Here’s a lesson on organizing an academic essay that I created with Go!Animate. Eventually, I’d like to replace the British robot voice with my own. For now, though, I think the lesson works fairly well.
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Early Muppet Ad #3: Wilkins Instant Coffee
In this series of ads for Wilkins Instant Coffee, Jim Henson uses a voice that’s close to what eventually became the voice of Kermit the Frog. I’m also struck by how bizarrely violent some of these ads are…
Review: 'The Grievers' by Marc Schuster
To simply call The Grievers by Marc Schuster a comic novel is to dismiss the book’s emotional depth. At its core, the story is a touching—and somewhat dark—meditation on friendship, death, and missed opportunities. Charley Schwartz is a mess. The promise of his younger years has fizzled out, leaving him with an incomplete dissertation moldering in his desk drawer and a humiliating job prancing around in a large dollar sign costume (complete with green tights and large Mickey Mouse-type gloves) outside the local bank.
Thanks, Simon!
