MM Sherrif John's Lunchtime Brigade TV. Age 5. Watching at lunchtime before i started kindergarden. What a memory. I found a couple of links to information about his show.. like this one, TV Acres.
http://www.tvacres.com/child_sheriff_john.htm
He had a birthday song.. a be happy song.. he was as close to Mr Rodgers as our generation got. And he had cartoons.. Crusader Rabbit.. Casper the friendly ghost. some strange space cartoon.. And Clutch Cargo, which is what i am really on about today.
Clutch Cargo had a strange thing with the animation.. The faces would be still and the characters lips would move. They looked airbrushed on. Now I have learned the secret.. They called the technique Synchro-Vox adn what they did was to have hardly any real moving pictrue animation, instead using a lot of water colored back grounds, Then the voice actors lips were filmed as they spoke their lines, and those lips were superimposed on motionles drawings of the characters faces. They also hardly ever showed characters feet when waliking or running and I still remember how the torsos woud bob up and down but other wise not move. Oftern planes and cars woudl jerk around to simulate motion. Backgrouds tended to be simple except for occasional vauge water colors. Here is a link to antoher page about the cartoon with some clips to watch:
http://www.toontracker.com/clutchcargo/cargo.htm
Hope you enjoy
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
July 6 2006 on the Big Blink..
Saw "The Breakup" with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. I must admit I was a bit reluctant to see this movie. It is a known CHICK FLICK which means it is about relationships (which I actually like in a movie) and that the guy will be the one at fault (which isn't really fair now is it?)
As it turns out, the movie does stick to that formula. Gary (Vince Vaughan) is indeed a shallow self centered character, and also is funny and articulate. Booke (Jennifer Aniston) is long suffering and a really wonderful person who fell under his spell but now finds that he is not fun for the long haul. Both characters are well developed. There is a lot of humor in the story, and funny side characters, including Jon Favreau as a bartender who seems to have mafia leadings and to be totally self centered but who gives Gary the insight on how others see him. Judy Davis is hysterical as the owner of the gallery where Brook works.
My BIG complaint about this movie and many other relationship oriented movies is that the story is portrayed as having the guy as a character who needs to change and won't, and a woman as a character who puts up with all of his crap until finally she can't take it any more and decides to get out of the relationship.
No argument from me, Gary is not deserving of her. He cannot see how others see him and won't lift a finger to help another person if he doesn't want to. In the end he realizes his faults and tries to make up for it. In a rather surprising twist, Brooke has had enough and won't come back anyway. But Brooke is portrayed as wonderful person who has all any mortal could stand from Gary. Now admittedly she does see that she could have met Gary half way on some things, and maybe she could have, but it was way too little compared to Gary's realization of how he had treated he. In real life I think that the woman sometimes has to grow a little too, and perhaps the growth Brooke has is that she discovers she doesn't need Gary anymore, but I felt that this movie unfairly loaded the dice against Gary.
Can us guys have a little balance please???? I mean I know we are not perfect. But I want a relationship that serves both sides better. That is why my favorite chick flick is "When Harry Met Sally," because both the male and female haves in that move are real well developed but flawed people.
Big wheel keep on Blinkin.. Proud Mary keeps on Turning.. The Blink
Saw "The Breakup" with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. I must admit I was a bit reluctant to see this movie. It is a known CHICK FLICK which means it is about relationships (which I actually like in a movie) and that the guy will be the one at fault (which isn't really fair now is it?)
As it turns out, the movie does stick to that formula. Gary (Vince Vaughan) is indeed a shallow self centered character, and also is funny and articulate. Booke (Jennifer Aniston) is long suffering and a really wonderful person who fell under his spell but now finds that he is not fun for the long haul. Both characters are well developed. There is a lot of humor in the story, and funny side characters, including Jon Favreau as a bartender who seems to have mafia leadings and to be totally self centered but who gives Gary the insight on how others see him. Judy Davis is hysterical as the owner of the gallery where Brook works.
My BIG complaint about this movie and many other relationship oriented movies is that the story is portrayed as having the guy as a character who needs to change and won't, and a woman as a character who puts up with all of his crap until finally she can't take it any more and decides to get out of the relationship.
No argument from me, Gary is not deserving of her. He cannot see how others see him and won't lift a finger to help another person if he doesn't want to. In the end he realizes his faults and tries to make up for it. In a rather surprising twist, Brooke has had enough and won't come back anyway. But Brooke is portrayed as wonderful person who has all any mortal could stand from Gary. Now admittedly she does see that she could have met Gary half way on some things, and maybe she could have, but it was way too little compared to Gary's realization of how he had treated he. In real life I think that the woman sometimes has to grow a little too, and perhaps the growth Brooke has is that she discovers she doesn't need Gary anymore, but I felt that this movie unfairly loaded the dice against Gary.
