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The East-Coast Syndicate of The Longfellow Ten (that’s us) has been hard at work over the last few months cranking out new films. We’re on a mission to promote awareness of important academic terms and concepts through absurd stop-motion films. 

The new film posted above, Onomatopoeia, was put together last week and involved about a dozen LF10 members. We have lots of new films currently in production. It’s also rumored that the mysterious Midwest Collective of the LF10 (Minnesotans I believe) are about to start posting some new films. Please stop by the official Longfellow Ten website and leave these young stop-motion film creators an encouraging comment! 

At the end of the school year a few Longfellow Ten students and I became kind of obsessed with  a popular stop-motion film on YouTube called Deadline. It was created by an art student at Savannah College of Art and Design using thousands of post-it notes.

Well, this summer, VHD, an LF10 member, created his own post-it note stop motion film in response to Deadline. He worked for three hours a day over the last three weeks in my classroom while I taught summer school. He used over 2,000 post-it notes. He also made a time-lapse video of himself creating the film:

Most impressive of all, VHD came in each day over the last three weeks at 7:30 am during the summer to work on it. His effort really shines through. Check out more of VHD’s stop-motion films, on his YouTube channel.

p.s. Hope everyone is having a pleasant summer!

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