A-HAA Podcast 005: Marlo Meekins / Fats Waller

A-HAA Podcast
Episode 005

45 min / 33.9 MB / AAC
03.23.10 / RSS Feed
MP3 Version

INDEX

00:00:00 News with Michael and Danny
00:03:56 Marlo Meekins
00:26:23 Breadcrumbs with Skip and Steve: Fats Waller
00:45:08 Closing notes with Michael and Danny

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ABOUT THE GUESTS

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Marlo Meekins is an award winning caricaturist whose masterful painting techniques boast a sophisticated color palette. Viewers are initially drawn in by the comforting beauty of warm tones, slender figures, soft and furry rendering, and caricatured tongue-in-cheekness, then they're challenged by their circumstances, and finally transported to the artist's final intent- an unknown planet where beings articulate from a suppressed space of frankness about the internal state of emotion- our relationships with ourselves and each other. You can view some of Marlo's work on her blog, www.marlomeekins.blogspot.com, and she can be contacted at marlomeekins@gmail.com.

Skip Heller is a multi-talented composer, arranger and musician who has worked in a diversity of styles, from punk rock to orchestral music to jazz to old time country. He is a wellspring of information on the history of music and the people who play it, and shares his encyclopedic knowledge daily on his blog at SkipHeller.com.

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ABOUT THE HOSTS

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Danny Young: A very sympathetic person once told me, "You have the perfect body for podcasting." And while I don't like to boast, the seat of my chair has almost completely taken on the shape of me. I'm always cruising the internets for savvy cartoon info and I'm ecstatic to be here co-hosting the fruits of my labor with you, and sharing in the wealth of animation knowledge there is to find. I sincerely hope that we all can become better artists because of it.

You can reach Danny at... dannyyoung@animationarchive.org

Michael Woodside: I'm a relatively new Californian, having recently moved from Central Florida. After volunteering at the ASIFA-Hollywood Archive, I realized pretty quickly that I basically knew a fraction of what was to be known about the world of animation. This podcast is a means for me to uncover these topics and to share them with people like you. So stick around, because we are gonna un-dumb ourselves at an alarming rate!

You can reach Michael at... michaelwoodside@animationarchive.org

Stephen Worth is the Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. He's a well known expert on vintage animation art with over 20 years of experience as a Producer for Bagdasarian Productions, Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi's Spumco. He is the recipient of three Annie Awards, including the June Foray Award for significant and benevolent impact on the art of animation.

You can reach Stephen at sworth@animationarchive.org

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

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News Segment

WWW: Rad Seachrist's Blog, RadHowTo
WWW: Waking Sleeping Beauty

Marlo Meekins Interview

WWW: Marlo Meekins' Blog

WWW: International Society of Caricature Artists
WWW: Illustration Art: Mort Drucker
WWW: Bud Plant- Al Hirschfeld Bio

Breadcrumbs: Fats Waller

AMAZON

CD: The Very Best of Fats Waller
CD: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1
CD: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2
CD: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3
CD: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 4
CD: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 5
CD: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 6

DVD: Stormy Weather

GROOVESHARK Playlist: Fats Waller (coming soon)

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CREDITS

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Produced by Michael Woodside and Danny Young
© 2010 The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood

A-HAA Podcast Theme composed by Christopher Heckman (Sarra Hey, Clarinet, Rachel Woods-Robinson, Trombone)
Breadcrumbs Theme "The Collector" by Skip Heller from the CD Lua-O-Milo
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A-HAA Podcast 004: Eddie Fitzgerald II / Spike Jones

A-HAA Podcast
Episode 004

49 min / 24.9 MB / AAC
03.09.10 / RSS Feed
MP3 Version

INDEX

00:00:00 News with Michael and Danny
00:02:30 Eddie Fitzgerald Interview Part II
00:30:15 Breadcrumbs with Skip and Steve: Spike Jones
00:47:23 Closing notes with Michael and Danny

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ABOUT THE GUESTS

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Eddie Fitzgerald is a renaissance man among cartoonists. He is an animation director, story artist, philosopher, historian and all around great guy. On his blog, Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner, he has discussed everything from poetry, ballet, philosophy and music to Mad magazine, the unique shapes of ears, vintage men's magazines, Italian insult gestures and how to make the perfect hamburger. Eddie is most famous for his "Fum-Eddies", comic strips made from photos he creates on the iSight camera of his Macintosh. In his Fum-Eddies, he has travelled around the world, back in time to the old West, through the magic of dreams to Neverland and even via rocket into the deepest reaches of outer space! If you haven't bookmarked his blog yet, do so. You'll be glad you did.

