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Pencilface

Christian Simmons — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:47:50 -0500

Cast: Christian Simmons

Out of the blue

Jeannette — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:34:54 -0500

an experiment i did with papercut outs and black lights.

out of the blue, I was consumed.

Cast: Jeannette, Franck Deron

Shoelace Love

Jeannette — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:25:30 -0500

two shoelaces fall in love.

Cast: Jeannette, Franck Deron

BBC Knowledge

Grandchildren — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:36:47 -0500

An animation for the BBC Knowledge channel.

Credits:
Agency: Three Drunk Monkeys
Executive Creative Director: Justin Drape, Scott Nowell
Creative Director: Noah Regan
Copywriter: Damian Fitzgerald
Art Director: Matt Heck
Agency Producers: John Ruggiero/ Thea Carone
Content Director: Dan Beaumont
Content Manager: Brad Firth

Narrator: Richard E. Grant
Director: Sean Pecknold
Producer: Aaron Ball
Production Company: Grandchildren
Animators: Britta Johnson, Sean Pecknold
Sets and Creatures: Matt Lifson, Britta Johnson, Sean Pecknold
Rotoscoping: Stefan Moore
Painter: Matt Lifson
Effects DP: Michael Ragen
Editorial and Compositing: Grandchildren
Colorist: Sam Atkinson, Lightpress
Sound Design and Mix: Justin Braegelmann
Special thanks: Austin Wilson

Cast: Grandchildren

Carpark North - Human

Jose Vanaclocha — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:00:21 -0500

Dir: Martin De Thurah
dethurah.dk

All Things To All People (2005)
myspace.com/carparknorth

You're so right and you don't think you're wrong
You're not on the list and you're in my songs
I did right to walk and just leave you there
cause no one can stand your fear of fear

You're so wrong, and still think you're right
I was too old to pick that fight
And I take you touch, just changed your day
I broke off with you cause you didn't change... Me

Yeah! Yes it's human
It's just human
You noticed
Yeah! Yeah just human
Did you notice?
Damn right

You're so right and you don't think you're wrong
You're not on the list, you're not in my songs
I did right to walk and just leave you there
cause no one can stand your fear of fear

Yeah. Yes it's human
Yes it's human
You noticed

Yeah! Yes it's human
It's just human
You noticed
Yeah! Your just human
Did you notice?
Damn right

Cast: Jose Vanaclocha

ICE AGE 2009

LeslieMonk — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:44:13 -0500

2009 in review from the New Ice Age

Mrs Monk is frequently in conversations with Leigh On Sea's youth, often found in temporary jobs stacking shelves in Waitrose. They will remind Mrs Monk of the days when she taught them English, and then tell her about their real ambitions. Surprising to me, is that even after all that has happened in the financial institutions of London in 2009, they frequently aspire to a career in the city. Perhaps they are impressed by the apparent immunity from hard times in Threadneedle Street.

2009 has been a bad year for architects. More architects were laid off this year than in any other profession. That is measured by the number that have signed-on for Job Seekers Allowance.

That is of course the immediate consequence of the sudden decline in investment by bankers who have withdrawn their labour, if they ever worked. Bad news today for architects. Bad news tomorrow for the construction industry.

I am looking for something positive to say about 2009.

It is almost over.

Happy New Year.

There is an interesting derivation of “Threadneedle” that is too rude for these pages but says a great deal for the morality of Bankers. Check it out on Wikipedia.

Then come back to shoestringonline.co.uk

Cast: LeslieMonk

No Sun Today

LeslieMonk — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:00:01 -0500

18, December 2009. We were dumped on by a Siberian snow storm featuring an unusual, if not unique Thunderclap, coinciding with the simultaneous Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

The pictures were snapped by Mrs Monk on the morning of this event, before and after dawn. That morning the car got stuck in the middle of the road and I missed a game of tennis, where my presence would have brought about a change of outcome, of little significance to the remainder of the world.

