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What’s funnier than a turkey at a disco? A turkey at the disco doing the “kickin’ chicken” (patented move, trademarked)!

Dance Away your Turkey Day at Toon Disney by choosing your moves and your music. Don’t forget to tell the turkey what you’re thankful for the possibility of getting your message to flash on the disco wall!

Emru and Tamu Townsend, December 1973 sourced from Heal Emru

Emru Townsend, writer, technophile, father, son, brother, passed away last night a little before 10pm last night. Emru was diagnosed with leukemia just last December. He spent the bulk of 2008 blogging about his life with the disease and encouraging people around the world to register as bone marrow donors with the assistance of his sister Tamu.

Emru’s short 38 years on this earth seemed so much longer because of the seemingly super-human way he lived life. He accomplished much and touched everyone he came in contact with, even if it was virtually. In his very last year he packed in more life than many do in a lifetime. He worked tirelessly for the marrow registry, created a huge community of other people needing bone marrow transfusions, identified a potential match in the summer, got a transplant in September, all before he finally succumbed to the disease less than a year after his diagnosis.

Emru leaves us with an amazing legacy that includes a memory of someone who had a knack for cheering everyone else up even when he should have the recipient of said cheer.

If you’d like to honor Emru’s memory, please please please register with your national bone marrow registry. You may be able to save a life like Emru’s.

Links:

• National Marrow Donor Program - the US bone marrow registry organization
• Heal Emru - Emru’s leukemia blog
• Heal Emru’s Facebook Group
• 5×5 Media - Emru’s media website
• Frames Per Second Magazine - Emru’s animation magazine
• EcoDigital - Emru’s digital green site
• Michael Franti and Spearhead : “Say Hey” video - the most current song Emru listened to before his death and the way that Tamu and Emru’s wife Vicky ask you remember Emru–happy, full of life and love

Great speakers and a super cute website (designed by Plexipixel, of course). LOL

The Animaticus Foundation presents the
Third Annual 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival
at the Boeing Imax Theater in Pacific Science Center in Seattle

Friday, November 14th 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Saturday, November 15th 11:00 am - 11:00pm

This year’s “2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival” has to be the most exciting and extensive festival ever held in the Pacific Northwest! Not only are there hours of newly animated films (in 2D, 3D, Claymation and Cut-Out styles, from around the world) but there are also incredible top-drawer, industry speakers appearing, showing their work and teaching some of their amazing techniques. All submitted films will be vying for a coveted “Golden Pencil Award” in several categories, announced at a special Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening. The Awards Ceremony will also be the time when the “Roy E. Disney Award” will be announced… a special, non-competitive award that is presented to the person or organization who the organizers fell have most contributed to the world of animation in recent times. Rounding up the entire festival will be the special Gala Event, where attendees, speakers and invited guests will be able to meet ‘n greet each other in a relaxed social setting, entertained by the “Pontiac Bay Orchastra“, conducted by Hollywood composer Hummie Mann.

Keynote presenters Include:

• DON HAHN ~ Emmy Award-winning producer for Disney and Tim Burton. His credits include “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King” and will be presenting a rarely seen selection of Disney shorts
• BARRY COOK ~ Director of “Mulan”
• DEAN YEAGLE ~ Animator/ Creator of Playboy’s “Mandy”

Workshops presenters include:

• DANIEL DOCIU ~ Chief Art Director for ArenaNet; creators of “GuildWars”
• PETER MOEHRLE ~ Production and Background Artist for Disney and other major studios
• MICHEL GAGNE ~ Designer and Animator extraordinaire, creator of the “Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet”

Yes, it’s true… Plexipixel is a finalist for NWjob’s “favorite creative company” 2008. We were barely beat out by an architecture firm that has over 500 employees and 6 world-wide offices, and in the company of other hefty–as in staff number not in stature (yes, we’re calling you out for next year)–competitors like Zaaz, Filter and Big Fish.