By Drew Grant 12/13/11 1:11pm

Occupy Wall Street

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Squidding at Sachs (Next Media Animation)

Taiwanese Animation Studio takes on Goldman Sachs' Vampire Squidding (Video)

Yesterday, we wrote a lot about the Occupy Wall Street protesters who put on giant vampire squid puppets and marched down to Goldman Sachs headquarters at 200 West End. Their message may have ended up getting lost in translation, but it did make for an amazing video from Big Apple TV, the New York-centric spin-off of Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese studio that has brought us American pop-culture in weird, cartoonish installments since about 2010-ish.

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By Nate Freeman 10/01/10 8:00pm

“Tiger Woods Accident”

The video that started it all for Next Media Animation. Soon after the animation arm of Next Media Limited started rendering stories from Apple Daily newspapers in CG clips, Tiger Woods crashed his car outside of his house. The exact sequence of events was yet to be confirmed, so NMA just created the most Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/01/10 7:59pm

“Lindsay Lohan Out of Jail, Heads to Rehab”

In one of Next Media Animation’s most-watched videos, Lindsay Lohan’s career is given a respectable coda in beautiful subtitled CGI. The former Hollywood star is first seen drinking a martini while driving a Volkswagen Beetle — not unlike the one Lindsay drove in “Herbie: Fully Loaded.” The jail sequence comes complete with erotic girl-on-girl Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/01/10 7:58pm

“Is Sarah Palin Gunning for 2012?”

In this video, Next Media Animation chronicles the rise of Sarah Palin from “a virtual unknown, even in the U.S.,” to the potential GOP candidate in the 2012 election. Events progress at a fairly delirious pace, and in the span of not quite two minutes we are treated to a potential Palin family reality show, Read More