Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Motion Graphics & Flash

  • Evelien Lohbeck

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    Noteboek, an animation by Evelien Lohbeck that recently won the prize for best NOFF-film 2008 a the Netherlands Film Festival, is one of the cleverest and most amusing animations I’ve seen in a while. Taking off from the notion of a sketchbook in which a computer keyboard and screen have been drawn, it goes on…

  • ZuneJourney.net

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    I have never been a fan of Microsoft, their approach to software, their “squash the little guy” business practices or their design and interface choices. Just a personal point of view, of course, but I think their years of market dominance in computer operating systems and their huge corporate bureaucracy have made them complacent and…

  • Thugs on Film

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    Thugs on Film is one of my favorites of the crop of independent Flash animation short series that have come and gone over the past few years. Distributed by Mondo Mini Shows, Thugs on Film is lamentably no longer being produced. Mondo’s awkward an inelegant distribution and promotion model always confused me, and evidently, other…

  • Gerry Mooney

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    Back in the mid to late 90’s, when the webcomics landscape looked more like an empty plain dotted with tiny houses than today’s bustling metropolis, one of those houses was an online comic called Bugbots: The Mansect Rebellion. Created by husband and wife team Gerry and Viki Mooney, the strip had a fun, brash, 60’s…

  • Forget the film, watch the titles (update)

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    If you’re a fan of pop songs, particularly from the 1960’s when the three minute pop song was perhaps at its peak as a musical form, you’re familiar with the concept of a “golden intro”, that delicious first 20 or 30 seconds of instrumental music before the vocals start, that was often a thing of…

  • Netdiver

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    I hope today is a good day for you to get lost in a time-sink, because here’s another major one. Netdiver is a site that collects and displays links to websites that the author, Carole Guevin, aided by her techie co-founder Jean-François Simard, has selected as particularly appealing and well done. The overall emphasis of…