YOUTUBE: "Genre"

In the age where everyone with a finger and cell phone can upload blurry 30 second clips of every day inanities from their lives to YouTube, its nice when someone takes the time to create something unique, thought-provoking, and/or talent-based. (Watching you spit toothpaste foam into the sink and giggling is none of these things.)

Someone thankfully took the time to upload this film made by students at UC - Santa Barbara in 2006. Titled Genre, this stop-animation short written, directed, animated, and produced by one Don Hertzfeldt, centers on a cartoonist with writer's block attempting to sketch a story with his central character, a very strung-out looking rabbit. After exhausting the standards - buddy picture, comedy, science fiction, romance - he gets creative with other ideas like porno and "abstract foreign western." The progression is hilarious and the interactions between animator and rabbit are priceless.

I kind of want that little rabbit guy on a t-shirt...or perhaps just a beer coozie.

Buzzy