Assy McGee

Wow. I got told about this by a colleague, it was totally inappropriate but I am really pleased they did! Basically it's a cartoon about a talking ass with a gun who solves crimes. Yep. I love it. The animation is cool too.

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Epic Mickey Game Preview

Has anyone played this yet? Looks good! According to HERE:

"The character Yen Sid (originally from the Fantasia movie) created a world where all the original and now forgotten characters of Disney’s incredible animated history can reside.

Mickey Mouse, seeing all this through his mirror, decides one day to visit the model/world that Yen Sid created to see what it is truly like. In the process of Mickey’s exploration and Yen Sid’s sudden awakening out of bed;

Mickey accidentally spills thinner on the model, damaging the world and in effect creating “Wasteland” as well as the ink blot that becomes the game’s antagonist. He spends some time trying to quickly repair the damage he has made and then rushes back through the mirror and forgets all about the model.

That is until one day when the ink blot seemingly pulls him back through the mirror to face what he has done. You spend a lot of the game furtively trying to clean up the mess Mickey has made.

To accomplish this you must of course defeat enemies along the way. But you have two options; take the easy route and use the thinner which will essentially destroy your enemies or you can choose the more difficult path and repaint them."

World's Smallest Stop-Motion Animation

Following in the vein of the world's smallest things this week....
“Dot” is a film commissioned by Nokia, directed by Sumo Science and animated by Aardman. It was shot with a Nokia N8 using Cellscope technology.

Check out the making of "Dot" below.

The Head: A Short Film

A colourful and psychedelic trip through the mind from Matias Vigliano and Dante Zaballa.

The Simpsons X Banksy

I look forward to every couch gag of The Simpsons, but this has got to be one of, if not the, best so far.
Banksy guest directs on this one, and really goes to town!

Nobody Beats The Drum Stop Motion Video

Great stop motion video for Dutch Electro group Nobody Beats The Drum's tune Grindin'.

This sequence of 4085 photo's was patiently created by Nobody Beats The Drum's VJ / visual artist Rogier van der Zwaag.
Check out the 'Making of' video below.
Oh, and the guys are taking the piss by the way. You'll see.....

Ninja Tune XX Video Mix By MOX

A short mix made from snippets of Ninja Tune & Big Dada videos, manipulated and animated by the mighty MOX. Included on 'ZENTVDVD Part.2' a compilation of 58 Ninja Tune videos. More info on Ninja Tune's 20th anniversary - Ninja Tune XX - at http://www.ninjatunexx.net

art / concept by mox
audio mix: by mox

Logorama Video

A film to expose the insanely ad-saturated world that we live in...

This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.
Many thanks to Adriana Wong in Melbourne for digging this one up for us!

Samurai Champloo

Samurai Champloo was written and directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (who also directed Cowboy Bebop). It aired in Japan in 2004 and is 26 episodes long. This anime blends action and comedy as well as some kick ass Samurai fighting and its all set during Japans Edo period.
Now Samurai Champloo would have you believe that we have the Edo period to thank for today’s hip hop culture, Graffiti, hippies and the flower power movement, beat-boxing just to name a few. And who am I to say otherwise, ok sure those pesky school text books and historians would have you believe otherwise, but come on what do they know.


This anime is set around 3 main characters: Mugen, a 19 year old, outlaw who will fight anyone that looks like they might be a bad ass and has never lost a fight. Jin, a 20 year old, ronin who is very reserved but can kick ass when needed and has also never lost a fight. And Fuu, a 15 year old girl, who decides to look for “a samurai who smells of sunflowers” (her dad), after Mugen and Jin get the tea house she was working in burnt down. The 3 of them set out on this adventure after Fuu springs Mugan and Jin from Prison in exchange for them promising her that they will help her. They are always broke ass broke and wonder around Japan getting into trouble wherever they go.


I know I say this about a lot of anime but I loved it, sure there were a few episodes that I could have skipped, but all of them had me laughing my ass off. To top it off I loved the ending as well it was a well rounded anime and it had something for everyone. I had put off watching this anime for some time as it didn’t sound like it was my thing, but I was happily proven wrong. And if it hadn’t been for the fact that I had to give up the TV half the way through (so someone could play PS3 games) I would have watched it in a day. The animation is very good, the music is kicking, the jokes run right the way through, and there is a bit of a storyline hidden in there as well.