Sunday Roundup – 11/7/10
“As the CoFK approaches 0, productivity goes negative as you pull OTHER people into chair-spinning contests” – courtesy xkcd
I had a bit of a crazy week after having drank over 480mg of caffeine from energy drinks for the first time in over five years (I went cold turkey on energy drinks and had sworn I’d only, and ONLY drink them in the case of a dire, dire emergency – ironic that the emergency had to happen post-Halloween and sick recovery).
The most interesting links I found this week mostly happen to be videos:
• The Illusionist by Sylvain Chomet, director of The Triplets of Belleville (2003) – International and US trailers
• Milt Kahl and Ollie Johnston - pencil tests from The Rescuers (courtesy of PencilTestDepot.com)
• Shower Products for Men – based on an old Hyperbole and a Half comic, “How to make showering awesome again” (and just as hilarious)
• Walt Disney’s 1935 Animation Manifesto – courtesy of /Film
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Now, Q&A! (and me finally responding to emails!)
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Comment on: Ricky Gervais – you funny bastard, you
I agree with your sentiments totally. I think him and Chris Rock are our funniest people today. No matter the setting they always seem to naturally generate laughs. Would love to see these two actually work together. Maybe in a spoof of a talk show or some kind of setting where it gravitated more towards there talents.
It’s interesting how two comedians with polar opposite styles – Chris Rock the in-your-face prodigy and Ricky Gervais the master of subtlety – could easily be the forerunners of modern stand up comedy. Also, if you haven’t seen it already, here’s Chris Rock on working with Gervais: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGHWEwwlY-M
Subject: time of eve
I haven’t read the article in full since I have been going home late (due to dance practices for our company’s sportsfest.) I would just like to point out the parallelism in Wall-E and Time of Eve. Both films alludes the Christian mythical female Eve - Eve in Wall-E, and the name of the coffee house Time of Eve (I would like to think that Sammy is the Eve in the anime). Both films also have male characters who tasted the “forbidden fruit” symbolized by coffee in Time of Eve and holding of hands in Wall-E.
just suddenly realized that I also forgot to mention the Eve allusions in Neon Genesis Evangelion (one of the anime which have plenty of Judeo-Chrisitian motifs). There are a lot of forbidden fruits tasted by Shinji and there are also a lot of Eves in that series, there’s even Lilith
– Allan Estrella
I haven’t watched Neon Genesis Evangelion and only read a few volumes of the manga (not because it was uninteresting, but because the distribution company stopped translating them in a timely manner, much to my chagrin), but I have heard that it makes a lot of references to Christianity (when I have time, I’ll need to check it out again, though I’ve heard the anime’s ending is lackluster compared to the manga’s storyline?)
As for Wall•E and Time of Eve, I think the forbidden fruit motif takes a second seat next to the primary motif of the maternal and emotional weight of the term “Eve.” In Wall•E, EVE is the robot that draws out Wall•E’s emotional core and causes him to abandon all rational in pursuit of love; in Time of Eve, the cafe is appropriately named as a maternal-like haven for androids and humans alike to be free of the social barriers binding them from interacting humanely with one another.
