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The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

February 3rd, 2007 | researchmaterial

I know nothing about this animation: I literally just turned it up on YouTube, where all three parts appear to be nested, of which this is the first. Putting it here now as a reminder to myself to investigate further.

11 Responses to “The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello”

Mr. D- February 2nd, 2007 at 7:09 pm

This was nominated for a Oscar last year, I think. It’s an awesome film

PixelRobot- February 2nd, 2007 at 7:13 pm

All you need to know is here.

http://www.jaspermorello.com/gazette/

Thumpsquid- February 2nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm

Found the website for it here http://www.jaspermorello.com. seems there’s going to be more of them

Kaolin Fire- February 2nd, 2007 at 8:19 pm

Stunning.

Geoffrey Long- February 2nd, 2007 at 9:56 pm

It’s true — this really is an amazing piece of work. I discovered it last year when it was part of the Boston Independent Film Festival, and I immediately ordered the DVD from Madman in Australia. The combination of silhouette animation with 3-D CGI is breathtaking, and the story is old-school adventure. Highly recommended!

britt- February 2nd, 2007 at 11:56 pm

I saw this movie on Wholphin, McSweeney’s DVD magazine of short films, a while back.

http://www.wholphindvd.com/issues/issue_2.html

From the liner notes interview with the director:

Q: What is the worst disease you’ve ever contracted?

A: Children.

moty- February 3rd, 2007 at 3:56 pm

this has a stron reference to the last exile series
warren, if you liked this movie, you should check last exile

very shy person- February 4th, 2007 at 12:01 am

IMDb page has Amazon dvd links … it’s on “A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films”.

Thanks for posting the youtube vid/link!

Santy- February 4th, 2007 at 1:39 am

Love this film. I caught it at the Christchurch International Film Festival in a three hour long collection of animation. Some stunning stuff.

Warren Ellis- February 4th, 2007 at 2:10 am

Seriously, steampunk and neo-Victorianism was around long before LAST EXILE.

Peter Carlson- February 5th, 2007 at 4:45 am

While following the trail of Jasper Morello, I somehow segued into this bit of dark beauty, clearly not Pixar despite the title:
The Cathedral – Pixar

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Outsourcing to Arkansas. This is all part of a larger trend: the replacement of urbanized work (office, commute, expensive home, etc.) with telecommuting from a home located anywhere. In other words, it will reverse migration from cities and decrease the need for a car. The solution to finding a way to afford ever more expensive cars, 20% of top line income already (and climbing), isn't more fuel efficiency ala Rocky Mountain Institute -- it's finding a way to eliminate the need to own a car entirely.
CIA Red Cell research brief (wikileaks). Seems to be "inside the box" thinking to me. A red cell would be a lot less expensive if they just published revised versions of old GG posts.
NPR. Tea party as an open source insurgency. The analysis uses the the term "starfish" to describe the organization rather than open source. That term is from a good book called "The Starfish and Spider." It's a nice compliment to "Brave New War" and a quick read (it's a light business book) to boot.
Cambridge video from another John Robb. He studies how we envision our bodies (machine, container of spirit, data, etc.). Personally, I like the indistinct from nature viewpoint -- the first.
Discovery channel manifesto. Lots of nuts.
New issue of Interesting Times, a cyber-apocalypse-punk swedish e-zine is out.
Pint sized Thorium reactors. Not going happen.
Cook. Some interesting analysis on P2P thinking (featuring the excellent P2P foundation and Global Guerrillas).
More later (after some coffee).

PauseTalk Next Week

Yes, it’s already time for a new edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 44), set to happen this coming Monday (September 6) at Cafe Pause, with the regular start time of 20:00 — as always, the cafe is reserved for the event from 19:30, so feel free to come early. Although the SNOW Magazine Cafe event ended this past Monday, I’ll bring out the participating magazines again for anyone who didn’t have a chance to browse through them.

Also, there was some sort of error when I created the Facebook event page, and so this is the correct one (if you receive a message about cancellation, that’s for the extra page it created).

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