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I Met the Walrus: Interview with John Lennon

eleavitt (http://animation.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:52:56 -0700

(33 votes - 11 comments - 1076 views)
In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan managed to snag a brief interview with John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto. Using his reel-to-reel tape recorder, Levitan asked Lennon a series of questions about peace, popularity, and messages in music. The answers give us a portrait of Lennon at the end of his involvement with The Beatles.

In 2007, Levitan collaborated with director Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and animator Alex Kurina to produce I Met the Walrus, a short animated film featuring a condensed version of the Lennon-Levitan interview set to sprawling stream-of-consciousness animation. The resulting film has won an AFI Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.

It’s a strange little piece — five minutes of psychedelic rambling that, in the end, carries a message of hope. The advice Lennon gives Levitan here is simple: peace

(Excerpted from Mental Floss)

robot chicken-inspector gadget

eleavitt (http://animation.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:04:06 -0700

(12 votes - 7 comments - 507 views)

H.P. Papercraft

eleavitt (http://animation.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:26:49 -0700

(20 votes - 1 comment - 856 views)
from Youtube:

Barry gets himself into a bind when he tries out a project he found on the internets.

We created this short for an episode of Boing Boing tv. To check out the episode, which includes a behind the scenes look at For Tax Reasons

The rejection show: Fred Flintstone

eleavitt (http://animation.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:47:03 -0700

(17 votes - 9 comments - 548 views)
Johnnyboots had a video posted on the sift a few month ago, and here he show the video at the Upright Citizen's Brigade theater along with the negative comments he received.

Here's the original video and the comment: http://www.videosift.com/video/Stand-up-Fred-Flintstone#comment-313587

Animation: A History of Evil

eleavitt (http://animation.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:43:21 -0800

(44 votes - 6 comments - 1237 views)
A gorgeously animated documentary/mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day.

Eiffel 65 - Blue

eleavitt (http://animation.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:06:52 -0800

(25 votes - 5 comments - 929 views)
I forgot how intensely crazy this video is. Its like Information Society and Star Wars had a baby.

Human Flipbook

eleavitt (http://animation.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:43:33 -0700

(23 votes - 7 comments - 1978 views)

Louis CK animation short

eleavitt (http://animation.videosift.com/member/eleavitt) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:24:24 -0700

(26 votes - 6 comments - 453 views)