Finds: December 2009 Archives

Long-time Gargoyle acquaintance Jon Visger (AKA Absofacto) has posted this totally sweet new video for his song "Paper Crane."

My favorite part is when he is standing in front of the gate covered in hobo symbols. But I wonder if the space bubble sequence is intended to be a reference to Aronofsky's The Fountain.

Jon also has all his EPs available as pay-what-you-want downloads at his website, so you have no excuse. Go get his music! And please pay at least a few bucks for each record if you can. Mr. Visger is a cool guy and all that money goes to him, to do things like make more nice music for you to listen to.

EDIT 12/14/09: Tonight Absofacto also released a new single. Go listen!

Music by Brian Lonano and Flash animation by Victoria Cook.

I don't know, either. All I know is Poezenklaas both intrigues and terrifies me.

Video found via Cartoon Brew.

I'm sure every person on the Internet has seen this before, but I'll post it here anyway, just in case you haven't:

The clip is from a 1985 claymation film called The Adventures of Mark Twain, which I guess saw a few TV broadcasts despite (or perhaps because of) being intensely creepy.

This particular sequence is based on Twain's unfinished novella, The Mysterious Stranger, which is in many ways just as upsetting as the animation. It's also a very interesting meditation on the nature of God and religion, though I'm not sure it's a good story (I guess that's what "unfinished" indicates). Still, Twain was nothing if not a master wordsmith. Go read the novella.