Monday, October 31, 2005

Happy ThanksGiving

Happy Thanksgiving Greeting from MSN

I absolutely had to write about this because it fit so well with the upcoming holiday season, and it's really funny.

This movie features a popular 70's song with modified lyrics fit for the Thanksgiving holiday. "I Will Survive" is sung by African American turkeys with the flavor of the 70's. The turkeys are singing inside a barn with a disco-ball and dancers galore!

The disco ball is reflecting colors of the season thought the barn like a converted dance hall. The animation is very creative and original using themes directly derived from the 70's dance era while adding in modern clean humor.

The lyrics make this movie a hilarious bit hinting at the same theme regarding women’s rights - consistent with the theme of the original song only in 'turkey talk'.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Promenade The Puzzle by Michele Dauria





Ths the best artistic flash movie I have ever written about. It starts off with a Halloween-style cartoon character wearing black and smoking a cigarette with a long pipe attachment.

My first impression of the film leads me to the "Nightmare before Christmas" cartoon viewed when I was a child. The backdrop and cartoons in the movie resembled a mysterious night. The waves of black ribbon, the glowing eyes of the black cat in the rafters cut through the black backdrop as to show something... someone... is watching.

Emotional moments were highlighted with the spotlight on the character - a lanky woman smoking this elegant cigarette in the night. The movement of this flash piece closely follows the movement of the eerie-mythological and mysterious music in the background. As she feels emotion, the music speeds up. As she feels sorrow for the loss of the figure that she is in love with the music slows… the spotlight is on her showing her audience her emotion. The figure continually reappears with the smoke coming from the cigarette.

The figure turns into a heart – beating for the one she loves. Is this a lost love? Is she in love with the smoky figure? Does she long for love?

This movie is very adaptable to the audience abroad. Many whom feel a longing for someone they loved, want to love, or just have an emotion about their current lover can relate to this flash movie.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Inspirational Awakening

This flash movie is quite different than the previous movies I have commented about in my Bloggs, The Awakening is remarkably simple yet effective movie with the aim of inspiration. This movie, and others in the collection remind me of the inspirational posters and desk calendars that are seen in the malls. Each scene starts off with a beautiful natural backdrop. The poems come on the screen shortly after.

All of these inspirational thoughts flow well with these backgrounds. As the mood of the inspirational thought changes, so does the background.

There is available on this site, a wide variety of different themes and inspirational movies.