Hey Moe!

Beatdogg sent me this pic a while ago and I never got around to posting it...
It's pretty amazing. (The artist is Matt Cioffi - Character Modeler, Lucasfilm Animation, Berkeley, USA. His "Calibos Smoking" is also quite impressive).

(Click on image to see artist's other work and to read comments on his excellent work!)

I can't help but think that perhaps Moe from the previous post is running things Oz-style at the ranch...Maybe he gave the order to have his former owner "taken care of"...Or maybe not...Maybe I'm just anthropomorphizing chimps because I've watched too many cartoons and ape films over the years...I just picture Moe combing his hair while smoking a cigarette...He sees his former family walking over a hill on the horizon, approaching the compound...then he looks at his goons and nods subtly...he slowly walks over to a corner in his cell and puts on a record...Perhaps like the music playing in "Silence of the Lambs" when our pal Hannibal takes those guards apart...He turns it up real loud and closes his eyes as he concucts an imaginary orchestra of chimps and apes...If this were being filmed, we would see the attack from ground level - from the knees of the humans down...The chimps would come into frame and quickly fly up, out of frame...The banana cake would fall to the dirt and the box would open just enough to reveal the words, "Happy Birthday, Moe!"...then blood would fly and perhaps chunks of face and genitals...fade to white...

Anyway, I'd better hit the road.

Take it easy out there.

Your Pal,

Zambo.