Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen turns 89 today. I hope kids still watch his movies these days. They do, don't they? If you have a kid and you aren't making them watch Jason and the Argonauts and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and Clash of the Titans and It Came Beneath the Sea and so on, you are a bad parent. I mean that. Harryhausen's little clay monsters opened up my imagination maybe more than anything else that I grew up seeing. He made the impossible seem not only possible, but beautiful.
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Happy Birthday Mr. Harryhausen. I once attended a Q&A where he was featured. He actually brought along the model of Medusa and seeing that was great but when he brought out these two little coffins, every geek in that place totally lost it because, you guessed it, the fighting skeletons were inside. We all died and went to geek heaven!
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