Ohara Hale is a Self-taught, multidisciplinary artist. Although she was born in Hollywood, she spent her formative years in the Midwest. She loves to write, paint, and dance. She has a particular affinity for writing children’s books.
Her work on the music video Philémon Chante – Je te mange won her a nomination for Best Video Of The Year for the L’ADISC awards. It’s a charming, rigged animation piece brought to life by Ohara’s illustrations and direction. it follows a rabbit on its journey through life.
Jackie Chan Adventures is a special kind of show. A show that relies upon the part of a built-in audience adaptation. I love Jackie Chan, except I’ve never seen any of his live-action work except for that one movie, the Spy Next Door. probably not his most notable work BUT It successfully pulled me into the Jackie Chan craze. I love this man so much, it soon took over my life. could you imagine when I discovered Jackie Chan Adventures? it was animated, it was funny, it has an AWESOME intro. but I digress.
this show was successful and did everything right except for the fact it did not include a lot of Jackie Chan. while it holds his namesake the cartoon character Jackie Chan is not played by Jackie Chan. but I was stupid and couldn’t tell the difference. however what it lacked in actual Jackie Chan It made up with the live section where it would show Jackie do some INCREDIBLE cool martial arts shit and he would answer questions from his audience
People’s views on this were definitely positive, introducing an iconic actor through a medium that younger kids could consume. INCREDIBLE. it did have a brief stint of merchandise that followed along with the show but seeing as I was about ten years too late, I have yet to get my hands on one of the Jackie collectible cards
my favorite card is Dark Jackie where he gets split into two personalities and bodys. Dark Jackie and wimpy Jackie as I call him.
The Breadwinner and Persepolis have a strong themes of storytelling and education. Both Marjane and Parvana have fathers that seek to educate them of their countries past. Their fathers want them to see their country to be more than the war stricken present.
In both films, Marjane and Parvana have to grow up under oppressive regimes, although they both react differently. Marjane’s parents do a very good job of teaching her the realities of the Shah’s regime but she is too young to understand the pain until her uncle Anoosh gets executed. She idolizes Che Guevara and Karl Marx like they were figures in a fairy tale. not to say that she is childish, just to say her parents did a good job of protecting her and letting her be a kid. However, in Parvana’s case she doesn’t get as much protection. Her father does his best to educate her and tell her stories, but he couldn’t shelter her from the taliban. even when she cuts her hair and assumes the identity of atesh the freedom of appearing like a boy does not protect her from the horrors of war.
Where the two movies differ is in their endings. Marjane is able to escape the war into europe but at the cost of feeling like an outsider so she returns. although we never get to see if Parvana escapes the war with her family, she overcomes a lot and fights for her father’s return. even though parvana never gets to escape to europe its interesting to think about what she would think of it. She and Shauzia dream of a future unburdened by the war that they fight every day. would they like it? if Parvana was the one who went to europe to study, would she encounter the same difficulties of fitting in? I think she would. people find it hard to understand experiences they have not lived through. I can read all i want about what war and oppression is like, but i will never understand what it feels like.
Chuck Jones is an important figure to remember in the history of Warner Brothers directors. Even when he wasn’t a director he still played a pivotal role in designing and building the classic characters (and their personality) that we know today. Characters like Wile E. Coyote and his counterpart Roadrunner, he developed and pushed Daffey Duck’s character into what it is now today. You can thank Chuck Jones for Daffey’s stuck up egotistical personality that makes him memorable, all the more enjoyable and fun to watch!
although his animation and sense of style didn’t always lead in the same direction that Friz Frelengs wanted it to. Chuck’s early animation was more inspired by Disney, focusing on pleasing visuals rather than humor and character. supposibly this visual style almost got him fired after directing the Dover Boys film for Merry Melodies.
looking at the dover boys vs the other classic warner brothers stuff you can see a diffrence. The Dover Boys while being caricatures and cartoons, don’t quite bring it up to the level of say Bugs Bunny. if anything it feels tame in comparison.
On the 23rd of September, Ewa Borysewicz was born. Ewa grew up in Podlachia, Poland. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she studied animation and nurtured her unique style of communication.
Even in school, she produced films that brought her great renown, one of which is No dobra (Alright, 3 mins 44, 2007). No dobra presents her reality to the audience. In this film, the droll of a Polish suburb continues to unfold in front of our eyes. People wait at a bus stop, the children play in the park. The behavior is emphasized by the one word that is made out in the entire film: alright.
Film allows me to express my feelings and show reality. – said Borysewicz in an interview with Julita Januszkiewicz.
Her debut film is called “To Thy Heart”, animated with pencil and paper, resulting in hundreds of drawings in a continued loop to weave her tale. the tale of a girl whose past experiences of love have hurt her deeply. Frustrated and pent-up emotions surface as fantasies; even though she criticizes the opposite sex, she secretly dreams of love.
