Hello ASIFA-East members!! We’ve received this wonderful email from Tomoko Kawamoto, of the Museum of the Moving Image, extending their member discount to our group. Thanks so much, Tomoko!! Please see the details below and enjoy the show!!! *************************** I wanted to let you know that tomorrow, Saturday, November 19, at 11:00 a.m. the Museum…
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Thursday night’s ASIFA-East event placed the spotlight on Pizza Island, located in Brooklyn, NY. Despite easily appearing like a cartoonists collective, its members insist it is not a collective, but simply a group of artists who like working together. The main difference being that there are no collective rules imposed upon members, and each is encouraged…
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This awesome SpongeBob Swag Basket is a perfect gift for the holidays! It’s even ALREADY WRAPPED! That’s efficient holiday gifting! Look below for a list of what’s inside. roughly 16″ x 15″ Men’s fleece SpongeBob Sleep Pants (size Large) Mini SpongeBob Lunchbox SpongeBob Watercolour Book Giant SpongeBob Sticker! “Wipe it” reusable SpongeBob colouring book SpongeBob…
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Our 2011 ASIFA-East Used Animation Art (and original art) Auction is just over a month away on December 20th! We all know about Don Duga‘s work for UPA (Mr. Magoo), Rankin/Bass (“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “The Year without a Santa Claus,” “Mad Monster Party,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” and “Frosty the Snowman”). And we’re aware…
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Warning: NSFW. Contains swearing, references to drugs, and the famous Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson home movie. Written and Animated by Morgan Miller and Josh Kleefeld. Made especially for the Ottawa Animation festival, Morgan Miller’s A History of Animation offers a 10-minute rundown of the roots of animated film, as well as independent and international (particularly Canadian)…
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Pizza Island! Join us for a panel discussion on collaborating on comics and art with Pizza Island’s Kate Beaton, Meredith Gran, and Julia Wertz. Pizza Island is a cartoonists’ studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For more on the cartoonists, please visit: http://pizzaisland.wordpress.com/about/. Moderated by Patricia Burgess. Thursday, November 10th, 2011 7:00 PM SVA 209 E 23rd…
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Our new Open Screening Series kicks off next week! This is intended to become a regular event to showcase and critique works in progress and motivate us all to keep moving forward on our personal work. Bring recent works, works-in-progress, and animation tests (totaling no more than 5 minutes) on DVD and an open mind…
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Hi there ASIFA-East Members! For the past two months, your ASIFA-East Board has been working hard, brainstorming and bouncing ideas back and forth to come up with ideas for a new year of ASIFA-East. Below is a very short list of what’s going on now and in the months to come. But first, we want…
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Hey ASIFA-Eastians! Take a minute to fill our our quick 7 question EVENT SURVEY. It’ll help us know where to focus our efforts so you get the things you want from ASIFA-East! And be sure to enter your email address at the end. Members in good standing will be entered into a drawing for a…
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Every year, Ron Diamond, of Acme Filmworks and Animation World Network, treats the animation community to a special screening of the year’s best animated films. This screening tours throughout the United States, and gives those of us in the animation industry a chance to see films we might not see otherwise. Every year, I am…
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