{"id":143,"date":"2008-05-12T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2014-04-24T05:40:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:40:40","slug":"candy-colored-animism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/candy-colored-animism\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy-Colored Animism"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is a brilliant exegesis on Jim Woodring’s _Frank_ stories] [mo], viewed as a d\u00e9tournement of the conventional anthropomorphic, mutable world of classic cartoons.<\/p>\n

It gets right to the heart of what makes these stories so beautiful and unsettling. In Jim Woodring’s world everything is potentially alive, and alien; anything might in an instant become a sudden threat or a transcendent miracle, or both.<\/p>\n

>The frowning, peering, waterspout. The gawping foliage… I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d describe any of this stuff as friendly, and I\u2019m certainly not sure its apparent intelligence is in any way human. We might find something of who we are scattered across the million masks of God that form Frank\u2019s home – this place is anthropoland, after all – but that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ll happen upon ourselves offered back up to us in an easily recognizable form. In Frank the singing trees may possess the operating system of a shark, and the houses all the winning charm of the octopus. We\u2019re out of the comfort zone of simple anthropomorphism and entering the realm of primal animism.<\/p>\n

[Read the whole thing] [mo] at [Mindless Ones] [mo2].<\/p>\n

(Link via [Journalista] [j]. And everyone knows [Jim Woodring has a blog] [wm], right?)<\/p>\n

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[This is a brilliant exegesis on Jim Woodring’s _Frank_ stories] [mo], viewed as a d\u00e9tournement of the conventional anthropomorphic, mutable world of classic cartoons. It gets right to the heart of what makes these stories so beautiful and unsettling. In Jim Woodring’s world everything is potentially alive, and alien; anything might in an instant become … Continue reading Candy-Colored Animism<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}