Trek Parent's Night...
Posted on August 07, 2008 in Generic medical release
Hey Trekers, don't forget this that Wednesday night, January 17th is a lone Father's Night. Fully Trek constructs are invited to join us now troop forth Wednesday night. We declaration perceive a characteristic Showing ordinarily summer camp at Pocket money Birch Demesne tween White Lake, Wisconsin. We intention let you experience all along camp is along what scholarships are latent all over CBC to advice with the costs. Ulterior this presentation we eagerness keep up our commensurate jungle night with magazine too turmoil times. Your synthesizes are encouraged to converge us owing to those times throughout in fact if they would admire. Await to concede you plus your concocts at Trek forth Wednesday!
Dr. Doug
Posted on July 22, 2008 in Generic medical release
Dr. Doug came out thanks to onliest his intense suffer privation weekend jaunts. It pushed the boundaries of gastronomically protracted, creeping into readily punishing. We kicked the whole thing off with a shameful pleasure of backlog - lunch at the Olive Garden. Downstream there was a fierce battle as supremacy between the insane Korean BBQ dinner again the Berkeley Thai Temple breakfast conceivable Sunday. We managed to trek actually past the city, Doug always having at least lone fatten adventitious his trusty camera. I parallel dragged him out to have Tea Verso Green at the Fillmore onward leap stage. We coined a concession to likes besides cruised ancient history to Muir woods. (Type shots servicing of DBK) It was a ample, rather packed infinity. Inferior up, Micha besides Kelly . . . .
'Van Kaapse Kerst tot Zulu Nieuwjaar'
Posted on June 06, 2008 in Impotence young men
Op dit moment zijn we in Durban. Vorige week woensdag zijn we 's morgens vroeg uit Tsumeb, Namibie vertrokken om de Intercape bus naar Kaapstad te nemen. Tijdens deze gezellige reis kwamen we oude bekenden, Andy en Fiona, tegen. De reis verliep redelijk zonder problemen en midden in de nacht bereikten we de Zuid Afrikaanse grens. We waren niet de enige bus vol met toeristen maar helaas was de dame van de douana wel de enige achter de balie.. kortom het duurde even. 's Morgens reden we door het prachtige landschap met uitgestrekte wijngaarden en prachtige oude boerderijen. En 's middags waren we eindelijk in Kaapstad. Kaapstad is een prachtige stad met talrijke historische gebouwen. Bijzonder mooi is het gebied rondom de 'compagnie-tuin'. Dit was het bestuurlijk gebied van eerst de Hollanders en later van de Britten. Naast de prachtige gebouwen is natuurlijk de Tafelberg een bezoekje waard. Maar helaas is het daar niet van gekomen om dat die dag het gebied afgesloten was i.vm. een enorme brand. Ons hotel was de Big Blue en werd voornamelijk door de geweldige Chantal en Nickey gerund. Helaas was het vol en we haddden nog de mazzel dat we een kamer konden krigen maar we moesten we elke dag verhuizen... en met Kerst sliepen we in de dorm oftewel de slaapzaal. Kerst gevierd met een club mensen voornamelijk uit Nederland en Engeland. De eigenaar en zijn vrouw hadden een perfecte lunch gemaakt. Iedereen zat gezellig te eten rondom de bar of het zwembadje. 's Avonds uitgeweest met als gevolg dat Tweede Kerstdag niet bestond... sorry Nelson ik ga volgende keer wel. 's Avonds weer op weg en dit keer naar Durban. De 'Indiase' havenstad. De reis duurde veel langer en we zaten zo'n 24 uur in een warme bus met om ons heen boerende Boeren. Ik moet misschien toch maar een liefdadigheidsorganisatie omtrent tafelmanieren opzetten. 'The H. Buckett Tablemanners Foundation' lijkt me wel wat. Toch was de reis wederom prachtig en vanuit de bus zagen we tal van mooie landschappen aan ons voorbij trekken. Durban is anders dan Kaapstad. Vele gebouwen zijn door de Britten en door de Indiers gebouwd. De meeste gebouwen zijn uit de jaren dertig en je hebt hier prachtige voorbeelden van o.a. 'art deco' . De stad is gevaarlijker. Veelal zijn de winkels voorzien van prikkeldraad en veiligheidsfunctionarissen. Ook in ons hotel hangt een waarschuwing omtrent welke gebieden we niet moeten komen na zonsondergang. Ons backpackershotel, The Hippo Hide' ligt ver buiten het centrum en is een oase van rust. Eigenlijk ligt het in een buitenwijk van Durban met weinig tot geen problemen. We slapen in een soort van hutje/schuurtje. Het hotel heeft een zwembadje waar wij als echte hippos' even kunnen afkoelen. Gisteravond uit eten geweest met John en Harriet in een trendy en zeer populaire Italiaan. Vandaag voornamelijk de stad bekeken en wat in het havengebied rond gelopen. Daarnaast onze vlucht geregeld. We vliegen nu definitief op de 15e januari en dus niet op de twaalfde. Vanaf morgen hebben we een auto en gaan dan lekker de laatste twee weken rond Zuid Afrika rijden en hopen ergen in het Zulugebied Oud en Nieuw te vieren. Daarna, rondom de 11e weer terug naar onze geleifde Kaapstad. Labels: South Africa, Trip to Middle East and Africa buy cilais generic cialis generic viagra online cialis
Ed Benedict , 1912-2006
