Strange animation

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A lens featuring some of the strangest and most innovative animation. This lens is a bit long, and i might later distribute the content through other lenses

The Link List

Strange Attractors - An Animation Showcase
Strange Attractors is a showcase of Victorian animators.
SE3D animated film showcase
Animated film showcase from HP
Student Film Showcase
Film sowcasing student contributions
AWN showcase
High quality animation showcase including films from Disnet, Nickelodeon and others
Ottawa 2006 International Animation Festival
Canadian animation film showcase
Bitter Films
The home of Bitter Films

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Youtube videos

I must say.....that anime intro for X-Men totally kicks ass, and We Are The Strange is shaping up to be a very interesting thing
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Netflix Movies

The Netflix module has been phased out. You should edit your lens and try adding an Amazon module instead!

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A Scanner Darkly

The novel

A Scanner Darkly is a 1977 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The semi-autobiographical story was set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the future of June 1994. The book can be considered Dick's master statement on drug abuse, in light of his extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use.

from Wikipedia

The Link List

A Scanner Darkly (novel) wikipedia entry
Explanation of the novel's title

The "scanner" is a holographic recorder/projector on which the main character is made to view clips of his own life by his superiors. It is also a reference to a Biblical verse in 1 Corinthians 13 that includes "we see as through a glass darkly", and thus refers to the main character's weak grasp on reality.[1] Ingmar Bergman's 1961 film, Through a Glass Darkly, lifts its title from the same passage. Furthermore, the initials of Scanner Darkly are also the initials of Substance D, which the characters refer to as Slow Death.

In Chapter Eleven of the novel, the novel's central character, Bob Arctor / Fred, thinks to himself, "Does a passive infrared scanner ........ see into me - into us - clearly or darkly?"
A Scanner Darkly (film) wikipedia entry
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 film by Richard Linklater starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Rory Cochrane. It is based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are among the film's executive producers. The film was written and directed by Richard Linklater in Austin, Texas. It was released on July 7, 2006 in theaters within limited cities including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and Minneapolis. It was distributed in wide release on July 28, 2006. Extensive on-set footage of the filming of A Scanner Darkly was featured in a UK documentary about Richard Linklater directed by Irshad Ashraf and broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2004. The movie was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival, and the world premiere took place at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts on April 30, 2006.
Official movie site
The official Waner Indepent movie site for A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves
A Scanner Darkly
IMDb entry for A Scanner Darkly

Trailer for A Scanner Darkly

Since i cant really post the movie in it's entirety, then here is the trailer
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Taiwanese anti-smoking commercial

on Google Video

Animated taiwan commercial
Part of the taiwanese anti-smoking campaign

The Chinese Classic - Tsai Chih-chung Series

This story based on chinese history is produced by Jamar Idea, the one who also made the Teardrops of Sun video above
The Chinese Classic - Tsai Chih-chung Series
by yufulin | video info

33 ratings | 18,762 views
curated content from YouTube

Caffeine Enconium

Just goes to show the weird things that can happen when you mix an already hyper fast-paced anime, with caffeine(to some the nectar of the gods ^_~) and classical music
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  • Ed Oct 24, 2006 @ 6:56 pm | delete
    Thanks, I will, and me loves Scanner Darkly too, otherwise wouldn't have singled it alone out, ill see if i can work on organizing it better though
  • oniyagi Oct 23, 2006 @ 7:32 pm | delete
    two words... scanner darkly! Great lens, keep them coming!

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