Comments | porsupah: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck

porsupah

Gus Visser and His Singing Duck

Aug 04, 2007 20:18

drhoz remembered that the creator of that music video I pointed out last time, I Lived on the Moon, is also responsible for a wonderfully odd little short, Krapooyo. Perfectly work safe, though people will wonder what you're watching..

On the much fluffier side of cuteness, though, marko_the_rat recently came upon a new Optus ad featuring some wonderful raccoons - ( Read more... )

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coongt August 4 2007, 20:37:41 UTC

Absolutely adore the racccoon commercial! :)

porsupah August 4 2007, 20:54:08 UTC

If you're sufficiently driven, I'd love to know whose work that is - some really nice animation and modelling there! (More lapinity would've helped, but I suppose we have the Lacklustre Video series for that =:)

akira114 August 4 2007, 21:44:41 UTC

Clever to notice the dual meanings in churches like that.

Let's give Gus Visser and His Singing Duck a round of applause and *QUACK!*s.

porsupah August 4 2007, 22:04:49 UTC

I did notice, however, that the commentary failed to make note of the duck's later career - though it did remark on his lineage.

I can't help but wonder if Terry Gilliam is what happens if you let a young child watch too many such shorts.

akira114 August 5 2007, 21:49:45 UTC

Well said! I would love to know how the surreal, absurd, fantastical, irreverent ideas popped into the minds of such gifted people.

relee August 5 2007, 00:02:44 UTC

I've totally seen that before. XD

It was posted to a Trapped in Fursuit YahooGroup I'm a member of.

porsupah August 5 2007, 00:10:34 UTC

Ohh, that! I recall a certain dino mentioning that, but I never quite got around to subscribing to it. Perhaps I should remedy that. ^_^;

Will you be posting some of your own by the end of the year, mayhaps?

relee August 5 2007, 07:05:24 UTC

Some of my own? I don't even own a Fursuit. ^.^;;

I didn't post much while the list owner was alive, and the group is struggling to survive his passing.

porsupah August 5 2007, 11:09:00 UTC

Ah, that's something you must remedy, in that case. ^_^ Making one isn't as gargantuan a challenge - or as expensive - as one might think, especially if you're contemplating something toony. And it is every bit as much fun as it looks..

Eep! That's unfortunate to hear, on both counts. I wish I had something to contribute.. ah well, all in the fullness of time. Next summer, hopefully.

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palabrajot August 5 2007, 08:10:57 UTC

Oh, but the Jules pen prices are listed, with one exception. Hover your pointer over the "Limited Edition" link.

Think I'll be sticking with my Bic, personally.

porsupah August 5 2007, 09:32:04 UTC

Ah, so they are!

Thing is, when you've got the world media following on your every word as you announce your diabolical plans for the fate of all nations, you really need a pen that looks the part - a Bic just wouldn't maintain the moment.

Of course, you could always buy out Bic as part of your preparations, and have them introduce some more imaginative designs. As the sage once remarked, "Does all-powerful have to mean over budget?"

schnee August 5 2007, 09:28:36 UTC

*downloads Krapooyo* Hmm. Sites that needlessly use Flash for *everything* should be taken out and shot. c.c

Tommy Raccoon's suits are great, though, aren't they? ^^ Lockable one-piece fursuits are just murry.

dailybunnies, strangely enough, does not seem to exist: "The username dailybunnies is not currently registered." (This is different from the message you'd get for a deleted, purged or suspended journal, too...)

The Gus Visser video was interesting, too, but I wonder just what he was actually doing to that duck to make it quack. c.c

schnee August 5 2007, 09:35:22 UTC

Oh, OK, so it's dailybunny - I probably didn't reload your post after you edited it. ^^

porsupah August 5 2007, 13:43:59 UTC

At least there it doesn't add much to the load time, and looks cool. ^_^ So many official movie sites seem to snuggle up tightly with Flash, though - and a fair few other corporate ones, too. So annoying.. for one thing, very few bother to provide any means of linking to a specific page, so you're stuck having to give (often fairly abstract) navigation from the front page. And if you want to copy text? Time to transcribe, or just take a screenshot. :-P

The short itself I really enjoyed - whereas a lot of CG animation strives for a certain toony realism, that went for something truly different. Hm. Wonder if the Beanworld creator's thought of trying a Flash animation..

I do like the idea of a lockable suit, definitely - especially one that's very toy-like in appearance, as with the teddy, as that plays right into my love of transformations. (Another excellent example, which I linked to a while ago, is this teddy from somewhere on M*S*ace, a fairground prize stuffed with a human instead of expanded polystyrene beads ( ... )

schnee August 5 2007, 19:06:25 UTC

*noddles* Yeah, I just watched the short earlier, and it was really rather cute. :) As for the website, I'm not a fan of using Flash for complete sites because it locks out blind or otherwise vision-impaired people; HTML and CSS exist for a reason, and it just bugs me when content and presentation are fused so profusely as is the case in Flash for no reason at all. (I'm certainly not opposed to Flash in general, but creating an entire website in Flash makes it about as navigable to a blind person as using one huge image with clickable regions for the entire site ( ... )