Ad Reinhardt, from ‘How to Look at Art, Arts & Architecture’ (1946)
cartoons
Today Was The First Saturday Without Saturday Morning Cartoons
Bruce Timm
Best intro in television history.
What an opening! Batman: The Animated Series is still one of my favorite shows.
Kanye West’s tweets meet The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest. The results are hilarious!
Thanks Josh A. Cagan (@joshacagan on Twitter) for these amazing mash-ups – you made our morning!
(via sarahbelfort)
Tom & Jerry – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. One funny bit of trivia from Note by Note… the pianist Lang Lang was inspired to take up the piano after seeing Tom & Jerry’s Cat Concerto episode.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Acme Triple-Strength Fortified Leg Muscle Vitamins. From Stop, Look and Hasten (dir. Charles M. Jones, 1954). I love the use of the Acme Corporation as a go-to, generic component of Looney Tunes. Surely someone’s written a dissertation about this.
“Injun Summer,” by John T. McCutcheon, 1907. (via the afore-loved Roger Ebert)
Balloon Land (1935) Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor cartoon. I remember seeing this exactly once, about 20 years ago, and it’s stuck with me ever since. So glad to stumble on it again today.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
97. Harpsichord. Plus ça change…
A View of the Bombardment of Ft. McHenry. I was in Baltimore a few weeks ago and stopped by Fort McHenry (Star-Spangled Banner, etc.). This painting was one of my favorites, if only for the trails on the bombs.
