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Having been stuck on the M4 for for many, many hours over the past couple of weeks, this report kinda hit home…

Tired Of Traffic? A New DOT Report Urges Drivers: ‘Honk’

Our good friend Tom Eldon is both a wizard in the kitchen and the guitar (oh, and the banjo), and has done an awesome arrangment of Joanna Newsom’s ‘Monkey & Bear’ and posted it on Vimeo.

Monkey & Bear
from Tom Eldon

Just in case you’re not aware, the latest Joanna Newsom album ‘Ys’ is pretty much the best music ever. Which is saying something.

Oh and the new version of Vimeo is really rather cool too!

Hey guys, I found these sites which might be of interest… Feel free to post any more that you wanna share!

Animation

John K (the Ren and Stimpy guy) – Tho John rants a quite a lot about stuff he doesn’t like, and posts new stuff all the time, his blog is full of awesome bits of practical information and interesting ways of looking at animation. There’s loads of good stuff at the start of May (I haven’t looked any earlier), so make sure to check out the archives.

Animation World Magazine – Massive site full of articles and tutorials.

ASIFA – Hollywood Animation Archive – What they say about it: “The International Animated Film Society: ASIFA-Hollywood has embarked on an ambitious project to create an animation archive, museum, and library for the benefit of the animation community, students and general public. We are in the process of building an ANIMATION DATABASE which contains biographies of artists, filmographic info and media files- movies, artwork and audio.”

The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course (Part 1) – I haven’t tried this yet, but it looks promising. It’s partly why I bought the Preston Blair book I brought in the other day. See the links down the side for the other parts of the course (scroll down a bit).

Drawing/Painting

Vilppu Drawing Online: Gesture – Haven’t had chance to read this one yet either, but it claims to be ‘essential’! Who am I to disagree?

Drawspace – really cool site dedicated to teaching people how to draw!

Linda Bergkvist – Linda Bergkvist is my hero! Not only does her site have all her amazing work on it, but she’s put tutorials up on how she does it! I love it. Check out ‘Glimpse of Summer’ in the ‘Jade’ Gallery. Awesome.

Manga Revolution Drawing Tutorials – Loads of user submitted tutorials for drawing and painting in Manga styles.

Seth Godin clears up the best ways to work with designers. Kinda makes things a bit clearer for working more efficiently at both ends… Thanks Seth!