Jim Middleton
@animapoth.bsky.social
Educator, animator, illustrator, pharmacologist, general irritant. It's a living. Also at www.animatingapothecary.blogspot.com
I posted this on my #animatingapothecary blog some 13 years ago, pertaining to the #romney -era #presidentialelection , as a satire, but it sure seems like #prescientpolitics today. #nokings ! animatingapothecary.blogspot.com/2012/10/2016...
2016 - Romney's America
A meandering musing on animation and education, with occasional apothecatorial observations. Enter if you DARE! Brouharrharrrr!
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June 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I posted this on my #animatingapothecary blog some 13 years ago, pertaining to the #romney -era #presidentialelection , as a satire, but it sure seems like #prescientpolitics today. #nokings ! animatingapothecary.blogspot.com/2012/10/2016...
1969 Home Movie Clip of Lincoln's Home and tomb in Springfield, Illinois - looks a bit different today...
June 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
1969 Home Movie Clip of Lincoln's Home and tomb in Springfield, Illinois - looks a bit different today...
And to test how white ink on black paper picks up on blusky... so many files, some even from THIS century!
June 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
And to test how white ink on black paper picks up on blusky... so many files, some even from THIS century!
...and while testing things out, here are some 50 year old drawings intended to be a high school animation project (it was initially on regular 8mm FILM, with some intrinsic technical challenges), now into a viewable format - vimeo.com/730098411
1972 - The Miller's Tale - Jim Middleton
A re-assembled shoebox discovery of 2300 drawings from my high school years, originally filmed on regular 8mm film, re-photographed and rendered with a soundtrack…
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June 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
...and while testing things out, here are some 50 year old drawings intended to be a high school animation project (it was initially on regular 8mm FILM, with some intrinsic technical challenges), now into a viewable format - vimeo.com/730098411
And now, checking on link processes in Blusky - this one for a "triptych" experiment surrounding the Hot Air Balloon Festivals once held in Battle Creek during the 1980s - remastered from Super 8mm FILM of all things! vimeo.com/775219731
2022 "It Is Balloon" Widescreen Triptych Edit Experiment of 1987 film
When #BattleCreek hosted #hotairballoon #championships, I had the good fortune to hang out with Alan Chapman, a TV-3 #CBS news cameraman. He was able to get me…
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June 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
And now, checking on link processes in Blusky - this one for a "triptych" experiment surrounding the Hot Air Balloon Festivals once held in Battle Creek during the 1980s - remastered from Super 8mm FILM of all things! vimeo.com/775219731
An early animated GIF - testing the "limits" of Blusky
June 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
An early animated GIF - testing the "limits" of Blusky
Self Explaining Metaphor
May 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Self Explaining Metaphor
Preparing for #memorialday2025 - the Pontius and the Middleton clans in Michigan
May 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Preparing for #memorialday2025 - the Pontius and the Middleton clans in Michigan
And another Major Award! (had to share this one with Kodak, but they paid for the storage, so what the heck...)
May 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
And another Major Award! (had to share this one with Kodak, but they paid for the storage, so what the heck...)
Another in an ongoing full moon series - this one a "flower moon" for the month of May.
May 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Another in an ongoing full moon series - this one a "flower moon" for the month of May.
A #majoraward from the Rochester International Film Festival - #riff - with a tour of the KODAK FILM ARCHIVES (and the notebooks of #louisebrooks !!!) and #RIT and (what, there's more?!?) some phenomenal restaurants in the area!
May 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A #majoraward from the Rochester International Film Festival - #riff - with a tour of the KODAK FILM ARCHIVES (and the notebooks of #louisebrooks !!!) and #RIT and (what, there's more?!?) some phenomenal restaurants in the area!
April 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Avian Flu" a PSA parody from a few years back, has sprung back to life recently and is being recognized at this year's RIFF in Rochester, New York! With a laurel and hearty handshake, no less!
March 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"Avian Flu" a PSA parody from a few years back, has sprung back to life recently and is being recognized at this year's RIFF in Rochester, New York! With a laurel and hearty handshake, no less!
March 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
March 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Love those Pisceans!
March 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Love those Pisceans!
Found this a while back -- someone updated a WWII satire using "The Lambeth Walk" - it gave me a rare reason to smile this morning.
March 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Found this a while back -- someone updated a WWII satire using "The Lambeth Walk" - it gave me a rare reason to smile this morning.
March 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
March 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
March 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Reposted by Jim Middleton
