If you are lazy enough to make a list of 2006 resolutions, Geek-foo´ has the solution: The 2006 New Years Resolution Generator. The result doesn't look like my resolutions' list, but can be funny, like:

In the year 2006 I resolve to:
Make as many people hate me as I possibly can.

Posted by Bibi at 06:44 PM in Fun, Fun ||

I didn't have a great year, but I have some good memories of this year. I could accomplish some of my New Year's Resolutions 2005 and among them , Change the layout of this blog will be next thing I'm going to do here (because the stupid IE can't understand my CSS and I have tried thousands of times). I met many cool blogs, talked to some amazing people from other countries, started a new blog about cinema, wrote about Cinema to a Azul Calcinha, had French classes, won many new readers (Thank you so much!), discovered many wonderful links and discovered a lot of new things about other countries and languages. But I won't miss 2005. Things are going to be much better this next year, I can feel that, or hope so!.

Just in time, here are my 2006 resolutions, and this time my expectations are smaller, so maybe this time I should be able to accomplish almost all of them:

- Find a job;
- Keep blogging;
- Do meditation;
- Read more books;
- Laugh much more;
- Go sleeping earlier;
- Improve my English;
- Post on Cinematógrafo;
- Visit more exhibitions;
- Watch much more films;
- Do any kind of exercise;
- Don't stay at home all day;
- Get my Italian citizenship;
- Move from this apartment;
- Try to be happy more often;
- Keep attending French classes;
- Manage my time in a better way;
- Pay more attention to my friends;
- Writing more reviews about films;
- Go walk at some park, sometimes;
- Try not to be so angry at some people;
- Drink more wine and eat less chocolate;
- Start to write a project to a future thesis;
- Blog much more, what means almost every day;
- Find more interesting links to post on this blog;
- Learn a new different language, like Chinese or Japanese;
- Travel to another country, and France looks like a great place to go;
- Keep in contact with the great people that I knew this year, including the bloggers;

And the most important: to still have fun blogging, talking to people and dicovering tons of interesting (and curious) things. Any other good thing that happen on the next year is extra. Let's cross the fingers so that 2006 be much better than 2005!

Posted by Bibi at 06:15 PM in Blogging | Comments (3) ||

Pin-Ups & Calendar Girls for your Bachelor Pad: Picture Gallery devoted to Gil Elvgren's Pin-Up & Calendar Girls.

Elvgren was one of the most important pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century. In addition, he was a classical American illustrator. He was a master of portraying the feminine, but he wasn't limited to the calendar pin-up industry.
[...]
...the Norman Rockwell of cheese-cake. His heroines are often caught in humorous but distressing situations. His exquisite oils of gorgeous girls-next door their skirts often blowing up to reveal lovely nylon-clad limbs rival his mentor Haddon Sundblom's "Coca-Cola" Santas for sheer nostalgic pleasure.

He made some remarkable pin-up images, like "Weighty Problem", "Bear Facts" and "The Right Touch", and Coca-Cola ads like "Just Like Old Times". More of his works can be found at Gil Elvgren, The Painted Anvil, Pin-Up Pages, The Pin-up Files, Mop Pin-up, including an unpublished illustration, Vanguard Gallery, Mutoworld and Spotlight on Golden Age Advertising. BTW, just few of his illustration works can be NSFW. (via dadanoias)

Posted by Bibi at 03:41 AM in Illustration, Pin-ups | Comments (1) ||

David LaChapelle makes catchy awesome pictures full of movement. The stunning composition makes the pictures jump out. On his portfolio there are editorial images, advertising, videos, magazine covers, album covers, his film Rize, books, projects and the must see session of portraits. Don't miss the portraits of Angelina Jolie, Deborah Harry, Sheryl Lee, Brooke Shields, Peggy Lipton, Buster Poindexter, Sophie B. Hawkins and... well, check all the pictures! BTW, some images can be NSFW. (via Sex?)

Posted by Bibi at 08:06 PM in Photography, Photography | Comments (3) ||

dePlastilina is the site of the artist Irma Gruenholz, where you can see the proof that there is something more cute than lovely, beautiful and colourful illustrations: colourful and cute illustrations made with clay. (via Drawn!)

