The Lost Thing

What beautiful character design. The dog/elephant machine is just devine. It took me a while to get past the voice of Tim Minchin - i wasnt really sold on the match, but before long was lost in the imagery and symbols and junk and magic.

So far removed from my other oscar winning favourite - Harvey Krumpet - so different but both so deserving.

but http://www.thelostthing.com/

i am terrible i know i am....

Can i be blamed for not wanting to wait...being the obsessive compulsive that i am? So i got a copy. Hungry for more or those divine images from the people who brought us The Triplets of Belleville....and fan of Jacques Tati.

A script for THE ILLUSIONIST was originally written by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from a father to his daughter, but never produced. Sylvain Chomet, the Oscar-nominated and critically acclaimed creator of The Triplets of Belleville, adapted the script and brought it to life in his distinctive handdrawn animated style.

Its an interesting character piece. And really more an homage to Tati than a deliberate piece of entertainment. A `B` side perhaps to the academy nominated Triplets...but beautiful non the less - and already nominated for an Oscar.

Stylistically it took me back to the original 101 Dalmations animation...

I am still waiting though...for the follow up to Triplets.

Stephen Cleary Lectures

Taking in a little on the side...Wednesday nights 6-7.30pm

I took the voice of Joseph Campbell....

...I don't agree with everything he has to say - a lot of the myths could do with a rewrite - from a the perspective of a woman for starters...

but here I was simply test driving stop motion with some characters I fingered out of clay...it was a while back now...before i realized i wanted to be an animator.

The photo of the pink house is my own version of the `Pepto Bismol Palace` - a squatt i lived in on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. It had been ravaged by the 1994 Los Angeles earthquakes and lay neglected.

Speaking of Dialogue...SHUT UP, LITTLE MAN!

In 1992 San Francisco's Bananafish magazine arranged for a commercial release of the audio recordings of two argumentative and violent alcoholics, Haskett and Huffman. The recordings were made by “Eddie Lee Sausage” and “Mitchell D.” who moved into a bright pink apartment building — dubbed the “Pepto Bismol Palace” — in San Francisco`s Lower Haight district in 1987. They discovered that their neighbours, Haskett and Huffman, argued nearly constantly, with Haskett often shouting “shut up, little man!” at Huffman, and so began recording their arguments. Eddie Lee and Mitchell periodically made prank calls to Haskett and Huffman to provoke more dialogue. They distributed copies of these recordings to their friends.

In 1992, Huffman died of a heart attack brought-on by colon cancer, pancreatitis, and alcoholism. Haskett died in 1996 of liver problems due to alcoholism.

It struck me that these recordings would be a great resource for an animation project. Someone bet me to it...someone even went so far as to make a documentary.

Dotjoiner or Dataholic?

Though i am a self diagnosed `dataholic` people like Adam Nash, who spoke recently at our interactive media class and Paul Higham, whom i had the good fortune to befriend at an arts residency in Germany last year, make my obsessive compulsive disorder look manageable. Perhaps the ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) label fits better.

http://autoscopia.net/
http://www.datasculpture.net/
http://www.virtualsculpture.org/

Sean is a friend and animator/lecturer at UTS/Sydney...i really enjoy his blog

blu blu his polish is blu. Matthew in Italian Vogue.