http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYrwA19WTw Article by Tristian Goik. Sunday evening: Prince Street subway station. I am waiting patiently for my train. The ticket-collector gives me the all clear. Launching myself into the space between the platform and the tracks, I bounce less than gracefully down to the doors of a vast bio-mechanical centipede space dragon. The doors slurp…
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Article written by Caresse Singh. Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 was the second time Steven Zelin a.k.a “The Singing CPA” had lectured at an ASIFA-East event. Along side him sat Emily Campbell, an accomplished business lawyer. After a brief introduction highlighting their degrees, achievements and careers, Zelin performed a song – a tax related rendition of…
DetailsOur good friends at Women in Animation invite us to their next meeting – and it looks like a good one!! See below: Hi Everyone, I just wanted to remind you that we have a super meeting coming up on March 9th with Rick Richter, President, CEO and Chair from Ruckus Media Group. Ruckus makes…
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Local artists in the animation industry will be featured in the 5th annual Too Art for TV show in Brooklyn, NY. It’s curated by Liz Artinian, painter and color supervisor of ‘The Venture Brothers. The show is going on at Erebuni Gallery, 158 Roebling Street in Williamsburg, NY 11211. It opens on Friday, March 25,…
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Back by popular demand!! On February 23, 2011 please bring all your tax and freelance related questions to our Business of Being An Artist event with Steven Zelin, The Singing CPA. This was an extremely helpful (and fun!) event last year, so I hope you will all join us. Here’s all the info: Wed, Feb…
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Looking forward to the Oscar show? Well, you can see all the Oscar-nominated shorts prior to the Oscars at the Shorts International Screening on 2/11: http://www.shortshd.com/theoscarshorts/
Interview by Dave Levy. Longtime ASIFA-East member, Biljana Labovic, the subject of our February interview, originally comes from Yugoslavia, where she studied Graphic Design and Illustration at the University of Arts. Since 1997, when she moved to New York to study animation at the School of Visual Arts, she has worked on many commercial animation…
DetailsNew ASIFA-East member Dustin Grella is working on this really cool animation project and sends us this little note: I’m working on new project called the Animation Hotline. I’m going to do this for the month of February, maybe longer if the response is good. I’ve set up a voicemail service where people can leave…
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The longer I’ve observed the animation scene, the more I’ve come to notice that our art-form’s past achievements are usually applauded at the expense or at the underestimation of the great work that’s being done right now. I don’t think this happens fo…
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