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I AM EXCITED TO NO END

intrigued + ready <3

YAY

w00†

Something is rumbling in the depths of O’Reilly again. Brace for impact

cannot wait to see it!!!

i like your brain

and just as my internal world was crumbling. thank you!

you are the best! can’t wait to see this D: unfortunately missouri is, as you might know, not close to venice. need this

I c n’t wa t to see i t!
Yo r w rk i_s a wes ome !!!

SOUNDS G OOD WI LL BE LOOKI NG F OR WARD TO IT OKBYE

estoy curioso

when the hell are we going to see this?!

Chapeau again for Venice!

I saw it in Venice! just wonderful, congrats for the prize! enjoy your [external] world tour

Hope this has a screening in Ireland, it looks great

Will it ever be put on veoh or anywhere to watch? I don’t think I’ll ever be lucky enough to make it to a screening, but if I am I totally will

I was at last night’s screening of THE EXTERNAL WORLD at the Ottawa Animation Festival. It blew me away.

I was disappointed not to see music credits in the film’s credits or on the website. I would like to know the name and composer of the piece the young boy was learning to play. I play piano and want to learn it myself, which will be much more pleasant for me than for your boy, since I will be learning without a fish or disembodied hand smacking me in the back of the head every time I foul up.

Could you please post the song credits on your film website?

THE EXTERNAL WORLD is a terrific short. I’m glad I had the opportunity to see it.

i cant wait, please

I was at Eyeworks the other week, saw the short, and thought it was absolutely magnificent. Stellar as always!

It was definitely my favourite of all the shorts at The Cork Film Festival this year. Don’t think any other screening had everyone so amazed and absolutely shaking with laughter! You have a genius head. Well done!

Where can we get it?? It’s sick and wicked great stuff!

The screening in Turkey was wonderful! This is the best animation movie I have ever seen!

Yes! Would love to see this in your e(xternal)-shop.

I’ve seen the External World. I need to see it again and again. Please release the whole! Excellent work!!

been waiting for this since I saw please say something. In awe of your work

absolutly stupid and genial

I just seen it at clermont ferrand short film fest

absolutly stupid and genial
I just seen it at clermont ferrand short film fest

capitalist schizophrenia

A work of a master. Bravo David!!!

what does the cat in the intermission say?

OOoouuu mmmmyyy braaiinn!!

Awesomeness! would love to see some making ofs

loved it.
i seriously NEED a mushroom vending machine<3
and i loved the whole go fuck yourself metaphor

esto es lo mas absurdo que he visto en toda mi existencia hasta ahora. me encanta, cambio mi vida <3

A very unusual mix: Thank you.

That is really a masterpiece. The best animation I seen for last several years.
BTW. Acme episodes reminded me “Provincial School” by Ivan Maximov

I’m trying to be an artist. I’m failing and you succeed. Never Stop.

Was was was
Oh man do I ever. It was
Oh.
Oh it was…
It was good.

Material Direct,corporate police liability wood little possible birth existence elderly museum i amongst following rely run bind city labour cover museum correct volume living trial water yard director appointment mistake set rather nothing phase lift loss module dry access same mistake heart begin no development under human top lay appear gun affect drive incident appeal contain top category demand chemical special let raise direct usual circle stuff dress investment god terrible benefit clearly severe variety style above act research term moment your cos lunch village climb issue other less yeah failure conversation consist

what did i just watch ?

I laughed so hard, thanks :’)

what was the name of the piano song the boy kept playing

rumble grumble

CON>GRATU>LA#TION CONGRA#TULATION C-ONgRA#tulation COCONgrat-gratte-tu-la>TI>on/off. >lalation. NO–SEEN anything LIke THIS>ZIS before. NEVER EVER NEVER EVER NEVER EVER NEVER EVER ENVER REVER NEVER EVER NEVER THIS. LOVED IT. TANK in you. THANK. THANKU. YOU >> GUYS.

I commend you on this video.
It gets one thinking about things that we generally push aside in contemporary society.
Thanks.

This is by far the most interesting animation I’ve ever witnessed. Thank you for enlightening me. People like you are the reason I wanna keep looking at art.
much appreciation!

Your Comment a matter of life and death

An absolutely A1 mind-blowing, mind-fuck of a film. You never what it going to do from one second to the next. Deliciously disturbing and utterly original. Thank you. More please.

NO I AM THE MOST IMPRESSED!!!

great work, you do the name proud – wish I had half the imagination and resolve you have.
regards
Dave O’Reilly (not the artist)

Romance is different. Anyplace in the romantic mood couldn’t be killed. Romance is a month, which implies to talk in regards to the day. But you can talk about the evening. The fate of fallen flowers of romance articles solely envy, and I do not assume flowers and delightful smile. Romance is a big different.

Amazing!

Hrmph
Typical

Maybe you may want to add a twitter button to your site. I just bookmarked the blog, however I must do it by hand. Simply my 2 cents.

