Tag: animation

• Through off-white plastic, darkly (August 19, 2025)

  I found myself remembering the first nightlight that I had in my childhood bedroom, depicting Pinocchio and a goldfish. Perhaps there is only one image of it on the internet, but DuckDuckGo nonetheless led me quickly to the website of Jack’s Mart, a store in Japan that specializes in 20th century Americana. Whoever writes up their item-description pages puts some real care into it, enough for search engines to send me to the Jack’s Mart page about the nightlight.

• “Doodles”, Rose Betts and Its ok koy (August 8, 2025)

  A three-minute animation by Its ok koy, set to the catchy “Doodles” as written and sung by Rose Betts. We tour an art-museum exhibit of the narrator’s lifetime of regrets. One of our fellow visitors is the spirit of the narrator’s younger self—more willing to forgive than the obsessive adult, and to reset things a bit through some creative doodling of her own.