Zak Wolf

Another classic "Berenstain Bears" book has some text changed for modern reprints! This time it's "Too Much Junk Food," another episode CBS wouldn't let Stan and Jan Berenstain adapt into the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon!

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16 hours ago | [YT] | 136

Zak Wolf

One book that really helped fuel my interests and knowledge in classic animation is Leonard Maltin's "Of Mice and Magic" from 1980 (with research associate Jerry Beck). My high school's media center had a copy I often checked out, and thanks to it I learned a lot about the artists behind these cartoons, along with obscure characters like some of Walter Lantz's lesser-known characters, the Terrytoons, the Fox and Crow and other Columbia/Screen Gems characters, the 1960s Paramount cartoon characters (who I only barely knew about from Nickelodeon's old "Cartoon Kablooey!" block), and the UPA stuff like Mister Magoo. Years after graduating high school I bought my own copy, the 1987 edition. And look at me now! I've ended up incorporating all the interests and knowledge into a fursona: the private toon detective Sam Valentino! Definitely a well-recommended read for fans of classic animation! #FursuitFriday

2 days ago | [YT] | 442

Zak Wolf

"Berenstain Bears Classics" reprints of the 1984 book "The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV" have some changes made to the text, to make technological references more vague, along with changing a newspaper advertisement for a TV special into a new show premiering.
(And yes, I am planning a new Zak Wolf vlog where I talk about how CBS vetoed this and "Too Much Junk Food" being adapted into episodes of the 1985 "Berenstain Bears" animated series.)

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3 days ago | [YT] | 474

Zak Wolf

Good lord, what is happening up there?!
Why, it's Aurora Borealis, a.k.a. the Northern Lights, or as "Winnie the Pooh" calls it: Cloud painting!

5 days ago | [YT] | 519

Zak Wolf

50 years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. Here is an AMV I made of the late Gordon Lightfoot's song set to appropriate "Pokémon" anime clips (since Shopro blocked it)...
drive.google.com/file/d/1TgPNGg2EXRen9q6Yt9tmOta6B…

6 days ago | [YT] | 124

Zak Wolf

I'm going to be working a full-time I.T. job starting in two weeks! I'll be a breadwinner again! A great thing to come back to from Furpocalypse!

1 week ago | [YT] | 274

Zak Wolf

I see the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro is finally adding an A.I.-assisted rotoscoping/masking tool, very much like the ones in Apple's Final Cut Pro (pictured), BlackMagic's DaVinci Resolve, Magix's Vegas Pro and even Cyberlink's PowerDirector. This is one of the few A.I. tools I DO find useful, mostly when I make YouTube Poops, and now implement at least one such moment in them.

1 week ago | [YT] | 465

Zak Wolf

"The best part of a voyage - by plane, by ship, or train - Is when the trip is over and you are... Home again."
- Ludwig Bemelmans, "Madeline and the Gypsies"

1 week ago | [YT] | 339

Zak Wolf

An advantage of having to take Amtrak to and from Furpocalypse is that it's also a pretty scenic train ride, especially in autumn! 🎵 “Home, home, we’re going home…” 🎵
#furpoc2025

1 week ago | [YT] | 247

Zak Wolf

Eureka! I found a secret bathroom! An important clue that this conference area of the hotel was originally guest rooms!

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