PS.: I couldn't resist to clay with a cat.

Posted by Bibi at 05:25 PM in Illustration | Comments (2) ||

Well, since I talked about "A Christmas Carol", now let's talk about Charles Dickens now. And here are my selection of links about him and his works.

Charles Dickens works, life and family, Dickens´s London and links.

Charles Dickens: The Complete Literary Works of Charles Dickens available to read on-line.

Charles Dickens: An Overview at Victorian Web has a lot of information. Biography, works, political history, literary relations, themes, characterization, narrative, biography and much more. Don't forget to visit Charles Dickens and the Visual Arts to see beautiful illustrations made to his works.

David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page. Dedicated to bringing the genius of Dickens to a new generation of readers. The Dickens' Illustrations Page is a good place to start.

Dickens at PBS. The story of the man, the writer, and the Victorian London he immortalized.

Dickens and London Walk through London and experience it through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Isn't the easiest site to find information, but the Doré engravings make it worth it.

Literature.org - The Online Literature Library, has five Dickens' books available to read online (A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth).

Postaprint: The Characters of Charles Dickens - Portrayed in a series of original Water Colour Sketches by "KYD", c.1880's.

Project Gutenberg: a list with all the Dickens' works available to download, read or listen on-line.

The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world's most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator.

The Dickens Project is a scholarly consortium devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens.

BTW, I'm searching for some illustrations, engravings, etchings of Gustave Doré to Dickens' books. If you know some nice link with them, please let me know about it.

Posted by Bibi at 08:44 AM in Books, Illustration, Literature ||

Oops, sorry, I forgot to check out on Internet Archive if there was something more about Christmas before finish my last post about it. And now I need to post about one of the movie's version of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol". The film is Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), a 1951 version directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns and Hermione Baddeley.

If you want the original, the book, there are many places where you can download it or read: Charles Dickens.org, Good Reading on Line, Literature, Project Gutenberg, Spark Notes and many others..

There are also audio versions of the "A Christmas Carol" on LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, part one, two and three (for children), The Penguin Podcast (available until the new year) and an old radio version at Radio Memories Network.

Some information about the book can be found at David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page, The Free Dictionary, The Victorian Web and Wikipedia.

Posted by Bibi at 07:25 AM in Audio, Books, Cinema ||

And here is the second part of Christmas Linkdump:

Games

Christmas Greetings 2005: Brat Invasion. The brats are set to pilfer the presents from under the Christmas tree. You need to stop them! An adorable and instructive game, if you don't like kids.

Frosty Flips Game: Help Snowboarding Santa stock up on goodies for Christmas!

Holiday Express: a kind of Tetris with presents boxes as the pieces. (via NicoSite)

Jinx Episode 2: Miracle in the 34th Dimension, with an evil Santa. (via NicoSite)

Grow Ornament is one more "evil" Eyezmaze game that you have to discover the right sequence to finish the game, but this one is much easier. (via NicoSite, le meilleur du web pour vous...)

Lustiges Weihnachtskugeln: Santa is balancing on a snowball while he needs to jump the logs and throw down the snow men.

Santa Artois: Keep Santa on the straight and narrow by your mouse left and right as he drops presents down the chimney.

Santa's Ride: the same as the flying penguin and the other games; you have some energy and need to spend it to make Santa and his sled flying.

How To

All the wrappings: We've outlined some steps to help you wrap beautiful gifts in all shapes and sizes. (via Lifehacker)

Christmas Firefox Theme: all the instructions to make it, with two themes.

How to make a snowman ornament from a light bulb When your light bulbs die, don't throw them out. Make them into really cute ornaments. (via Make)

Mr. Tubbs, the Snowman - Crochet Snowman Pattern. 4 adorable holiday themed patterns (via Make)

Winamp skin for Holidays: Modern Holiday. Looks like a Christmas tree, maybe that's why I like it.

Paper Craft

A+ Snowflake: Paper Snowflakes, Free Snowflake Pattern Instructions for making Paper Snow Crystal Patterns. Many models to you have fun.

