year, and being relevant at that age is always worthy of note.  So in examining th...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Sultan of Psychopharmacology - link to UpNorth Broadcast

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Bob Fawcett and his guitar summing up how to Feel Better: TAKE A PILL! Here's the link: UpNorth Broadcast with Bob Fawcett - Sultan of...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Meat Puppetry - Two Versions

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Some quick experiments (5 seconds each) of Meat Puppetry, making use of the KVCC ANIM130 class.  Edited with Sony Vegas V11, with the second...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Phenakistascopery

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Students in the Kellogg Community College and Kalamazoo Valley Community College animation programs get an assignment to create the old pre-...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

First film in first session of ANM239 at KVCC

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Here's a tribute to Georges Melies from Kalamazoo Valley's ANM239 Class - the first night experiment with "establishing shot...
Monday, January 09, 2012

New Year's Resolution - Exercise those Records!

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Thanks to the History Detectives broadcast last autumn, I had the good fortune of being interviewed on WNYC;s Soundcheck on January 6, as p...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Cryptic Holiday Greetings for 2011

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Not sure what this means, exactly, but it appeared on the sketchbook during a broadcast of "It Happened on Fifth Avenue."  Therefo...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Playing with Online Translators - Hamlet

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English to French, French to German, German to Italian, Italian to Greek, Greek to Japanese, Japanese to English: Or, or him or that proble...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

About movies....

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So often I watch a movie and find that it just hits me in unexpected ways. Then I wonder if anyone else could be equally affected. Occasion...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

While we were reading the sports section....

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...or being distracted by the media with its source over substance... this is a graph of the Canadian dollar vs the US dollar over the past ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

And so Albion and Marshall Don't Feel Left Out

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Albion – Population 14224 (2010)                          Stimulants  Vicodin like    Oxy-like    Methadone totals               127774  ...
Monday, December 05, 2011

Battle Creek - You've Got A Problem!

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The Michigan Automatic Prescription Service (MAPS) offers up a lot of information on controlled substance usage as reported from the state...

Following up on the Planetarium files

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The use of mpeg format made a substantial difference.  However, using a 1320 x 1320 (vs a 1320 x 1200) working field makes a substantial dif...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

Animation Tests for the Local Planetarium

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The Challenge The intermediate animation class (ANIM235) at Kellogg Community College was given an assignment to determine whether an anima...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

2012 Calendar Cover

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It's another slow process, but there may be a 2012 calendar after all - slightly truncated, but it's evolving..... Ultimately, thi...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Homes in "the Hood" - Battle Creek's Historic District

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Elm Street This may be on Garfield Avenue...where is that notebook!? Orchard Place, South Fremont Street Frelingheuysen St...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Repaired - well, sort of - Banned Pharmacy Promotion Film

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Found out that the earlier posting for the Ferris pharmacy promotion film was glitched beyond comprehension.  Such is the fate of a 1976 1/2...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Celebrating Kevin Matthews

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(c) 1989 The Animating Apothecary (c) 1989 The Animating Apothecary (c) 1989 The Animating Apothecary (c) 1989 The Animating A...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Intelligent Design Pharmacy

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 (c) 2006 The Animating Apothecary Illustration compilation at lulu press.  Here's the link:  http://ar.gy/3UB9