{"id":459,"date":"2007-03-10T00:11:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T05:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2007-03-10T00:11:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T05:11:48","slug":"hooray-for-animated-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"hooray for animated shorts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

no, not clothing you wear on your legs that moves of its own accord, short animated films. i get such a kick out of them. when we watched the oscars (the first time i’ve ever watched them in their entirety) i was intrigued by the nominations for animated short and wanted to know where i might be able to watch the nominated films. i found out this week that they were being shown at a local indie movie theatre here in town, so i took mr. h-s to see them this evening. i loved the winner, “the danish poet”.
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mr. happy stuff’s theory is that i liked it because it was basically an animated children’s book. that may be true, but would that surprise anyone? i love the storyline of this movie, i loved the animation style and i love the hyperbole (one of the main characters grows really long hair that wraps around the room, whenever anyone boards a ship to cross the ocean, the top corner of the ship swings open like the door of a delorian…). if you can find a way to watch it, i think you’ll like it. [alkelda, parts of the opening and closing sequence reminded me of bede’s artwork. the little bit of it i’ve seen.] <\/p>\n

i liked some of the other nominated and qualifying shorts as well. there was an amusing (and slightly terrifying) one titled “the passenger” that includes a goldfish in a bag sitting alone in an otherwise empty bus (other than the one passenger whose point of view we’re watching the movie from).
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and a slapstick (but very funny and well-animated) piece entitled “the gentleman’s duel”
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no, not clothing you wear on your legs that moves of its own accord, short animated films. i get such a kick out of them. when we watched the oscars (the first time i’ve ever watched them in their entirety) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-stuff-that-sparks-the-glow-inside-my-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}