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Song of the Spindle

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Animated film created by Drew Christie for the Possible Futures Film Contest, an " event challenging storytellers of the world to create a new vision for the future of humanity."

It didn't win, but ya gotta love the whale.

View more of Christie's stuff here: democracyforthecartoons.blogspot.com/"?

Music by Spencer Thun. June, 2011.

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