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Since Mary and I are flying to North Hollywood to visit my Dad this week, I thought it might be nice to honor him by posting one of his television appearances to Youtube. This has always been my personal favorite sketch of his. I love how crazy it is to see him singing in so...

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~ make-out summer ~

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

I’m happy to report that Jason Wingrove and Mike Seymore recently made mention of Mary and I making out to Red Centre on episode 9 of the Red Centre Podcast. Red Centre is one of my favorite niche podcasts about something I neither use nor can afford but one day, God willing, I may. Although...

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~ Skelly-ton ~

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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~ Hands ~

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

A week ago I got my Canon 5D. I was so excited I started taking random pictures, mostly trying to focus on my hand moving around in front of the lens. I was trying to get the rhythm of what it’s like pointing and shooting with what feels like a much heftier camera than what...

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DaniBananiJuly 16, 2008 - 2:36 am

That was really captivating to watch Jonas. Keep it up, I am having a lot of fun checking your site everyday. Thanks for the great art.
Much love.

AmericanvirusJuly 16, 2008 - 2:49 am

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

TishJuly 16, 2008 - 2:59 am

Wow. Someone REALLY needs a pedicure.

Just kidding! I thought you did a great job as well. How long did it take you to film the Day of the Dead figurine section? It was seamless!

The real JPJuly 16, 2008 - 3:35 am

Wowza! I dig it man. Nice work.

LeoJuly 16, 2008 - 6:17 am

I’m a big fan of this video Jonas. Good job. Seems like it took you a long time to actually make this one! Kinda got the feel that I was watching a tool music video as the skeleton came crawling out of the sink! Good job!

Sam LongoriaJuly 16, 2008 - 7:15 am

Hey, Jonas! Waaay cool! You’ve discovered stop-motion, excellent!
I got started working in movies, doing stop-motion, using paint and modeling clay. (hint) Love your idea, your puppets are great, and your execution of it all is splendid. Keep up the good work!

Sam

MalaynaJuly 16, 2008 - 1:13 pm

Yay! Yay! Yay! Who knew photos of a hand could turn out so cool? But I like to think you were doing magic to bring the Dia de los Muertos kids back to life. I love those guys! You did a great job with them. I dig the song too! I want more!

greg bJuly 16, 2008 - 9:17 pm

Me like!

Greg B.

Stephen H.July 17, 2008 - 5:05 am

Awesome video Jonus, I liked how the hand frames seemed more or less in the same spot but the background flipped a lot. It was a bit rough for that, with the sudden changes, but it gave a good mood. A stop action jerky mood. I kind of think the jerkyness of objects is what I find appealing about stop action films. The models were absolutely awesome animations, especially the big skeleton and the girl skeleton. Hopefully Kim will tell me when you have more, but I’ll also try to stop by here to find more awesome work!

Steve H.

BarbieJuly 17, 2008 - 5:42 am

That’s really neat! I want a Nikon D80 really bad. But it costs too much right now :( boo hoo!

Your video is really cool though! That little skeleton dude kicks ass! Keep up the unusual videos, they are quite entertaining!

Kimterese BooneJuly 17, 2008 - 6:04 am

I loved the cool effect of the quick movements of your hands through the whole video. It was great!! I knew you had such talent, I can’t wait to see more of your work and how it will blossom like how a cocoon turns into a butterfly…Awww wittle Jonas all grown up!! tee hee.

Kimmie

DepressionJuly 24, 2008 - 7:00 pm

Very well done for using a new toy! Plus I liked the music, hope you get your orb-shot, outdoors is usually a great spot for catching them.

AmericanvirusAugust 3, 2008 - 8:47 am

Thank you so much for your kind responses!
Jonas

~ big milk ~ » americanvirusMarch 21, 2010 - 12:47 am

[...] my first experiment with making a stop motion short (see earlier post Hands), I’ve become a little more ambitious. This was created entirely from nearly 1,000 stills [...]

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