Fringe Fridays is all about animation on the web. But before Internet video, animation fans would pack themselves into old (sometimes leaky) theaters to watch a compilation of animations from independent animators. Heck, this is where Pixar and Ren and Stimpy got their starts.
Thanks to Mike Judge, of Beavis and Butt-Head fame, the animation festival is not dead. This week I caught a screening of the Animation Show, and it was well worth it. There’s something about seeing this work on a big screen, in the company of animation geeks, especially if it’s a video you’ve only seen on a computer monitor.
Penalty and Lloyd are experts on heavy metal, and very little else. But that doesn’t stop the animated talk-show hosts from shouting their opinions on every subject imaginable. Nite Fite is a send-up of vitriolic cable-news punditry that was first seen in episode 3 of the Meth Minute. We will see new episodes of Nite Fite every week. Here are three episodes to start us off:
Weezer’s Pork ‘n Beans was a viral video in its own right. A kind of viral’s viral. Some gave Weezer a bad time for riding on the coat tails of Internet memedom. After its splashy music-video-as-Internet-high-school-reunion concept, it’d be pretty hard for the song to live on its own, right? Well, maybe not. Just try filling a studio with an army of amateur guitar strummers and a marching band for a super sing-along. And while the original song drove me crazy, this one’s kind of nice:
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Hellboy II was the big winner at the box office this weekend. While we congratulate ‘big red’ on his cinema supremacy, it’s never too early to look towards another big comic book movie. Fans of the groundbreaking Watchmen have been waiting nearly two decades to see it come to life on the big screen. While we’ve yet to see a trailer for the film, Yahoo! Video has four Production Journals about the making of the film. Watch them here.
