30/10/2009

Future Machine = been & gone


Last Saturday, Brighton entered the White Night. Night time in the city was given over entirely to experimental artistic capering. It was one impressive autumn evening.

The Future Machine projection event drew massive crowds, well into the wee hours. We've set up a Future Machine youtube group for videos of the event. The whole programme was filmed, so we'll post the bally lot up early next week. 42 animations in total.

There are also photos of the hilarious and chaotic, light animation workshop on the Future Machine website. We designed a workshop for ten people, around a hundred ended up wandering through. We were pretty relieved when we could step back and let artist Jake Spicer take up the reigns at 11pm, as he skillfully lead the assembled masses through a life drawing for animators workshop. Learnt an important lesson about whisky and my skill wielding a pencil: as one increases, the other decreaseth. Finally, after we had packed up the monster Projector and put it under lock and key, we got down to the Ocean Rooms. The Beatabet Collective had made it their own and Bunty definitively rocked out.

Had word from the council that they want more animation next year. Already excited.