Fair warning: I have been awake, at work, and writing for the past 22 hours. There is—forsooth!—no end in sight for me yet. So if I sound more retarded and/or mushmouthed than usual, well, you have my smiling apologies. Or something. And I say that affectionately. To you.

This week I thought I’d do something different. it’s the same old NF fair where I talk about whatever it is that I feel like talking about—in the weird toy/collectible world, that is—but in the interest of killing two nerds with one stone, I’ll share a little fan video I made for Koji Harmon/Cometdebris this week. Here’s some backstory. Ahem.

Somehow, I managed to find myself at this link. I think it was related to the k-hole of links that I was led down when Crook posted this, um, post. Softcore boobies abound. It was either that, or the fine folks at TTCT tweeted it. One or the other. Either way, I was not only impressed by the pretty girls (duh) but I thought it was a pretty cool idea to jumpcut a bunch of photos taken in sequence as a video. Nothing new, but still.

So, I set about making something similar—for fun—with my toys, and what better toy to start with than the ever-expressive, boundlessly fun Tokoji Seijin? That plan rapidly evolved into a movie that would include all of my Koji/Cometdebris (the creator of Tokoji Seijin) toys and that was that. The only thing left was to improvise a little ‘booth’ and figure out how to open iMovie.

The results are—I think—crude, but fun. Crude because you are literally looking at about 6 minutes worth of experience with making videos, but FUN because the toys are so happy and goofy, and the radical TRS-80 soundtrack doesn’t hurt, either. Upon sending it to Koji, I got a very unexpected—and actually sort of ridiculously embarassingly flattering—response:

Thanks for posting (and making) that video. Made me smile. Very cool. It wasn’t inspired by this, was it? This totally came to mind after watching.

I am a huge Eames fan, but I had never seen that video. As I have expressed countless times here, I am a YouNoob. But this video is just so totally amazingly awesome forever and ever that I just can’t believe that some dumb stop-motion thing I tried to do made him think of that. So it was a good day, that day. :) Thanks Koji!

Anyway. Enjoy. Hopefully something for everybody. Where everybody is a subset of folks who are already a) reading this, b) like toys, c) don’t skip my posts automatically. So yeah, at the very least it’s a warm lead going out to all dozen of you. That’s what friends are for!

- Hateball