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Thursday, April 26, 2007

The Sound of the Washing Machine of Life

I have two friends called Adrian Wilkins and Denise Bryan... They travelled the Silk Road for a year or so and created this kalaidoscopic Cabinet of Curiosities on their website silkthreads.org
It consists of eccentric collections of sounds and photos.

Adrian is the sound artist and I asked him if he could record their washing machine one day, for me to put onto the Washing Machine of Life animation.

So he did a beautiful job, and recorded the whole cycle then picked out the perfet 5 second clip.
Here you go, headphones on and zone out to the Sound of the Washing Machine of Life.

Labels: adrian wilkins, animation, denise bryan, silk road, silkthreads.org, sound, sound art, sound recording, washing machine

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Membership hits 50!

and the first session is now full!!

New session posted today: will be at the Hub in Islington, Wednesday 2nd May 18.30pm

Thanks to Alec East, Creative Director at Do Tank Studios and editor of the Shooting People Animation Network for listing the group. Shooting people is a terrific noticeboard site aimed at the US and UK indie film community. Well worth joining.

We also got listed on the University of the Arts noticeboard
Good place to check out part-time and 'first' job opportunities (ie some of them don't pay that well but good for first experience). Occasionally a nugget gets listed (you know a gold nugget and the deadline for entries was yesterday).

Today I've posted on the AWN Forums which already brought a new member going by the name of Bentos: check out his showreel which is interesting and funny especially the Sumo Tony Blair bit. The AWN database is an International infinite resource for animators and the industry (if you didn't already know :)

Labels: animation jobs, animation listings, AWN, Bento, Do Tank, Shooting People, UAL, University of Arts London

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Cartoonish figure drawing changes link

The Cartoon Figure Drawing and Photography Group has a new link, because it was in the wrong category on Meetup.com

The link is now:
http://art.meetup.com/270/

Labels: cartoon, figure drawing, meetup.com

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Monday, April 02, 2007

Cartoonish figure drawing MORE

Well, mailing A - J on the Pictoplasma list (oh and I forgot to tell you, all the London members with a profile picture on Mojizu) paid off: around 5 new members and ONE RSVPed YES!!!!

Thanks to Alex Hughes (who sadly, lives in Birmingham so he probably won't be able to come along generally) for sending me this link to: Dr Sketchy

"We combed New York to find the most beautiful burlesque dancers, the most bizarre circus freaks, and the most rippling hunks of man. Then, every other Saturday, we let you draw them for three hours." Check out the Dr Sketchy Gallery

They're aiming for sexy in a light hearted way. Not sure I'm into the whole erotic arts thing (probably because I'm not a man) or the voyeuristic 'circus freaks' bit but I like the costumes.

Might go for a change!
- I could walk around on my knees wearing a long black coat and pretend I'm Toulouse Lautrec

re VENUE

Am following up a new lead at a place called the Hub just behind Angel tube station. Looks like it's perfect. It's not too arty and not too rent-a-nylon-carpet. The idea is that freelancers can drop in and work with other freelancers if they feel like it. For people who don't have their own office basically. Only £15 per hour in a room for 15 people.

Labels: angel tube, cartoon, dr sketchy, figure drawing, mojizu, pictoplasma, the hub

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Sunday, April 01, 2007

Stumble and I love Your T-shirt

This weekend I discovered Stumbleupon.com and week before last I found iloveyourtshirt.com

Stumbleupon is a really inspired idea: you can review sites and tag them, so you add to the collection. There's a Stumble button you press and it brings up any website that's been reviewed by someone else in one of your preferred categories eg 'bizarre' or 'arts'. I posted some of my pages and friends pages and also played for a while and almost every site that I Stumbled on was worth visiting. It's certainly bringing a small but steady stream of people to visit my site too.

iloveyourtshirt.com - you can simply upload a photo of a t-shirt you want to promote and it goes straight onto the front page. Doesn't necessarily stay there long as someone else soon bumps you off. It's good though! I've noticed countries that don't normally show up appearing in my stats. Even when your picture has got bumped right down to the 10th page, it still gets click throughs : )

Labels: iloveyourtshirt, promote, stumbleupon, t-shirt

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Heart Stamps

Last week I sold some of these heart stamps from my Zazzle shop!

Labels: heart, stamp, valentine, zazzle

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Progress on the cartoon figure drawing group

Cartoon drawing group now has around 15 non-spammy members.
Tonight I emailed character designers with names from 'A' to 'J' in the UK section on Pictoplasma.com which was very very boring, trying to spread the word about the group. Unfortunately you can't narrow down to 'London' on Picto. Kind of a mad thing to do but it would be great to get a few of the Picto character designers coming along. I noticed that Pictoplasma has closed the submissions to its archive! I haven't submitted anything for a while, because last time I did, they added the characters on but then deleted all the ones already in my section. Plus, I started using Mojizu where it's more fun to get votes and with the possibility of selling a t-shirt. I truly admire the Pictoplasma people though, for their heartfelt passion which I saw first hand when I went to the 1st Pictoplasma Conference in 2004 in Berlin.
Anyway, my friend Mish has committed to coming to the drawing group and a guy called Graham so if the worst comes to the worst and no-one else RSVPs 'yes' then we can meet at Hyde Park and draw outside (weather permitting) to save on the cost of the studio hire.
Talking of spam, a strange and mysterious member joined up today with a funny image something to do with the US elections. I googled it and it seems to be a sort of cult cartoon octopus alien / devil called CTHULHU. Dunno what that's all about... I hope it's nothing with dark undertones (must buy garlic).
Will post on some boards about the my drawing group. Only three weeks till the first session now.

Labels: cartoon, character designer, cthulhu, drawing, figure drawing, mojizu, pictoplasma, pictoplasma conference

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