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GHcool 
"Forever a curious character."
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 Posted - 01/18/2008 : 07:00:00
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Hey all,
I just completed a cartoon that I've been working on for the past month. Its about the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat (the new year of the trees). Its kind of like the American secular holiday of Arbor Day.
Here's the link to the cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O7Uog6BqDk
If you like it, please give it a star rating and if you have a moment, consider adding a comment on YouTube and forwarding it to your friends if you think they might get a kick out of it. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 01/18/2008 : 11:11:49
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Originally posted by GHcool
Hey all,
I just completed a cartoon that I've been working on for the past month. Its about the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat (the new year of the trees). Its kind of like the American secular holiday of Arbor Day.
Here's the link to the cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O7Uog6BqDk
If you like it, please give it a star rating and if you have a moment, consider adding a comment on YouTube and forwarding it to your friends if you think they might get a kick out of it.
Wow, you certainly put a lot of work into that, GHC! Nice one ... I like the character of the old Jewish guy.
Was it for an educational project?
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 01/18/2008 : 11:45:51
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I gave it tree stars. 
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/18/2008 : 12:28:44
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I like it. Especially the cameo by your schnoz.
NICE WORK! |
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w22dheartlivie 
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 01/18/2008 : 12:39:04
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 01/18/2008 : 16:06:28
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Well Done!!
Funny. Informative (about Judaism and the environment).
Were you friendly time travelling jewish guy or grumpy old future jewish guy? I am guessing you are friendly time travelling guy in which case you could probably get work doing voice over.
Great job - please do more and let us know about it. |
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 01/18/2008 : 16:31:28
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 01/18/2008 : 17:46:51
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Originally posted by turrell
Were you friendly time travelling jewish guy or grumpy old future jewish guy? I am guessing you are friendly time travelling guy in which case you could probably get work doing voice over.
I was the time traveler.
Thanks for all the positive feedback! |
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 01/19/2008 : 01:05:36
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You trying to put us Wood Machinists out of a job?
Only joking, very nice work.
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MguyXXVI
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 01/19/2008 : 04:15:01
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My facial reactions during the short:
       
Great job GHC!!!!!! |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/19/2008 : 19:54:49
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I could not play the sound as I am in an Internet cafe, but it looked very well made and interesting. You've spelt the title wrong, though (on YouTube, not in the animation). ;-)
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 01/20/2008 : 02:00:06
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Originally posted by Salopian
I could not play the sound as I am in an Internet cafe, but it looked very well made and interesting. You've spelt the title wrong, though (on YouTube, not in the animation). ;-)
Whoops. Fixed it. Thanks. |
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 01/24/2008 : 17:24:53
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Some strange lady that I never met named Tamar wrote me a very harsh and ignorant criticism of the cartoon I made about concern for the environment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O7Uog6BqDk). I've reprinted her accusations here with my responses ...
The Accusation:
"Of course the planet is swinging to warmer in these
past 100s of years because if it weren't we would still be in the ice
ages."
The Reality:
The Ice Age Tamar seems to be referring to took place about 600 million years ago, not "100s of years" ago. So, yes, the planet has warmed up since then, but that's not what scientists are worried about. What scientists are worried about is the data like the one published by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a non-partisan federal government agency established by Nixon in 1970, that shows the mean temperature over land and ocean steeply increasing since the late 1970s (http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/recenttc_triad.html).
The Accusation:
"It's awfully conceited of us to just assume that the present day
climate is the best there could ever be. Perhaps a warmer climate would
be able to support more food growth. And there are certainly more
people even in this country who freeze to death from extreme cold up
north, than who die from extreme heat spells in the country."
The Reality:
I would say that a "conceited" person is one that thinks they know better than scientists world wide do. A warmer global climate will have a negligible effect on food production and the United States already grows more food than we know what to do with. Similarly, global warming will have a negligible effect on frostbite death statistics. Tamar already knows this. She just pulled it out of her butt.
The Accusation:
"[There is] much convincing evidence that Global warming is a hoax."
The Reality:
Is the Holocaust also a hoax? What about the Apollo moon landings? Was Israel responsible for 9/11? The cranks behind all of those bogus nonsense allegations claim to have "convincing evidence" as well. If you have something to say, then say it, but don't make up a conspiracy theory if you don't want people to think that you're a crackpot.
The Accusation:
"Heck we breath out carbon dioxide as a part of our
existence. I don't think God would have had us exhausting some gas that
would hurt the planet."
The Reality:
Our breathing has a negligible effect on the climate. We've been breathing much longer than we've had cars. The problem is that the fossil fuels we are burning releases hydrocarbons into the atmosphere that had been deep under the ground for millions of years. Because all of the fossil fuels were released in a short time (by geologic standards), it is mixing with the "normal" concentration of hydrocarbons in our atmosphere and causing the current concentration to be WAY above normal. If you don't believe me, check out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency showing CO2 CH4 concentration in the 1970s and 1980s to be much higher than it has ever been in the history for thousands of years: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/recentac_majorghg.html#fig1
The Accusation:
"More than likely it is the son's extra activity in coronal mass
ejections that is causing the heating up of the oceans by causing extra
volcanic activity under the oceans. Think about it. When you boil water
on the stove you place the heat below the water. The water does not
heat up from a heat source in the air. It is definitely the oceans
warming more so than the lands."
The Reality:
I haven't heard this one before, so I looked it up. I don't know enough about the science to really understand it, but I'm sure our friend Tamar doesn't understand it either. Anyway, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and mainstream scientists worldwide have called this hypothesis into question and found errors and omissions in the data of the proponents of this theory. Also, she spells "sun" wrong.
The Accusation:
"The air for the most part does not exchange between the upper and lower hemispheres. So if
most of the industrialization is in the upper hemisphere, then why in
the world is the worst ozone hole problem over Australia and New
Zealand?"
The Reality:
The worst ozone hole is over Antarctica, not Australia and New Zealand. The ozone hole is a problem in the stratosphere, which circulates much easier than atmospheric air, which Tamar erroneously refers to. The reason the hole is over Antarctica is because the CFCs collect there due to the freezing temperature, not because of any industrialization taking place in Antarctica. Its all on Answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/ozone-depletion?cat=technology
The Accusation:
"This cartoon is cute, but it is so inaccurate that it just
makes me sick."
The Reality:
The cartoon is a satire. I don't really believe that there will be no trees by the year 2525. I made that up as funny premise for a cartoon. Everybody else got it. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 01/25/2008 : 08:53:59
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Great work, Guy! And of course, the extra plus for me is that the movie Soylent Green was written by Stanley Greenberg, who was such a nice Jewish boy!
(And he was also a friend of my father's since they were in Bar Mitzvah Club together at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago. I still have a copies of some of the parodies they wrote together back then.)
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 01/25/2008 : 09:22:35
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The last age wasn't 600 million years ago: in fact, Arthur C Clarke calls civilisation an interlude between the ice-ages. Just a point of information. I like the cartoon, as I'd previously said on YouTube, as well.
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