Josh tells me I don't update enough. It's been sort of a busy week. Working at events is the best thing ever because of the free food- salmon kabobs, hummus, fresh fruit, little plastic shot glasses of chocolate mousse. Foodgasm.
It was sooooo nice to sleep today though. Omigosh. Waking up at 5:45 has been less than fun.
Went to a film festival type thing at the Archives last night about Canadian animation. After the boring pretentious members-of-the-board-ego-stroking it was freaking amazing. It showed how innovative the methods of creation were, even in the 50's. Those Paul vs. Tony things aren't quite as innovative as they look, because people were doing that fifty-six years ago.
They could get away with a lot more content-wise too, even in the more conservative decades. As long as you called it art, you could pull off stuff like male nudity, or even someone murdering their entire family. You could literally say anything and not get censored.
I'd heard of this really creepy looking cartoon called "Madame Tutli-Putli," and I finally got to see it today. It's basically a woman stumbling onto misadventures on a train, like Nightmare Before Christmas meeting the 1940's. Sooooooooo good. The animators (2 guys) worked on it for 5 years, slaving every day in a darkened room to create this beautifully unique nightmare, and still didn't win the Oscar.
That went to a large-scale, public-friendly animated version of Peter and the Wolf.
I mean, that's fine and all, but it would have been cool if an unbridled burst of imagination had beaten something that was only done to please the mainstream.
Anyway, you can watch it here, and you should, even though it's scary. It's worth it.
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