Albino Blacksheep (ABS) is a Canadian animation website based in

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, Ontario, Canada. It publishes member submitted digital media made with

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for mobile phones.

History

Albino Blacksheep was proposed in 1995 by Steven Lerner, to promote his band of the same name, which was started in 1996. Very little information on the band Albino Blacksheep exists. In 2000, Steven took a

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course and redesigned the website. This new incarnation contained rants, graphical images, and a video stream from Lerner's video camera. Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major portal for Flash animation and animutation (a Flash animation style created by

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in 2001). The popular Web game ''Musical Lantern'' can be found on this site. The website also helped the band

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achieve some notability after posting their music video ''Banana Man''.Quirky Michigan band pops into Rehoboth
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Notes and references

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External links

Albino Blacksheep
1999 establishments in Ontario Internet properties established in 1999 Canadian comedy websites Free music download websites Websites about animation