tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293530582024-03-06T20:21:38.948-08:00You've been in there for ages, what are you doing?getting crumbs everywhereUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-86657930548949728172012-11-28T03:31:00.001-08:002012-11-28T03:33:20.047-08:00New www for news from the bog and films<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm moving over to a new wordpress website, where I can eventually have all the stuff together. My Spellbound website is flash and it's no good on the mobile devices, so this winter I'm consolidating.<br />
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<a href="http://lizzyhobbs.wordpress.com/">Here is is</a>! It still needs a bit of work. For one there's a cannibal doing revolting things on the front page and I'm not sure it gives the right impression. But if you want to keep abreast, you can follow me over there, and eventually I'll flush this one down the bog.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-10637193157117823792012-11-12T05:42:00.002-08:002012-11-12T05:42:28.144-08:00British Museum - Lion hunt and Fearful Folly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We had an outing at the British Museum, and instead of heading straight for the family sandwich room or the cat mummies we went to room 10a to look at the eye poppingly brilliant Assyrian Lion Hunt (645 - 635BC). The sculpted reliefs depict the sporting achievements of King Ashurbanipal for his palace at Ninevah. It was wet in Assyria and there were alot of Lions. Lion fighting was the sport of Kings, although unfairly the lions were brought to the Kings, and fought in an arena. The reliefs show the events in episodes, so for some, it was like reading a comic. A comic rendered in beautiful detail, not just the muscles and claws, but the violence and the drama too. </div>
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In the exhibition space, the British Museum's collection of <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/renaissance_to_goya.aspx">Spanish prints</a> is on display. I hadn't seen Goya's prints before, and seeing them in the context of an exhibition of his predecessors and contemporaries was enlightening. Stone lithography was in it's early days as an artistic medium, and some of Goya's experiments didn't quite work, but when he got going with it, he propped his stone on an easel and standing up, used his crayons like brushes, and sometimes he coloured the whole surface of the stone in wax crayon and used just a knife to create the image. He was getting older too, so he often needed a magnifying glass. I thought they were amazing. Here is an image from Los Disparates series, there are 29.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-33617574895413025602012-11-05T11:43:00.003-08:002012-11-06T13:47:55.294-08:00Laburnum Boat ClubI've just uploaded an animated film that I made with <a href="http://laburnumboatclub.com/summer-project-2012-back-up/">Laburnum Boat Club</a> to You Tube. We made it during a day long workshop last year, it's called <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D5AfxJBuUI">The Nature of Laburnum Boat Club</a></i>, and it features acts of great daring, some in live action, some by zoetrope. The workshop and film was commisssioned by <a href="http://floatingcinema.info/">The Floating Cinema</a>. Emily and I are hoping to do some more work with them next year on the community engagement part of their programme. They have launched a crowd funding campaign, it's such a good venture and Up Projects are really brilliant, if I had some spare money, I would spend it there. Instead I have some spare time, so Emily and I are writing funding applications too.<br />
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I found my portrait of Dennis amongst some older drawings, I've put him on the wall tiles for a bit, I listen to a lot of detective fiction on the radio in the studio, and he keeps me on track. If I could have a moustache (it may yet happen) it would be just like this one.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-17604828232494846082012-10-23T02:56:00.003-07:002012-10-23T02:56:51.900-07:00Light MusicAt the weekend we made a too brief visit to see some of the projections and events from <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern-tanks-tate-modern/exhibition/filmaktion">Filmaktion</a> at the Tanks, Tate Modern. <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern-tanks/display/lis-rhodes-light-music">Lis Rhodes' Light Music</a> (1975) has been on for longer than the Filmaktion week, but it was a highlight for me. I love her brave and spare <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we4-xvuaoCI">Dresden Dynamo</a> from 1971, it's such an exciting work to show to students, so it was brilliant to enjoy the noisy and immersive Light Music for the first time.<br />
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Having a studio in the house is nice, there's the fridge of course and then small visitors too, who put me to shame with their easy ways and quick ideas.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-32728627577687163372012-10-15T12:03:00.001-07:002012-10-15T12:12:54.496-07:00Nut the nut<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These little fellas are a part of a home-made party game called Nut the nut. If you are interested in the rules you may contact me directly. They are made out of pistachio shells and it has fulfilled a long cherished ambition to make a little army of bugs out of nut shells.</div>
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Emily and I are hoping to work with extremely tiny beasties for our new project, here we are doing some research in the River Lea yesterday with scientist <a href="http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/burrows.htm">Malcolm Burrows</a>.</div>
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A few weeks ago we visited the iron age hill fort Danbury Ring in Middle Wallop, a much loved family Sunday walk from many years ago. The sunny autumn days need to be saved up and treasured.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-21322618218605841222012-09-27T12:19:00.000-07:002012-09-27T12:19:53.667-07:00The UshevIf I hadn't been lucky enough to have met the man last year, I would think Theodore Ushev was a company of ten people working around the clock. He is so extremely prolific.<br />