Activités de Noël pour les enfants sur Tomlitoo: Christmas paper models. (via Agence eureka)

Canon's Paper craft models: Christmas Card, Santa Hat, Wreath, Tree, Northern Santa Claus and Northern version 2.

Christmas Tree: scroll down to find an adorable tree to download and fold.

Flying Pig Christmas Paper Animations. Free models and links to more paper craft.

Flying Santa / Babbo Natale Volante by PaperPino. (via Paper Forest)

Merry Christmas! from The Toy Maker, with PDF models of boxes, cars, balls, calendar bag and Dodechahedron of Little Snow Guys with beautiful illustrations.

Paper Forest: Holiday Paper Forest. A collection of links to paper trees, origami, kirigami and paper sculptures, for the holidays.

PDF paper model of Christmas Tree, decoration and cards.

Peace in Paper Downloads: some models of Christmas and New Year's paper craft to you download and fold.

Sanwa Supply has adorable models for Christmas: cards, trees, ornaments, boxes and even a house.

SF Gate:Chronicle Holiday Cards to print.

Yamaha's Paper Craft model of a sled with two reindeers, a a Christmas tree card.

Videos

A Christmas Gory: "A Christmas Story" as horror film. (via Boing Boing)

Bizarre Christmas Musicians: a man playing a Christmas song in a keyboard with bouncing balls.

Chris Christmas Rodriguez: vote for him to replace Santa this Christmas. (via wmmna)

DirecTV Tv commercial for Christmas.

Gunther's Christmas Song (Ding Dong) and the pay uncensored version. So good as his other videos. (via Pez)

L'arrestation du Père Noël: the policemen stop Santa for routine check.

Le Père Noel dans un Sex Shop (Santa Claus in the Sex Shop)

Parkour Santa: Short video of Santa freerunning like a Saint.

Santa Claus' Punch and Judy from 1948, at Internet Archive. (via Bedazzled!)

Sarah Silverman "Give The Jew Girl Toys" (via Cynical-C)

Syncronized Christmas Lights Display 2005 video 1 and video 2. And please, don't do that on your home!

The Junky’s Christmas, a film by Nick Donkin, presented and narrated By W.S. Burroughs.

ZombieClaus is In a nutshell, we’ll be combining two powerful memes that have been running through the underground for some time now: Santarchy and Zombie Mobs. Don't forget to see the videos! (via MetaFilter)

Vintage

Acclaim Images Posters and Art Prints: Vintage Christmas posters and cards, circa 1890 - 1919.

Christmas Past: Christmas Image Gallery and Vintage Christmas e-cards.

Mazaika's Vintage Santa Xmas postcard gallery. More than 700 of my favourite Old Russian Soviet New Year greeting cards. (via The Cartoonist)

Russian and Soviet Christmas and New Year and Christmas e-cards.

Scared of Santa Gallery:Tis the season to be scared witless. I knew this, but it's always good to take a second a look at those images. (via Martin Klasch)

Shiloh Postcards: vintage Christmas postcards from the beginning of the XX century.

The Antique Christmas Lights: A look into America's Christmas lighting history from its commercial inception in 1900 through about 1950.

The Beatles Christmas Album: memorabilia of Beatles and Christmas. (via Quiddity)

The NYPL collection of greetings cards fof Christmas, Valentine's Day, Birthday and New Year, and Christmas Menus.

Vintage Christmas Flickr community. Here is a place for you to post all things vintage - and retro - that are Christmas-related. Time Period 1940-1975

Other stuff

Christmas Abstract: as Chris said, Deconstructing Christmas Songs. (via Cynical-C)

Festivus Poles for your Festivus. (via MetaFilter)

Fuck Christmas Seriously – are you kidding me with this “There’s a war on Christmas” bullshit? (via Kottke)

He believed in Santa. Guardian article about Andy Warhol: We think of Warhol as too cool for Christmas. But how could he not adore this celebration of the kitsch and the spiritual, asks Jonathan Jones.

