Earlier this week I wrote about Brian Savelson, a film maker and self styled animator who has been tearing around the globe promoting his award winning short “Counting Water”. Today I bring you another piece from Brian. This time it’s a music video from Band of Horses for the song “Is There a Ghost”.

Brian is showing himself as an exceptional and versatile storyteller. I can’t wait to see his next project!

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Despite the Writer’s strike, Lost will return on Thursday, January 31st.

I, for one, am giddy.

Here is the Season 4 Trailer.

About The Author - My name is Stirling McLaughlin. I am married. I am an Art Director, Designer and Illustrator. I work at Atmosphere BBDO. I have lots of ideas. I have a baby girl named Nika Bean. I live in New York City. When I was in college, they put me on TV because I wore a mask and yelled at people. I have a reality show that I wil be starting… any day now. - See My Portfolio

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best… especially when they are so painstakingly executed.

Brian Savelson took some construction paper, some sand, and a digital still camera and turned it in to a masterpiece of stop motion animation. He accomplished all of this with almost no formal animation knowledge or experience. Just Brian, his camera, and a mind boggling attention for details.

Ironically the story centers around a woman who loses site of the big picture when she gets lost in the details. Clearly Brian, and his masterful script, has not.
Anyway, enjoy.

About The Author - My name is Stirling McLaughlin. I am married. I am an Art Director, Designer and Illustrator. I work at Atmosphere BBDO. I have lots of ideas. I have a baby girl named Nika Bean. I live in New York City. When I was in college, they put me on TV because I wore a mask and yelled at people. I have a reality show that I wil be starting… any day now. - See My Portfolio

Something fishy is going on over at Myspace. Apparently the once red hot social network site has been, well, compromised.

As a Facebook convert, I rarely check my Myspace account anymore. Recently, when I have logged on, I’ve been greeted by numerous suspect messages and comments. What is most alarming is that these messages aren’t coming from nameless fictional teenage girls (we’ve all grown to see through those) but from my own, real, flesh and blood, friends who’s accounts have been hacked.

These messages have been becoming increasingly frequent. This morning I got a message from a friend of mine asking me to ignore any messages coming from him about classmates of ours having been murdered. I didn’t ask questions. I just went to my preferences and deleted my account.

Myspace had better do something about this problem, and soon. In the meantime, for anyone not trying to screw me with a false coupon scam or bogus sex site, you can find me on Facebook.

About The Author - My name is Stirling McLaughlin. I am married. I am an Art Director, Designer and Illustrator. I work at Atmosphere BBDO. I have lots of ideas. I have a baby girl named Nika Bean. I live in New York City. When I was in college, they put me on TV because I wore a mask and yelled at people. I have a reality show that I wil be starting… any day now. - See My Portfolio

Anyone who knows me knows that I am crazy for wikis. I have a wiki devoted to my family’s genealogy. I have a wiki that I use for collaborating with coworkers. I even have a wiki that I use to keep notes on my various half-baked screenplays. So recently when I came across this Wikipedia band name game, well, you can imagine my excitement!

Sufjan Stevens, if you are reading this, I think I have your next concept album.

This has been circulating around a number of forums recently. I’m not sure where it originated. I certainly can’t take any credit myself. Therefore let us assume that, like Wikipedia, this is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Here is how it works…

1. Go to Wikipedia. Select “Random article”.
This is your band name.

2. Select “Random article” again.
This is your album title.

3. Select “Random article” fifteen more times.
Those are your track titles.

This is what mine looks like:

Band Name:
Govind Swaroop

Album Title:
Sangihe Scops Owl

Track Listing:

1. Lauren Taylor

2. Seminole County, Georgia

3. Calera y Chozas

4. Climax (narrative)

5. Huthwaite

6. Hebron

7. Jekyll and Heidi

8. La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality, Quebec

9. USS Pickens (APA-190)

10. M’Chigeeng First Nation

11. Ryan’s Rock Show

12. Hattiesburg (Amtrak station)

13. Captain Paul Ames

14. Sydney cockle

15. Colorado School of Mines

Enjoy!

About The Author - My name is Stirling McLaughlin. I am married. I am an Art Director, Designer and Illustrator. I work at Atmosphere BBDO. I have lots of ideas. I have a baby girl named Nika Bean. I live in New York City. When I was in college, they put me on TV because I wore a mask and yelled at people. I have a reality show that I wil be starting… any day now. - See My Portfolio

Much to the dismay of my coworkers and more specifically, my office mate, I am known to wear flip flops to work in the Summer. In the Fall, perhaps even in early September, I push them to the back of the closet and they are replaced with more weather appropriate footwear. Perhaps L.L. Bean was thinking of me. Perhaps they felt bad for me. Maybe they wanted me to be able to wear Flip-Flops all year long! I can’t imagine any other reason why they would unleash these Shearling Flip-Flops on the world.

Shearling Flip-Flops? Really? Are there people out there thinking “I really want my feat to be warm, but I really love my new pedicure and I’d hate for it to go to waste!” Apparently L.L. Bean thinks so! They’ve bought prime real estate on the front page of CNN.com to advertise them!

Well, luckily there is still time before Christmas. If you hurry you may be able to snag a pair for yourself after you’ve gotten a pair for everyone else on your list. They will go perfectly with your Irish wool wetsuit!

About The Author - My name is Stirling McLaughlin. I am married. I am an Art Director, Designer and Illustrator. I work at Atmosphere BBDO. I have lots of ideas. I have a baby girl named Nika Bean. I live in New York City. When I was in college, they put me on TV because I wore a mask and yelled at people. I have a reality show that I wil be starting… any day now. - See My Portfolio