1st place in Greyscale Gorilla's 5 Second Project contest under the Monster Bash theme.
António Silva's animation is a 5 second story about a little vampire that comes to life in paper and gets bashed with a poetic wooden stake - a pencil.
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By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Copyright 2011 ZITS Partnership. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
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A couple of wildebeest contemplate crossing a river.
The opening number of Nanda on the Green Show stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Music by The Jews Brothers Band - http://jewsbrothers.com
The track "Tchavolo Swing" is on iTunes: http://bit.ly/xqHW39
Joseph Herscher takes a sip of his coffee, pulling string thereby tipping paintings. Balls roll down paintings, lighting burner to boil water causing books to tip. Vase and computer get knocked off the table, releasing tape to open front page of newspaper.
For an interactive full description of the machine:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/08/nyregion/turning-a-page-the-joseph-herscher-way.html
New York Times interview with Joseph Herscher:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/01/06/nyregion/100000001266018/brooklyns-rube-goldberg.html