"Well lets face it, these laws that you say - hidden laws - they are hidden, but they're only hidden by our own ignorance; and the word mystiscm has just been arrived at through peoples ignorance. There's nothing mystical about it only that you're ignorant of what that entails".
Hello hello, as you can see the film got a new title. I think it's foreign..
Here's a hastily compiled trailer. This isn't any sort of 'official trailer' or nuthin, not even one for festival approval, just something I fancied doing on my last night in the UK. Its a little pretentiously long so my apologies I just got carried away.
As always, comments are more than welcome. I tried to include a bunch of new bits for you university folk who may still have eyes on this.
The song is a cover of Restless Farewell by Mark Knopfler. Picked it for the beautiful & relevant lyrics, altho must say on watching it back it is more a folly of my own than anything 'correct' for the film. Whatever - im tired and not enough time to change nothin.
Oh ev’ry foe that ever I faced
The cause was there before we came
And ev’ry cause that ever I fought
I fought it full without regret or shame
But the dark does die
As the curtain is drawn and somebody’s eyes
Must meet the dawn...
Oh, ev’ry thought that’s strung a knot in my mind
I might go insane if it couldn’t be sprung
But it’s not to stand naked under unknowin’ eyes
It’s for myself and my friends my stories are sung...
Oh a false clock tries to tick out my time
To disgrace, distract, and bother me
And the dirt of gossip blows into my face
And the dust of rumors covers me
But if the arrow is straight
And the point is slick
It can pierce through dust no matter how thick...
Anywho that's it for now. Am off away for a month. Hopefully by the time I return the film will be accepted in multiple festivals and we'll be millionaires. That's how the animation industry works right?
"If you don't have the chance to see it, you don't like it. It's a bit like after we did Kes, the young lad who was in it who played Billy Kasper, we said lets go and have something to eat, there's a nice cafe, you can get all sorts there, what's your favorite food? He said fish and chips.
Well, it would be fish and chips because he'd never seen any other menu.. so my point is, lets show people the other menu. Of course they'd be interested."
Hello hello. Wanted to post some pictures of our place of work. I like to think of us more akin to a garage band than a two man studio. The lady's prefer it atleast.
Animators aid & directors aid
The setup
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Work on the films going swimmingly We got two weeks to finish it. For the first time on the project I can see the end, which feels great. We're going to push ourselves this week, and hopefully, come this time next week, all the animation will be done (thirteen minutes of it) and all the backgrounds will be done.
We've also got a great composer on board and we both feel really great about the music.
We watched through the film yesterday and both felt really chuffed with it. The common mantra is - it could be rubbish, it could be great, we don't know. Can't see the wood from the tree's as the saying goes. Either way, we're both resolutely proud of the commitment & effort we've put in over the course of the last 3/4 months, not to mention the work we did back at uni.
To put it in perspective, On monday we both worked for 27 hours straight. Finished in time to watch Villa lose to Newcastle.
It's been three solid months of hard work (with a 2/3 week break between over christmas). My dad summed it up nicely saying about the Stones when they first got together: They locked themselves in a flat (Mick Keith & Brian) and just played. This is our equivalent.
Anyway, I want to reiterate a belief I felt strongly through uni. I feel now more than ever (with higher tuition fees) this is true. You don't find real artists/creative's at university, you find them in the dole office's & public libraries. They lock themselves away in books or songs or make films with buddies. Most people (but not everyone) go to uni because they didn't know what else to do. People who want to do it will do it anyway.
`Sukie was a kid who liked to hang out in the art school.. she didn't enrol, but wiped the floor with all the arseholes`
found this old video of john cage. makes you question how a man of such stature, can be raised from a ground-swell such as that. how could he exist from such a giddy innocent-and-giggling backdrop?
no doubt the rowdy crowds are still about today, but were alot more clued up. if an audience (aka the public) is so giddy and high as in that vid, its because theyre supposed to be (take me out, x factor). there not doing it out of innocent incoherence, there doing it because it fits the mould to (like of x factor when anyone 70+ steps out and evcerybody goes awwww and cheers).
today, post modernism and all that jazz, were not innocent, were schizophrenic, and more likely to lend an ear, except out of boredom or ignorance.
