Friday Find of the week
A great video of Steve Jobs for this Friday’s Find.
Quick Question… What’s more important Content or the Process?
This Friday Find is a little more “corporate” then I normally like, but it is relevant to your your art, your brand, and your business.
Nick has launched its newest edition to an amazing online presence; Nick Radio!
What is Nick Radio?
C’est la Vie is rather happily unpinned as a genre, it has elements of the girly-buddy, it’s comedic as well as philosophical with a hint of romance thrown in for good measure. Created by Jen Babcock and “updated seven days a week” C’est la Vie may not be easily definable but it is certainly interesting.
We follow Mona, a quasi-dark gloomster with enough lighthearted playfulness to talk to her imaginary stuffed bunny friend, Monsieur Smokey. I wish I was that funny when I talk to myself. Mona’s acerbic wit often takes you where you don’t expect to go.
On the other hand there’s the roommate. While there’s a lot of play left in the ol’ ‘Odd Couple’ scenario Donna may sometimes land ever so slightly flat in comparison. Donna’s shallowness doesn’t have much lasting depth which, while funny might leave little room for growth. But we’ll see!
You can see for yourself at:
clv-comic.com
gocomics.com/cestlavie
Warning!
This WEBCOMIC in Inappropriate for Kids
And possibly some adults.
I was thumbing through various web comics (as much thumbing as one can do with a mouse, really) when I noticed that there was one comic that was not ‘drawn’, not in the traditional sense. A completely computer generated comic titled ‘Too Much Information’. I admit I was highly skeptical that CGI characters could pull off the affect needed to pull in a reader’s interest but they are surprisingly perfect for this comic. While you might argue that this choice leaves the characters with a somewhat ‘plastic-ey’ look they are no less emotive for it. Stylistically speaking, it’s winning me over.
NOTE: This article is a webcomic review by my wife, Leah Love. Who also runs a blog on maternity, pregnancy, and baby stuff at www.OnMaternityBelts.com
I’ve spent so much time flipping through so many sub-par comics that when I finally got to this little gem I almost didn’t believe that I liked it. I like just about everything about this so far.
Why I love Strays Online
First things first, the artwork. Beauty! The joint work of creators Samantha Whitten and Stacey Pefferkor and featuring their darling main character, Meela. Meela is a charming kid with wolf-like attributes and an unerring tenacity and sweetness of spirit. You will love her immediately. She’s on her own, reeling from the loss of her brother and barely surviving when our second main character, the bounty hunter called Feral, kicks his business right through her attempts at lonely survival.
From the title I expected a touching story of a man finding a video of himself from childhood.
Instead we get this funny parody of that same situation.
I don’t want to give too much away, so just watch it.
What I love about this video
The reason why this video was chosen for the Friday Find of the Week is its perfect mix of story and comedy. The interaction between the past and present Jeremiahs is both hilarious and touching.
As someone who enjoys creating stories with comedy, it is hard to master that balance of jokes for joke sake and a joke that furthers the viewer/readers understanding of the character or plot.
In 3.5 minute movie we make a personal connection to the protagonist (present Jeremiah), we get a very small view of his life story, and it ends in a way that gives a feeling of closure. You can’t ask more from a short film/video.
Let me know what you think of my interpretation in comment section below? Feel free to include what you liked or didn’t like about the video.
-Jason Love
