Daily post 07 Aug 2006 07:48 am
Illustrated Frogs and Dirty Dogs
- Didier Ghez has a new blog called Disney History. This excellent historian offers quite a bit of useful information about Disney and his work. Currently, there’s a lot of reference to books about the man and his studio. It looks to be a new spot for me to visit daily.
– BibliOdyssey is a weblog that features stunningly attractive illustration.
Hundreds of pictures are posted on this site, and you could spend hours appreciating the artwork. Everything from scientific illustration to Russian children’s books to Astronomy paintings from the 19th century can be found here. I got caught up in scanning through some images of frogs. They were painted in 1843 for Oken’s Natural History, but they could have been painted by Picasso.
The site offers excellent reference material, excellent artwork, and good taste. The only information I have about the editor of this site is the name posted, “Peacay at gmale”.
Take a look.
(Thanks to Boing Boing.)
(Click on image to enlarge.)
- From the sublime to the dregs – I mean, dogs:
- Stanley Crouch has an editorial in the NYDaily News, and the NY Post printed an article about the MTV animated program, Where My Dogs At? . The article reports that “episode 4″ shows black women being led about on all fours tethered to a leash. Sounds like a new high point for animation.
The show comes out of Los Angeles. Six Point Harness Studios seems to be producing all of the flash, animated artwork.
The series was created and written by Aaron Matthew Lee and comedian Jeffrey Ross. It’s directed by Greg Franklin. Naturally, the show – which seems to be designed to mock celebrities – has the same coarse sense of humor that Jeffrey Ross employs in his stand-up acts. Just a little more bad taste in the world airing for children to see it at 12:30 last Saturday.
To get an idea of what the flash animated show looks like go to YouTube for a Lindsay Lohan clip.
Happy Birthday MTV.
on 07 Apr 2007 at 5:02 am 1.Frog Guy said …
This is my first comment over here. I like this blog a lot. You just got one more loyal reader!
on 17 Sep 2019 at 2:39 pm 2.Chas Speed said …
You said Stanley Crouch said he was offended by a scene where women are on a leash, but it was mocking Snoop Dogg, who did used to walk around with women on a leash. One of the dogs says that even he finds that degrading. You also forgot to mention that Stanley Crouch was fired by the Village Voice for trying to kill a co-worker. He seemed like an odd choice to be teaching morality lessons. The women, who Crouch mentions in his article, behind the campaign to cancel the show was Lisa Fager. Lisa Fager mentioned on her Facebook page that her favorite show was “Boondocks”. Boondocks featured an underage back girl being urinated on and enjoying it. Sounds like a high point in animation doesn’t it?