4/15/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Family Guy- Baby Got Black

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Baby Got Black is the eighteenth episode of the twelfth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy and the 228th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on April 27, 2014, and is written by Kevin Biggins and Travis Bowe and directed by Brian Iles. In the episode, Chris falls in love with Jerome’s daughter, Pam, much to her father’s chagrin. When the two kids run away, Peter and Jerome team up to look for them. Continue reading

2/9/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Caldera

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Caldera is a beautiful Award-Winning CGI animated short film by talented Animation filmmaker and composer, Evan Viera. Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, CALDERA glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death. It has received the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction, Award of Innovation – Seattle International Film Festival, Best Animated Film – Rome Independent Film Festival and Rockport Film Festival and Best Short – View Social Awards. Continue reading

10/21/17 O&A NYC THE MORNING FUNNIES/FOOD: Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls

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Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls performed by Issac Hayes is the ninth episode of the second season of the animated television series South Park, and the 22nd episode of the series overall. Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls originally aired in the United States on August 19, 1998 on South Park.  Continue reading

2/2/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Devils, Angels & Dating

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Devils, Angels & Dating is an award winning animated short film directed by Michael Cawood. The Devil wants Cupid’s job, but a battle for Death’s affections has cosmic ramifications below the Heavens. Winner of Burbank Film Festival (Best Short Film), Indiefest (Best Animation) and the winner of the Orson Welles Award at the California Film Awards.   Continue reading

1/19/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Yearbook

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Yearbook by Director Bernardo Britto is the winner of the short film Jury Prize for Animation at Sundance 2014.With the end of the world imminent, a man is hired to write the history of human existence. Britto’s film is insular, the script a narrated monologue (by Britto himself) detailing a single character’s evolving process of cataloguing the history of humanity. O&A NYC Magazine continues to feature short films by innovative artists for the month of January. Continue reading

12/15/14 O&A Hollywood Monday: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a Christmas television special produced in stop motion animation by Rankin/Bass Productions and distributed by DreamWorks Classics. It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the United States. The special was based on the Johnny Marks song Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer which was itself based on the 1939 poem Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer written by Marks’ brother-in-law, Robert L. May.  Since 1972, the special has aired on CBS, and this year is the 50th anniversary of the production. Continue reading