My laptop's lead has developed a tear in it exposing the inside leads. As I learned from my secondary school safety classes this is dangerous. So no more LJ posts and no new podcasts until Wednesday at the latest. I'll try and respond to emails with other methods if any of you need me. I'll be buying a new lead on Tuesday so no worries.
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eeeper- June 14th, 2008
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You're right, I knew a video store in town that had practically every volume USR put out, though I think I only ever rented the first two as I didn't get around to renting the rest, they also had practically every episode of Robotech and some Star Blazers tapes. This video store however no longer exists (this was some 10-12 years ago when I was renting tapes), but it was a Hollywood Video location, and later on I found the same tapes at a different location near where my grandma lives (though renting them is out of the question due to how far away it was from me.
I think I've heard of them, their name showed up at the end of Don Bluth's "All Dogs Go To Heaven", which of course was animated at a studio he set up there during the time, and from what I had read, at one time was the biggest animation studio on the continent.
One film I had seen from an Irish animator that rather amused me to see was Aidan Hickey's "An Inside Job". Noticed someone stuck it up on YouTube, but it's missing the best part at the very end of the film...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05kL9grV
I do however have a far better copy I ripped from an LD compilation of animated shorts I found years ago, and I could send you an AVI of it if you like.
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Well that sucks. I hope you can rectify the problem someday soon.
I did and now the internet love has returned to my part of the world. And it now needs a bath!
Glad to see you're doing fine now.
Also, I've listened to your Orguss podcast review, and I thought it was OK though I have more sentimentality over the dub the US Renditions tapes had personally, and only wished they had gotten through the last half before Manga bought out the dubbing studio responsible for these and just never did anything else with Orguss besides the sequel OVA's that the guys at Destroy All Podcasts liked anyway without seeing the original show. I only wish ImaginAsian would re-release these discs soon as I got also interested in Remi and loved what I saw. I know one BitTorrent place where someone was able to re-author the dvd's without protection for the Orguss series I could download and ruin my ratio over, so I have that option.
By the way, I won a peculiar film off eBay a while back of some goofy children's film called "Bread & Honey". It's about some kid who comes home from school with a drawing he was doing there, he meets up with a few cartoon animals who force him to keep drawing his picture to further enlarge several features on a guy's face, only to leave his mom with a stunned look on her face when he shows off his masterpiece to her. At least that's how I viewed this thing. I actually saw this many, many years ago on Nickelodeon back when they used to show stuff like this as 'filler' in between program breaks, and this short sticked up a tad (since I videotaped it as well). I wasn't sure if you ever saw this or not, but I noticed it was made in Ireland anyway and I thought of you. Still it's rather neat I have something I could try watching on one of my projectors someday (tend to get a lot of stuff on eBay lately I haven't seen in years on 16mm).
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi
http://www.iftn.ie/?act1=record&aid=70&hl=duggan&only=1&rid=2033&sr=1&tpl=filmography_dets
Also, I've listened to your Orguss podcast review, and I thought it was OK though I have more sentimentality over the dub the US Renditions tapes had personally, and only wished they had gotten through the last half before Manga bought out the dubbing studio responsible for these and just never did anything else with Orguss besides the sequel OVA's that the guys at Destroy All Podcasts liked anyway without seeing the original show. I only wish ImaginAsian would re-release these discs soon as I got also interested in Remi and loved what I saw. I know one BitTorrent place where someone was able to re-author the dvd's without protection for the Orguss series I could download and ruin my ratio over, so I have that option.
By the way, I won a peculiar film off eBay a while back of some goofy children's film called "Bread & Honey". It's about some kid who comes home from school with a drawing he was doing there, he meets up with a few cartoon animals who force him to keep drawing his picture to further enlarge several features on a guy's face, only to leave his mom with a stunned look on her face when he shows off his masterpiece to her. At least that's how I viewed this thing. I actually saw this many, many years ago on Nickelodeon back when they used to show stuff like this as 'filler' in between program breaks, and this short sticked up a tad (since I videotaped it as well). I wasn't sure if you ever saw this or not, but I noticed it was made in Ireland anyway and I thought of you. Still it's rather neat I have something I could try watching on one of my projectors someday (tend to get a lot of stuff on eBay lately I haven't seen in years on 16mm).
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi
http://www.iftn.ie/?act1=record&aid=70&hl=duggan&only=1&rid=2033&sr=1&tpl=filmography_dets
I think you have to have something invested with the US Renditions dub to give it a pardon. Since I never had the experience of watching it on VHS, it's probably why I was so harsh on the dub.
As for "Bread And Honey", the 1980's was a good time to be an animator in Ireland. During the 1980's the IDA tried to attract animators by providing generous subsidies for start-ups. So a lot of weird and unique animation projects came out of that good time.
As for stuff being produced today, hmmm, check out "Give up Your Auld Sins" from Brown Bag Film Productions. It's still available on DVD. A lovely piece of work with an awesome backstory of how it came to be. It went up against Pixar's "For the Birds" for the animated short Oscar and obviously I'm still upset that it lost but at least it lost to Pixar.
As for "Bread And Honey", the 1980's was a good time to be an animator in Ireland. During the 1980's the IDA tried to attract animators by providing generous subsidies for start-ups. So a lot of weird and unique animation projects came out of that good time.
As for stuff being produced today, hmmm, check out "Give up Your Auld Sins" from Brown Bag Film Productions. It's still available on DVD. A lovely piece of work with an awesome backstory of how it came to be. It went up against Pixar's "For the Birds" for the animated short Oscar and obviously I'm still upset that it lost but at least it lost to Pixar.
I think you have to have something invested with the US Renditions dub to give it a pardon. Since I never had the experience of watching it on VHS, it's probably why I was so harsh on the dub.
You're right, I knew a video store in town that had practically every volume USR put out, though I think I only ever rented the first two as I didn't get around to renting the rest, they also had practically every episode of Robotech and some Star Blazers tapes. This video store however no longer exists (this was some 10-12 years ago when I was renting tapes), but it was a Hollywood Video location, and later on I found the same tapes at a different location near where my grandma lives (though renting them is out of the question due to how far away it was from me.
As for "Bread And Honey", the 1980's was a good time to be an animator in Ireland. During the 1980's the IDA tried to attract animators by providing generous subsidies for start-ups. So a lot of weird and unique animation projects came out of that good time.
I think I've heard of them, their name showed up at the end of Don Bluth's "All Dogs Go To Heaven", which of course was animated at a studio he set up there during the time, and from what I had read, at one time was the biggest animation studio on the continent.
One film I had seen from an Irish animator that rather amused me to see was Aidan Hickey's "An Inside Job". Noticed someone stuck it up on YouTube, but it's missing the best part at the very end of the film...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05kL9grV
I do however have a far better copy I ripped from an LD compilation of animated shorts I found years ago, and I could send you an AVI of it if you like.
2008-06-17 07:53 am (UTC)