process
Silence: Lectures and Writings
“Everybody has a song which is no song at all: it is a process of singing, and when you sing, you are where you are. All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working it is quite clear that I know nothing.”
Interview with Darren Walsh – Bob Creator
reblogging 12foot6blog:
Interview with Bob Creator – Darren Walsh
We were very lucky yesterday to catch Darren Walsh preparing to live animate Bob in the Arnofini. Here he talks about how Bob came about, how he’s animate and how he thinks the animation will go.
Be sure to see the live animation every day in the ground floor of the Arnofini, it’s free to watch!
Cristina Cretu and Alice Corner
A great short interview with Darren Walsh about the process involved in creating Bob_On_Life. He’ll be animating Bob LIVE today! If you’re in Bristol this is a must-see.
“Talent Is Nothing Without Focus and Endurance”
“Fortunately, these two disciplines—focus and endurance—are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training. You’ll naturally learn both concentration and endurance when you sit down every day at your desk and train yourself to focus on one point. This is a lot like the training of muscles I wrote of a moment ago. You have to continually transmit the object of your focus to your entire body, and make sure it thoroughly assimilates the information necessary for you to write every single day and concentrate on the work at hand. And gradually you’ll expand the limits of what you’re able to do. Almost imperceptibly you’ll make the bar rise. This involves the same process as jogging every day to strengthen your muscles and develop a runner’s physique. Add a stimulus and keep it up. And repeat. Patience is a must in this process, but I guarantee results will come.”
10 Reasons Why Animators Should Make GIFs
1. They’re quick to do.
Animation is traditionally a lifetime torturefest of pain, self-doubt and confusion. You can make a nice GIF from just a few frames and that’s the end of it.
Animation is traditionally a lifetime torturefest of pain, self-doubt and confusion. You can make a nice GIF from just a few frames and that’s the end of it.
2. They catch the eye.
There’s nothing like a moving image in a sea of search results to make people look twice. (We’re living in an attention economy, people).
3. You can provide a nice teaser to your Vimeo page.
Like worms for fish.
4. No-one will ask you to explain the sub-text.
Which is especially good if it is not in your best interest to tell people what exactly that is.
5. People rarely click and watch a video on Tumblr.
With a GIF, TOO LATE!! They already watched it.
6. It’s down with the kids.
Kids love GIFs, GIFs love kids.
7. You can do self portraits and no-one has to look at your ugly face.
I’ve been participating in the Guest Directed Self Portrait project initiated by Molly Peck. I think I am only recognisable in 1 of my 7 submissions so far made.
8. You can try stuff out and get quick feedback.
Nothing says something works by a tsunami of reblogs.
9. You learn the virtue of brevity.
There’s nothing worse than a time waster.
10. You can recycle old work.
Remember that crappy piece of work you did years ago that you’re too ashamed to show anyone? GIF the good bit, bin the rest.
Cinematograph in Progress
the task of the modern writer
“The role of the imaginative writer has flipped in our time.
Previously the imaginative writer was supposed to produce fictions; however, we are now completely surrounded by fictions. We’re surrounded by advertisements, by artificial environments.
The role of the author now is to create realities, to discover realities perhaps.”
John Cleese on Creativity
(linked fixed 2018)
Seven and a half minutes worth of writing
reblogging nearsightedmonkey:
“People have been looking for the timing videos for Lynda Barry’s Writing the Unthinkable excercises. Here is the one for seven and a half minutes worth of writing.
OK LET’S GO! BUT BEFORE YOU START THE VIDEO….. STEP ONE:
First write ten nouns on ten little pieces of paper. Any nouns will do! Cake! Fire! Teeth! Ticket! Etc!
Number a page from one to ten
Relax your whole body from top to bottom and say the alphabet to yourself or something else you have memorized and think back to early days in your life….
turn over one of the pieces of paper and write down the first ten images… sort of like snapshots…. that come to you from that word
Read the list over
Circle one that seems vivid or has trouble in it and write it on a clean sheet of paper like it was a title to a story and then draw a big X on the page.
NOW start the video.”
Paul Greer 