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Animation Hotline: Serena (#199)

This one is really strange because I know a Serena and she is from Vancouver, BC but I also know Serena and this isn't her or her voice at all.  She's married to my close friend Gary, who is a native New Yorker (born on the island native New Yorker) and they are both moving out to Los Angeles in a few days.  I'm going to miss them but I'm also excited about them have a new adventure.  Life is so strange like this, we meet people, sometimes we get close and become friends, and then those friends move somewhere else and we find new friends.  Gary and I hung out as little street rats when we were younger.  Gary and I were sharing a studio when I was trying to come up with the Animation Hotline.  He left a few messages and I know that I've animated at least two of them ("Eat at Joe's" vimeo.com/134885103 and "To Do" vimeo.com/50584578).  He also did the music for Glimpse and all of my earliest animations.   Plus we went to Sundance made live animations.  Oh my goodness gracious Gary, we've done a lot.  You and your family will be missed.  

Animation Hotline: Lonely Birthday (#198)

"I feel like the more and more I participate in social media the less social my real world life actually gets," he said writing his blog post.  I live in New York City with about twenty million other people, but somehow there are entire days that go by without me have a real interaction with another human.  I mean, I'll talk to the guy at the deli or I'll hold the door for someone leaving the building but sitting down for a cup of coffee or a face to face conversation simply don't happen.  I had a conversation with my friend Tony last night driving home from a going away party in a park.  We are both in our forties, unmarried, no kids and he said that he pretty happy and comfortable with being alone for most of the day, but the times that it gets uncomfortable is when he is going to sleep, waking up or eating a meal.

We have made 198 Animation Hotline videos so we are closing in on 200.  If you haven't called yet, please give us a call.  If you've called a thousand times, please give us a call.  We want to animate your story.  

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Animation Hotline: Glasses (#197)

My dad had glasses and whenever you bumped them he would get really upset because they were those really heavy glasses and they made his nose really sensitive.  So I related glasses with discomfort.  When I was in high school my friend got glasses with just glass in them, no corrective lenses.  I couldn’t understand it.  I’m still not certain I do even now.  

This is for Taos Shortz.  They've installed one of the "hotspots" in a gallery in Taos and it allows people to leave messages directly into my Dropbox folder, so I can just pluck them right off of the interweb almost as soon as it happens. 

Animation Hotline is a series of tiny little micro-shorts that use messages left on my voice-mail for content.

This is another one of the animations I did for the Real Ideas Studio documentary collaboration "Other Than" that premiered at Cannes.  It's free to watch online if you want.  My friend Doug did this story.  I'm also needing some new animation hotline stories, so if anyone has anything they want to tell me, chances are I'll post it really fast because I've been making some new animations lately.  The number is 212-683-2490.