Source: Nini Poppins
Lightly child, lightly. (2)
March 16, 2017 by 15 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) dir. Benh Zeitlin (via vilus)
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Answering Machine ’93 (23 sec)
February 25, 2017 by 10 Comments
Cameron Hicks: “This was my family’s outgoing message on our answering machine from 1993 up until we got rid of our land line a few years ago. My dad wanted to save the recording of my sister, Jodie, and I as kids so he digitized it and gave it to us. I decided to animate to the recording and give it to Jodie as a birthday present. It wound up taking longer to finish than I expected so it became a Christmas present. I missed that deadline too. Nevertheless, it’s dedicated to her.”
Cam – We’re not home right now, but we’ll be back real soon.
Dad – Right, so leave your name and number and we’ll get back to ya. Thanks for calling!
Jodie – I wanna talk!
Dad – Okay.
Jodie – Goodnight.
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call (25 Secs)
August 8, 2016 by 15 Comments
VOLUME UP!
AND, DON’T QUIT UNTIL THE FINISH…
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
September 16, 2015 by 9 Comments
Notes:
- Source: This Isn’t Happiness
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call: Up and out from those covers
January 26, 2015 by 18 Comments
SMWI*: Feeling large
December 20, 2014 by 23 Comments
Notes:
- SMWI* = Saturday morning workout inspiration.
- For more background on Totoro and the Japanese animation film, connect here and here. “Totoro is a giant, friendly forest spirit. He spends most of his time sleeping in a hole in a tree. He doesn’t speak, instead communicating by loud bellows.” (My family would concur with this description of me excluding friendly spirit part.)
- Image Source: Implicit-egotist
Le Petit Prince
December 13, 2014 by 16 Comments
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 classic The Little Prince is one of the best-selling books of all time. It has now been adapted into a papercraft animated film scheduled for release in 2015. Here’s a short (and beautiful) French trailer of what’s coming.
Find the English language film trailer for The Little Prince here: The Little Prince Trailer
Credits: Thank you SensualStarfish
Monday Morning Wake-up Call: Get up! Get up!
December 8, 2014 by 11 Comments
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call: Let’s Go People
October 27, 2014 by 8 Comments
Up.
Down.
Breath in.
Breathe Out.
Image Source: thesensualstarfish via hayaomiyazakicartoon.
Tortoro is on the right. (I think.) Totoro is a giant, friendly forest spirit. He spends most of his time sleeping in a hole in a tree. He doesn’t speak, instead communicating by loud bellows that, it seems, only the other Totoros and the Cat Bus can understand. He is very friendly to Mei and Satsuki. He can make trees grow much faster than normal.
My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film which tells the story of the two young daughters (Satsuki and Mei) of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988.
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