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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.

 

 

"Mood shift shift back to good again. C'mon be a friend"
"-Of Montreal

 

"It's like a discipline without the discipine of all the discipline"
-LCD Soundsystem

 

 

"And if you wish it will still hurt as before. I can hear you breathing I know you're there."
-Crispy Ambulance

 

 

 

 

"He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike."
-Nietzsche

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"karen put me in a chair fuck me and make me a drink I lost direction and I'm past my peak I'm telling you this isn't me no this isn't me Karen believe me you just haven't seen my good side yet"
-The National

 

 

 

"He drank panther piss and fucked the girls you're probably married to"
- Nick Cave

 

 

"The path to enlightenment is not reached by car and its landmarks will be signs on the soles of the feet."
-David Holtek

 

 

"I'm going to do things to you that are beyond all known philosophies."
-Duran Duran (Barbarella)

 

 

"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman - a rope over an abyss"
- Nietzsche

 

 

"I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders."
-The National

 

 

 

 

"B-b-b-baby he's screaming the truth. America, America is killing it's youth"
-Suicide

 

 

 

"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