Just a quick heads up on our new Events Calendar: We’ve always collected a listing of Animation related events in the East Coast Area on our website. I came across a new plugin recently that changes the format entirely. It’s now an official Events Calendar layout, which you can choose to view like a Posterboard,…
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The Viewseum is back up and running! Our first entry for the new season comes to us from Kristen Chiappone and Chris Conforti. The ASIFA-East 2012 Signal Film, made especially for ASIFA-East’s most recent animation festival. Opening with an image of the Brooklyn Bridge, with Manhattan in the background, we are taken under the sea…well…
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On Tuesday October 23rd at 7pm, a memorial will be held for the late, great animator, Tissa David. It will take place in New York at the Academy Lighthouse Theater. The program will include five speakers and will have a fair share of clips from the many films Tissa animated. These include: Eggs, Everybody Rides…
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Gary Lieb sends us the following spooky news!! I have made a detailed and spooky Halloween window installation at Desert Island Comics, 540 Metropolitan Ave in Williamsburg Brooklyn, open 7 days a week. The window will be up thru November. New this year, screen prints and stencil prints for sale in the shoppe. Please come…
DetailsAttending the Perpetual Motion Pictures Retrospective was like being given a seat at the dinner table of 6 dear friends reminiscing on all the good times and hilarious experiences they’d had together. It was a joyous look at not only a studio but also a place where lasting friendships were made, and out of which…
DetailsThe Northwest Animation Festival is accepting submissions for 2013. The final deadline is Jan 31. Entry is FREE if films are received by Nov 30. The festival will take place on May 17-19 in Portland, Oregon. Organizers expect to screen 125+ films this year — making this the second largest showcase of animated shorts in…
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAPRbqCTAU&w=560&h=315] The Metropolitan College Computer Animation Festival is brought to us by the lovely people of the New York–chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery‘s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Whew. The co-chairs of this year’s festival were Jaime Ekkens and Scott Lang, the best pair of prize fighters you…
DetailsToo Art for TV has some exciting news to pass on! From Eric Schutzbank, Promotions Director: Too Art for TV 6 is coming up fast and I wanted to share the latest news with you. Bunnycutlet Gallery is pleased to debut its new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with New York’s premiere art exhibit for the animation industry…
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Friday, October 12, 2012 at 7pm SVA Beatrice Theater; 333 West 23rd St; NYC ASIFA-East and The School of Visual Arts Animation Department will present the work of Perpetual Motion Pictures between 1970 and 1982 along with the artists who were there at the time. What was Perpetual Motion Pictures, anyway? At its peak, it…
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Hey look at what our friend George Nicholis at PMK•BNC sent us!!! Good Morning ASIFA MEMBERS: On behalf of EPIX and Brainstorm Media, we would like to invite you and a guest to the following advance New York press screening of A Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, presented in…
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