Can us guys have a little balance please???? I mean I know we are not perfect. But I want a relationship that serves both sides better. That is why my favorite chick flick is "When Harry Met Sally," because both the male and female haves in that move are real well developed but flawed people.
Big wheel keep on Blinkin.. Proud Mary keeps on Turning.. The Blink
Thursday, June 22, 2006
OK I filled out that profile thingie. Not surprised to learn i was the only one listing Norstralia as a favorite book. I did find one other person intested in the music of Toshiko Akioshi, a really great big band leader and composer (big band, quartet and solo piano music) from Japan.
So anyway to repeat..
I'm a 53 year old male, white and tired, with a family, job that is pretty engaging most of the time, wonderful wife and kids, living the middle of the great American Era.
Looking for distractions on the way to oblivion.
The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerationg. It is not my hearing going bad, you are just furhter away from me than you used to be.
So lets make the most of the moments given and try not to spend them complaining about how I can't sleep like I used to.
I will get back to you right after I go get a nice cup of coffee....
I wonder if any one said that in the world trade towers just as the jets crashed into the bulding.
And always remember you are not totally indispensible where you work... each of us is just indispensable to the universe, without us observing, does it exist?
So anyway to repeat..
I'm a 53 year old male, white and tired, with a family, job that is pretty engaging most of the time, wonderful wife and kids, living the middle of the great American Era.
Looking for distractions on the way to oblivion.
The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerationg. It is not my hearing going bad, you are just furhter away from me than you used to be.
So lets make the most of the moments given and try not to spend them complaining about how I can't sleep like I used to.
I will get back to you right after I go get a nice cup of coffee....
I wonder if any one said that in the world trade towers just as the jets crashed into the bulding.
And always remember you are not totally indispensible where you work... each of us is just indispensable to the universe, without us observing, does it exist?
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Its Big and its Blinking..
What is The Big Blink? The Big Blink was the mysterious way to communicate between planets in the SciFi works of Cordwainer Smith. It is never described beyond the evocative name. I see a large searchlight with shutters that flashes light some how across across space, maybe through sub space. It would be like the ones used in a thousand World War II movies to create a mood for the ships of the fleet moving out of port to start the battle to end all battles. Since Smith was in World War II this may be what he thought of too.
Every good SciFi book that takes place in the future with travel between planets needs a way to talk instanty to each other but I think that it may be that we learn how to talk across the stars long before we ever figure out how to get out there.
Anyway this is just a first post, to set a little bit of the scene.
I am a big fan of Cordwainer Smith and his science ficiton. I have done my best to find every thing he wrote, and I belive i have seen every story mentiond in collections along with Norstralia, his novel. But this is not all l like. I am interested in any scince fiction that tries to give a hint of what might lie ahead in the future. I like to think of it as Trasnformative Fiction. And I will be blogging about that. I also love a good story even if mankind goes to the dogs and rots. I love some cyber punk, some magical fantasy, but the must be imaginative and well written,a nd so much out there is either one or the other.
Cordwainer Smith was one writer who managed to be both.
What is The Big Blink? The Big Blink was the mysterious way to communicate between planets in the SciFi works of Cordwainer Smith. It is never described beyond the evocative name. I see a large searchlight with shutters that flashes light some how across across space, maybe through sub space. It would be like the ones used in a thousand World War II movies to create a mood for the ships of the fleet moving out of port to start the battle to end all battles. Since Smith was in World War II this may be what he thought of too.
Every good SciFi book that takes place in the future with travel between planets needs a way to talk instanty to each other but I think that it may be that we learn how to talk across the stars long before we ever figure out how to get out there.
Anyway this is just a first post, to set a little bit of the scene.
I am a big fan of Cordwainer Smith and his science ficiton. I have done my best to find every thing he wrote, and I belive i have seen every story mentiond in collections along with Norstralia, his novel. But this is not all l like. I am interested in any scince fiction that tries to give a hint of what might lie ahead in the future. I like to think of it as Trasnformative Fiction. And I will be blogging about that. I also love a good story even if mankind goes to the dogs and rots. I love some cyber punk, some magical fantasy, but the must be imaginative and well written,a nd so much out there is either one or the other.
Cordwainer Smith was one writer who managed to be both.
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