Day085: Live From The New York City Subway 2!

Day 084: Kid606's "Phoenix Riddim"

Another music video, from electronic musician Kid606. Still love this song and animation.

Day 083: Shrag's "Pregnancy Scene"

Shrag was a cool band minding its own business in Brighton, UK when the world's first MP3 blog, Fluxblog, posted this song, their first single. It generated major (by 2005 standards) Internet buzz, and they ended up coming to New York City to play a few shows. I saw them at Cake Shop, and met them and they were so cool, and so amazed to be in New York City. And it's STILL a great song. Two more missing animations--I took a second weekend off and posted two pre-Bateman365 animations: Day082: Classic Batemanimation: The Elvis Room, and Day081: Classic Batemanimation: Latex Lobotomy. They are now both lost forever. Pour out a 40 for them today!

Day080: Live From The New York City Subway!

MISSING: Day079: Jeremy Scahill's Speech at the NYC Anti-Bush Rally 11/2/05. It's OK; the political stuff doesn't age super-well, anyway. The birth of another recurring series of animations--I carried a portable digital recorder around my travels across NYC and captured weird moments like this. There were a LOT more subway musicians in 2005 than now.

Day 078: Mike Lebovitz & His Roommate Watch Ted Leo's "Maps"

This is kind of the best: someone watched the Ted Leo "Maps" animation and sent in a recording of their reaction. SO GOOD.

Day 077: Will Durst's WMDs

A few missing Bateman365 animations: Day076: Zombie Grrrl 2, Day075: Autumn In New York, and Day074: Homies Theatre Troupe Presents Henry V. Really sorry about Zombie Grrrl 2, because #1 was wonderful. Will Durst is the best political comedian out there. And he's STILL out there. The best.

Day 073: Jandek's "I Went Outside"

Since he wasn't on the Internet yet in 2005 (he just started taking online orders for his CDs in June of 2014), I sent the Corwood Representative a DVD of this animation, hoping for his blessing. He wrote back: "Your film is superb. I watched it and thought it captivating and seems to reach all ages. I envisioned 5 year olds entranced on Saturday mornings watching it. It could be expanded to a 30-minute TV show." The Man From Corwood was prescient: in early 2007, the Bateman365 indeed DID become a TV show, "Scott Bateman Presents Scott Bateman Presents" on PlumTV. It ran for three episodes.

Day 072: Ted Leo's "Maps"

The second music video of the 365, from Ted Leo!

Day071: Colleen AF Venable's "Death Row Baby"

I'm pretty sure Colleen did this song for her podcast, Fluff In Brooklyn. She was pretty much the only person in the world with a podcast in the fall of 2005. She's always been ahead of her time, that one.

Day 070: Scurvy Steve, Pirate Accountant 4

A moment of silence for the missing Bateman365 film, Day069: Homies Theatre Troupe Presents Hamlet's Soliloquy. Honestly, I'm glad a few of these are missing.

Day 068: Classic Batemanimation: Human Guinea Pig

This was the second day of two that I took off. What I love about the pre-Bateman365 animations: the long, long lading sequences. You needed long loading sequences for large file-size (at the time) animations like this back in 2003 or so--literally NOBODY had broadband yet. Oh, it was supposedly coming, in some glorious, far-off future. But at that time, if you didn't want the animation to freeze up part of the way, you needed a loading sequence long enough so that at least half of the animation was downloaded before playback started. Man, what a time.

Day067: Classic Batemanimation: The Charlton Heston Story

Missing from the 365: Day066: George W. Bush's So. Really, it's just as well--the political stuff doesn't age well. I took a few days off from the 365 and but so I put up this animation that I had done earlier, in 2004 maybe. Still fun!

Day 065: Deerhoof's "Spirit Ditties of No Tone"

The first music video of the Bateman365! I really liked this new (at the time in late October 2005 or so) Deerhof song, so somehow I reached the band (or their label?) and got their official okey-dokey. Many more music videos are to come in the Bateman365, and I would go on to do official music videos for Clinic, Low, Sarah Shannon from Velocity Girl, and more!

Day 064: Bob The Damn Bunny 3

Day063: Stoner Dude 4

More missing animations, lost forever: Day062: Jenna G.'s Do Not Try This At Home and Day061: DeathCo 2. SHame about Jenna: that was a fun animation. She was a student in New Zealand who was following the 365 and sent me the sound clip. Loved it. Wish it still existed. Still: SToner Dude. It's funny cuz he's stoned!

Day060: The Bobo Bear Show 3

And then, several in a row went missing: Day059: That One Guy On The Subway. Day058: Meet More Of The Fleezles. Day057: Blind Mango Jehosophat's "Talkin' Head Blues." Day056: Dad. All gone forever. Don;t worry, you won't miss them much!

Day055: Momus Tells A Joke

Two more Bateman365 animations lost to the sands of time: Day054: Fadila The Entertainer, Iraqi Stand-Up Comedian 2: Fadila vs. Jeff Foxworthy and Day053: Meet The Fleezles. I really don't remember either of them. Momus is a musician, and back in 2005, he was huge on LiveJournal. I asked him to record something I could animate, and he came back with this: professionally recorded, different character voices, and sound effects throughout. Incredible guy.

Day052: My Mom Had A Stroke

Missing from the line-up: Day051: Ari Lesser's "Vote Liberal Rap," Day050: How To Draw A Political Cartoon, Post-Katrina Edition, and Day049: Blind Mango Jehosophat's "Chilly Willy Bite My Foot." Of those, "Chilly Willy" is the biggest loss to humanity. My mom has since passed, but she loved this animated thing I made of her.

Day048: Zoe Trope's Who Can You Count On?

Zoe Trope is the author of Please Don't Kill The Freshman, a memoir/novel she wrote while she was still in high school. Today, she's a grown-up and a college graduate. Yay!

DAY 047: Turning Japanese 2

And then four days went missing: Day046: Numbers Stations, Day045: Christopher Martiny Goes To The Principal's Office, Day044: The Bateman Lectures On Physics 1, and Day043: Bush ABCs. it's just as well, really. Turning Japanese 1 also went missing. But luckily (?), the sequel is here.