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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Post 751 - Cleaning Out Another Box - More Animation! This for a Head Start Program in Michigan's U.P.

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This was a completed project (for once!) from 1998 .  It took only about 150 drawings to flesh this out,  and I believe it was actually used...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Post 750 - Self-Explanatory Metaphor

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 And a bonus color test  (c) MMXXV - 2025 - Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary  
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Post 749 - Ce N'est Pas Magritte

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  (c) 2025 MMXXV Jim Middleton, not Magritte, The Animating Apothecary And, an observation on this eve of Memorial Day, 2025: If AI can prov...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Post 748 - A Follow Up to Posting of June 1, 2011 - Memorial Day

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The scattered tale of one Harry Middleton, locations known, representing a life well-traveled.  (earlier iterations in posting of 1 June 201...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Post 747 - Testing sketches from last November

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Tossing in some details and other experiments amid a November 2024 stack of sketches, representing several "works in progress" (I...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Post 746 - May Flower Moon Sketch - for ASIFA Newsletter

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(c) MMXXV (2025) Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary  
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Post 745 - Splinter Groups and the Glory of Collecting Toothpicks

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SLIVERS IN THE TEETH - AND OTHER DENTAL WOODWORK Notebook Entry - February, 1988     Like matchbook collectors, mavens of the toothpick ten...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Post 744 - Public Service Announcement - Sigmoidoscopy (nudge nudge wink wink)

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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - ETIQUETTE DURING SIGMOIDOSCOPIES WHILE POLITELY DESCRIBED AS A SIMILAR SENSATION TO BEING CONFINED IN A TURKIS...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Post 743 - Heresy At the Viaduct - Reimagining "The Cocoanuts" with The Four Marx Brothers

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The Cocoanuts Reduction - 75 minutes   The Public Domain introduced the first Marx Brothers film, The Cocoanuts , into its arms this year.  ...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Post 742 - Atticus (the Catticus)

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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Post 741 - A Quick Overview of Battle Creek's Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Influence, ca 1993

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Dr. Kellogg had determined that his Biologic Living could take care of any complaint.  He had already decided that quinine was less effec...

Post 740 - A Public Service Announcement

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  PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT from the American Society Against Society   If you are suffering from a lamina-propriate, densely-infiltrating...

Post 739 - The Laissez-Faire Pharmacy - An Article from 1997

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With RFK Jr's brainworm/roadkill approach to healthcare these days, this article seemed rather relevant once more:         Ninety-two ye...

Post 738 - Notes on "The Great Dictator" - presentation to GR Ford Museum, 1988

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 BEHIND "THE GREAT DICTATOR" Notes for 28 January, 1988 Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids Thank you.  I have been introduced as ...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Post 737 - A Convergence of Material - Phonographs, Battle Creek, Dr. Kellogg, and Those Wild 1870s!

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  For all the clutterbugs out there, if you accumulate material, eventually a connection will emerge! And two Kelloggs, not related, cross...

Post 736 - Another Month, Another Full Moon

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  (c) MMXXV (2025) Jim Middleton, Animating Apothecary
Saturday, April 05, 2025

Post 735 - Recipe for Irish Yellow Broth

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Because I refuse to just watch TV when it's on:  
Friday, April 04, 2025

Post 734 - A New Line I've Never Heard Before - Updated 27 April 2025

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And it's STILL silent!  An evolving ASIFA Central project contribution...  Some more randomness, unsynched, with additional frames to th...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Post 733 - Movement Studies for Project Tossed in Here

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 Movement studies will be in this folder as they progress -  Second step - (c) MMXXV (2025) Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary
Monday, March 24, 2025

Post 732 - A New Project with Some Familiar Background Tests

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Mantra - Throw nothing out, throw nothing out! Some dockside views for a bonus project - (c) 2025 MMXXV Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothec...