Antikewl Daily
A regular source of entertainment and inspiration.

Antikewl Daily is a magazine dedicated to video games, illustration, movies, cartoons, design, photography, ideas, gadgets and, very frequently, Disneyland.

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Antikewl Daily Today is Mickey Mouse's 81st birthday so, to celebrate, I'm recycling an old link!

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A regular source of entertainment and inspiration. Antikewl Daily is a magazine dedicated to video games, illustration, movies, cartoons, design, photography, ideas, gadgets and, very frequently, Disneyland.
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If you’re a fan of Little Golden Books, or indeed the mid-century illustration by the likes of Mary Blair, Mel Crawford, Tom Oreb, Alice and Martin Provensen — to name a few —
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Between 1924 and 1926, Claude Friese-Greene filmed “The Open Road” — a documentary of the United Kingdom from Lands End to John O’ Groats. What’s most remarkable about this footage is that’s it’s shot in colour using a process called Friese-Greene Natural Colour, based on the Biocolour process origi...
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It’s hard to believe but Sesame Street was born 40 years ago to this day. The show was originally conceived in 1969 to teach less advantaged children, through the means of television, so that they would arrive in school with the same preparation as middle-class children.
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This time it’s another videogame inspired creation. 3D game artist Eric Testroete has recreated his own head using Pepakura, 3D Studio Max and copy of Photoshop in the style of those Playstation-era video game characters in “big head mode”.
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Antikewl Daily Drooling animals are back!

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Dreamworks have released a teaser trailer for their forthcoming animated feature “How to Train Your Dragon” — although billed as if it’s from “the makers of Shrek and Kung Fu Panda” it’s no such thing! Dragon is written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean Deblois. These were the guys behind the ...
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Antikewl Daily Drooling babies are back!

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The first, highly anticipated, full trailer for Toy Story 3 has been released and is showing, in the US at least, before the Toy Story 3D double feature. It features a nice VHS-esque flashback of Andy's childhood before he heads off to college, leaving Buzz, Woody and the rest of the toys behind.
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Antikewl Daily Next time you're watching an animated movie, check out the backgrounds!

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It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of all aspects of animation, from concept artwork to storyboards to roughs to the finished scene. One often overlooked piece of the animation puzzle is the humble background. Whilst the eye is drawn to the life of the moving characters on screen little attention is ...
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Ok, “game” might be pushing the term a little bit but it’s still good fun. Much like other location based social services like Brightkite and Foursquare, Gowalla allows you to “check in” to locations in the real world to update your profile on the website and on the iPhone app. ...
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Dave Packer creates wonderfully humorous short films and animated gifs under the name Sheepfilms. You might recognise his stuff from b3ta. Here’s his latest one. R
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In 1993, AT&T ran a number of commercials in which Tom Selleck (or someone who sounds remarkably like him) predicted the kinds of crazy things we’d later just take for granted in our everyday lives, like use in-car GPS to navigate our way, pay road tolls without cash, TV movies on demand and so o...
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Here’s mystery guest Walt Disney on the North American version of the TV quiz show “What’s My Line”, first aired on CBS in November 1956. The sh...
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Leif Peng has a superb piece over at his blog, “Today’s Inspiration”, on Martin and Alice Provensen’s creation of Tony the Tiger, the long-standing spokes… uh, -tiger for Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes (”Frosties” to us over this side of the pond). As it turns ou...
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The Art of the Title Sequence interview end title sequence director Jim Capobianco and animator Alexander Woo about the end titles to Disney·Pixar’s WALL·E. Ji...
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D23, the new Disney fan community, are putting up classic newspaper comic strips every day. Right now they’re showing vintage Mickey Mouse strips from 1930, Donald Duck dailies from 1938 and Scamp (the son of Lady and the Tramp) from 1955. ...