Krampus is a shaggy monster with horns, covered with bells and dragging chains. In Bavaria, St. Nikolaus is followed by a similar horned creature, called Klaubauf; in Styria this attendant is named Bartel (via The Groovy Age of Horror)

Letters To Santa: tons of Christmas stuff - counter, backgrounds, Carols, traditions, history, sheet music, recipes, tales, Christmas greetings, ecards, etc.

From the Official Google Blog: how to track Santa with Google Earth.

Quiddity: A Space Age Christmas. Links about Christmas and Daleks and sci-fi Christmas.

Ugly Christmas Lights We will show the garish, the ugly, the weird.

Posted by Bibi at 03:48 AM in Craft, Culture, Events, Fun, Fun, Games, Video, Vintage ||

Bad Bibi didn't make Christmas post, just one on Christmas Music. I know that Christmas is over, but I was collecting some links in the last few months and this is the result. I had a lot of work, so I won't leave these links, and they are fun at any time in the year. I divided them by subject so you can go directly to you favourite session, or not. If you want more images and links go to the fantastic Santa and Me! - Vintage photos with Santa, but there are more than just images. I hope you enjoy!

Animation

A Peanuts Christmas: The Peanuts gang discovers that they have magical powers.

Christmas Story in 30 seconds with the Bunnies.

It's a Wonderful Life in 30 seconds with bunnies.

Jacquo's Carol: It's Christmas time, and I'm a bum. It's obvious that I'm not having fun. (via Milk and Cookies)

Ornaments: is a computer-animated short about a mischievous, little Christmas decoration with a hunger for some milk and cookies.

The Spirit of Christmas was the 1995 animated short film that launched South Park. In 1992, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, then students at the University of Colorado, made Jesus vs. Frosty (also known as A Christmas Story), in which four young boys make a snowman which comes to life and begins to kill them off. Watch or download this animation on The Spirit of Christmas - Official Distribution Site, that also has Jesus vs. Frosty.

Art & illustration

An Old-Fashioned Christmas in Illustration and Decoration. (via scribblingwoman)

Bubblegumfink presents to you Christmas at comics: Superman and Santa Claus and Merry Christmas X-Man.

Cartoon-O-Rama presents some images of Huckleberry Hound and the Christmas Sleigh.

Christmas Noël: Christmas postcards images. (via Agence eureka)

Deviled Ham wish to us an evil Christmas, here, here, here and here. Don't miss the Satan Claus

Old Haunts - Creepy Christmas Santa's: Santa on the cover of Creepy comics.

Scrapiteria had a week with the theme Christmas. To see the fifteen works realised, just follow the links to down, from the last post Little Orphans in the Snow. My favourites are Naughty or Nice?, Scrapiteria: Christmas Card 2 and Sledjacking.

Sinterklaas: illustraties. Vintage book illustrations of Sint Nikolaas.

And fuck Easter too is a post of Suzanne G with many cool Christmas links to games, animation, illustration and more. Check it out.

Não perca no Webcedário as letrinhas que continuam aprontando, mas agora com o espítito do Natal. Meus posts favoritos: Letra #545, Letra #538 e Letra #541.

Audio

A Christmas Memory read by Truman Capote with music by Irving Joseph is available at Basic Hip Digital Oddio.

Storynory - Free children’s stories for your iPod. A very nice site but you don't need to have an iPod to listen them. There are Christmas stories and fairy tales, Dickens' A Christmas Carol and more.

Christmas word, his origin and meaning at Podictionary.

Christmas present from The Penguin Podcast: the Penguin Books podcast posted the complete audio book of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol read by Geoffrey Palmer. Super! But will only be available until the new year. So, don't wast more time and subscribe to the podcast or get the episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, episode 4 and the final episode. (via Suzanne G.)

Datajunkie Christmas posts with Christmas radio shows: Have yourself a SUSPENSEful Christmas..., Christmas Crimestoppers on the Air!, A Boris Karloff Kristmas! and Having a SUSPENSEful Christmas, wish you were here....

