This Blog will serve as a space to chart the development and processes of the BANG collaborations. Following on from the 2009 Future Machine, this year's project will mix comics, projected animation, radio broadcast and live actors and culminate in a live event at Brighton's White Night Festival on the 30th October.
08/06/2010
22/03/2010
Flickers premiers at Brighton Festival
We've just finished filming the final footage for Rachel Henson's Flickers: Off the Path. It is sad not to have a solid reason to run and leap around Stanmer Park in a smock anymore.
I've been working on this project as an animator / performer. You can see the results and wander the flick book trail in May. Tickets are selling out, so please visit the Festival Website if you would like to venture into the animated woods.
29/11/2009
BAFTA win at Plug-in Media
Big and Small wins the 2009 Children's BAFTA in the interactive category.
My incredible colleagues at Plug-in Media are all shocked, but it must be real as we have photos: here are Dom, Juliet and Seb taking it in turns to hold the face of gold.
It’s been a pleasure working on such an ambitious project with this talented bunch. Fun too to make sound effects with my daughter in the bath. The Big and Small House is really an impressive world.
Production on Plug-in's next big, interactive adventure is well underway and I’m enjoying working on 3D animation. It’s another one for the BBC - due for release next March.
30/10/2009
Brighton White Night: Future Machine
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| Future Machine flyer image by Mooshpie and "Toc" by Abbie Stanton |
Last Saturday, Brighton entered the White Night. Night time in the city was given over entirely to experimental future visioning. A playful Autumn evening.
The Future Machine projections drew huge crowds. 42 animations in total. We've set up a Future Machine youtube group for videos of the event.
The Future Machine projections drew huge crowds. 42 animations in total. We've set up a Future Machine youtube group for videos of the event.
You will also find photos of the hilarious and chaotic light animation workshop on the Future Machine website. At 11pm, artist Jake Spicer took up the reigns, and he skilfully lead the assembled masses through a life drawing for animators workshop. Finally, after we had packed up the monster Projector and put it under lock and key, we got down to the Ocean Rooms for the Beatabet Collective takeover and Bunty.
We have had word from the council that they would like more animation next year. Already excited.
21/08/2009
FUTURE MACHINE Collaboration
Sarah Bird and I pitched a BANG animation projection project to Donna Close at the Brighton Council, and we are happy to report that they have taken it up.
FUTURE MACHINE is due to be unleashed on the streets of Brighton at this year’s White Night.
To celebrate, Abbie Stanton’s made a little animation with the beautiful Future Machine mascot she has built- it's on the BANG site. Toc is a future pod who has travelled a long way through time and space - and he’s going to be travelling all over the world in the next few months.
During the night of Saturday 24th October, "future" animations will be projected directly onto the façade of Brighton's Unitarian Church. I love the idea of beaming a totally diverse collection of visions onto the walls of the city. A 30 second alien attack might be followed by a utopian vision of a healed earth laden with flowers and food, metallic dystopias, pixel madness, stop motion characters, sourcing inspiration from Buckminster Fuller, Hildegard of Bingen and SunRa.
So, how can we imagine what is to come?
During the night of Saturday 24th October, "future" animations will be projected directly onto the façade of Brighton's Unitarian Church. I love the idea of beaming a totally diverse collection of visions onto the walls of the city. A 30 second alien attack might be followed by a utopian vision of a healed earth laden with flowers and food, metallic dystopias, pixel madness, stop motion characters, sourcing inspiration from Buckminster Fuller, Hildegard of Bingen and SunRa.
Open to BANG animators and all who want to join in, and make like Nostradamus and look to the future. We encourage working with the details of the architecture in inventive ways. You'll find more info in the open call guidelines.
29/07/2009
Off the Path // On the Web
An update on Rachel Henson's Off the Path project. She now has a little web presence over at Word Picture Studio. There are a few videos posted up of the 2008 pilot I worked on. Also, there is news on the Flickers project at ANTI festival in Finland.
It's beautiful stuff.
It's beautiful stuff.
20/07/2009
Earl Grey Whistle Test
Another hour of improvised electronica to come out of the musical powerhouse that is our living room...
Earl Grey Whistle Test: Session 6
Earl Grey Whistle Test: Session 6
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