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 [email protected]        10 Aug 2001
 In this issue:
     - Burning Bunny
     - The Incredible Hanson-Hulk
     - & Neil from Animutation
 : BURN RABBIT BURN...
   Jada: where fish are killed with lasers
   Dave is a 27-year-old artist who works a night shift in
   a press clippings agency in London. He's been getting
   into Flash recently, and Jada is his first effort.
   He has taken a large rabbit and combined it with a load
   of images that people had made on the Tsluts mailing
   list. Plus some fish. The result is, well, weird.
 Jada (Dave's movie)
 http://www.btinternet.com/~david.st/b3ta/
   Dave says Jada was influenced by two well-known
   web animations - Hatten (which used a foreign
   language song) and Animatutation's Hyakugojyuuichi
   (which took the "found images" approach to a new
   extreme.)
 Hatten:
 http://damnit.org/humor/flash/hatten.swf
 Hyakugojyuuichi:
 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/uploads/18000/187...
   Dave hates the "Purple Ronnie" cartoons so much that
   he runs his own ultra-dark cartoon strip called
   "The Real Purple Ronnie". A Google search for Purple
   Ronnie will return Dave higher than the official site.
   Ha!
 Dave's site:
 http://lagrange3.blogspot.com
 : EEK! IT'S "SCHWARZENEGGER HANSON"!
   Nine-year-old bodybuilder is new web celebrity
   First there was Mahir "I Kiss You", then there
   was the man who dressed up as Peter Pan...
   ... but the new weirdo that everybody's
   emailing each other about is nine-year-old
   bodybuilder Richard Sandrak.
   Richard looks like a member of Hanson
   who's taken all the steroids in the world.
   (BTW, he claims that he's been tested
   on TV for steroid abuse and come up negative).
   Amid various disturbing pictures of Richard
   meeting N Sync, his site states that he gets
   three offers of promotional, TV or movie
   work every day. So watch your screens for stuff
   like "Son of the Incredible Hulk"...
 Little boy with muscles
 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gurr/index.htm
 Mahir - the first web celebrity
 http://members.nbci.com/primall/mahir/
 Peter Pan
 http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/
 : QUEST FOR STICKMAN
   Searching Fox, hidden XiaoXiao
   Xiaoxiao is the mysterious genius or geniuses
   responsible for incredible Flash kung-fu animations
   featuring stickmen that have been flying around the
   web for the last few months.
   The text in the Flash movies is in Chinese, so we found
   a Chinese masseur, Mr Wong, who could translate it
   for us.
   Mr Wong told us: the movies are hosted on Suho.com - an
   information/entertainment  portal based in China. Suho
   means "Searching Fox"
   Xiaoxiao means "little". The development team is
   called 'Little Productions'
   The first installment of the animations is called
   "Lonely Fox begs for defeat". The recent Virtua
   Cop-style shooting one is called  "Xiaoxiao
   Special Force"
 Lonely Fox begs for defeat
 http://games.sohu.com/fightgame/fight.avi
 Xiaoxiao Special Force
 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/uploads/25000/257...
 : RANDOM IMAGE ODDNESS
   Porn or bunnies?
   Last week Rob at tsluts wrote a program that showed
   you in real time what people had typed into a search
   engine. This week we've glued it to a the Google image
   search engine.
   Rob says, "I found it mesmerising - pressing refresh and
   seeing what would happen next. sometimes a broken image,
   sometimes porn, or even a nice fluffy kitty."
 light a big spliff and press refresh:
 http://tsluts.com/project/woo.php3
 : KILL YOUR FRIENDS UPDATE
   A couple of weeks ago we released Kill Your Friends, a
   game allowed people to upload a photo of their friends
   and shoot them.
   Our favourite image uploaded so far is of the mysterious
   Monaco - a man posing in his swimming trunks in a
   carpark.
 http://b3ta.com/kill/upload/997333289monaco%20and%...
 kill your friends
 http://b3ta.com/kill/
 : WEB HEROS
   words from the people behind the pixels
   Name: Neil Cicierega
   Age: 14
   Makes: fantastic animations of found images combined
          with ultra-kitsch Japanese music. Makes his     
          own music, too.
   Site:  http://animutation.mixnmojo.com/
   When are you happiest?
          Various times... Usually when I'm getting a lot
          of work that I  want to done, like  when I'm
          in full swing on an Animutation or song.
   What is your proudest moment?
          Maybe early April, when Animutation Central was
          suddenly flooded with hits. I've also  had a few
          semi-celebrities praise my music... My music's
          also been played on the radio on  occasion.
   Which ones?
          Well, Dominic Armato, voice of Guybrush
          Threepwood from Monkey Island commented on a
          couple of my songs (because they used his voice
          :)... Logan Whitehurst, a fellow MP3.com
          artist, whose music is much more popular than
          mine and is played on the Dr. Demento show...
          Micheal Land, who's composed lots of great music
          over the years for LucasArts emailed me
          once... also, Simon Jeffery, prez of LucasArts,
          liked my Animutation starring him.
   What is the best film ever made?
          Hmmm... I'm not too sure. I love all of
          Tim Burton's movies, so probably one of those.
          Out of them I think my current favorite is
          Ed Wood.
   Yeah... the Plan 9 stuff is great. which scenes do you   like?
          I dunno... I like Bela's creative use of the
          F word, and Bill Murray's part is funny. It's
          a great movie, funny, tragic, and relatively
          accurate.
   What can you cook?
          I can make some great scrambled eggs, and I
          do often.
 Read another interview with Neil:
 http://www.salonmag.com/tech/log/2001/04/26/animat...
 : FIN
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 : CONTRIBUTORS THIS WEEK
     Joel http://www.rathergood.com/
     Rob http://www.tsluts.com/
     Dave http://lagrange.blogspot.com/
     Professor Tentacle
    
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 : FISH UPDATE
   The chap who broke the world record for the largest
   bream ever caught has been disqualified from the record
   books because he didn't use a rod and line.

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