My dad used to tell me about capping video with a camera. You got one vantage point, and that’s it. If you wanted to move it, you have to do that with your hands. If you wanted a second view, you had to get the actors to do the whole scene over again. Can you believe that’s what they train you on in the academies? Sure, it’s classic, it’s old-school, and it’s great to get an appreciation for the traditional way of doing things. But even the biggest auteurs have all moved to fog.
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Syosset, New York — April 1, 2012 — Plankhead announced today that their animated series, Your Face is a Saxophone, has sustained a 0% rate of illegal downloads since its debut last year. The group attributes this astronomical success to their use of CC0, an anti-piracy technology produced by the San Francisco, California-based organization Creative Commons (CC).
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When looking at the homepage of Plankhead.com, you’d be forgiven for assuming that it’s some amateur blog instead of the website of an up-and-coming not-for-profit arts organization. We’re looking to change that.
The problem is, I have a million things to worry about right now. Doing a complete redesign of this website has been on my back burner for quite a while, even though it really, really, really needs to happen. So, if anyone would be willing to volunteer their web skills to fix this thing up, I’d really appreciate it. Email me, leave a comment, or send a carrier pigeon.
Context: Some fellow Plankheads and I are planning to do a live-action version of Brodyquest at Anthrocon in a couple weeks, so I needed to make some Brody masks. Well, I saved it onto my desktop, AND THEN THE ENDING OF BRODYQUEST ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
I have no idea how this completely unrelated PDF file turned into Adrien Brody’s face, but all I know is that I didn’t (intentionally) do it. What the hell.
For anyone who doesn’t understand the context, watch Brodyquest and note what happens at the end:
An animation student from Bennington College is animating for Your Face is a Saxophone as her summer internship. When I was emailing back and forth with her program coordinator, I signed my emails as “Zacqary Adam Green; Chief Executive Plankhead, Plankhead”. Because, of course. Why wouldn’t I?
So, it turns out they created an account for me on Bennington’s employer coordination web-app-system-thing. And lo and behold, I open up the contact info page, and the Title field is already filled out:
Now, on the one hand, yes, of course, why shouldn’t it say that? That’s my title.
On the other hand, this was typed in by another human being. And not just any human being, but an administrator at an academic institution, in the context of entirely legitimate academic administration.
This is so weird.
