sexy cut out animation and pancakes of the century

Giuseppe Ragazzini

I found this animation while doing some research about my next animation, which will be love themed... Here's a sexier, slower version of the same animation, but there is some morphing. Make sure your volume is up because the soundtrack is very... sexy.


A few friends and I went to Hen House (1532 Dundas Street West) for brunch this afternoon.  My breakfast was AMAZING!  The best pancakes I think I have ever had.  Thin and crepe-like.  Mmmmm....  My beautiful friend Denise is extremely preggers and will be pushing out her bebe in a few weeks.  I'm so excited!!!  Amy and I had some spicy cesear's, Denise had a virgin cesear...  heehee. 

This is The Hen House. 

A little animation I made

Kisses
Hand drawn and digitally assembled

if these drawings aren't animated, click on them and they should open in a new window as an animated gif.

I'm reviving my interest in animating.  About four years ago I did my first (and longest animation) called "Heaven", (you can see it on the side bar of my blog too).  I did lots of exploration as I trying to figure out what I was doing.  The animated gifs above are from that period.  While working on Heaven I totally drove myself a little nutsy... spending so much time by myself, obsessed with creating several thousand drawings... It was my thesis project for my degree.  i was drawing so much that I had to run aspirin cream into my hand to stop it from cramping up.  SO... to make a long story short, I sort of abandoned animation for years and now I think I'm ready to go back.  I have more stories to tell and more ideas to explore.  My friend Victoria (who makes beautiful videos) asked me to submit something to New Toronto Works at Pleasure Dome in March.  I work well under pressure, so I've decided to get my butt in gear and make something for this show.  It will involve sand, cutout collage and After Effects.  i am pumped!

Bye, i'm going home to make a big pot of chili.

I am so out of it today.

I am having quiet time

Boxing Day

I'm back from 4 days of family holiday goodness and I'm basking in the dim glow of my droopy Christmas tree, surrounded by boundless rolls of lifesavers, hershey kisses and foil wrapped santas.







My highlights of the holidays:

1. my 3 year old nephew pooping in his pants by the christmas tree after my mom singing a song where the chorus is "everyone body poops!". 
   
   
2. Joe managed to find a wife Christmas card that says something about me having a nice butt.
   
   
3. My nana's  80 year old boyfriend voluntarily choose the Ouija Board during the family board game gift exchange game.
4. I watched the USA spelling Bee Championships (although joe complained the whole time that they had become too commericial)
   
   

My goals this week:

1. To start a wall weaving with my newly kool-aid dyed unspun wool
   
2. To build (with the help of my dad) a sand animation table so I can play around with sand and other things... I have an ikea desk top that I'm going to cut a hole in and then lay a peice of plexiglass over the hole so that I can shoot light up from below the plexiglass.  I've done this before while teaching, but with a piece of plexiglas sitting between two chairs, which didin't work so well after a few days because the weight of the sane caused the plexiglass to sag.  Although, I know that Caroline Leaf worked with a light table.... i'm going to see if I can find a cheap one before I cut my tabletop.
   
   Here is Caroline Leaf's beautiful sand animation, The Owl Who Married  a Goose. I recommend viewing this in a quiet space, as the sound track is beautifully minimal and simple. This whole film is gorgeous.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   
   

   Here is an iteresting blog post I found by about the actually Inuit story the animation is based on. The blog belongs to Masha du Toit who lives in Cape Town, South Africa.  Another great post further explores Inuit stories and imagery.  I'm going to wrap up this post so I can read through this awesome blog.