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Excuses, excuses, excuses.
I've come to consider what I do as "kitchen sink" animation. I know that by normal standards most clay-mation, ball and socket and 3D animators technically put me to shame,but I believe that there is plenty of room for multiple forms, including lo-brow.
Everyone knows the old saw "write what you know" and to that someone added "film what you own" and I take that to heart.
I enjoy searching for and collecting things that might play a role in a piece and I consider my animation staging area a form of a junk yard.
I do fabricate a lot of the set and characters but I also like using found objects or things I've owned for years.
I won't try to dodge the reality that I'm also too busy and/or lazy to do painstaking clay-mation or intricate stop-motion, but I hope my sense of aesthetic and writing are entertaining enough to overcome my shortcomings.
I also like the disconnect of having some characters more "animated" than others. I hold a bit of nostalgia - not so much for Mr. Roger's style puppetry - but more like the odd local stuff I watched as a kid such as Larry Smith and His Puppets.
There's something inherently creepy in a character who talks with no moving mouth.
I also like dadaism, absurdity and non-linearity. Tales Episode One ended up being much more of a straight narrative than I set out to do, but I think upcoming episodes will deviate significantly.
"Let's have some decorum."
-Monochrome Set
"I don't care what weapons you use just as long as you keep me amused."
-James Chance
"Nag nag nag"
-Cabaret Voltaire
"In America, for every action there is an equal and opposing inaction"
-Dave Holtek
"You know it's time we grow old and do some shit."
-Broken Social Scene
"Can you dig it? Can you dig it?
Can yooooo dig it?
-Sirus The Warriors
"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
-Jean Baudrillard
"Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality."
-Nietzsche
"Like a dark stripe down the center of the night, two's as good as one."
- Arto Lindsay