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He has a blog <a href="http://www.ushev.com/">here</a>, and you can see the catalogue of films, prizes, reviews, new productions... I didn't manage to get to <a href="http://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php">Ottawa</a> where he won Best Canadian Film for <i>Nightingales in December, </i>but you can see a masterful <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VclSdfoExY&feature=player_embedded">music video for <i>Kottarashky and the The Raindogs</i>, </a>a tribute to pre-cinema, drawn on vinyl and beautifully cut together. <br />
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I'm assembling a lovely, informative film made with young people in foster care over a 4 day period in the summer with an amazing team in Cambridge. I hope it will be on the internet at a later date. I'm working towards the cinema premiere at the beginning of October. It's hot in the studio, and quite messy! It's lucky I don't have any assistants, I would have lost them by now.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-90934292594999399342012-09-12T09:41:00.000-07:002012-09-13T01:52:08.533-07:00The Ware Case - animated version<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Emily and I made a three minute version of Broadwest Films Ltd 1917 film 'The Ware Case' using just publicity stills and a synopsis. There's a lot of scrumpling. It was a part of the film we made for The Pop Up Picture Palace earlier in the year. It is showing as a part of the wonderful <a href="http://www.e17films.com/film-festival/">Walthamstow International Film Festival</a> at Vestry House on Saturday 15th September 1 - 5pm.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-65118678486456433332012-09-12T06:49:00.000-07:002012-09-12T06:49:12.862-07:00Come on!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I love those Victorian crafts, now where is my flower press?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-51810655785158022462012-08-19T14:16:00.000-07:002012-08-19T14:16:09.375-07:00Prom 47<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We made it to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/august-17/14218">Prom 47, celebrating the centenary of John Cage</a>. It was fantastic, we were part of an attentive audience and it was beautifully planned for the shape of the Royal Albert Hall, musicians and their amplified materials at lit tables set in the boxes and the floor. I'm glad we stayed for the amplified cactus although it was nearly midnight.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-28190066991780713642012-08-13T14:22:00.002-07:002012-08-13T14:22:45.138-07:00Tolosa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Topic puppet museum in Tolosa</div>
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Bibat museum, Vitoria Gasteiz</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-10193541059202924392012-07-23T13:55:00.000-07:002012-07-23T13:58:08.276-07:00Tricky Women - Women in AnimationWe are off on our holidays soon, and I'm taking <a href="http://www.trickywomen.at/en/shop/shop/cda0388cfbf563caa1e9528e0d44080d/?tt_products%5BbackPID%5D=198&tt_products%5Bproduct%5D=9&tt_products%5Bcat%5D=1">Tricky Women - the book</a> (Women in Animation). It's really good. Waltraud Grausgruber & Birgitt Wagner have commissioned some properly serious essays (eight in English, four in German). In the first place the book offers a fresh historical perspective of the history of women in animation from Jayne Pilling. Because we know she knows her stuff, she can write informally. She reminds us of the some of the chronological landmarks or milestones, but also offers thoughts on subject matter, viewing contexts, Eastern European animation and the necessity for contextual knowledge, or not. For German speakers there is an essay about Mary Ellen Bute about whom there is not enough written or screened. <a href="http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/lingford.html">Ruth Lingford</a> has written a wonderful essay about <a href="http://www.veraneubauer.com/">Vera Neubauer</a>, it's short but incisive and together with the interview with Vera, gives an insight into Vera's powerful, joyful and brave work. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <a href="http://animation-evolution.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/eliska-decka.html" style="color: #333333; display: inline !important; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;">Eliška Decká</a> has written about the The Czech and Slovak New Female Wave of Animation, which of course includes <a href="http://www.michaelapavlatova.com/">Michaela Pavlatova</a>. Julie Roy from the National Film Board of Canada has written about metamorphosis in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><em style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Michèle Cournoyer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;">'</span></em></span>s work. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Suzanne Buchan's essay is about Animation installation, focusing on <a href="http://www.rosebond.net/">Rose Bond</a>, <a href="http://vimeo.com/4327043">Marina Zurkow</a> and <a href="http://int.kateigaho.com/oct03/anime-tabaimo.html">Tabaimo</a>. The installed, projected works are described really beautifully, which is important for works that exist in a space far away and at a time that has passed. At the end of the book, and if all that wasn't enough for 24 euros, there's an explosion of fantastic thoughts and connections from </span><a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/leslie">Esther Leslie</a>. Her essay <i>Shadowy, Shape-shifting, Shaky Animation as Subversion </i>sends you scurrying all over the place making mind altering connections, which I marvel at and embrace as a practitioner. Leslie revisits some of the works from an exhibition Shudder at The Drawing Room in 2010, for which she wrote <i><a href="http://newsfromthebog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/shudder-at-drawing-room.html">Shudder, Shutter, Shatter</a>, </i>but her written work here is all entirely new.<br />
