The Pink Aisle returns for the next three weeks in the leadup to the Margot Robbie Barbie film with Behind the Barbie - the Ruth Handler Story; a three-part mini-series which explores the life and legacy of Barbie's creator, Ruth Handler. Join Henry and Emma as they explore the challenges, changes, and mistakes Handler faced in her life and how this affects Barbie's past and future.
The first episode will publically air on Friday, June 23rd, w...
2023-06-23 02:26:12 +0000 UTC
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Obviously, this is a bit of a facetious title, but I wanted to talk about why Harper Row, AKA 'Bluebird', is my favorite supporting character in Batman due to the ways it helps bring out an underexplored element of the character.
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2023-06-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Boy Howdy, I love me some Inscryption, especially Luke Carder. In this Junk Drawer Essay, I explore how this character appeals to me in such a weirdly specific way that I wanted to talk about it.
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2023-06-07 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
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As someone who writes things that are arguably too long, I have always been fascinated by the micro-essay format as a challenge to write something shorter than one minute.
With that, I want to introduce Junk Drawer Essays, which I hope to open to you lovely patrons as an opportunity to request topics that you'd want me to write about. I will be sending messages to all paying patrons to request an Essay Topic, and will be uploading a handful of Junk Drawer Essays that I have already comp...
2023-06-06 23:38:22 +0000 UTC
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As a little bonus to The Complete Amateur's Guide to Moomin, I wanted to do a little cover of the theme song from the 1990s Moomin Anime Tanoshii Muumin Ikka. I had always enjoyed this theme song, but I wasn't satisfied with the English translation...
2023-06-03 00:26:45 +0000 UTC
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Update 6/19/23: I have uploaded a new version video with a couple of critical changes. I have hired fellow Moomin Scholar Kiki from Transparency to help create a Swedish translation of the captions so that International audiences are able to more easily share their stories with Moomin, which has been one of the biggest sour...
2023-06-03 00:04:22 +0000 UTC
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An exclusive look into some video footage I filmed before we went to the premiere of Cat (2019). I was initially going to use this footage as an opener for my video on the film I released at the tail end of 2020, but I couldn't find the footage, only to stumble across it years later on the hard drive. So for posterity, I want to give you this blast from the past, as the two of us discuss this movie before knowing the true horrors Tom Hooper would release on us.
2023-05-26 20:07:12 +0000 UTC
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"People like us? We don't get happy endings. We just get to keep going." - 'Ice Pick Joe' Morelli
In this video, I seek to examine the underappreciated 1973 film Goncharov, which has remained relatively unknown in the United States up until November 2022.
Special Thanks to
Molly Noise (She/Her) for composing the original music
2023-03-16 00:21:30 +0000 UTC
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Listen to this while reading
Often, video games are designed to be a point of rest in your life, a form of entertainment that is potentially rivaled by the bed, a piece of furniture designed to facilitate sleep, rest, and relaxation.
These are the beds that gamers will call a #EPICFAIL, so give it up for the TOP 5 WORST BEDS IN GAMING
5 | The Cool Bed - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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2022-11-29 02:04:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, this past weekend I was inspired to write a little something about the 1973 film Goncharov. I don't want to rush out a video version of this essay, but I will be trying to work to get this out as soon as possible. But until then, please enjoy the first draft of my script about the Genius of Goncharov.
“Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beau...
2022-11-24 18:04:22 +0000 UTC
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This is a little bit of a dumb short, but I need to share this someone. I don’t want to pivot to short form videos under this specific format, but if this is something you are all into, let me know.
I might update y’all once I finish the game.
I swear to god, if they pull the same ending on me again I swear
2022-11-16 05:04:42 +0000 UTC
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Early Access Time! October was such a busy month for me that this video took a little extra long to get out, but I am looking to try something a little different for the holiday season this year so I hope you will stay tuned for that. Thanks for your continued support and enjoy the early access to this video!
Best Wishes - Henry
Spoiler Warning: the following video contains some light spoilers on elements of the game 2022-11-13 20:37:23 +0000 UTC
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In this video, I want to pitch Jeff Smith’s classic BONE. While some might have only heard about the series to the recent cancellation of the Netflix adaptation or might only remember reading it as a kid, this video seeks to explore the value this series has with its lack of complete adaptations.
Mike Fatum (He/Him) as Fone Bone
Aranocks (She/...
2022-08-28 03:48:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
I hope all is well! I've been really busy with the start of school, so progress on the next vid is a little slower, but I have a preview of a small segment!
As the title says, my next video is going to be discussing Jeff Smith's Bone and the surprisingly prescient lesson it can teach about adaptations and media distribution. This is going to be one of two planned motion comic sequences I want to edit into the video and I hope to find some other folks who would be...
2022-08-21 01:41:18 +0000 UTC
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This video explores the 2022 Horror anthology film The House and the statements that it could make about our relationship with housing, and the true horrors that lie within its passages.
Author's Note: Most of this video is pretty much done, but I do have some effects shots that still need to be processed, which results in some sudden glitchy noises without any visuals. This should be changed by the final release.
Update (7/29): Video eff...
