Petition

The European Commission under President Barroso's leadership is considering ending the MEDIA Programme as it currently exists. This decision would have a very negative impact on all of the European audiovisual industry, which benefits from the numerous funds offered by this programme.

sign the petition, and spread the word < here >
"We, the European professionals of animation film for television and cinema, are extremely concerned by the disastrous consequences on the economic and cultural level, which the calling into question of the MEDIA Programme will give rise to in our sector....We categorically refuse the proposed abolition of the MEDIA Programme with its succession of disastrous consequences in the medium and long term, or any other form of administrative curtailment, namely the inclusion of the current MEDIA Programme within another of the Commission’s programmes."

the point of humanities

read this Article by Alain de Botton. < here > from a point of view on the BBC. "It should be the job of a university education to tease out the therapeutic and illuminative aspects of culture, so that we can emerge from a period of study as slightly less disturbed, selfish, unempathetic and blinkered human beings, who can be of greater benefit not only to the economy, but also to our friends, our children and our spouses."
the swing to employability and training in universities is affecting the responsibility we all have in being reasonable. he writes better than me. I quite liked it. I want you to enjoy the broadening of what you receive, not just your specialist subject.

100 trends in 2011 from JWT

J W T (the advertising giant)
has put a presentation together about what is hot or not in 2011...
I think it is interesting < here >
"In our sixth annual year-end forecast of trends for the near future, technology is the overriding theme, driving many of our trends and at the center of others. The economy also continues to be a common thread."

Show Me The Animation Teams up with Encounters

Show Me The Animation
Teams up with Encounters
Show me the animation will be collaborating with the Encounters Bristol International Film Festival and Shorts International to celebrate Encounters recently qualifying for some of the world's most prestigious awards. Films will include 'Nominated Animated Shorts from the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2011'.
Tuesday 3rd May
Venue: Upstairs at the Hen and Chicken, 210 North St, Bedminster, Bristol BS3 1JF. 0117 9663143
Doors: Open from 7pm- 10pm (Film screening between 7.30-8.45pm)
from Helen & Vicky

Comic expo weekend

A comic expo in Bristol - 14-15 MAY - here
Bristol International and Small Press Comic Expo 2011. Opening times: Saturday 10am - 6pm, Sunday 10.30am - 4.30pm,
Once again the Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel will be playing co-host with the Ramada City Inn Hotel
with all the best in Independent & Small Press comics and MangaTICKETS NOW ON SALE!

Ticket sales updates 90% of tickets now sold!

£9 day or £16 weekend

Child discounts apply

Expo will again be an ALL TICKET event,

so pre-booking is the only way to ensure you are at the

UK's Premier Comics Event!

(this may be your thing, a perfect antidote to Fridays screening)!

Jobs search site

This is rather good. a jobs site that collects from loads of agencies, and is topical, local. Indeed, make it a regular port of call.

Alexeev Alexey, log jam and ARC

interview with Alexeev Alexey - here - quite naive questions, but gets good answers. Log Jam. Log Jam is very funny.

Umm, this is quite good. The Animation Resource Centre. ARC . lots of pings off from here.
"181 links to the best free animation resources
for students on the net, sourced from over
81 different web sites and growing."

I am old, I completed a survey today and had to check age as 45 - 60. that was quite depressing.