really - try the animachine

it's one of those moments when i hear the sky open up and the theme from akira comes thundering through it into my head.

well, especially from the opening motorbike sequence that's for sure. beats 90% of the stuff that the 'mouse' ever created that's for certain.

anyways, the thing is this - i was checking out animation on wikipedia (ah, wikipedia - the most addictive web site i know - one could almost call it infocrack.. ji ji ji) and stumbled upon a last entry for an israeli site named aniboom which looks like your standard short film share site.

except (and here's where the drums start in my head) there is this most excellent thing called the animachine which is this built in animation stand (not unlike the previous post).

(small rant)
here is where the rubber meets the road in the whole web 2.0 thing. the companies that 'get it' are the ones that recognize that we, the visitors, aka those that spend the moolah/dinero/rupees/rubles/bolivars/pesos/loonies are not the enemy.

perhaps it's a competition thing - one of those 'you just wouldn't understand' kind of things - whereby those that are able to combine a certain amount of talent with a whole lot of '... kissing' are able to get to a point where their vision of reality - their whoring of their talent - their attempt to pick your pocket by making you stay through a crappy excuse for a plot - are simply frightened by the same force that brought the world linux, the internet, digg.com and the like. they don't like to have to compete - to actually have to stopping taking the botox injections long enough to actually put several brain cells together.

that kind of attitude is pre web 1.0 - it's the same short sightedness that led them to crying foul over vhs in the early 80's yet by last count it's the one thing that has saved may a liquid lunch from being denied to many a studio exec in crappy suit.

web 2.0 as it's known (bad moniker i agree) allows the customer to comment, invites them to participate and focuses on one thing and one thing only. soon will be gone the days of websites that try to do 80 bazillion things and do them poorly.

(end of rant)

so - take a shot, make your first film and send me a link at cuervos(dot)laugh(at)gmail.com and if i like it enough i'll review it.