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I’ve been kinda slow, but I’ll be catching up with the review posts on the over 10 shows I went to during the Festival(!). My hope is that it may help somebody find more information about a film they’re going to see, or give people some titles of things to go look for.

Taipei Competition […]

Not in Taipei? Sucks to be you, but here is the chef lowdown on what was up on the screen. Chances are you may be able to find the stuff on YouTube or elsewhere depending on how the artist distributes the work.
Taipei Competition 2

The Ringmaster
This is the first of several films by […]

The Taipei International Animation Festival is in full swing, and right after work I zoomed down to the Shin Kong Cineplex (the map is a lie - it’s on the south side of that road) to catch 2 shows: Taiwan Competition 2 and Taiwan Competition 3. These are Taiwanese animations submitted for this year’s […]

So I finally got my super8mm, black and white rolls developed and transferred to video. Yes, super 8mm film is alive and (for now) kicking, thanks to music video, skateboard films like Charnoski and Nichols’ Fruit of the Vine or Tent City, and websites like Filmshooting.com. So why film? It’s more expensive to shoot, you […]

When not fixing other people’s problems, MB creates earrings out of Apple logo medallions extracted from old Macintosh cases. MB sold a bunch of these at one of the MIT Electronic Swapfests we visited this past summer and is now auctioning a pair on Ebay. As of this writing, there’s still time to bid on […]

Two weekends ago I went to the CCS Holiday Sale, a fundraising event for The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Tons of stuff to be had: original artwork for sale from such lumanaries as R. Crumb, Will Esiner, James Sturm, Art Spiegelman, Steve Bissette, as well as from upcoming artists […]

Comics with Problems is an online collection of public service announcement-type cartoons focused on health-related issues. Compiled and edited by Ethan Persoff, the comics vary widely in topic and aesthetics, from Rex Morgan M.D. talking about abortion, to Dennis the Menance and child abuse, to Madonna and AIDS. Reading these comics are surreal and ironic, […]

Found near Taipei Main Station in Taiwan.