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Mick Wallace & Luke “Ming” Flanagan: Miss Piggy & Gonzo

Allan — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:50:07 +0000

Nice work lads. And on the Muppet Show tonight!

#GE11 Guest Post: Some notes on producing animated Cutbacks!

Allan — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:46:38 +0000

This is a guest post by DT Finn, who’s doing some brilliant stopmotion satire on his YouTube channel. I asked him to explain a little about the process of making the clips.

I started Cutbacks almost two years ago, furious at what was happening with Lisbon and with Mister Cowen’s government. The stopmotion characters are relatively low-tech, constructed from electrical wire, latex, insulating foam, masking tape, felt and offcut material. The voice is recorded, edited and broken down into frames. The characters are animated against greenscreen, then composited onto photo or video backgrounds. The animation is shot in full HD, though it’s outputted much smaller for internet distribution.
The internet interest has started to build a lot over the past few months, especially since kicking Mister Cowen suddenly became fashionable… A short film Mister Heaney, A Wee Portrait, based on the internet characters, won Best Animation at the 2010 Galway Film Fleadh. The comments, subscriptions and obvious enthusiasm of the audience are all helping to feed and develop the Cutbacks project IP. The problem of ‘monetising’ the Intellectual Property is more complicated. With Barley Films, I’m trying to push different versions of the project towards TV, approaching the Irish Film Board, RTE, TV3 and DCTV. It’s difficult to convince decision makers that the animation material can be turned around fast enough to remain politically relevant. Thanks for all the interest in ‘cutbacks’ and thanks to Allan for pushing it over the past few weeks!

Btw, for even more disgraceful stopmotion, check out rinkydink at… www.youtube.com/user/rinkyTV

I’ve got your national government right here.

Allan — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:31:16 +0000

Leaked X-Ray of Martin Cullen’s Injury

Allan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:37:05 +0000

Goodbye Martin. Thanks for the bill. No, I don’t mean your legislation. I meant your chicken coops.

Cut out and keep: Willie #ODea Commemorative Moustache

Allan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:08:55 +0000

Click for full size, cut out, and take a picture of yourself. Post a link here, or upload to Twitter with the #odea hashtag.

George Lee- It’s my ball and I’m going home. #glee

Allan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:03:44 +0000

George Lee has resigned from Fine Gael and has resigned his seat in the Dáil for the most petulant, self-indulgent reasons. Quitting the party is one thing, but to resign the seat after 9 months spits in the eye of the Dublin South electorate. I’d be surprised if there’s more than a 40% turn out in the inevitable by-election to come.
Quitting a Dáil seat in frustration at not being able to change things in 9 months is a complete contradiction in terms and a copout that Sarah Palin would be proud of.

Green Party Fianna Fail Programme for Government

Allan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:25:00 +0000

You can follow the digestion on Twitter with the hashtag #pfg and #gpcon.
Renewed Programme for Government, 10.10.09

Resign John O’Donoghue

Allan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:51:37 +0000

John O’Donoghue, get out.
You’ve brought disrepute to this non-political office you say you care so much about, and you’ve massively ripped the taxpayer off. Pay for your own races you greedy, sausage-fingered buffoon. Get the hell out of the office of Ceann Comhairle and get the hell out of Dáil Éireann.
Join the campaign to get John gone on Facebook.

I’m Barack Obama

Allan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:13:56 +0000

I did the RTE Electoral Compass to see where I stand in the US political landscape. Based on my answers I practically am Barack Obama, although apparently I’m 5% “more progressive” than him on social issues.
I’m not getting excited about this election. I hate George Bush and I think the McCai/Palin ticket is a terrifying prospect, but I think the messianic part of the Obama act is going to be a huge anti-climax for a lot of people when he turns out to be a fallible, toe-stubbing human being. And I speak from experience as someone who stayed up all night in ’97 watching the New Labour landslide as if I were watching the Return of the Jedi. Look where that got the world. Thanks Tony.

The Daily No-Show

Allan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:38:09 +0000

Well damn and blast it The Daily Show has blocked Irish viewers (and I assume everyone else) from watching full episodes on their website. I don’t have a television so the site was the only place I could watch it. I’ve been kicked out of the Colbert Nation too.

That’s not funny.