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    No Anima, No Animus, Just Animation

    Tomorrow is a day to relax with friends and family. A day to give thanks for not only the basics, but also the things that make us smile.

    Little else makes me smile with as much simple pleasure as does clever animation. (When I was a child, I wanted to be a cartoonist.) So, I offer you these clever and well-executed animations, all of which are metaphors for the subjects we discuss.

    1) When we are so on edge, we can't take anymore:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8d5MEiPV-Y&feature=related

    2) What we must remember we can accomplish as a community:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qy8-Jmhfm0&feature=related

    3) Examples of actualizing individual dreams:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sKhCw4fATo&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFiSkiFaQg&feature=related


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    If anyone can explain to me why these are not activated links, please tell me. Thanks.


    Yez, well

    You haz to use the leetle chain icon when you want a link in a post, it will ask you for the URL, then the text you want highlighted, so before you click it, have the URL copied....

    You can go to "Blog Now"----> Manage----> to edit this post, or just post then here in a comment like this:

    1) When we are so on edge, we can't take anymore: http://www.youtube.com/waΩtch?v=h8d5MEiPV-Y&feature=related 2) What we must remember we can accomplish as a community: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qy8-Jmhfm0


    And finally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuRTlGDExc4&feature=related

    Comments work differently from Posts. For one thing, you can have more than 2 links.

    I dunno why....

    Happy Thanksgiving, my friend....


    Thank you so much, Bwak. I just spent several minutes trying to fix it and some worked while others did not. But you made them work. I am thankful for that, and for you.
    Just for the fun of it, the polar bear/sports series (pick a sport; there's one for everyone) but my favorite is the pool:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuRTlGDExc4&feature=related


    Interesting, at least. Fascinating as well.

    Nice to see you posting, Wendy, I've missed your prominence.

    Something to add to the landscape:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4


    Ah,Missy,great find. Exactly what I hoped would happen -- that y'all would add your own favorites. Yours is empathetic, sophisticated, thought-provoking, enigmatic ....rather like your writing, yes? Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving.


    And a very happy Thanksgiving to you, my dear friend.


    I see that the first one I cited, about being on edge, was not the right one; it was supposed to be this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEyzjD2OwM8&feature=related
    The one about education I intended for Hillary99.


    Do you know of one for me?

    It's Thanksgiving, and I frankly need the animation in my world.


    Wendy, Bwak, Missy....three of my favorite blessings. Happy Thanksgiving to you all...


    19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

    Genesis 6: 19,20

    Let us not forget the creeping things. ha

    Happy Thanksgiving Belle


    And the same to you, Still. May your family be blessed and your days filled with peace.


    One of my favorite animations BF, perhaps reflecting that we are capable of becoming anything, beautiful or horrendous, and only our intentions and choices can hope to distinguish the two.


    Then there are also dreams of the pursuer and the pursued.


    Great video, Mh2o! Falling into the categories of:
    a) the intriguing way another person's mind works;
    b) a student with way too much time on his hands;
    c) the adaptation of old-fashioned, Hockney-like panoramic technique moved (in both the literal and figurative sense) into a new world.


    Missy, I'm been looking for one for you. But how to find one that combines grace, insight and ennigma? When I find one, I'll post it, even if it's after the bell.


    That was gorgeous, wendy; and the handsome blue caterpillar dreaming.
    More veg, though not animation, still astounding.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY

    Have a good, healthy day, wendy, and love to you.


    Mh2o: the polar bear series fits into a far less sophisticated mindset than yours, but they are two appropriate to your sports interests: kayaking and motorcycling. I'll look them up again.


    Happy Thanksgiving, Dick!
    Here's one for you that is appropriately more political, a powerful video about the corporate mindset and money:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqRDpKJIGM&feature=PlayList&p=5338DC3CA97F3F26&index=26


    Here's one just for you, Wendy D. -- one I think symbolizes both your interest in birds, and your real generosity of spirit:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvox-IWanZU&feature=channel
    Happy Thanksgiving!



    Wendy, I have to bookmark this because I don't have time today to sit and watch them all. I couldn't stop watching the first one though. Looking forward to taking the time to sit back and digest them all, including the add-ons!

    Thanks.


    For C'Ville:

    The first video citing her fearlessness and her specific avatar, the Luna Moth(at the very end):


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYul52hVKnI (the Luna moth is at @3:10)
    plus a Luna Moth performance art piece (skip to halfway mark, otherwise too tedious).
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-zSk6HZHE (start @2:00 and watch for a minute)


    And an appropriate one for Quinn:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RliqUaDlik


    Happy Thanksgiving, Still!
    One for you (and for Aunt Sam and Deanie Mills) that didn't link properly above, representing your encouragement that we not give up, and that we act together in common interest:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qy8-Jmhfm0&feature=related





    A dancing chicken for you, Bwak (sorry about the ending):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6doxRgpYBzg


    Well done, Wendy D. Perfect for Missy.



    For Donal, in honor of his avatar:

    And, with that material, a video for building a haybale house:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCuzriyCdA



    Rats, it says the video is not available. What words would i use as a search to find it?


    For wendy, just cuz i heart eddie izzard:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw


    Nice WW. And the Berni the bear reminds me of this classic.


    Wendy, try this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvox-lWanZU
    It's titled "Man's best friend is a bird"


    Thanks, Wendy -- I, too, love Eddie Izzard.


    Ha! (or maybe, OUCH!)


    Very cool. This one, of the great (street) artist Banksy's work, while not animation, turned up on 'related videos'. Brilliant work.


    Ha! Glad to see that your penchant for challenging the "chorus" started early, Ruta. Ruta on Sesame Steet...hilarious.Mahna Mahna.


    Fabulous, that -- thanks for upgrading the tone, Mh2o (and the music).


    Some partnership, there. And a sweet boo-bird!


    Speaking of raising the tone, there are some wonderful animations from the Vancouver Film School. Like this one, titled "Guernica":
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drJL-pRTko&feature=channel


    Speaking of student work, the animation coming out of the Vancouver film school is first rate.
    This one isn't funny, but it is personal for me, in memory of my uncle:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e1pff3s44g&feature=channel


    What a blessing on a Thanksgiving day. It's wonderous! Thank you, Wendy.


    Thought you'd like this updated Snuggie ad, Dick. Canuck-style.


    Love the originals with the insects. Already flipped on to the whole family.

    Happy Thanksgiving, WW!!


    And to you, Quinn, whatever you are celebrating today. Hope you saw the video intended for you, below those for C'Ville.


    Thank you Wendy...that was way cool!


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