It’s Friday night so we thought we might send you a short warning on the devastating effects that beer could have on men.

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Topics: Humor, Video

Still remember the “wacky packs” - well maybe not the first series from Topps appeared in 1967. Each of them had a gum in it and a sticker card that was a parody - sometimes in a quite sarcastic way - of the consumer packaging for a well known product.

While the original ones now go for USD 100+ on ebay or other places, San Juan island based designer Chris Minney has created a series of images inspired by these “wacky packs and made them available online in his Flickr stream .

Guess these will also make good small posters for your fridge.

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Companies/Organizations: Topps, Flickr

Places: San Juan island, USA

Topics: Humor, Design, Images

People: Chris Minney

Products: Wacky Packages

For all you witches out there tonight - your night - Walpurgis Night - here comes the witch mix.

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Topics: Time, Witches, Video

Events: Walpurgis Night 2008

An absolute classic stop-motion film from 1952. Starts a bit slow but worth watching in full length. We can only imagine the efforts required to create this film without digital technology.

“…One of the many short films put out by the National Film Board of Canada. This one was headed by Norman McLaren, in 1952. Watch, and observe the era when creativity and originality was still to be found in relative abundance…”

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Companies/Organizations: National Film Board of Canada

Places: Canada

Topics: Animation, Short Film, Stop-Motion

People: Norman McLaren

American politics are much like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.

anonymous, found on the Internet

This beautiful animation of Hemingway’s saga “The old man and the sea” has been completely hand painted - all 29,000 frames of it. It’s actually more an independent film created by Russian artist Alexander Petrov and Canadian Pascal Blais Productions that helped him to get the 21 minute film onto celluloid with IMAX technology.

It won a series of awards and received an Oscar nomination for Best Animation Short Film.

…In 1997, 40 year old Alexander Petrov of Prechistoe, Russia struggled against a strange environment (Canada), a new and intimidating technology (IMAX), and with the use of his finger tips, transformed Hemingway’s ode to masculinity from splashes of oil paint into a vibrant, coherent, fresco in motion…

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The second part of the film is here .

info via: Mellart
info via: AWN

Companies/Organizations: Pascal Blais Productions

Places: Russia, Canada

Topics: Animation, Short Film, Art

People: Alexander Petrov

A 2:10 min compilation of what seems to be the most important scenes from a TV sequel called “Lost” - no wonder if they only use one word. What?

BTW - who’s going do the more appropriate Where? version…

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Jules says: “…Say What One More Goddamn Time!”
…there’s no pulp in that fiction…

Topics: Humor, TV Series, Video

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations.

Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, famous Russian dissident writer, Nobel prize and Templeton Prize winner, Harvard University address (1979)