The Animating Apothecary - Jim Middleton
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The Surreal City, Michigan
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    The Animating Apothecary - Jim Middleton's Interests
GeneralAnimation, film and philately. Not necessarily in that order. I like to ride my exercise bike while watching silent movies. I also like to read with my eyes shut. Here's a film collage, a bit late for Valentine's Day:
MusicFor starters, give me Warren Zevon over Kid Rock any day.
THEN, I collect old music...really old music. Think 78rpm. Then go back a bit further. I crave electron-free recordings. But then nothing is better after a good evening of Shostakovich than tossing in some Moody Blues.
MoviesAnimation and comedy top my list. Make it a funny animation and it is NIRVANA. Wall-E redefines my concept of an animated film. To call it a cartoon is to call the Mona Lisa a "pretty picture." Film archives are opening up their vaults and have been flooding the market with rare and unseen movies, too. Saved From the Flames is the latest DVD 3-pack with astonishing examples of old film experiments in sound and color-- and gosh, there's even some animation there (a restoration of Fantasmagorie where someone actually had a budget to do it digitally, instead of my frame-by-frame retracing in Flash). Add to that the usual and amazing classics - Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud, anything with the Marxes, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Chaplin. Here's a clip from Lilac Time (1928), a mushy sniffle-fest with Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper:
TelevisionI'd rather make a program than watch a program. For example, in 1976:
And this parody from 1977 (AD):

And this parody from 1979, featuring my amazing brother Dave:
And this clip from the first "Jim Shorts Cavalcade of Sports for You" from January 1995 on the Sports Channel - another 99 episodes followed before it was cancelled, but not before it received a regional Emmy nomination (!!)
BooksThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaymes. Or the latest issue of People.
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle ...a combination of a lot of topics that have shown up in less-accessible books, woven with common sense and even more fingers in the eyes of "established" religions. Ah the emotions of Ego, and all emotions are pain...
HeroesObama! Ben Franklin! Miss Mae for helping with the setup! Gwen Frostic! Joe Cartoon! Oskar Fischinger! Frederic Back! Karen Aqua! Sally Cruikshank! Nina Paley! Winsor McCay! Emile Cohl! All of my students! The guy (or gal) who invented the "!"
Groups: Midwest Creatives & Vigilante ArtistsSALAD FINGERSFlash Animations For Myspacecartoonmogul.comRUBY FILMSFlash AnimatorsMaya 3DWest Michigan Steampunk

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     The Animating Apothecary - Jim Middleton's Details
Status:Married
Here for:Networking, Friends
Hometown:Surreal City, MI
Body type:5' 8" / Average
Ethnicity:Pacific Islander
Religion:Buddhist
Zodiac Sign:Pisces
Smoke / Drink:No / No
Children:Love kids, but not for me
Education:Post grad
Occupation:Animation and Pharmacology Instructor

   The Animating Apothecary - Jim Middleton's Schools
Ferris St University-kendall
Grand Rapids, MI
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Education
Minor: Curiculum Development
 

2001 to 2003
Ferris State University
Big Rapids, MI
Graduated: 1978
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Pharmacy
Minor: Radio broadcasting
Clubs: SAPhA, WFRS
Greek:   Omicron Delta Kappa

1973 to 1977
Lakeview High School
Lakeview, MI
Graduated: 1973
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Sciences
Minor: Dead Languages
Clubs:
 

1969 to 1973

   The Animating Apothecary - Jim Middleton's Companies
Animating Apothecary
Battle Creek, Michigan US
Director of Idiocy
Creative Dish Washing

1912-present



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   The Animating Apothecary - Jim Middleton's Blurbs
About me:
My own - sadly outdating - web site is the Animating Apothecary, so that one is
www.animatingapothecary.com
-- you can kill a few minutes there, too. Woo.
Here's the infamous 2006 "Avian flu"

My vacations rarely go as planned:
Who I'd like to meet:
All of my former students to hear what raging successes they have become and how utterly amazing their phenomenal lives are.
Oh, and Voltaire, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson.
For my dental hygiene students, here is your "tribute" from your pals in the animation class!

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Nov 12 2008 9:11 PM

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Aug 16 2008 10:03 AM

thank you very much for the add
I love your work !
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Aug 12 2008 2:59 PM

Hey a big HELLO from the Atlanta Group! :) Thanks for adding me! :)
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Aug 12 2008 2:31 AM

Hey thanks for finding ASIFA-Atlanta, love your page! :)
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Apr 17 2008 1:37 AM

Just thought you might find it interesting that my great grandma went to nursing school at the San and I have all of her old uniforms, yearbooks and such from then.
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Apr 14 2008 5:39 AM

Still a few touchups I must do, but Jim . . . I think I have my book cover! BEHOLD! GUARDIAN IS NOW . . . REAL!!!!!!

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