Archive for the ‘Salon’ Category

Goodbye, Salon.com

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I’ve been doing animations over at Salon.com for just over two years: weekly during 2007, and then daily during the 2008 elections, then back to weekly as the economy continued to collapse last winter.

Sadly, Salon.com doing a complete site re-org, and original video content is going away, which of course means my animations won’t be at Salon.com anymore.

It’s been a great time over at Salon, and I wish them all well; they’re great folks. Here are a couple of my favorite Salon.com animations from the the early part of my time at Salon.com:

Christina Dunham Eats Haggis:

Author Deb Olin Unferth (Vacation) reads a short story that is also called “Deb Olin Unferth:”

Andrea Rosen auditions for Flight of the Conchords; it goes very badly:

This past week’s Salon.com animation

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Oops! Forgot to post this on Wednesday. Sadly, it’s still relevant:

This week’s Salon.com animation: Orly Taitz

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

For some reason, I forgot to post this yesterday: this week’s animation over at Salon.com features actual audio of Orly Taitz, the Mother of all Birthers, on MSNBC attempting to explain that poorly-forged Kenyan birth certificate, I think:

This week’s Salon.com animation

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Sen. Jim Demint (R-Idiotville) made some crazy comments last week about trying to “break” the president, and making health care his “Waterloo.” So, of course, I took the audio and animated it: