phenakistiscope

Hamish lives upstairs in the hot loft.



Holes and Flaws
Thinking thinking. Um di doo. I have pains in my chest about the shape of the paper that I submitted weeks ago. Mmm. So many ellipses of sensible query and closure.

However there are new and exciting ventures ahead. Indeedy.
I do have animation waffle to 'submit' to this place I've called 'blog' for many months now.

Co Hoedeman talk at VCA
Peter Foldes' animation, "La Faim (Hunger)", Color Sound Film, The National Film Board of Canada, 1974. Interesting technique



Res Fest
VCA Screening
AIM screening
Sal's animation "Dog Gone" (I have to write about how it felt to animate in pencil and paper again..after a bit of a break)(Pretty nice)
Snazzy new must-have book called Animation Now. Such a great book! Such a crap name...and the cover, well I would be much happier if they'd pictured a Piotr Dumala still on the front.

See a good AWN article on Piotr Dumala
Or Pritt Parn. Anything but big green Shrek 3D face.
Currently listening to The Love Boat theme song. Such pleasant cheese.


Travelled up to Canberra with Hamish and Kirrily (the 2nd) today. 8 hours of non-stop fun. Many locusts were killed by our vehicle.

Christmas. Yee!
New Year. Yes it is coming. I resolve not to be cheeky.
ha.
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The Goss



If you want to know where its at go here: x

The 'goss'

My library books are due back on the 17th of January.
current-joy
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David's snazzy dragon.
(see AIM link)

Rio

Goodafternoon. The paper is in. I have finished. Well it is in and I haven't finished. Well I have finished, but it doesn't feel like I have. No I haven't finished because there is so much more to unravel from the shamozz of words delivered in the said paper. So I haven't. Finished. But maybe I have, I don't know. Such a mysterious world we live in.

Speaking of finished, because it has, I went to see the William Kentridge exhibition in Sydney last week. It was fantastic. It would've been a great exhibition to visit several times, as there were many animations to watch.
Thats all for today. Thankyou. Goodbye.

mmmm.





.nearly there.
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Here is my definition of improvisation.
∑ Improvisation is a creative act that generates form or content intuitively, in the moment without a set text to follow, for a continuous period of time. The outcome is true to the process; it is not edited during the act.

This definition talks of a timeframe, a state of mind, and a process. I would like to take this further and define improvisation as a technique that requires the following 'set up':
∑ Timeframe
∑ State of mind
∑ Process
∑ Technique
∑ (Level of) Skill

so.
I wont be harping on anymore until the joyous paper is handed in.