{"id":15562,"date":"2008-07-20T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T10:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/07\/walruses-wolverine-monkeys-mo.html"},"modified":"2008-07-20T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T10:01:48","slug":"walruses_wolverine_monkeys_mo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/20\/walruses_wolverine_monkeys_mo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Walruses, Wolverine Monkeys, &amp; mo&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Animation:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon&#8217;s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview.&#160; 38 years later, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/ytscreeningroom?v=jmR0V6s3NKk\">I Met The Walrus<\/a><\/em> is the Oscar-nominated short film that resulted&#8211;5 minutes of fluid, often surreal images morphing into one another over the recording.&#160; YouTube hosts the full piece in high quality. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure what to say about the coffee-stirrer-based (?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JW58Kj822Rc\">Endless Not<\/a> stick animation, but I can dig it. [<a href=\"http:\/\/motionographer.com\/2008\/07\/04\/endless-not-and-william-mouse-do-battle-with-magic-clicks-and-a-firey-pot-music-by-the-brothers-mcleod-and-toby-smith\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I love the crazy little characters made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewporterart.com\/calendarmonkeys\/calendarmonkeys.html\">Matthew Porter<\/a>.&#160; (His <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/Me_and_the_Doc.html\">Dr. Wagner<\/a> portrait is staring down at me now.).&#160; Next time you need to commission a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewporterart.com\/commission\/monkey1.html\">Wolverine monkey<\/a>, you&#8217;ll know where to turn. [Via Margot] <\/li>\n<li>Coca-Cola&#8217;s very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/we8.coca-cola.com\/index.jsp\">WE8 site<\/a> brings together illustrators, musicians, and other artists from West &amp; East in the spirt of friendship (well, that and of selling tasty sugar water).&#160; The site features interactive 3D Flash versions of the packaging they&#8217;ve created, downloadable desktop images and more. [Via Terri Stone] <\/li>\n<li>Peep the charming skulls of Kristina Collantes <a href=\"http:\/\/kitsunenoir.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/the-desktop-wallpaper-project-featuring-kristina-collantes\/\">desktop wallpapers<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Public service:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Speed bump: $1500.&#160; Drawing of a speed bump: $80.&#160; Effectiveness: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/06\/30\/fake.speed.bumps.ap\/index.html\">pretty comparable<\/a>&#8211;at least until people catch on. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/06\/30\/fake-speed-bumps-pai.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>What do the &quot;Safetymen&quot; on signage do all day?&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/signs-of-life.php\">Signs of Life<\/a> aims to shed light.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animation: In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon&#8217;s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview.&#160; 38 years later, I Met The Walrus is the Oscar-nominated short film that resulted&#8211;5 minutes of fluid, often surreal images morphing into one another over the recording.&#160; YouTube hosts the full piece in high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}