2022-07-29 00:45:23 +0000 UTC
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The Offical Download of my What You Need Cover with full Metadata and Album Art
Sung and Produced by Henry Kathman
Featuring vocals by Emily Hart
Special Thanks to Molly Noise for EQ Consulting
Original Song sung by First Aid Kit and Megan Nicole Dong
Instrumental Backing Track by Phizzy
Lyric...
2022-06-28 18:49:42 +0000 UTC
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Just as a little bonus, I have the video cover of 'What You Need' performed by myself and my sister, Emily. This was a more intense music production than songs I've sung in the past, so please let me know how I did!
The animation for the Tree Shamans was also done by me using Photoshop and After Effects. It involved cobbling together a couple of screenshots of the show so I could make a riggable body for the large tree shaman, as well as upscaling some of the background art. Hope it loo...
2022-06-28 18:02:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody, now that I have finished my video about Centaurworld, I am now working on my video about the film the House. But while I worked on it, I wanted to get your input on some of these thumbnail ideas that I have for the video. I have also attached the full resolution options below...
2022-06-18 04:16:25 +0000 UTC
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Edit: the final video is live with some improvements and revisions!
Hey all! This one got done pretty quickly! I guess that's what happens when a video is less than 2 hours long!
But this video is about the Netflix series Centaurworld and the harsh anachronism that is present throughout the series's plot and presentation. While that kind of descriptor usually comes with negative connotations, this essay argues how that anachronism helps to serve a rather ...
2022-06-16 16:55:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody! This is kind of on a whim, but I've been thinking a lot about the world of Video Essays, and I wanted to share a list of some of my favorite video essays to watch and give you a little blurb about my thoughts.
While there are some YouTube channels that I will routinely watch on the day of upload without fail, (thank god
2022-06-07 02:57:16 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, as you might have seen in this post, my Cinderella Video is getting close to done, but one of the items that I have to consider with the completion of this video is the matter of Rags, a 2013 Nickelodeon TV movie starring Max Schneider and Keke Palmer in this gender-bent Cinderella ...
2022-05-04 00:59:03 +0000 UTC
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In this video, I have examined 28 different adaptations of Cinderella produced in the past 25 years, including film, video games, ballets, musicals, and more than a couple of entries into the Cinderella Story franchise. The goal is to examine the ways that this classic fairy tale has evolved in the past quarter of a century to see what it reflects about the changes being made to our society.
Voice cameos by 2022-05-04 00:58:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey Everybody,
I am still making progress on the Cinderella Video. If all goes according to plan, it should be out by the end of April. The camera footage has been filmed and edited for a while now (here is the link to that draft), so it's just been a process of acquiring and editing together that footage and creating special assets for the video.
This includes this special tier list that I...
2022-04-02 20:05:05 +0000 UTC
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In this video, I will be exploring Porco Rosso and the relationship between the real-world history of the Adriatic Sea during the rise of Italian Fascism and the Anti-war themes of Studio Ghibli. Is this film an Antifascist classic that many describe it as? Watch to hear my thoughts on this underrated classic.
If you want to watch a version with the original movie soundtrack, visit here!...
2022-03-13 23:49:50 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! So while I work on the Cinderella Video, I have also finished a much shorter video to potentially tide people over while I work on this two-and-a-half-hour behemoth. Normally, I would upload this to YouTube, but Studio Ghibli is notorious for copyright striking anything that uses its music. So I am going to upload the temporary music version to google drive while the lovely Molly Noise works on the soundtrack.
Hey Everybody!
This year, my goal is to be more consistent about releasing videos once a month. To help with this, I am updating my reward goals for reaching a certain number of patrons.
Without further ado:
At 20 Patrons, I want to release a video about my favorite 'So Bad It's Good' movie, Mom's Outta Sight (1998); ...
2022-02-19 19:25:22 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to start 2022 with a shorter essay discussing why The Beatles Get Back was such an important movie for me last year. This is definitely a more personal one of these kinds of essays, but I hope you appreciate it.
Music by Molly Noise
2022-02-03 03:57:14 +0000 UTC
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Lyrics:
Welcome to Activision, take a look around,
Believe us when we say accountability’s not found,
We've got mountains of lawsuits, comeuppance is due,
but Call of Duty had a fruitful Q2...
Welcome to Activision, Come and take a seat
Just please don’t read the news or your own favorite’s latest tweet
2022-01-29 15:22:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey Everybody! Thanks for sticking with me through my drought. Expect more stuff to come out in February. But until then, enjoy this little song.
In solidarity with the workers of Activision Blizzard, I wrote this parody of 'Welcome to the Internet' from Bo Burnam's Inside.
All revenue from this video will go to support the #ABetterABK Strike Fund.
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2022-01-29 15:15:51 +0000 UTC
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Hey Guys!
I'm still hard at work at my next video projects, but the fine folks at Worlds Elsewhere reached out to me to help make art for their production of She Kills Monsters.
If you are interested in learning more about the show, you can see the great play in action this Saturday, October 30th, 7PM EDT for $20. Aside from them payi...
2021-10-24 01:47:19 +0000 UTC
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