With Google Street View offering up every inch of the country on your computer screen (even the High Line and Central Park), even the cubicle-bound can go on a little adventure... like this little guy. Tom Jenkins created a stop motion animation short that follows a "lonely desk toy" who leaves "the dark confines of the office" and takes a road trip, using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. The short starts off in NYC, and brings him all the way to the Pacific Coast... blink and you might miss R2D2 looking a little jealous.
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Video: Lonely NYC Toy Takes A Cross Country Trip, Thanks To Google Street View
Video: NYC in Stop Motion Animation
This rather mesmerizing little video was made "using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation." Most of the images depict NYC from the land, air, or water, but there are some other urban areas mixed in there, too. (Anybody know where they are?) There's not much more to add here, except to caution that what you are about to see has the serious potential to trigger a potent acid flashback, so have a beanbag chair and a copy of Meddle cued up. [Via Kottke]
Director Henry Selick, Coraline
Henry Selick's new 3D stop-motion animation film Coraline is adapted from a story by Neil Gaiman, who's perhaps best known for his groundbreaking graphic novel series The Sandman. Gaiman began writing the story in the early '90s at the request of his daughter Holly, who desired a narrative about a little girl whose mother gets kidnapped by evil witches resembling her mother. Happy to oblige, Gaiman created an inquisitive girl named Coraline who finds trouble behind a forgotten doorway in her drafty old house that leads into a seemingly better version of her current, dreary home.
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