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masoncarr2244 · 1 year ago

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#purplecrumbs #it's almost christmas #gif #gifs

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inochancei · 2 years ago

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This was the group I went with to take down the 4 star Field Office.

Hopps, Pausie, Pixelated Soul, and Prince Lollipop Purplecrumbs (my toon)

#toontown #toontown rewritten #art

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shutupholden · 9 months ago

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What’s On My Shelf #2: Waking Life (2001)

I’m terrible at picking favorites of anything simply because there’s so much art out there that I love, but Richard Linklater might just be my favorite director. He’s the director of several of my favorite films; Boyhood and Dazed and Confused take the top two spots on my Letterboxd top four. A lot of his films are character-driven and dialogue-heavy, so much so that they don’t actually have a plot, and yet they have the power to completely pull you in and take you on a journey.

A scene from Slacker.

Linklater broke into the indie film scene in 1990 with Slacker, a film that depicts a day in the lives of the weirdos and misfits of Austin, Texas. The film opens with an unnamed man (played by Linklater himself) hopping off a bus and into a taxi cab, where he delivers a monologue about a bizarre dream he had on the bus. When the driver drops him off, another character enters the scene and we follow them. After a few minutes another character enters the scene and we follow them.

And so on, and so on, and so on…

11 years later, Linklater gave us Slacker on acid with the release of Waking Life, an animated film that jumps from character to character as they engage in conversation about various philosophical topics, like the meaning of life and lucid dreaming. The film takes place inside the seemingly never-ending dream of an unnamed main character (Wiley Wiggins) who, after a series of false awakenings, becomes aware that he’s dreaming and fears he may never wake up.

Initially shot on handheld digital cameras with real actors, the film was then rotoscoped using a program called “Rotoshop”, which a team of artists used to digitally paint over each individual frame of the film. Each artist was given their own scenes to rotoscope in their own style, resulting in some incredibly trippy and dreamlike animation.

I first heard about this film while I was scrolling through my feed on a little app that absolutely no one remembers or makes compilations in memory of called Vine. A user by the name of PurpleCrumbs took a break from making videos featuring a dinosaur puppet with a hankering for cocaine to post a looping clip from Waking Life with Tame Impala’s “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” playing underneath it.

A still from the scene in question.

I was flabbergasted. “What the hell am I looking at?” I thought. “How’d they draw that so well? Why is everything moving so unnaturally? Where can I watch this?!”

I found out the film was on Netflix and I watched it immediately. I had never seen anything like it. Even though I didn’t really know what the hell anyone was talking about or what was going on, I found it so fascinating. The animation was so surreal and so cool, and I kept returning to it because of that. Then, in a massive dick move, Netflix pulled the film from its catalog and I didn’t watch it again for a couple years.

A couple years later I was sitting around bored, and I randomly decided to go online and order some Richard Linklater Blu-rays. I don’t remember why exactly; I might have been watching Dazed and Confused on the TV or something. I grabbed Dazed, its spiritual sequel Everybody Wants Some!!, and Waking Life, which for some reason has only been released on DVD in North America so I had to settle for that.

I finally watched the film again soon thereafter and it was every bit as mesmerizing and trippy as I remembered. I was also really excited about the special features. Animation tests and the live-action footage?! This DVD is great!

Admittedly, I haven’t watched Waking Life in a while, and I need to get around to it. I think I just need to be in the mood to have an existential crisis while Alex Jones (yes, that one) screams into a bullhorn until his face turns red. Then purple. Then red again. Like, a deep, deep, dark red.

Alex Jones in Waking Life.

This is a film in my collection that I’m dying to upgrade from DVD to Blu-ray or 4K, but the only Blu-ray release it’s received so far is a now out-of-print edition from Arrow Video that was never distributed in North America. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed that someone will scoop up the rights and eventually give Waking Life the Blu-ray release it deserves.

Looking at you, Criterion. Linklater has made three films with the same animation style, and I’ll literally give you everything in my bank account for a set that includes all of them.

Glen Powell in the upcoming film Hit Man.

Anyway, Richard Linklater, you are the man and I’m looking forward to seeing your new movie Hit Man when it drops on Netflix in a couple weeks. For now, I think I might actually go give Waking Life a rewatch because it’s absolutely overdue for one, so I’m gonna wrap this up. Thanks for reading!

NOTE: I wrote this a week before it was scheduled to drop, so by the time you’re reading this I will have already rewatched Waking Life and had the time of my life. I’m just assuming because as of me writing this it hasn’t happened yet. That’s all. Goodbye.

#what's on my shelf #Waking Life #Richard Linklater #Film #Criterion #Animation #DVD Collection

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tim-s-creature-art-love · 5 years ago

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