Summer project: sequential interpretation of audio/word

Summer project done, on to new briefs! Here's my animated interpretation of Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" (HD, if you please).

I animated this with a photoshop/stopmotion technique. Creating scenes with individual moving bits in layers and manipulating each bit before saving frame by frame.

Homemade stamp set

Two 10 year anniversary stamps I made for Mr Rootsy, my dad.

NYC photos II

More photos from New York. I haven't done anything to these photos, it's all cheap poundland colour film and strange goings on in developing. The sunny weather worked better with the colour film than the b&w, very interesting.

Trailer abstinent movement

Last week on PMI Eric exclaimed that "it's a revolution, and I started it!", and revolution or not, I'm happy to hear it's spreading. Trailers are getting worse and worse, they're most of the time long, bad, completely misrepresentative and full, and I mean Mr Creosote full, of spoilers. I've been trailer abstinent for a good while now, I only occasionally watch teaser trailers, or trailers for smaller films that I might not have known of otherwise, if they come up in the cinema and I can't escape.

All well and fine, but what happens when you're in the cinema and you can't escape and the trailer isn't for a small film you wouldn't have known of otherwise? I usually close my eyes and listen to a podcast (discreetly). 

Hold on to your trousers, here's the exciting thing: I've designed a way for you to spare your eyelid muscles, make a statement and share it all with your friends. Is my increasing and poor use of italics starting to sound like I'm selling something? Maybe. 

THE TRAILER ABSTINENCE VISION BLOCKERS. 
Paper shades have never been cooler.

Comes in two special editions: HTJI & HOT DOG STUDIOS

Movement stopmotion

Dreaming about something isn't always wanting, and some people just like to watch.

Our last brief for level 4 was to write our own brief and make a personal project. I managed to ramble about Sherlock Holmes and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula for half a page before finally getting to the bottom line: I love fiction. I want to create fiction. Worlds, characters, background props that only other weirdos will notice and appreciate. I want these things, but I don't do them. Why?

Ingen som vet, ingen som vet.

The brief was about giving myself a kick in the bum and get to work, to not care about anything else but getting an idea, sticking to it and making it happen. To not at any point surrender to the nagging suspicions or dreary doubts. I made a stopmotion film, here it is (HD recommended):





And here's a wee making of thing:

Art of the accident II

Oh, and in the absolute elation following the purchase of my shiny new Canon a4 inkjet I made a really quick book with material from my Art of the Accident brief. This is it:

Semiotics: visual poem

Oh my giddy aunt, I've been working on this big ol' brief for a while now. Going to New York (yes, in March) I saw this poem on the metro:

I remember my mother toward the end,

folding the tablecloth after dinner

               so carefully,

as if it were the flag

               of a country that no longer existed,

but once had ruled the world.

Coming back and setting out to work on interpreting this poem with semiotics, nazis attacked and stabbed some feminists in my home town and all hell broke lose in my insides. Still informed by Jim Moore's poem, my project geared towards more personal, political territory. 

Fold-a-flag is about the flag as a symbol and how the way one reads a flag can be distorted or shifted over as little time as a decade. How a society can decide to turn against a group of people, against reason and compassion, lured by the idea of "our" well-being as being separate from "theirs". 

It's a realistically useless design project meant to bring personal inner calm (to me, and to you too if you want) and make you think about what you could do practically to change our society to the better. Voting in the EU-elections would have been a good start. Not voting for joke politicians would have been another.

-> FOLD A FLAG WEBSITE <-