Radio Memories Network episodes for this special date: Christmas Command Performance, Six Shooter, Fibber McGee & Molly Christmas Show, WXCI Memories 04 - Christmas, Boston Blackie, A Jack Benny Christmas, The Great Gildersleeve and Merry Christmas! with Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Santa’s Journal: yes Santa Claus has a blog! So why is it in the audio session? Well, he has a podcast, but who speaks is Lanny, probably some of his elves. Go wish him a Merry Christmas. (via pointblog)

Cinema

Cinematical 12 days worth of special holiday content. Just follow the link to find all the posts.

Lewis Jackson: Santa Slays Me by Amanda Reyes,a review from Christmas Evil, a Troma production. (via Mondo Schlocko)

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: Behind The Scenes. Facts, information and photos. (via Boing Boing)

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians available on Internet Archive: The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents (via PCL)

The episode 13 of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir is Capra's t's a Wonderful Life. The film is very good, but the analysis that they made is fabulous!

Food

From Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea A Very Chocolatey Christmas with links to delicious chocolate recipes.

Christmas baking, spice walnut cookies and sugar cookies galore: recipes and tips.

Cookies and milk for Santa: don't leave the milk to him!

Slashfood recipes to make eggnog: Homemade Eggnog and Semi Homemade Eggnog.

Star-Topped Mince Pies a recipe to make beautiful and delicious pies for Christmas. (via Slashfood)

And it continuous on Christmas Linkdump II!

Posted by Bibi at 03:45 AM in Art, Audio, Books, Cinema, Comics, Culture, Events, Food, Food, Fun, Fun, Illustration | Comments (2) ||

Hi fellows, while I don't finish my Christmas linkdump post, I want to wish you all a wonderful Christmas with a lot of love, happiness, food and presents! My best wishes to all of you and your families!

Merry Christmas!

And just in case, How Merry Christmas is said around the world.. In Portuguese it is Feliz Natal and in French Joyeux Noël!

Posted by Bibi at 09:45 PM in Blogging, Events | Comments (11) ||

Merry Christmas with tons of songs!

10 + 100 Creative Commons Christmas Songs: 111 free and legal Christmas songs. (via Creative Commons)

Bedazzled!: Johnny Cash Christmas Show Part 1 "12 Days Of Christmas".

Big Rock Candy Mountain posted some links to nice Christmas mp3 on the last posts. Take a look on the blog.

Blowupdoll: Mordi's christmas message with "Winter is Blues" by Vashti Bunyan. Plus, check it out other 3 Christmas posts of blowupdoll: all i want for christmas is you, merwee cwistmas and ring-a-ding ding.

Christmas In The Stars - The Star Wars Christmas Album!. Bello Púbico put the album available as present.

Red Ryder BB Gun: Christmas With the Brady Bunch (via Bubblegumfink!)

Club Contact: Happy Christmas And Stuff, with "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Girls Aloud.

DJ Riko's Christmas mix album, 70-minute MP3 mix-CD of Xmas oddities, at Boing Boing.

Flickhead posted a lovely present for Christmas: the original soundtrack of A Charlie Brown Christmas by The Vince Guaraldi Trio.

Kiddie Records Weekly now has 3 Christmas albuns available: Christmas Party with Dick "Two Ton" Baker, Howdy Doody's Christmas Party featuring Howdy Doody and Bob Smith (be careful with the clowns) and This Is Christmas with Ireene Wicker.

Have yourself a filthy little Cristmas. 24 free songs available to download. (via búscate un novio)

Martin Klasch's Christmas presents: Martin Klasch's Christmas Music Compilation 20051 called Santalicious and Santafobic.

PCL Linkdump Merry Christmas!! Do not unwrap until Christmas! What a better way to spend Christmas eve than in the company of Wild Man Fischer.

Pop Debris! made 25 Christmas MP3s posts to celebrate. But, just the last eight posts, from Day 18 - Sell, sell, sell! to Day 25 - All hail Santa! have downloadable links. So get there before they stop working!

Rato Records Blog made more than 20 posts with great christmas songs this month, just take a look there. My favourites were Les Chaussettes Noires - French rock'n'roll Christmas song, and Happy Xmas (War is over), because that is my favourite xmas song. But beyond all those posts there is a Rato's Special Christmas Collection with 50 tracks! All the links to the zips are here. Have fun!

