The craziest animation using children’s reading primers you’ll see this week [Art]
August 18th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
You may be of the age when you remember classrooms filled with old reading primers from the 50s and 60s and the weirdly quasi-realistic drawings that were in them. In this insane animation, they take those Dick and Jane illustrations and transform them into something that would give Dali nightmares.
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Comment by McAwesome on 19 August 2008:
And that’s why living in the U.K. is awesome.
Comment by McFartin on 19 August 2008:
because there are rabbit-idols in the UK?
Comment by NastyBedazzler on 19 August 2008:
Yup that was weird as hell.
Comment by delsydsoftware on 19 August 2008:
That is truly awesome.
Comment by oy on 20 August 2008:
Because they revel in fucking retarded post-modernist crap?
This is not surrealism, this is not absurdist…. this ladies and gentleman is shit.
Comment by enigmo on 20 August 2008:
I’m a big fan of shorts and see dozens every year, and this is one of the better ones I’ve seen so far. I am based in the UK and see a lot of domestic shorts as well as international, and the UK ones do tend to be a little more on the surreal/disturbing side and I very much enjoy them. Maybe it’s growing up with the Dick and Jane illustrations used here like these that skews my view into seeing it as a little more distubing than it might be to someone unfamiliar with them, but the use of these characters seems a pretty central part of the surrealism and so maybe intended with a more domestic viewer in mind.
Oy: To decry something as ’shit’ with no qualification does show a certain ignorance. If you don’t like something, cool n groovy, but say why.
Comment by oy on 20 August 2008:
I justify calling it “shit” by stating it qualifies as post-modernist art, which is shit. I think the whole point they’re making with the labeling of everything and then it morphing into something else is an artful display of the post-modern belief that distinctions between objects are pointless, which I disagree with.
Also this isn’t an indictment of the UK or its people, great country.
Comment by vetements on 21 August 2008:
I think its in support of animal rights movement - ie dont kill/eat rabbits. That works for me, ignoring all the arguments above about the post-modernist malarky.
Comment by Isela on 30 August 2008:
Greed is an ugly thing that can get way gruesome. Let love rule, let evil fester.