My Little CrockPot of News and Thoughts

Thanksgiving Leftovers: "If I were an Alien, this would be my ship" ... Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I know we did. We're now frantically preparing for the next holiday... ... Recently, Amid at the Brew posted a link to a John Sutherland industrial film, at archive.org, called WORKING DOLLARS. It's a fun little film with a great charm and a wonderful style. After watching this film, I began to poke around the archive a bit to see what else I could find. My treasures are as listed below: - Another Sutherland film called It's Everybodys Business - A 1940's behind-the-scenes look at the making of an animated Chevrolet car commercial - Siggraph's Animation Screening Room and Electronic Theater (both from 2001) ... AWN has a nice tribute to Frank Thomas up on their site. It features personal thoughts and stories about Frank and his impact on the artform from different industry folks. (link via Elisa) ... Tonight, for the 40th year in a row, the Rankin/Bass classic 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' was show on TV. In honor of the big birthday, NPR featured a story on the holiday classic on Morning Edition this morning. Listen to it here. ... Recently, an interesting thought was posted on John Martz's RobotJohnny site. Blurkers, as he put it, are people who frequently visit a site, but never make their presence know. In an effort to meet new people and to see if anyone even reads this blog, I invite you post a comment and introduce yourself. I'll put a pot of coffee on and get a batch of cookies in the oven.