Movie Make-out

This may be the darkest animated short I’ve ever seen. Cécile Dubois-Herry gives us a tale of a convenience store, a video camera, and how what you don’t see is important in Blind Spot.

Blind Spot from Cécile Dubois-Herry on Vimeo.

The Fibonacci sequence got a lot of play a few years ago, in a little book and movie called The Da Vinci Code. Personally, I’ve always had a little trouble understanding these higher mathematical concepts, but for whatever reason, this one I’ve always found easy to wrap my head around.

And then Cristobal Vila had to come along and make it into a staggeringly beautiful and complex little movie.

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

It’s the day after Easter, which means that it’s party-time for people who love Peeps, those sugar-coated pastel-colored marshmallow candies that are a mainstay of this season. However, one does need to be careful of what happens when Peeps go bad:

Crafted by the folks at Wooden Nickel Shorts, a little digging found this cute vlog (that’s “video blog”) entry from one of its members Dan Milano, who wrote a treatment for Ghostbusters III when he was in the third grade and managed to get Dan Aykroyd to sign it.

(My only questions are: What in the world was Aykroyd promoting? Is it just me, or did those containers look like skulls?)

Cinematical just pointed these YouTube videos (courtesy CultExtras), featuring Tim Burton interviewing the special effects legend Ray Harryhausen — the genius behind the 1949 Mighty Joe Young, Jason and the Argonauts, and Clash of the Titans among many, many others.

The interview is in three sections, running 25 minutes in all. The first is below, but I’ll let you head on over to Cinematical or YouTube to watch the other two parts:

The video effects test footage — not a proper teaser trailer — for Tron Legacy that screened at SDCC last year is now officially online, and you can watch it below, or in high definition at FlynnLives.com, and it looks terrific. (Sure, the people — save for old Jeff Bridges — are obviously computer generated, but in a world inside a computer, that works for me.)

Tron Legacy (which was previously known as TR2N or Tron 2.0 or… about a million other names) is targeting a winter 2010 release. Joseph Kosinski is directing the film, which stars Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett. Here’s the logline (via Coming Soon):

Tron Legacy is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.