{"id":34,"date":"2008-03-14T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olwill.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-03-14T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:16:41","slug":"the-dream-of-the-ridiculous-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"The Dream of the ridiculous man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about complicity and &#8220;more bigger snacks now!&#8221; etc. I remembered this animation, seen as a teenager on late night Channel 4, when they used to show a lot of animation from around the world as opposed to plastic surgery and diets . I googled my memory of it(see earlier post on Google and memory), which was that it was a Dostoevsky story and painted on glass , and hey presto here it is &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>by Alexander Petrov<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/videos\/v1742012pNQBA6DM\" title=\"Dream of the Ridculous man\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olwill.com\/images\/Ridiculous-man.gif\" alt=\"link to the Ridiculous\" height=\"370\" width=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While feeling animation; dark but light &#8211; the work of David Firth &#8211; here&#8217;s a link to the brilliant Salad fingers. Great sound design as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know him Check him out, really.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fat-pie.com\/salad4.htm\" title=\"salad fingers 4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olwill.com\/images\/salad-fingers.gif\" alt=\"link to salad finger animation\" height=\"370\" width=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Ryan by Chris Landreth. A technically amazing film about a down and out animator.  Brings to mind the talented ravers I knew who didn&#8217;t find a better life through chemistry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoid=21134943\" title=\"link to Ryan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olwill.com\/images\/ryan.jpg\" alt=\"link to chris landreth's animation Ryan\" height=\"370\" width=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about complicity and &#8220;more bigger snacks now!&#8221; etc. I remembered this animation, seen as a teenager on late night Channel 4, when they used to show a lot of animation from around the world as opposed to plastic surgery and diets . I googled my memory of it(see earlier post on Google and memory), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,24,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-history","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}