| Friday, May 18th, 2012 |
| 7:29 pm |
TTA:HISMVDVD
Mark your calendars for August 14th, 2012. The Tiny Toon Adventures movie How I Spent My Vacation is being released on DVD. This sets a bit of a precedent, I think. Isn't this the first time that one of the '90s cartoon specials that previously was released on VHS has been re-released on DVD? It's appropriate, of course, since this was the first DTV animated feature. |
| Monday, April 30th, 2012 |
| 10:01 pm |
Animaniacs Babblin' Bijou with its original 1929 soundtrack
Something I threw together about a week ago. Another interesting discovery. Just as putting the original Monkey Song to the Animaniacs audio (even though that one always was intended to have its own version of the song on it) revealed a couple bits of action that related to vocalizations of Harry Belafonte, so putting the original You Oughta See My Gal recording onto Babblin' Bijou reveals that Yakko hitting a polo ball near the end was meant to synchronize with a pop in the original 1929 recording. |
| Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 |
| 8:31 pm |
Another student Ruegger film...
Last month, I embedded a video of Nathan Ruegger's student film, Another Life. Have a look now at his dad's animated short film from 1976, The Premiere of Platypus Duck. Somebody at Dartmouth found a copy lying around and has posted it. It's not a very good transfer -- very washed out. Tom has been planning to do a good digital transfer someday. Hopefully he will; the cel setups he has posted on his blog show a lot more color and detail. |
| Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 |
| 10:12 pm |
Nathan Ruegger's short film
Now that his short film Another Life has finished making its film festival rounds and he's gotten an agent so he can pursue his scriptwriting career, Nathan Ruegger has posted the film online for all to enjoy. |
| Thursday, January 26th, 2012 |
| 7:14 pm |
Some of my old Animaniacs parody songs that I still remember
Decided to present these old Animaniacs-related song parodies I wrote back in the day and still remember — one of The Brady Bunch theme, one of The Beverly Hillbillies theme, and one of American Pie which I had written upon the airing of the final episode. Pulled some shirts and the 1995 A! calendar out of storage so I could wear or take pictures of them to add visuals as the songs play. Everything else seen in the video actually is on permanent display in our house! If only I could sing better... |
| Monday, January 23rd, 2012 |
| 8:39 pm |
Where the Little Dog really has gone...
I noticed that nobody on YouTube had presented this timeless song in its full, original form, complete with German accent and all four verses. So I decided to do it myself after arranging it for small ensemble. In the full song Der Deitcher's Dog, from 1864, the question of "Where oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" actually gets answered. |
| Monday, January 16th, 2012 |
| 11:51 pm |
That Confounded Rag
I wrote a new rag for the first time since 2008. This "video" just shows part of the first page so there's something to look at while the music plays. |
| 11:08 pm |
A genuine "in Soviet Russia" joke
A couple weeks ago, we went to dinner with a friend and her family, who had defected from the Soviet Union in the 1980s. When her mother saw a strawberry on one of the plates, she commented about how it was out of season, and that it reminded her of a joke they had in Soviet Russia: When can you buy strawberries in Russia?From May to June.When can you buy strawberries in America?From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. |
| Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 |
| 6:40 pm |
Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" parody with Slappy Squirrel
Just a little idea I had... Open on a shot of Slappy's half-crazed grin. Zoom out on the opening line.NARRATOR She has won Academy Awards for her personality alone. Having zoomed out, we see that she is wielding a large wooden mallet at Motion Picture Academy members who fearfully are holding out Oscars.Cut to some appropriate Slappy scene of abuse to match the following line.NARRATOR To her, a bit part is one in which the actor is blown to bits. Slappy blows up the hapless abuse victim and laughs.NARRATOR She is... the crankiest of creatures in the whole wide world. Cut to looking up at Slappy's tree house window. She is leaning out the window, on an anvil that is perched on the sill. The word ACME is written on it twice.SLAPPY I don't always drop anvils, but when I do, I prefer Dos Acme. She raises the anvil above her head. The camera movement clearly indicates that the operator is alarmed.SLAPPY Stay still, ya shmutz! She releases the anvil. The camera falls over as the operator makes a run for it, but we hear his failure, with accompanying shooting stars onto the screen. |
| Saturday, December 24th, 2011 |
| 5:44 pm |
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| 10:13 pm |
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| Monday, September 19th, 2011 |
| 12:28 pm |
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| Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 |
| 1:20 am |
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| Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 |
| 12:31 am |
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| Thursday, August 11th, 2011 |
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| Thursday, August 4th, 2011 |
| 11:25 pm |
Interview with Paul, sneak peek
Here's a sneak peek of just a few short bits from Paul's interview of me as recorded by my nearby camcorder, and some before-and-after video -- especially before as we tried to figure out how to get Skype to record both of us in split-screen. We're both Skype newbies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gDiOneq1kBefore the recording, Paul got a big laugh out of how I answered the Skype call with a sort of Brooklyn accent pretending I was in the middle of an argument. "...I'm not gonna argue wit you any more; just put the rabbit in your pants! (to mic) Hello? Who's callin'? We're not buyin' anyting!" |
| 6:05 pm |
Waiting for Freako
Paul Rugg will be calling me in about half an hour. Then we'll do a recorded thingy on Skype for his blog. |
| Thursday, July 21st, 2011 |
| 7:31 pm |
Freakazoid theme as Trololo
Paul Rugg's latest "Froynlaven Challenge" is to perform the Freakazoid theme as "The Trololo Guy" referring to the famous video of Eduard Khil singing a lyricless song on Soviet television in 1976. Bonus points for anything involving water, Paul said. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1bQP89960So I did two things involving water! Of course, if you don't know the Freakazoid theme or the Trololo video, this will make no sense. If you do know them, you'll probably notice some of the crossovers I put into the action and the music. Open the description of the video for a complete list of the subtleties I put into it. Alas, I'm a bad singer... |
| Monday, June 27th, 2011 |
| 10:29 pm |
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| Saturday, June 25th, 2011 |
| 3:54 pm |
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