school help: Xeno’s Random Video Shuffle IV - Help.com

Xeno’s Random Video Shuffle IV

Sorry, I know I’m a bit late with this one. I’ve been a bit busy trying to not starve to death.
Anyway.

This is a video I’ve loved for a long time. It’s one of the few videos to actually make me tear up a bit. The whole package is a Master’s Thesis Animation, from a student named Dony Permedi at The School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art.
His… (or possibly her) website is located here: www.donysanimation.com

This video is called “Kiwi!”

Enjoy.


Original on YouTube.com

Yours , as always,
Xeno Dragon

This open post was written 12 months ago | V/U/S: 157, 44, 16 | Edit Post | Leave a reply | Report Post


Reciprocity (11) Many thank yous! The poster has helped others since their own post was made.

Since writing this post Xeno Dragon has helped in 11 other users' posts within the last 4 days. Xeno Dragon is a verified member, has been around for 2 years, 7 months and has 232 posts and 22,315 replies to their name.

Post Tags (10)

Replies (44)

Where were you?

Click and drag to move the map around. FAQ: How we place people on this map »
You can also watch events on Help.com as they happen
Mouse over the map for 2 seconds to see an expanded, interactive view

Xeno Dragon invited 162 users to read this post 12 months ago.

Help me with: Blueberries.
Fire offline Verified User (3 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (12 minutes after post)

at first i was like…

what? a rope?..

okay…

nails…

okay.. sideways tree? … then i started to guess. when i saw the next tree i was like.. oh.

then i laughed through the whole thing.

excellent.

- Fire

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
seas light offline Verified User (1 year, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (15 minutes after post)

That brought a tear to my eyes as well. Poor little cute guy, Boo, hoo :(

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
tricky offline Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (1 hour, 55 minutes after post)

it was good not bad ^_^

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: What If?
madam_kitty offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (2 hours, 58 minutes after post)

have not seen that in years,
so cute x

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
chunkymove offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (4 hours, 2 minutes after post)

Hmm, I admit it… Huh?

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (5 hours, 7 minutes after post)

chunkymove wrote:
Hmm, I admit it… Huh?

You don’t get it?

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
chunkymove offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (6 hours, 9 minutes after post)

don’t rub it in man :-)

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
chunkymove offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (6 hours, 10 minutes after post)

No, I don’t get it.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (6 hours, 11 minutes after post)

Oh. Well, kiwi birds can’t fly.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
chunkymove offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (6 hours, 12 minutes after post)

Xeno Dragon wrote:
Oh. Well, kiwi birds can’t fly.

Yep got that, been to NZ. Hmm, am I going to look silly in a bit…

So he…

oh, right there. LOL

Cheers

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (6 hours, 16 minutes after post)

He spent all that time and energy pulling trees up the cliff, and nailing them in place, and then suicide jumped, just to realize his dream of finally knowing what it’s like to fly.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
chunkymove offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (6 hours, 32 minutes after post)

thanks, I just got that when I was writing the last post. That’s a well told story in just 3 mins

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Sans offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 57 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (7 hours, 10 minutes after post)

Xeno Dragon wrote:
He spent all that time and energy pulling trees up the cliff, and nailing them in place, and then suicide jumped, just to realize his dream of finally knowing what it’s like to fly.

Hey man, that was wonderful. Although on one level you could say it was a suicide jump, on another it’s not at all. I looked at it more as living your life to the fullest. So much of this world is hard work, drudgery you might say. The little kiwi spent him/herself building something beautiful in order to realize an impossible dream. It might have been the dream of a para-athlete who punishes him/herself building upper body strength in order to compete in wheelchair races. It could be someone who works with HIV-positive children in order to extend their lives or just to make their years as joyful as possible. It could be someone who rescues animals, or forests, vintage music or their own self-esteem.

A life well-spent, well-lived is like a flying kiwi, a paradox, a mystery, a song sung with heart.

Thanks for posting this x; now I’ll have to go back and visit the others in your youtube series.

Sans invited 157 users to read this post 12 months ago.

Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (7 hours, 15 minutes after post)

Lol… I was just invited to my own post.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
Sans offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 57 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (7 hours, 16 minutes after post)

Sorry about that, I used Fire’s amazing invite all button.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Red_Sky offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (7 hours, 27 minutes after post)

Ahhhh!

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: -
Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (7 hours, 38 minutes after post)

Sans wrote:
Sorry about that, I used Fire’s amazing invite all button.

?

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
skyy offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (7 hours, 54 minutes after post)

Ohhh i get it now it took two times for me to understand and i felt kind of slow for a sec lol

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
c-eek offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 15 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (9 hours, 32 minutes after post)

Great way to get better wings and a halo, too.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (9 hours, 42 minutes after post)

Nah, it’d have to be wings and horns and a tail, because you know… suicide, and all that.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
Daksha Cromwell offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (9 hours, 55 minutes after post)

haha i thought it was good. at first i was wondering what was going on then i saw the other trees and knew. again very good.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
c-eek offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 15 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (9 hours, 58 minutes after post)

Xeno Dragon wrote:
Nah, it’d have to be wings and horns and a tail, because you know… suicide, and all that.

