I Done Got In...

Well, I'm officially in the group exhibition at Wheaton College...it is called the "New England Animation All-Stars" exhibition, planned for Oct. 15-Nov. 20, 2012. Now to scrape together some funds to frame and mount some of the process work and painted frames from "Black Box"...woof.

http://wheatoncollege.edu/gallery/

Yay...a t-shirt!

The beginning of this week was just mind-blowingly, unbelievably bad. Winning a t-shirt with a great logo somehow made it a little more bearable, even fun! Though they only have small sizes left...does anyone have any small and creepy pets needing a shirt?
http://blog.smallandcreepy.com/#!/

Blue Sunshine & Electric Literature

My piece for Electric Literature is playing in Montreal this weekend...the more I read about the film center there, I wish I could go!!

http://www.blue-sunshine.com/arthouse-avant-garde-reader/events/the-plague-dogs-directors-cut.html

15th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival

Just received an invitation to submit "Black Box" to a women's film festival in Turkey....mmmm, OK! I posted their trailer from a few years ago below....

http://festival.ucansupurge.org/turkce/index.php

An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt

Yup, I'm a fan...my very favorite is "The Meaning of Life", saw it in Ottawa a couple of years ago...dang. Anyways, he will be screening at the Coolidge Corner Theater on April 2nd, gotta go.

http://www.bitterfilms.com/

Moving Pictures Exhibition

I received an invitation to submit my work to the upcoming Moving Pictures Exhibition at Wheaton College, I really like the fact that they want to include all the process work that goes along with creating...i.e. sets, puppets, painted frames, etc. I should find out by the beginning of next year if I get in...definitely something to look forward to!
http://wheatoncollege.edu/gallery/

Nerd Alert

So I was woken up yesterday morning by a beam of light in my face, it was absolutely lovely and I grabbed my camera. All the little dust motes became prismatic and moved along the air currents in the room, I might just have to animate them!

I'm Going to Need A Bigger Boat

OK, what I just said earlier? But better.

The Boy Who Drew Cats

I haven't seriously thought of creating anything new for quite awhile, I was looking through my old notes and stories I liked and came across one that was one of my favorites as a kid. I couldn't remember the name of it (thank YOU, Google!) until I looked today, "The Boy Who Drew Cats". It's funny what you remember years later, like the phrase, "...an enormous, monstrous rat, - a goblin rat, - bigger than a cow!" Hopefully more will come of this...

I haven't sketched anything out yet but I am already thinking of doing stop motion using white paper cut outs for sets and puppets, just using the natural shadows for color and shading...I wanted to do this a few years ago while I was still in school but never had a chance to...I have attached some links to give an idea of what I have in mind for technique. Aaaaand I can't wait to start this project!

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