Algebraic!
I’ve been remiss in not telling the world about this sooner, but the best thing any of you could do to brighten up your day is press play on the little video below. Adventure Time is an original cartoon short from a young animator named Pen Ward (blog), who pitched the series to my partner in Next New Networks, Fred Seibert, for his cartoons business. The short keeps racking up a quarter million views on YouTube, then getting yanked (the rights are owned by Viacom, as part of the Random Cartoons series), but someone’s recently uploaded it again – watch it while you can (or try the Addicting Clips link).
It’s obvious from just a few moments’ viewing that this is a really special cartoon, and a bit miraculous for being one that, as Fred says, both older and younger people can love for entirely different reasons. I love lines like “I’m 28″ and “Rhombus!” and “my hat is awesome!” but a nine year-old might simply love when they yell, “Adventure Time!” And we’re both right. If you think this should become a full series like I do, and revolutionize kid’s cartoons all over again, I don’t know, post this on your blog and tell Nick you want your Adventure Time.
*** special bonus fun-time link: Monster Party!!!
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:49 pm
AH HA HA HA! “That was Mathmatical!” “Yea, totally Mathmatical!”
Loved it. Thanks for sharing this. I’d watch Adventure Time every day if I could.
February 24th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Loved it! It is a brighter day indeed.
February 24th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Soren immediately wanted to see another one. When I told him that there wasn’t another one, he said that he wanted to see one like it. “I think I am going to bust a gut,” he said. Soren is nine and laughed at everything that wasn’t a mathematical interjection. He laughed when Jake said, “We can just talk about our feelings.” And I just overheard him repeating it to himself and laughing.
February 27th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
you find me a hat like Pen’s and I will wear it, I swear!