Stephan Martiniere tipped me off to this amazing animation from The Balckheart Gang, The Tale of How. This is super cool. It's worth skipping the Youtube link below and watching it directly off the Blackheart site, for better resolution.
That reminded me of another amazing bit of animation that I saw a few years back. Over Time. I watched this thing a dozen times in a row when I first became aware of it.
When I was in school I took two "history of animation" classes at once. One was taught at Copper Union by an experimental animator, Robert Breer, the other was taught at NYU by the more traditional John Canemaker. I had the best time that semester. I never really kept up with animation since then but, with sites like Cartoon Brew and Drawn, I'm starting to slide back into it. If anyone knows some good shorts, link away!