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A quoi ça sert l’amour? is an amazing animation set to a beautiful french song. It’s for anyone who belives in love.
Screenshot from A quoi ça sert l’amour?
When I was a wee little lad I would make giant flip-books that were hundreds of pages long. The pads were usually made up of 4-inch square pages and were perfect for flipping. A quoi ça sert l’amour? is like the ultimate flip book.
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October 6th, 2005 at 11:51 am
dude, it’s twee twad.
October 7th, 2005 at 1:15 am
Clicked link, didn’t show. Love - always ever so elusive.
October 7th, 2005 at 9:55 am
Elusive indeed, you need the quicktime
plugin. Get it, its worth it… you must see this movie.
October 7th, 2005 at 10:28 am
What ever happened to the Max character that you always used to draw?
October 7th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
Once I got older, I realized how phallic he looked… Like a unit with eyes and little clump of hair. I was a weird kid. Did you watch the video?
October 7th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
i used to draw flipbooks in the corner of my notebooks in class but they’d always be this blob who looked like a piece of nerd candy, and the stories revolved around his adventures.
my friend nisha and i had two characters- billy bob and tornado joe, and they’d have adventures… they were a potato and a tornado. except they wore cowboy apparel and fought crime. haha. the power of imagination plus animation.
October 7th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
p.s the video was fantastic
October 7th, 2005 at 3:41 pm
Nice—flipbook westerns.
The protaganist in mine was usually a stick figure. It would usually start with him noticing a growing shadow on the ground and then look up just in time to watch a giant rock fall on him. After the rock crumbled a flower would sprout out from the ground, and the guy would slowly get up. After that any number of random events would take place. They were pretty much always stories of triumph in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. I’m not sure I’d bounce back quite as easily if a giant boulder squashed me.
October 7th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
Do you have those?
Or are they tucked away in boxes somewhere at home along with all of the other creative stuff any of us have ever done?
October 7th, 2005 at 5:32 pm
The video was key. It’s pretty much a perfect summary of male-female interaction.
October 8th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
The video was key, minus me. It reminded me of the new song you shared with me the other night, when you completely switch gears in the middle. The guy should have just shedded naner when the piano hit him in the head. He should have given her the cup and bruced her threein at the altar…i would have said, “I may go up on, but not up in this twin tower, i won’t go up in, but i’ll put it in your face TAHHHHNIGHT!”
If it was true love she wouldn’t have bruced him…her critque was criweak and of course her technique to promiscuously play the field was likewisea.
October 9th, 2005 at 1:37 am
Crazy, I think you misinterpreted—those were the thoughts running through his mind, but it turned out she was actually missing him and came back to spend the rest of thier animated lives together.
October 9th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
my critique was criweak, i cripologize for my crisinterpreatatiokonitz.
October 9th, 2005 at 1:39 pm
“eh, ya don’t need ta cripoligize”
October 9th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
Samit, I think the flipbooks got sucked into the black hole where all the creativity of our youth has gone. But that’s all the more reason to recreate those old unabashed masterpieces. So start flipping for real!
October 10th, 2005 at 4:00 pm
I flip you.
June 23rd, 2006 at 2:28 am
A large choice of Flip-Books (Folioscopes in French) are avaliable on this french site : HEEZA http://www.heeza.fr