You can just spin the tale to please yourself. Why not? The artist created his story but left the ending to your imagination. When I go, I hope I am doing something spectacular.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
THE INTERNET offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (11 hours, 1 minute after post)

:| is my response.
cutest suicide ever

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (11 hours, 7 minutes after post)

c-eek wrote:

Xeno Dragon wrote:
Nah, it’d have to be wings and horns and a tail, because you know… suicide, and all that.

You can just spin the tale to please yourself. Why not? The artist created his story but left the ending to your imagination. When I go, I hope I am doing something spectacular.

I wrote a post about what the best suicide ever would be, once.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
THE INTERNET offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (11 hours, 15 minutes after post)

Xeno Dragon wrote:

c-eek wrote:
Xeno Dragon wrote:
Nah, it’d have to be wings and horns and a tail, because you know… suicide, and all that.

You can just spin the tale to please yourself. Why not? The artist created his story but left the ending to your imagination. When I go, I hope I am doing something spectacular.

I wrote a post about what the best suicide ever would be, once.

it ended with a thud. his wings are too small for him to fly with.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Jade offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 8 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (11 hours, 26 minutes after post)

Xeno - I have to be honest, I didn’t get it at first. but all that work that little Kiwi bird did to live his dream, that hard work and effort to make something happen, to experience a dream, and then life ends as a result of the pursuit of a dream. so bittersweet…

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Vilén offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (12 hours, 6 minutes after post)

I remember Kiwi. It was brilliant. You can hear a *thump* at the end.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: I am SICK of love songs.
john-diggity offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (13 hours, 7 minutes after post)

*tears* He wanted to fly so bad that he chose to risk his life to do it. wow. He truly lived his dream and died happy. Inspirational and sad. Thanks Xeno :)

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (13 hours, 8 minutes after post)

^_^

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
Sasha101 offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 6 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (14 hours, 2 minutes after post)

And the Moral of this story is, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” :-)

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Nightowl offline Verified User (1 year, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (15 hours, 21 minutes after post)

When my sister first showed me this vid I couldn’t stop crying. Its just really sad.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Fire offline Verified User (3 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (21 hours, 52 minutes after post)

are kiwis extinct? … im sure this is a dumb question no matter the answer.

- Fire

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
ƒ∂ƖƖεи tears offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 10 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (22 hours, 33 minutes after post)

flyin is the only way to die. where can i get me some trees on the side of a cliff??

aww. poor little kiwi bid.

Fire wrote:
are kiwis extinct? … im sure this is a dumb question no matter the answer.

- Fire

its the dodo thats extinct. kiwis are still alive i think coz theyre everywhere in newzealand apparantly

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 28 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (22 hours, 56 minutes after post)

There were moas.

Giant versions of kiwis that used to live in NZ, but they were… LARGE.

http://www.kcc.org.nz/birds/extinct/m…

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Help me with: Blueberries.
Je ne sais pa offline Verified User (2 years) Long Term User Shouts: 231 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (1 day, 5 hours after post)

that was soo cute and know u make me want to cry cause the poor little “birdy” couldn’t fly and know he has kinda a feeling how it feels and end up “CRASHING”. all else it was sooooo nice and that birdy is sure well smart/fearless/a tad bit stupid.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Je ne sais pa offline Verified User (2 years) Long Term User Shouts: 231 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (1 day, 5 hours after post)

ƒ∂ƖƖεи tears wrote:
flyin is the only way to die. where can i get me some trees on the side of a cliff??

aww. poor little kiwi bid.

Fire wrote:
are kiwis extinct? … im sure this is a dumb question no matter the answer.

- Fire

its the dodo thats extinct. kiwis are still alive i think coz theyre everywhere in newzealand apparantly

i didn’t know that, but we learn something every day, know going to newzealand is above australia.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
ƒ∂ƖƖεи tears offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 10 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (1 day, 5 hours after post)

huh? new zealand is next to australia. it the phillipeans that are above us

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
chunkymove offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (1 day, 8 hours after post)

ƒ∂ƖƖεи tears wrote:
huh? new zealand is next to australia. it the phillipeans that are above us

but it fits the post. Maybe shifting perspective 90 degrees makes cutepixy’s dreams come true.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Je ne sais pa offline Verified User (2 years) Long Term User Shouts: 231 #
An Undisclosed Location | 12 months ago (1 day, 8 hours after post)

chunkymove wrote:

ƒ∂ƖƖεи tears wrote:
huh? new zealand is next to australia. it the phillipeans that are above us

but it fits the post. Maybe shifting perspective 90 degrees makes cutepixy’s dreams come true.

what i ment was that i hav a too go place and new zealand it kinda the bottom and i changed its place with australia on the top 20. and it would soo accomidating if everything would shift just for my pleasure but o well dreaming can’t hurt

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
RainDancer offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (1 day, 11 hours after post)

I love that video…haven’t seen it in forever. Thanks for posting it.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
Left offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Unknown Location | 12 months ago (1 day, 11 hours after post)

Sasha101 wrote:
And the Moral of this story is, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” :-)

Not in the case of this poor kiwi. It was a one shot drop. I’m just happy that he didn’t hit all the trees on the way down.

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators
PomPom offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
GB | 12 months ago (1 day, 12 hours after post)

i didn’t get it at first lucky i read down lol i wil have to watch it a few times to make sure i get it

Quote this reply Report this reply to moderators

Invite Others to Help

A logged in and verified Help.com member has the ability to setup a Friends List and invite others to help with posts.