For those of you who enjoyed the original...comes a fitting tribute.

Ok, for those of you who haven't already had your lives changed for the better by Frontier Psychiatrist, go watch the original. Ok, now that we're all up to speed, check out this Lego stop motion video tribute. It's got that folksy, authentic youtube style (which I once mistook for just looking amateur) where I know it's not a viral video that's gonna try to sell me something on the sly. And I think the watercolor/pixellation effects look great on the legos with their simplified color scheme. That's what makes old cartoons so good to VJ with - I'll bet footage from this would mash nicely. (I can't wait to get my laptop fixed).

Also, I like what they're doing with text - starting it at an almost legible pace then ramping it up until it's way too much for your brain to process all at once. So you just pick up random evocative phrases straight to the sub-dome.

ajax auto-horntootin

I'm just putting the finishing touches on my first website that uses Ajax. Behold! MagicHatFilms.com! If anyone's interested in the code to make those sexy dis/appearing sections, I can post the basic template that Roger hooked up, and then the ins and outs of applying it to some real content.

I build this website for my homie Justin, who as you can see, has some badass mothafuckin camera gear. He's also one of my best friends out here, a burner, our age, and a really good filmmaker - you can see his stuff on the site. Y'all would love this guy. Course, it's hard to swing Director as a day job when you're first starting out. So he applied for a low-interest arts loan of some kind, to the tune of 20k or so, and got it! Used that money to buy all the gear, and only has to rent it out a few days a month to make his payments, and that's with the lowest prices in town. He gets to work with lots of indie filmmakers, he owns his own shit, and now he's got a sick website. Pretty sweet gig if you ask me.