Music Video of the Week #2

The animated music video this week is for the song "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise" By The Avett Brothers. The indie rock band from Concord North Carolina. The Song is off their major label debut album "I and Love and You" which was produced by Rick Rubin who if you don't know is a legend in the music industry. Producing some of the greatest albums of all time, including Johnny Cash's "American Recordings", The Beastie Boys "Lisenced To Ill", and The Mars Volta's " De-Loused in the Comatorium". So safe to say, you're in good hands with this Avett Brothers album. This video was animated by animator Jason Mitcham, whos style of painted animation goes so well with the music from the Avett Brothers. It's like a chocolate and peanut butter combination.

Trilogy Week #36 - CG Animation

When feature length CG animation came on the scene in 1995 with Toy Story, and thought, this new style of animation can do know wrong. My thinking was I imagine every one of these movies has got to be very expensive to make, (which they are) so there's no way the studios are going to make these films with mediocre stories or characters. Oh how wrong I was. I went to see every CG movie I could get my hands on, and quickly realized that the majority of these new creations were pure crap. Shrek, Ice Age, Meet the Robinsons, Robots, all horribly bad. I soon found out the reason for this digital shit was due to studios thinking, Pixar has made CG films gross millions of dollars, we need to get on that. So studios started pushing pre-maturely made scripts into the pipelines thinking if these bad stories go through the CG filter it will make the movies better. Well that was not the case, and that wave of garbage is still going strong. So you have to play prospector to find the little nuggets of gold in this hollywood river of awful CG movies.

Music Video of the Week #1

I'm starting something new agian. I'll be featuring one of my favorite music videos each week. Since I've announced that August is animation month, each video will be an animated one.


To start of this new feature, I'm starting with one of my favorite songs of all time. Radiohead's "Paranoid Android". Written by singer Thom Yorke, the songs is significantly influenced by The Beatles, "Happiness is a Warm Gun", and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". And named after the robot Marvin the Paranoid Android from "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". 


The video was created by Magnus Carlsson, swedish creator of the animated show "Robin" which the band was fans of. They deliberately didn't send Carlsson any lyrics for the songs, because they wanted his interpretation of what he thought the song was about, and didn't want the video to be too literal. The result is a funny but twisted tale of two friends walking through their town, and encountering a variety of weirdos that live in their community.


The Song went to number 3 on the UK singles charts, and on Rolling Stones' "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". And the video was on heavy rotation on MTV, sometimes playing 12 times a day, but was censored due to some brief nudity.

Trilogy Week #35 - 2D Animation

The Month of August I'm calling animation month, where I celebrate everything animation, this week it's 2D animation. So I decided to pick my three favorite non-Disney animated movies, and my brother Jonny is back with some reviews.

Trilogy Week #34 - Leonardo DiCaprio: Based On A True Story

Three movies were Leonardo DiCaprio is playing a role based on a real person. Can he get lost in his roles, and you forget it's Leo, or are you just watching Leo act with make up on.

Top Five Michel Gondry Music Videos

Michel Gondry is a genuis in the art of video. And here are my Top Five favorite Michel Gondry music videos.

Trilogy Week #33 - A Tribute to Michel Gondry

My 30th birthday is on Friday, and this week I'm reviewing three movies by Michel Gondry on of my favorite directors of all time. I was first amazed by his awesome music videos, and was excited to see his turn into movies. And I was not disappointed by his films. His imaginative way he creates such fantastic and original special effects. And I love he uses everyday objects, and old school film techniques to make such memorable moments.

Trilogy Week #32 - Make Your Own Superhero

Everyone know what a superhero is. Superman, Spiderman, Captain America. Fantasies of a lot of comic book readers wishing they could have superpowers. But there are heroes without powers, like Batman, Ironman, The Punisher. So how can you be the next Batman? Here are three movies about three people who tried their hands at fighting evil in their home towns.

Back From Vacation

So I went to California with my family to see Yosemite National Park. We stayed in Angel's Camp and saw other sites around that area. The place had vineyards everywhere, No wonder they call it wine country. But what really caught my eye was the landscape, I loved it, the rolling hills of northern California reminded me of the artist Eyvind Earle. If you don't know who that is, he is the brilliant artist who made the stunning background art for Disney's Sleeping Beauty. But the reason that Disney wanted him for their background artist were these awesome landscape paintings I'm about to show you. Whenever I drove through the country side a was reminded by the work of Eyvind Earle.

Trilogy Week #31 - American Movies

Hi everybody, It's been about a month since I've been on here. First I went on vacation, then I stared a new job, so I'm playing catch up. 


Anyways, this is fourth of July weekend so lets watch some movies with America in the title.