Tango 7

Here is a still from my comic, Hubba Hubba Hubba - which I frantically hustled together for the next issue of Tango.


The launch is on the 28th of this month. See
Strange Fables for more info.




Nicky launched her book, The Great Gatsby, on Thursday night. What a star she is.
Nicky

I created this little bloke as a demo for my students last week.





I can't wait to have time to print again. I've just been experimenting with this scan of an etching I sold last year. It was an artist's proof, the edition is in an Artists Book so I don't really look at it much. I quite like it and in a way I wish I hadn't sold it. The reason I scanned it in to my computer was to work out how to mend some damage that silverfish had done to it before getting to the actual print with a brush and pigment. So here I can play with it and bring it in to a new form.

Animation

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Bloodlines

A still from "Galloping"
an animation I have in an exhibition called Bloodlines.
Galloping is a 2.03minute hand painted animation.
I used E. Muybridge photos, and started by using a process called rotoscoping. The painted element, and some of the animation, moves beyond rotoscoping. There is a morph involved.

:(

And then things went terribly bad with my files...and I'm up, all night fixing the clip.

All the the things... a list

Things are hectic! I'm leaving for Aurukun on Saturday, for 6 weeks. I'm finishing the Machine Translations filmclip today.The Japer is helping me do the final export. Toots is such a funny little character - I want to pick her up and put her on my desk and have her run around. I'll try and pop up a still later before I go. The very good news is that I've had the go ahead to do illustrations for a lovely book. I've always wanted to do this. Other news, I met up with Peter and Glenn on Thursday and showed them some etchings and talked about the horse project (Bloodlines) I have a clear vision of the animation I have to complete when I get back from Aurukun, and I am quite excited about it. I met Glenn at the Matrix 6 exhibition where my Render Project animation is currently 'whirring' (it finishes on Saturday.) I have a lot of ideas broiling as the result of all this project juggling.






And I've wrapped up my teaching for the semester. I feel quite elated and inspired. Exhausted and withered, inspired nonetheless. I am really looking forward to the work up north, I suppose it's nice to be inspired in the way that I am at the moment, as it will be something extra I have to give to my work up there. So much more to write - but I am rushing. I am listening to Cuss - nostalgic..it really strikes me in the chest area, every little note I know so well. Anyway, I'm off.. I do have things about animation to rant about..next time. More about Fantastic Planet actually.

Miss Hammond has an exhibition on at Port Jackson Press at the moment.

Roland Topor

I was looking around at Topor's online presence and discovered that he wrote the scenario and dialogue for Fantastic Planet (with Rene Laloux, the director), and that he created the original artwork! Gosh. It was like two parts of my world crashing together when I discovered this.

Fantastic Planet
Planète sauvage, La (1973)
... aka Divoká planeta (Czechoslovakia: Czech title)
... aka Planet of Incredible Creatures
... aka The Fantastic Planet (USA)
... aka The Savage Planet (International: English title: informal literal title)

Directed by .......................... RENE LALOUX
Scenario and Dialogue by .......................... ROLAND TOPOR, RENE LALOUX
Based on the Novel "OMS EN SERIE" by ........................ STEFAN WUL
Original Artwork by ..................... ROLAND TOPOR
The film was shot in the animation studios
JIRI TRINKA de KRATKY FILM a PRAGUE






The Tenant
Topor wrote The Tenant. I've not read it and thought I'd order a copy. Look what I found..
See the Typo? Read the spine and the cover.

Had a laugh with Petr about it as we concluded that Topor would most likely have enjoyed this little 'error'.






Roland Topor ...as Renfield (on the right), in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)