Santastic: Holiday Boots 4 Your Stockings - Mashup Xmas album . (via Boing Boing)

Score Blog - Soundtracks audioblog: two songs from The Polar Express by Alan Silvestri.

Spiked Candy posted in the last weeks neat MP3s of pop Christmas songs. I can't suggest just one, but don't forget the collections Spiked Candy Canes part 1 and part 2.

Spread The Good Word has a "collection" of posts with tons of Chritmas songs. And here they are: Oh Holy Night, The Grinch, White Christmas, A Bloody Christmas Mix Part 4, A Bloody Christmas Mix Part 3, Frosty The Snowman, God Rest Ye Merry Readers, A Bloody Christmas Mix Part 2 and A Bloody Christmas Mix Part 1.

Tara Giacomozzi made a lovely Musical Christmas Tree to wish Merry Christmas. Check out her other works too. (via Bello Púbico)

The Crime in your Coffee made a selection of links to cool and exotic Christmas songs. Take a look on the post.

Tte Wreckroom: Happy christmas beatle people! MP3s of Beatles Christmas Records. (via PCL)

Want more? Ok, go to the best place for Christmas albums: FaLaLaLaLa - Preserving Memories of Christmas Vinyl Past.

Posted by Bibi at 09:13 PM in Music | Comments (1) ||

Here is my collection of new links about internet and geek stuff.

Five Blog Reading Hacks: five ideas with all the instructions to you save some time, from Micro Persuasion. They are nice, but a longer day could it be better to me.

Geek to Live: Best apps of 2005. Firefox, del.icio.us, Google Earth and Bloglines are on the list! Cool!

Google Base blog import instructions You can add your existing content to the Google Base for broad distribution with only a few easy steps.

How to Read 12 Digit UPC Barcodes because I always wanted to know how to do that. (via Make)

Now That's What I Call Blogging: 43 Top Web Hits From Across the Blogosphere. A funny parody with inspired song names. I liked the song number 6 "Why I Love My Cat". (via kottke)

Printable Mozilla Firefox Shortcuts and larger print. The cheat sheet contains easy to read and remember keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Firefox that is run on Windows. (via Spread Firefox)

Put Technorati Mini in Your Firefox Sidebar: Steve Rubel give all the instructions to instal Technorati Mini. BTW, is just with me or Technorati is making some magic and subtracting the blogs that link to me?

Ten Bloglines Hacks: one more great list by Steve Rubel, with tips and links to hacks and instructions. I like a lot the last one Post Read Bloglines Items to del.icio.us.

Ten Wikipedia Hacks by Steve Rubel, from Micro Persuasion. The tips goes to Create a User Account to Gain Access to Additional Features to Play Six Degrees of Wikipedia.

The Firefox Hacks You Must Have: a Wired article. I don't think you need to have all installed, but I have to say that can survive without SessionSaver.

Tim Berners-Lee has a blog: timbl's blog and 455 comments on his first post! I'm jealous, but it's okay I'm jealous of what he did too. (via /.)

Top 10 tips for effective blog reading from Nev n Dave. I think I need to read that since I'm spending a lot of time to read all feed that I sign. (via Lifehacker)

Top 10 Website Euphemisms from Google Blogoscoped. A very funny list. An example? Number 3: What the site says: We’re still in Beta. What the site means: Don’t write bad press reviews yet.

Top 20 geek novels 132 people have voted for the best geek novels written in English since 1932.Unfortunately I read just 4 of those books, but if you asked if I saw their movie versions my answer is much better. (via /.)

What Is Screencasting and how to make. A screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action. Explanations and instructions by Jon Udell. (via Make)

Posted by Bibi at 08:20 PM in Blogs, Books, Firefox, Geek, Internet, Tools | Comments (2) ||

Beans Around The World a site dedicated to showing you the lighter side of cities, famous places, landmarks, tourist attractions, and whatever else strikes our fancy, all as seen through the "eyes" of a can of black beans.

