KaboingTV
Posted By azog on April 22, 2010
So this is something different.
IRL, I’m a big fan of animation. Cartoons, actually. I’d rather watch a good cartoon then watch CSPAN. And actually, my TV is more often tuned to Boomerang than anything else.
I don’t watch Cartoon Network much anymore, they had their salad days with things like Camp Lazlo, Billy and Mandy, and Squirrel Boy. But CN decided to go with “kids reality programming”, and appearing to forsake their eponymous name.
Nick was also once a bastion of cutting edge animation, in the form of Zim, Rocko and The Angry Beavers (none of which would probably ever make it past nanny state censorship today), but they have chosen to make Spongebob their bread-n-butter, and import commercial products which have almost no originality.
Then let’s not forget the older classics like The Pink Panther, and even older still, Popeye.
Quite a bit of television animation is just so much crap, where the producers and networks have chosen profit over originality. Risk mitigation negates creativity. That’s their prerogative. They are, after all, a for-profit entity.
There is quite a bit of web-based animation, but those still seem to be fairly slim. I haven’t looked at things like Homestar or Foamy for quite a long time. And there’s Explosm, altho they’re more of a web-comic, and their animated shorts are fairly irregular.
Anyways. Joe Murray, the guy who created both Rocko and Lazlo (mentioned above), is working on a project called KaboingTV, and is looking for “startup capital”. You’ll have to read the full details, but the basic idea is to have a source of independent animation, not controlled by big TV, and to hopefully draw other animators.
So why, in a tanking economy, would you donate to an entertainment venture? Well, because this is my blog :) And I’m just posting in the hopes of helping Joe get his project going.
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My favorite kind of Salad is none other Potato Salad. it really taste yummy.-.-
whenever my sister makes potato salad, i always eat them in less than a minute or so he he. i just love all sorts of salad. ;*;
I’m glad you like potato salad :) Oh, by the way, I approved your post but deleted your linkspam, because I found your attempt at overcoming the spam filter humorous :)