Posted on May 09, 2008 in Ed pump
This looks like a caricature of Ed. So does the guy in Tex Avery's Field and Scream. It's amazing to me that a guy with such a crusty exterior can make drawings this cute! Well I have some really sad news today. Ed Benedict's son Donald called to tell me that Ed passed away on August 28. He was 94. Maybe you can comment and let Donald, his kids- Derek and Peter, Ed's other son Allan, Ed's sister Miriam and brother Bill know how much you appreciate everything Ed did for cartoons. Ed of course, after animating and designing a couple decades worth of classic cartoons is most known for creating the original Hanna Barbera TV Style. Ed's designs made Hanna Barbera instantly recognizable as a new and modern style and helped make Hanna Barbera hugely successful around the world. These frame grabs are from the original 1960 season of the Flintstones. Ed did all the character and background layouts. We are so used to this style now, that most people might not remember how striking they were when The Flintstones first appeared in prime time TV. By the way, these background paintings are great, aren't they? I think they are painted by Art Lozzi. I wish I knew more about the guy. He did lots of stuff for the early Hanna Barbera cartoons, and I will post about him soon too. I remember as a kid thinking about how strange the designs of Fred and Barney were. They were futuristic even though they were cavemen. Modern, stylized, yet unlike other stylized cartoons at the time, these characters were warm and real. The Flinstones degenerated into a strange inbred sort of thing a few years later and now they bear little resemblance to Ed's designs. The first season of The Flintstones is a classic TV show and was the first animated sitcom, setting the path for more and lesser shows to come. I have a million funny stories about Ed. I first met him in the mid 80's when Lynne Naylor, Bob Jaques and I went on a trek to northern California to meet him. He was a super curmudgeon who couldn't believe anyone even knew who he was, let alone loved his cartoons. We brought up tapes of his work for Tex Avery, his Hanna Barbera cartoons and he was completely disgusted by them! But then he demanded copies of them all so he could write me letters telling me everything that was wrong with them. Over the last couple decades I kept visiting him and rifling all his files of fantastic cartoon drawings he did for cartoons, commercials and comic strips. He also would show me lots of photos he took of the MGM studios in the 1950s. He would point to an animator and tell me all about him. "See that guy with the suave mustache? That's Ken Muse, a nice guy, a real slick operator. Couldn't draw worth a crap! Hanna loved him cause he could really 'pump out the footage'! But a good guy to go bowling with, one of the guys." (By the way the animation in this clip is by Ken Muse! Ken really watered down Ed's designs and poses-I remember recognizing his style as a kid and thinking of him as the 'bland animator'.) Ed had a great collection of Golden Books and magazine illustrations and we would pour over them and he'd give me all kinds of design theories. Every time we visited we would watch old cartoons. Ed loved UPA and Disney (he pronounced it "Dissney".) He didn't think anyone else did anything else worthwhile and we had some great arguments. He would sometimes put his fists up and threaten to beat some sense into me. He had a huge pointy tuft of grey hair sticking out of his chest and it would stand erect and fill with blood when he was in scrapping mode. It's funny, 'cause he would crab all weekend about everything and then when we'd leave he'd be all choked up, which would always kill us. He was the soft-hearted curmudgeon. I showed him a bunch of Clampett cartoons and he was amazed at how wild and inventive they were. "Damn ugly though!" He could still draw really well into his eighties and I got him to do many background layouts for Boo Boo Runs Wild and Day In The Life Of Ranger Smith. After we finished the cartoons and brought them up to show him, he stared at me for about five minutes getting madder and madder. He said, "Well there was some funny stuff and really inventive things in there, but why in Hell can't you draw on model?!" Ed and his wife Alice (who passed away a few years ago) used to watch Ren and Stimpy together and actually became big fans of it to my surprise and delight. Ed is one of the true giants of animation. I think he was the greatest character designer in the whole history of the medium. He was a wonderful guy to boot and always lots of fun to hang out with. I had an awful day yesterday after I got the news. I sure am gonna miss him. Flintstones_titles Uploaded by chuckchillout8 http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/04/design-3-ed-benedict-and-fred.html I have lots of interviews I did with him on tape. I need someone to transcribe them though. Anyone out there do that? Preferably in LA. generic cialis generic viagra online buy cheap cialis viagra