I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “edutainment” from The Cultural Gutter
Coloring Book, Blood Red
"[W]hat if there was a way to get the youth of today in on all the polygonal war recreations that modern gaming has been nice enough to bring us, but without getting their precious little mitts all bloody?" That would be the Call of Duty Activity Book For Kids. (via Adult Swim)
Tammy Faye Bakker's Puppet Songs
You knew evangelist and Queer icon Tammy Faye Bakker used to have a puppet show, right? And her puppets weren't muppets, they were scary, shellac-headed hand puppets. Way Out Junk has Oops! There Comes a Smile, a collection of Tammy Faye's puppet songs and stories.
Rapping about particle acceleration
Rapping about CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The things it discovers will rock you in the head. (thanks, paulie!)
Marie Curie's Chemical Party
Here at the Cultural Gutter we have a proven fondness for edutainment from the EU. So here's a chemical party showing elements making out and fighting. (thanks, Steven!)
Reaching the Youth -- With Comics!
I was looking through the picture books in the back of a bookstore where I sometimes work, when a woman came over with her son and slid out one I had snorted at earlier, Pete Sanders’ What Do You Know About Bullying? With Illustrated Storylines. And she said something I knew someone would, “Oh, it’s a comic! Isn’t that cool?
No, It's not cool.
Continue reading...
Do You Want Fries With That?
Last year when I heard that Burger King was
planning to release a series of video games for the Xbox 360, I
thought the game industry was headed for a new low. To me, this went
way beyond the shameless hordes of promotional tie-ins to popular
movies and TV shows, and seemed more inappropriate than the
solicitation of virtual product placement within a video game. Here
was a giant fast food chain attempting to sell full-fledged console
games to the general public that were literally nothing more than
interactive advertisements. Who did they think they were kidding?
I
certainly didn't expect what happened next.
Continue reading...
Coloring Book, Blood Red
"[W]hat if there was a way to get the youth of today in on all the polygonal war recreations that modern gaming has been nice enough to bring us, but without getting their precious little mitts all bloody?" That would be the Call of Duty Activity Book For Kids. (via Adult Swim)Tammy Faye Bakker's Puppet Songs
You knew evangelist and Queer icon Tammy Faye Bakker used to have a puppet show, right? And her puppets weren't muppets, they were scary, shellac-headed hand puppets. Way Out Junk has Oops! There Comes a Smile, a collection of Tammy Faye's puppet songs and stories.Rapping about particle acceleration
Rapping about CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The things it discovers will rock you in the head. (thanks, paulie!)Marie Curie's Chemical Party
Here at the Cultural Gutter we have a proven fondness for edutainment from the EU. So here's a chemical party showing elements making out and fighting. (thanks, Steven!)Reaching the Youth -- With Comics!
I was looking through the picture books in the back of a bookstore where I sometimes work, when a woman came over with her son and slid out one I had snorted at earlier, Pete Sanders’ What Do You Know About Bullying? With Illustrated Storylines. And she said something I knew someone would, “Oh, it’s a comic! Isn’t that cool?
No, It's not cool.
Do You Want Fries With That?
Last year when I heard that Burger King was
planning to release a series of video games for the Xbox 360, I
thought the game industry was headed for a new low. To me, this went
way beyond the shameless hordes of promotional tie-ins to popular
movies and TV shows, and seemed more inappropriate than the
solicitation of virtual product placement within a video game. Here
was a giant fast food chain attempting to sell full-fledged console
games to the general public that were literally nothing more than
interactive advertisements. Who did they think they were kidding?I certainly didn't expect what happened next. Continue reading...
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