Skip Heller is a multi-talented composer, arranger and musician who has worked in a diversity of styles, from punk rock to orchestral music to jazz to old time country. He is a wellspring of information on the history of music and the people who play it, and shares his encyclopedic knowledge daily on his blog at SkipHeller.com.

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ABOUT THE HOSTS

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Danny Young: A very sympathetic person once told me, "You have the perfect body for podcasting." And while I don't like to boast, the seat of my chair has almost completely taken on the shape of me. I'm always cruising the internets for savvy cartoon info and I'm ecstatic to be here co-hosting the fruits of my labor with you, and sharing in the wealth of animation knowledge there is to find. I sincerely hope that we all can become better artists because of it.

You can reach Danny at... dannyyoung@animationarchive.org

Michael Woodside: I'm a relatively new Californian, having recently moved from Central Florida. After volunteering at the ASIFA-Hollywood Archive, I realized pretty quickly that I basically knew a fraction of what was to be known about the world of animation. This podcast is a means for me to uncover these topics and to share them with people like you. So stick around, because we are gonna un-dumb ourselves at an alarming rate!

You can reach Michael at... michaelwoodside@animationarchive.org

Stephen Worth is the Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. He's a well known expert on vintage animation art with over 20 years of experience as a Producer for Bagdasarian Productions, Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi's Spumco. He is the recipient of three Annie Awards, including the June Foray Award for significant and benevolent impact on the art of animation.

You can reach Stephen at sworth@animationarchive.org

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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

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News Segment

ANNIES: 37th Annual Annie Awards Webcast
EVENT: 2009 Afternoon of Remembrance

Eddie Fitzgerald Interview

WWW: Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner

Breadcrumbs: Spike Jones

AMAZON: Spike Jones: The Legend DVD
AMAZON: The Best of Spike Jones DVD
AMAZON: The Best of Spike Jones CD

AMAZON: Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time
AMAZON: Simcha Time: Mickey Katz Plays Music for Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and Brisses
AMAZON: America's Song Butchers: The Weird World of Homer & Jethro

GROOVESHARK Playlist: Spike Jones
WWW: Dr Demento's Website (Streaming Shows!)

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CREDITS

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Produced by Michael Woodside and Danny Young
© 2010 The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood

A-HAA Podcast Theme composed by Christopher Heckman (Sarra Hey, Clarinet, Rachel Woods-Robinson, Trombone)
Breadcrumbs Theme "The Collector" by Skip Heller from the CD Lua-O-Milo
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Annie Awards Webcast Pt 1: Intro / Home Entertainment

For more info, see The Annie Awards Webcast Page
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Afternoon Of Remembrance

The Animation Guild, ASIFA-Hollywood and Women In Animation present...

AN AFTERNOON OF REMEMBRANCE
a non-denominational celebration of departed friends from our animation community:

Derdad Aghmalian _ Wayne Allwine _ Ray Aragon - Dina Gottliebova Babbitt _ Barry Blitzer _ Robert Broughton _ Bill Browne _ Lillian Chapman _ Art Clokey _ Elizabeth Cotter _ Dom DeLuise* _ Vincent Davis _ Virginia Davis McGhee _ Jack Dunham _ Jaime Diaz _ Roy E. Disney _ Bob Dranko _ Heinz Edelmann* _ Ric Estrada _ Romeo Francisco* _ Henry Gibson* _ John Freeman _ Giulio Gianini _ Marion Green _ Rod Gilchrist _ Eugene Giudice _ Dana Landsberg _ Victor Haboush _ Millard Kaufman _ Rudy Larriva __Serge Michaels _ Alla Marshall _ Dallas McKennon _ Brittany Murphy _ Michael Mitchell* _ Flavia Mitman _ Ann Neale _ Marty Murphy _ Donna Narhuminti* _ Dave Simons _ June Olsen* _ Cathy Parotino _ Tony Peters _ Alex Schure Mignonette _ Kerby Sterges _ Arnold Stang _Yoshito Usui* _ Kathy White

Saturday, March 13, 2010
Food and refreshments, noon _ Memoriams, 1 pm
Hollywood Heritage Museum (Lasky-DeMille Barn)
2100 N. Highland (across from Hollywood Bowl)
Hollywood
The Afternoon is free of charge and is open to all;
no RSVPs necessary.

*If you can help us finding speakers for those persons marked with an asterisk above, or if you know of anyone in the animation business who passed away in 2009 and is not on our list, please contact Jeff Massie at (818) 845-7500 or jeffm@animationguild.org.

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