November 12, 2006

• Hah! Very inspiring!
• I hope to fly someday
• Sad. Kiwi suicide.
• But he lived his dream.
• Oh, sure, it's all about you.
• I kept thinking that he must have been there for months nailing up all those trees. Eco-terrorist!
• Yeah, he commited suicide, then? Damn. That makes my head asplode. With one ess.
• Tahi the kiwi gets a new leg
• Now *that* is way cool!
• very sad and beautiful. but maybe that's the nitrous talking....
• sorry, I'm so obnoxious. that vid actually really got to me so I'm spazzing out a bit...
• Gosh. That's a nice short, if extremely sad. Don't we all nail trees to some chasm, just to feel the air beneath our wings at least once... *attempts to take a whiff off what Medusa's having*
• honestly, Flagpole, the excessively loud sound of my computer's fan is starting to wig me out, so I'm going to log off and watch a stupid movie now...I love my fluffy poo-flinging monkeys!!
• ta, dingle.
• Lovely post, dinghy. *goes to babysit Medusa*
• Super animation, but it could use an establishing shot wherein the main character watches with despair as a different bird swoops gracefully among the treetops. (And then the kiwi flaps his hands uselessly..)
• I can't watch because I'm at work. Is it really sad?
• It's quite clever and funny and touching - just sad because one assumes it culminates with kiwi flattening. There could be a soft fluffy pillow, if you're an optimist.
• Ah... sorry, no pillow. You did listen carefully the very last scene, didn't you..? : (
• Lara, it is sad, but also beautiful, or poignant, or one of those words...
• I'm in denial.
• I didn't get it. *covers head, runs for cover*
• scartol, that was one of the things I loved. That you don't know what's going on until shortly after he jumps. The establishing shot you describe would be technically correct, but it would give away the joke too early. Touching, by the way. I was waiting for the tear, but I really liked the way they did it. Wasn't confused with eyes watering.
• Don't worry, tick. In episode II, Jonathan Livingston Seagull snatches him from the jaws of death, and gives him a severe talking to. He goes on to found a shoe polish empire and allegedly enjoys an irregular relationship with Amelia Earhart.
• Fantastic.
• Listen matey, you look, right? There is no way I'm watching that, you hear? *clutches bar, stares ahead intently*
• Looking for something to brighten my day, and that was NOT it. Nice, poignant, but definitely not happy. Reminded me of an animated short that got the "Ice Age" auteur, Chris Wedge, started on his career. He did something called "Bunny" which won an Oscar for animated effects. Blew my mind because the thing was ultimately about suicide/euthanasia for the elderly, which I found most upsetting--though not as much as my 80-something Mum, whom I took along to view it when it was screened locally (Wedge is an old classmate). As with "Bunny" I sure wish there was some kind of redemption to the ending. Actually made me cry into my keyboard. And I'm at work. And now I'm feeling like I ought to just pack it all in and go surf the big waves, wherever I have to go to find them. Sigh.
• *hugs kinnakeet*
• Thanks, Medusa. THAT made me feel better. (The huge chocolate bar I just ate helped too.)
• Penguins