PS.: Portuguese class nº 1, bean is feijão and we usually eat beans with rice. My suggestion is eat the rice with black beans, the taste is strong but much better. That is the same bean used in the Feijoada, but I think it's much better without the pork.

Posted by Bibi at 06:32 PM in Food, Food | Comments (1) ||

Animation Meat - Want to really learn something about animation?. Cartoons model sheets for you to practice with (space Ghost, Wacky Racers, Powerpuff Girls, Herculoids, Mighty Heroes, Flintstones,Frankenstein Jr., Filmation Archies, Family Dog and Bluth Misc ) news, notes, templates and links. I would love to be able to make animations, but my animations classes showed me that my talent to make them tens to zero, even my bouncing balls animation didn't look good enough. (via Bubblegumfink!)

ASIFA is one of the most interesting and amusing projects of the last years, if you are an animation fan. 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. The first step is the creation of a virtual archive, and you can check out the first results on the site. Don't forget to see how you can help with the project.

Following the links of ASIFA visit also Tick Tock Toys - Archives & Galleries. Food packaging, blog, cereal boxes, store displays, newspaper ads, animated commercials from 50's, fast food, characters, gum card art and more cool stuff all related with cartoons.

Barnacle Press: an excellent blog and archive of vintage cartoons and comics. Many preciosities since the beginning of the XX century, like Alice in Funnyland.

Big Cartoon DataBase is the best reference page that I know for classic cartoons. Providing an In-Depth, Detailed Look at your Favorite Cartoon Classics. They have a terrific Searchable DataBase of Cartoon Information, Episode Guides and Crew Lists.

Cartoon Modern is an adorable blog dedicated to style and design in fifties animation by Amid Amidi. Images, information, reviews and links. (via Martin Klasch)

Cartoon Radio Network is a wonderful podcast about cartoons soundtracks, news about DVDs and more things about cartoons. I talked about it before, but since it's one of the few podcasts about cartoons (but the number is growing!) it's a good talk about it again. If you have any request of songs and audio of vintage or new cartoons send your email Dr. Don that he will try to make your wishes come true. And since it's almost Christmas (and New Year) there are some Cartoon Radio Network Podcast Holiday Special Editions with cartoon episodes and the top ten cartoon Christmas songs.

CartoonStock is a searchable database of over 60,000 quality gag cartoons, political cartoons, cartoon pictures and illustrations by over 290 of the world's best cartoonists. (via Lifehacker)

Channel Frederator is a weekly video podcast with some of the world's coolest and funniest cartoons. Well, it's very cool indeed and the episode of this week is about Christmas. (via Cartoon Brew)

Dominique Besson: 19 vintage movie posters, like Bambi, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty and Gulliver's Travels.

Free PDF paper models of Classic Cartoons of Hanna Barberas' Wacky Races by by The Webdude. What can be more fun for Christmas? (via Paper Forest) Plus: paper models of Barney's Car, The Flintstones Family Car and Stoneage Scooter.

Golden Age Cartoons is a website devoted to the classic cartoons and characters from the Golden Age of Hollywood. A lot of information, videos, the history, images, drawings, songs, news, comics, art, etc. and more cool etc. My favourite session: The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

Looney Tunes Hidden Gags. After you watch enough Warner Bros. theatrical cartoons it becomes obvious that the directors and animators liked to slip in little hidden gags during the cartoons. The site has some of those hidden jokes and gags, whose meanings can be understood by few people or were executed in the background or very quickly. Now you have one reason to you watch those cartoons again. (via Drawn!)

Mer Betty Boop a great post of stationsvakt with a collection of Betty Boop animations available on Internet Archive. Use the direct links of the post or try the search result, if you want to get more information about each cartoon.

My Duck Family Tree is the family tree of Donald Duck. And since that you are there check a look on the other interesting stuff of Calisota Online a dedicated site to the universe of Disney comics and cartoons. (via Cartoon Brew)

Sam Cobean's World - The Cartoons of Sam Cobean. The art and humor of New Yorker Magazine Cartoonist Sam Cobean (1913 - 1951). The site has an extensive collection of his works, divided by themes. (via