Heal Emru

I don't have any traffic on this blog.

I've posted an important message on my old blog.

Maybe there is some embarrassing high school stuff on there, but that's not the point.

Since this is an animation-related blog, if you're reading this at all, you should know who Emru is.

If not, go to fpsmagazine.com, healemru.com, or my blog post. This is very important. He has an amazing website called FPS Magazine. He has been diagnosed with leukemia. Go to the given links and get information on what you can do.

If people actually read this blog, I would have made this message more like the one on my livejournal...

New Website...brain soup

I've just completed my website, 'brain soup,' which can be found here: checkeredgeek.freehostia.com

It showcases some of my artwork, animation and embarrassing film projects from high school. The website should expand over time with more of my creative... things...

Some of the design is a little inconsistant, and there are some mistakes, which I hope to fix soon.

There are also things I say that I will probably change later, if I'm not too lazy. I said some things about Jim Tyer's animation being "just plain weird," which I don't think does it justice, so apologies to any Tyer fans out there-- I was in a hurry. Also, I'm not so sure about putting my work from high school in there... it's a little embarrassing.

Whatever the case, I have a website now... only thing to do now is get an actual domain name... and unfortunately, brain soup isn't the most original name out there.

But hey, it's a start.

I guess I should get a domain some day...

Not cartoon related

Infinite Solutions with Mark Erickson

I find this website amazing... just... amazing...

I'll say it again...

Amazing.

Ugly Drawings

But they're my ugly drawings.

uhh

So, the reason no one reads this blog is simply because I don't put it out there at all. I don't post it in my Cartoon Brew comments, and I don't give the address to my friends. I think the next step, really, is to get my creative stuff on here as soon as possible. Maybe I'll seem like less of a loser.

So, I've been listening to some of the 50's production music that was used for The Ren and Stimpy Show. This makes me super geeky.

Which brings me to the main point of this post: my love for cartoons and my love for music. I really don't know which is more important in my life, especially when the two go so well together. Carl Stalling and Raymond Scott are two of my biggest heroes, as well as Sammy Timberg and the other people involved in the music for the Fleischer studio.

And how can you not like the Cab Calloway Betty Boop cartoons?



My interest in cartoons and music goes together very well, but I'm starting to think music is more of my primary interest, although it has switched back and forth.

A New Post

Hey, a new post!
I decided I might as well continue this blog, just as a record of my animation research. You know, to help me deal with my obsession. It's not really going to be a place to showcase my own animation for the time being, mainly because I'm busy with college and all the post-high school crap. I could come up with more excuses... my animation stand is covered in DVDs... my camera sucks.

Anyway, I wanted to post about one of my new favorite animators, Milton Knight. He's worked for Ralph Bakshi, as well as DiC. Now, up until now, I've disregarded everything made by DiC, with the exception of John K's New Adventures of Beany and Cecil. Well, I was doing some research on Jim Tyer, and somehow I stumble upon this guy named Milton Knight.

The guy has worked on the pilot for The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, which doesn't sound impressive at first, until you see what he did with it. Things worth noting: 1) Gary Owen's voice can be heard (voice of Space Ghost and Powdered Toast Man). 2) Ed Love, who worked on Tex Avery's Swing Shift Cinderella, also worked on this show. My mind has been blown!



It's very fitting that he ended up directing episodes of The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat.



Anyway, I think this guy is great.

Animation Conversation... Overwhelming.

First I saw this.

That almost made me cry.

Then I remembered watching this:



Where a kid from the 80's talks about how great Transformers was... oh god... (for the record, I like his videos most of the time).

So I drowned myself in Flip the Frog and Bugs Bunny.

Then I saw this.

Then I thought, "Aren't all these animation-related people nerds too?"

I was also kind of sad that people still don't understand autism.

I love the animation blogger community, and I check Cartoon Brew all the time. But all these blogs get overwhelming.

There's nothing wrong with being a nerd, it's just better if you're a nerd about cartoons from the 40's, and not cartoons from the 80's. Those 80's cartoons were bad, and kids from that generation can't give them up.

All these animators and animation-related people are nerds themselves, and that's okay!

And I also thought about how Jhonen Vasquez and JR Goldberg made a book together, and how weird that is. But that's something else I should talk about elsewhere.

But... wow, I'm tired, and I just had to type this all out...

I should go to bed.

All these opinions...

In the 40's, they didn't have blogs or political correctness... or something...

OK, I'm starting to sound like Seymour, from Ghost World... sort of... who is also a nerd.

OK, I REALLY have to go to bed now!

...so many scattered thoughts...