Day: December 1, 2007

An original art piece by Todd Nauck is one of the featured items in the annual United States Bowling Congress auction, which raises money for the Earl Anthony Scholarship Fund. Check it out.

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Kath and I went to see Beowulf yesterday.

Basically I thought the script (co-written by Neil Gaiman) and performances were rock solid. But I had the same problem I had with it as I did with “Polar Express” (although this is technically far superior): The animation creates an emotional wall between the viewer and the performers. Mostly it’s the eyes, I think. They just look sort of dead, not reflecting light properly. Which is fine in animation where humans are caricatured and eyes can be made oversized to compensate (witness “Incredibles.”) But when you’re watching re-creations of humans going through computer generated paces, well…Kathleen said it best. She felt as if she should have a remote control joystick in her hand to be putting the characters through their paces.

I wish this had been live action instead.

Still, I kept coming up with variations on the title:

You loved him as Chachi. Now Scott Baio is: Baiowulf
Winnie the Pooh is: Silly old Bearwulf.
From the pen of Uncle Reumus, meet: B’rerwulf
Are you lupine? Do you have a headache? Try: Bayerwulf
It’s Oktoberfest! Drink: Beerwulf

Any others?

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