DAN METH: Archive

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Happy New Year

It’s that time of year again: Time to watch “Hebrew Crunk” again even though it’s two years old. Crunk is so 2006. .

Sep 30th

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Yesterday morning I was interviewed on Montreal...

Sep 30th

All Hail "SuperJail"

In Ottawa, I saw my first episode of the new Adult Swim show “SuperJail”. It blew my mind. Later that night I met the show’s creator Christy Karacas, whose shorts “Space War” and “Bar Fight” impressed me years ago. Last night I attended the season premier party at a bar in Tribeca where they showed two more episodes. Once again, my mind was blown. Mark...

Sep 29th

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"Methimatics"

An article from David Levy’s blog Animondays. David is president of ASIFA East and an omnipresent fixture on the animation scene. In June, he invited Fred Seibert and I to discuss “The Meth Minute” at NYU and followed it with this article: The ASIFA-East season of events officially ended with our June 26th salute to Frederator’s Meth Minute 39 web series. Panelists Fred...

Sep 29th

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Jazzed About Life

Years ago I left a nearly filled up sketchbook on a bench in Rhode Island and it made me so depressed. I had spent almost 5 months filling it up with drawings and then WHOOSH…. gone forever. I decided to start making smaller sketchbooks that I had only 30 days to draw in before I started a new one. That way, if I lost it… no big deal. So I started gathering together whatever paper...

Sep 25th

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Online Cartoon panel at Ottawa Animation Festival

In all my recent posts about Ottawa, I completely forgot to mention the panel I sat on. On Thursday the 18th, AWN.com’s Dan Sarto skillfully moderated a panel called “LAUNCHING INTO ONLINE SPACE: INS AND OUTS OF WEB SERIES” in the opulent ballroom of the Chateau Laurier (above). I shared the panel with Mark Bishop, Jason Chaney, and legendary director J.J. Sedelmaier. J.J. is...

Sep 24th

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Canadians

Here’s what I learned about Canadians this past week in Ottawa: Canadians are nice. (not a big surprise there) Canadians really do pronounce the word “about” as “a-boot” Canadians really do finish sentences with “ay?” Canadians almost never jaywalk. Canadians take for granted the fact that their government gives them money to make cartoons. ...

Sep 23rd

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Some Ottawa People

At the Ottawa Animation Festival last week I hung out with tons of animation people and I wanted to remember them all. But I didn’t want to ask everyone if I could take a picture of them. I didn’t want to be THAT GUY. So instead, I just kept track of everyone I met by making a list. Here are some of those people, with each name linking to their individual site. Saxton Moore Azarin...

Sep 23rd

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Some Memorable Films from Ottawa

I saw so many films at the Ottawa Animation festival, that it’s hard to remember them all. But here’s just a couple of the ones that stuck in my mind (and that are also on youtube). Watching these blurry little web-compressed videos is obviously no substitute for seeing them projected in a theatre, but I wanted to share them with those folks who couldn’t make it. ...

Sep 22nd

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Ottawa Animation Festival (part 1)

I’m back from the Ottawa Animation Festival, and I already feel like booking my flight for next year. It was so fun! I have the same elated feeling that I had returning from last year’s Platform Festival. There’s just something about being immersed in an environment of fellow animators and sharing hundreds of hours of the world’s greatest cartoons that makes you feel really positive and...

Sep 22nd

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Sep 22nd

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Adventure Drawings

As I get ready for my week in Ottawa, I’m hoping that I get a chance to draw some of the beautiful architecture I hear they have up there. One of the things I enjoy most about traveling to foreign countries is sitting on a bench and rendering buildings as accurately as I can. I’ve created a flickr set of a few of these adventure drawings from past trips to distant lands. Click here...

Sep 16th

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Mammal Magazine Issue 2 Release Party

As some of you may know, I’m a co-founder of Mammal Magazine. We just published Issue 2 and we’re having a free open party to celebrate . Please attend and have a blast. There’s gonna be ROCK BAND. -Dan ____________________________________________________________ The second issue of Mammal Magazine! 96 burly pages of macho flexing with artwork by Devin Clark, Jim Cooke, Matt...

Sep 15th

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Sep 15th

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Sep 14th

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Watch

Rob and Corinne, the hosts of Threadbanger, asked me to play the role of Franc DeZank in their latest episode (it’s the first scene). It’s always fun portraying a jerk.

Sep 12th

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