Kung Fu Quip » Animation & Short Films http://www.kungfuquip.com Thoughts On Life In The Swamp Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:25:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 John Carpenter’s The Thing Performed by GI Joe Action Figures http://www.kungfuquip.com/john-carpenters-the-thing-performed-by-gi-joe-action-figures/ http://www.kungfuquip.com/john-carpenters-the-thing-performed-by-gi-joe-action-figures/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:48:01 +0000 Turk http://www.kungfuquip.com/?p=885 Jeff Simmermon, a blogger at And I Am Not Lying, and a fellow cable industry shill, links to what may now be my favorite stop action animation piece of all time. It’s a music video for Zombie Zombie’s Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free. The video, features footage of the band performing interspersed with the action figure remake of The Thing. Check it out.

To answer the unasked question, my previous favorite stop action animation was Juke-Bar. You can view it at the National Film Board of Canada’s website.

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Something got me thinking about them today. I figured I would put the power of the Internet and YouTube to work and see if they have since resurfaced. I found Balance on YouTube. It’s below.

Juke Bar turned up on the website of the National Film Board of Canada and is linked below. You should check them both out.

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