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Did I say that it comes with a DVD too. I can't think of another festival that has commissioned such an important collection of essays, can you?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-29127442288278326102012-07-23T12:39:00.000-07:002012-07-23T13:59:23.070-07:00Retiring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not me, but my hard working Dad. We saw this rainbow with gold at the end of it after his party! It must be a good sign?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-41773903329370926622012-07-18T02:11:00.001-07:002012-07-18T02:12:35.341-07:00Reflecting FashionThere's a large and comprehensive exhibition at Mumok in Vienna called <a href="http://www.mumok.at/programme/exhibitions/reflecting-fashion/?L=1">Reflecting Fashion</a>. I didn't mean to go, I was in the building for the Pop Art show, but I was very glad that I did. The central theme of the exhibition was the intersections between art and fashion, and they had gathered all the key artefacts from modernism onwards and presented them beautifully. There's a lot of eye catching edgy stuff, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valie_Export">Valie Export</a>'s 'genital panic' action pants, outfits from <a href="http://stephenwillats.com/">Stephen Willat</a>'s Multiple Clothing Event (1993) and the elegant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Schiaparelli#Lobster_Dress">Elsa Schiaparelli</a> & Dali Lobster Dress, worn by Wallis Simpson shortly before her marriage to Edward VIII. I was most excited by the first floor, dedicated to Modernism. There was some beautiful textile designs by Sonia Delaunay and Austrian ceramicist Vally Wieselthier. Giacomo Balla's 'modifiers', designed in 1914 were pretty splendid. These were variable decorative elements that you can attach to your clothing as you wish, they were colourful graphic shapes created from felt and embroidery. I've had a similar idea myself because young mothers often acquire splotches of this or that on their shoulder just before leaving the house, and if you could pop a colourful modifier on top, it would be very useful. <br />
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Cindy Sherman was well represented too, and she had made a paper cut animation on super eight in 1975 called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUJlYsvdV7I">'Doll's Clothes'</a>. If you find yourself in Vienna, Mumok is definately worth a visit.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-37756053162356513572012-07-15T13:54:00.004-07:002012-07-18T01:20:03.686-07:00Animation Summer St. Pölten 2012Thank you to <a href="http://www.trickywomen.at/home/">Tricky Women</a>. They do everything so carefully and well. It was so nice to be in Austria again. I can tell a bit of the story of the week in photos.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> "tiny frame - big projection!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ivoneta's lovely metamorphosis work<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many buffets</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Concentrating</td></tr>
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The other workshop leaders were very cool and the participants were studious and all so interesting. I hope I can go back again soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-26417979508130543312012-07-05T12:51:00.000-07:002012-07-05T12:51:01.791-07:00Musical summer evenings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
A sticky night in <a href="http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/">Cafe Oto</a> to see <a href="http://www.simonrpayne.co.uk/pages/videos/iris-out.php">Simon Payne</a>'s Iris Out from 2008, projected thrice and squiffy, so the iris's in question were all lined up. It was very exuberant and a delighted woop was issued from the crowd when the projection finished.</div>
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We made an annual visit to the church of St Anne & Agnes for the first of three <a href="http://musicwedliketohear.com/">Music we'd like to hear</a> evenings.</div>
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Talking of sticky weather, tomorrow I set off for Vienna, and I shall be happy to be back with my <a href="http://www.trickywomen.at/">Tricky Women</a> friends, new and old.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-25056559253971431852012-07-01T13:36:00.002-07:002012-07-01T13:42:18.595-07:00 I'm busy assembling a portable 16mm cameraless film workshop kit. I hope if works and I make it to my European destination. I think my hand luggage is going to be bulgy and fragile and my suitcase full of chemicals and sharp objects. However, it's a really nice task and I'm gathering knowledge and experience at a great rate.<br />
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There's also little trips to the plot and further afield to lovely Whitstable and I put these here to remind myself that it's not always been rainy this summer.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29353058.post-61543461933763150222012-06-28T08:38:00.001-07:002012-06-28T08:42:48.293-07:00Tippoo's TigerI'm fascinated by this Figurine of Mr Hugh Munro being mauled by a Bengal Tiger (1792). It can be found in the British Army Museum. I don't think I've seen such a violent incident depicted in earthenware before. <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/tippoos-tiger/">Tippoo's Tiger in the V&A</a> shows the same gory scene in life-size, and I plan to make a special visit soon.<br />
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I was very sorry to hear that Jeff Keen has died. William Fowler has written a good obituary in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jun/24/jeff-keen">The Guardian here</a>. Nearly this time last year I was involved in a <a href="http://newsfromthebog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/coq-au-vin-on-menu.html">panel discussion</a> in which we chose works that had influenced or inspired us, and I showed <i>Cineblatz</i>, <i>White Lite</i> and <i>Marvo Movie</i> (1967/8). Both for the films themselves, which are political, humorous and exciting and also for his attitude and methods. <a href="http://newsfromthebog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/coq-au-vin-on-menu.html">GAZWRX</a> is a very good box set of his films, and his painting and graphic works have been showing here and <a href="http://now.elizabethdee.com/news-jeff-keen-1923-%E2%80%93-2012/">there</a> around the world. I hope they will come here soon to spread the word about this wonderful artist.</div>
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