Cumbia de Piedra

The heyday of traditional, hand-drawn 2D animation may have come and gone, but there still remain artists and animators who know the aesthetic and emotional value of returning to the basics. Case in point: Cumbia de Piedra.

An exceptionally impressive music video beautifully realized through rotoscoping, watercolor painting stills, and other wonderful old-school tricks. This track is phenomenal too, an infectiously jazzy and rhythmic piece that's as hypnotic as its accompanying video.

"Cumbia de Piedra is an animated music video produced by Fabrica promoting MOHS, the second album of Jhon William Castaño Montoya, a researcher in Fabrica's music team. Realized by Tomás Pichardo, a Fabrica animator from the Dominican Republic, Cumbia de Piedra is a hand-made 2d animation that explores the culture, colors and textures of Cumbia."

Nathan Barnatt Celebrates Upcoming Slurpee Day The Only Way He Knows How

If you reside somewhere in the United States or Canada, you've most likely heard of Slurpee day (7/11); a day in which you fight hordes of 10 year olds and their mothers to receive your free next step towards diabetes. To celebrate the upcoming event, Nathan Barnatt has slipped his dancing shoes back on, dancing for your pleasure and hopefully your Slurpee money. Things like this don't usually work on me, they're entertaining but they don't usually convince me to go buy anything, although I suddenly have a strange urge to buy Lisa Frank school supplies.