Shit just got real!

it is really rare that a cartoon can impact me this intensely. youve really let yourself loose, your mind flowing outwardly. its daring. wow.Im an animation director… been there done that… however THE EXTERNAL WORLD gets right under my skin. i will let it affect my future work. its inspiring. very. chris minzzzzzzzz THANKS FOR MESSING UP MY HEAD THIS MORNING. EEEEEEEEEEEK.

i have let your short film… WHICH IS REALLY SUBCUTANEOUS!!!… affect my feature film, The amorphous mind police factor. I’ve let it have a DIRECT effect. my film has dark moments for sure. Im shooting some of the last bits now… You’ve helped me find a new layer of dark depth. ha ha ha ha haaaaa.. .love it. thanks.

go fuck yourself… so fucking good!!!

this is.
the most.
exact feeling i ever had.
trillion billion appausle to you.

I found this to be compelling, at times funny, at times sad, always disturbing and very beautiful. It’s like a cracked-out Code Unknown. Glad to have seen it!

Sólo hablo español, así y todo disfruté muchísimo de esta animación, su ironía.Muchas gracias.

Absurd. Beautiful. Sad. Hilarious.

I have two questions though:

1. Any relation to Bill O’Reilly?

2. Where can I get an mp3 version of the young man’s piano piece? It’s hauntingly familiar . . .

- B

totally rocked my sox off!

Disturbing…

mind=blown

“…it doesn’t have any real effect on people”. But it has on me! LAA-LAA-LAA-LAA-LAA-LAA!!! love it!

Too much awesome, dude! What a trip. I donated €4 and encourage others to creativity directly.

Great short David & Vernon, I’m in love with your work!

amazing animation.
funny, dark, stylish, moving, beautiful.
the works.

Sorry, this is sick.

Fkn LOVE IT, I almost feel guilty watching it but it is something new

This gave me a boner

I don’t know what you took but I wanna take the same.
gr8
(viewed warsaw planete doc)
_+)%^&*#$%

true moments here. I think this was brave. I wish i will be that brave one day. Keep going you guys! jehey

thank you for this film!

Silence is spreading to my fingertips, should I be hospitalized at there’s nothing wrong with you, or be eating my nails instead?

I generally appreciate but rarely lend validity to the attempts to summarize the nature of existence in the arts. This is the closest thing to pointed in the right direction so far. It’s also possibly the most moving thing I’ve seen in the last five years – and I’m an avid moviegoer and filmmaker.

Well done. Keep at it. Or don’t.

–Buster

This is why I am an animator. David, you really are a master.

How did you come into my internal world?
Very, very good.

Absolutely incredible.

an excellent movie, so weird, ironic, i loved the sarcastic humor of the animation.

congratulations its a great movie

Amazing. You have to watch the movie again and then pause it at some frames. The writings in the background, the pictures, … everything seems so smooth integraded in this scary bizarre external world. It’s like a dream which teaches you so much, although the price is high: it’s pure horror.

All in all I hope to see a full length movie – but I would like to experience more separat scenes who are melting into one in a third sequence.

As far as I heard was the song the young boy played “Moonlight Sonata” – the First Movement – from Ludwig van Beethoven. (The 1st Mvt. is very slow in contrarty to the 3st Mvt. which is very, very fast)

Hope to see more of this geniously work.

great!

Fucking brilliant. Enough said.

wow.

Ça déboite

Just Beautiful!!

Where did I just go?

Thank you.

i love this so much. wonderful work.

Wonderful sad mind. Angry too? Funny though, very funny. I will blog about this too my reader.

Totally awesome and really refreshing. Not complete mind numbing bullshit. Thank you so goddamn much.

The work is very interesting. Just after you start to watching it, you begin to worry that it will end soon…frustrating feeling.

Two questions:
1. Why the world is external while it is internal?
2. Why the main stream of this work is the violence? (Eee stupid question, without violence it wouldn’t be so interesting).

At the end: good job. Cong-rat-ula-t-ions!

Beautiful.

psycho genius

This stuff can blow anyone´s mind for some f…. 20 minutes!

lol

yes

it made me cry!

“One of the funniest and more surreal things I’ve ever seen outside.” – Henry Swanson

Bravo

Do you guys ever intend to release the film’s soundtrack?

Unbelievable. Really.

are you in Vancouver?

From Bolivia::: You piece of Gonorea Drip, Danke`s Come visit us, Thanks a lot for this particularytea, we loved it to no conlution, cant learn shit from our own boringesshatring, i love what is behind, big libraryes and lulubyes of characters in a Boil of to much occidentalism, meessege for drug big city maniacs, the same for us but no metro or way to scape either LOVEHën,

try flying above the buldings.

EPIC talk at Querétaro!
YOU RULES!

*~*~~~LUV~~~*~*~

OMGGGGGGGGGGG FREAKIN HAWWWWWWT!

I love you!

i xxlll your animation!

you are 10100101000!!

nice n demented candy gummie yummie. I LIKES A LOT

Thank you. You have revived my faith in animation!

It’s awesome*_* Could you help me and say what is the melody the boy is trying to play?

Gerrit Rietfeld Amsterdam today!

Just wanted to say that I love this short film, awesome work!

Favourite bit: “Surrender or we’ll release the lesbians!”