This little bloke was crawling around on my keyboard....the day after I saw Pan's Labyrinth. Ooh.








Here is miss Bird Dropping Spider. She is on the bottom left. There are now 8 eggs. She made another one over the weekend. All of the little white dots you see under the eggs (brown spheres) are the baby spiders from one egg. I am quite fascinated as you can tell. You can see the top egg has a whole where the little one's crept out.



kirrily.org
Everywhere you look there's a Kirrily. Most exciting.


Well the Matrix 6 exhibition opened on Saturday in Canberra. My animation "Marks" is probably still looping right now in the Gallery at Megalo. It is a 5 minute loop made from etchings. It has a particularly raw feel to it ... almost too raw - however it demonstrates a particular aspect of some ideas that came from the residency at Megalo. I think I should have written an artist's statement. I did have a couple of documents that talk about the process however they don't really touch on the the ideas. I think I just need to write a bit more to extrapolate on all of the broiling thoughts I've had on the project that have been keeping me awake at night - in a nice inspired way. The piece is so much more engaging with music - particularly in a public space..though I wanted it to be stripped back - more like a still image on the wall of a gallery. I really need to explore this - this different space. Gallery/cinema screening. hmm.



multiple rhino

YES Piotr Dumala!

I am very happy to discover that this years animation festival includes the work of Piotr Dumala

"Polish animators stand high on any list of master animators. Zofia Oraczewska, Jan Lenica, Jerzy Kucia,Zbigniew Rybczynski, Piotr Dumala. Walerian Borowczyk, Piotr Kamler and Ladislaw Starewicz"
_MIFF


See some of Dumala's work on the ACMEfilmworks site:
Dumala page

ACME filmworks have updated their site. If you go there you can see Daniel Guyonnet's showreel (the showreel on the old site was better.) He is one of the best animators alive today.

hallo.

hi.

animating.

busy.

sorry.


Here are some doodles:




This guy with the head is basically a stain on my desk. There's more of him to come.

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Click here and then Scroll down a bit to see the invite to Printmakers in Residence of 2006. My Render Project (a little loop of animated etchings) is included. It's not actually rendered yet - but it's churning along.



Hopefully I'll be able to catch some of this whilst I'm up there.
Print Symposium

bucket

Today I wished I was still small enough to sit in a bucket of water.



Here's my animated chap, he is also a bit hot and needs a bucket of water to jump into.

practice webs

Here are some chaps from the Render Project.


Bird-dropping-spider news is: There are 6 eggs (I'll insert a pic soon) and today, being a sweltering 30something degrees, has brought the little blighters out and into the sunshine! There were 6 or so tiny bird-dropping spiders out there wriggling and making little practice webs. (again, picture here soon)









Oh look.
Things of interest:
Living Together



Interestingly enough the Living Together conference was free and open to the public. Not that I want to have a little gripe here..but it is interesting to note that there was a conference of a similar nature in Melbourne last year -open to the public- and ..well lets just say I could have had a four year supply of chocolate freckles for roughly the same price. Not very open to the public methinx. I suppose they had their reasons. Perhaps they gave out 'show bags' with some of Derrida's fingernail clippings included in the goodies. I'm being silly now. :) ...okay it's a little gripe. But that's not why I popped in the link. It's a good link for the publishing house - with some insight into the authors. :)

spider

Click to see what we have on our jasmine vine in the back yard.

It's a bird dropping spider.

Apparently they catch birds, climb up really high..and then drop them to the ground.