Canadians Have Known For a Long Time Of Course: Pingu!
An ode to the wonders of Pingu! With lots of Youtube links.
Giant Critters, So Tasty!
“In early ’90s Japan, mobs of hungry primeval men hunted gigantic prehistoric creatures in a series of fanciful ‘Cup Noodle’ commercials featuring stop-motion animation by Kim Blanchette.” And Pink Tentacle has video!
Spoiler Warning!
Check out Half-Life 1 and 2 in 60 seconds – with a just a few spoilers 😉
Cartoon Osteology
Peer deep inside the anatomy of cartoon characters, right to the bone, with Dia de los Muertos Looney Toons at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Michael Paulus’ osteological Hello Kitty and Peanuts drawings and Hyungkoo Lee’s rascally, Animatus sculpture. (via Boing Boing)
Would You Let Your Daughter Marry Godzilla?
When Godzilla first waded out of the ocean to trample Odo Island in 1954, he was a monster for the times, serious as radiation poisoning. Japan was still rebuilding in the wake of WWII. Wartime traumas were still fresh. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only nine […]
Gothtober
Gothtober is a sort of online Halloween advent calendar. Click on the S.S. Gothtober and see a new short everyday.
The Cultural Gutter 