Autumn animation stuff

There are a lot of great animation things going on at the moment, it's very sadly the last Aurora in Norwich (really hoping it's not the end though) and Flip in Wolverhampton where tomorrow, there's a talk by Sarah Cox of the fantastic Arthur Cox. If I had a helicopter, a helipad and a nanny I'd get to them both but in the meantime there's alot of leaves to shuffle around the park with my small companions before those leaf blowers get them.

1927

We went to a Jaques Brel evening. The hightlight was 1927, a great mixture of animation and live theatre, very simple and funny but thoughtful too. We were also treated to Brel's 1973 film Le Far West, which should have been a ten minute film, because indeed the first ten minutes were very funny, the following 78 minutes were spent admiring the beautiful interior of Wilton's Music Hall and wondering when the hell it was going to finish.

A second visit to London Bridge

We went back to Shunt Lounge last night to video the installation. There were a lot of dainty pole dancers. It's on until Saturday if you need to see what you look like dancing to Soft Cell with a ginger moustache.
If you don't get along there, I'll get the video of the installation onto my website soon.

The sound of a butterfly

I've finished filming the butterfly film and at the risk of confusing myself and others I'm calling it Little Skipper, the same name as the 2006 version but the it describes so well what happens in the film that I couldn't get used to another one. Now I'm experimenting with some sound by recording the page sounds and making little loops and repeating sequences to play with. It's not right yet but I think it does work with sound.

Come along!

Emily and I had a busy day installing the animation for Shunt. It opens tomorrow and you can come if you like. We were so busy moving little people around the lightbox that I forgot to tell anyone except Shelly. You just go to London Bridge and through the door in the first photo, anytime after 6pm, it looks as if there is a moustache workshop too. Wow, Hazel's going to go crazy for that.

Coming & Going

Emily Tracy and I are working on an animation installation at Shunt Lounge, a really exciting space under London Bridge. We've just got a couple of weeks, it will be opening on the weds 7th October. Here's a little photograph of my lightbox for now.

well hello there ..

This dashing fellow is one of many beautiful drawings created by a female relative of mine a long long time ago. He is waiting until I have some time to create a little romance for him. Can you guess what his name is?