Johnny Mazcko, the next big thing, and endorsed by these pages, provides the song, intended to mean something completely different, but nevertheless portentous.

shoestingonline.co.uk

Cast: LeslieMonk, sara monk

noite PONTO P

Tânia Duarte — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:36:10 -0500

Resultado da intervenção pública do Projecto PONTO P - workshop de Cinema de Animação
Data: noite de 24 de Outubro de 2009
Local: Noite PONTO P (Vila da Feira)

Orientação: Ícaro e Tânia Duarte
Técnica: stop motion (cordões de sapato e plasticina)

O PONTO P tem como principal objectivo intervir em contextos recreativos e de lazer nocturno com vista à prevenção e redução de riscos no consumo de substâncias psicoactivas e comportamentos sexuais de risco.

Cast: Tânia Duarte

Revenge of the Telephobic Revisited

LeslieMonk — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:37:32 -0500

Mrs Monk is telephobic. She is afraid of the phone. When she hears the phone ring, she freezes in fear of what might be said. We have an answer-phone which places a shield against would-be damaging messages, such as calls from her agency that may have an offer of troublesome work, or the dentist who might scold her for cancelling an appointment, or worse.

But if we do get calls, and no messages are left on the machine, and we get the “We do not have the callers number,” message on the 1471 service, Mrs Monk will spend hours wondering just who that was on the phone. In due course she would give up wondering just who it was and then begin the process of inventing disastrous events, the news of which she had missed due to her telephobia. She would soon become firmly convinced of some awful misfortune that would mean the end of life as we have known it.

Not only will she not answer the phone, but she will fight me to the death, in order to prevent me from answering the phone. Usually if both of us are in the house, I let the machine do the answering. It is easier that way.

Accordingly, a number of annoying anonymous 0870 calls were not answered, and Mrs Monk’s suspicions were aroused over a period some months, torturing her with uncertainty and stretching her invention of potential doom beyond beyond.

One afternoon Mrs Monk was not in the house and the offender got through to Mr Monk. The answer-phone nevertheless kicked in and recorded a surreal conversation with a lady salesperson, selling indeterminate goods. Check it out, if you will.

shoestringonline.co.uk

Cast: LeslieMonk, sara monk

Phoenix - Lizstomania / One time too many - A Take Away Show

La Blogotheque — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:40:53 -0500

"It's a weird game going on between the band and the place where they play. A mesmerizing Eiffel Tower or Trocadero usually steal the show with their size and more or less spectacular tricks, but here's a band no one would expect to find there, competing with all those crowd-pullers. "

Produced by Chryde for la Blogotheque
Filmed by Vincent Moon
Sounds by François Clos and Guillaume de la Villeon
Edit by Guillaume Guerry
Mix by Francois Clos

9 OCTOBER 2009
TROCADERO, EIFFEL TOWER, PARIS

Cast: La Blogotheque

Ball

Ries Straver — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:05:57 -0500

Metaphysical, and seemingly perilous, Ries Straver’s “Ball” is a fluidly looping video of a young girl holding a red ball that grows and shrinks. Set in an otherworldly background, the girl is at first ancillary and looks to be somehow controlling the size of the ball she holds but as the video continues the ball grows larger and larger in time with ominous audio creating a precarious tension as we wait for the ball to burst.

Ries Straver’s “Ball” is at first glance a simple study of tension and expectations but the foreboding characteristics of the girl elevate it to a level of auspicious uneasiness.

Photography by James Mollison.
Sound Design by Adam Lieber.

Cast: Ries Straver

Advanced Beauty 13 of 18 / Directed by Maxim Zhestkov

Universal Everything — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:26:48 -0500

Advanced Beauty
18 Sound Sculptures
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Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.
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The first collection is a series of audio-reactive 'video sound sculptures'.
Inspired by synasthesia, the rare sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours,
these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack.
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The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation. Each artist was given the same set of parameters to work within; to start, finish and exist within a white space, creating a seamless coherence, all sculptures sharing the same white environment.
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Using 1920 HD format, with 5:1 surround sound, the films transform the screen into a digital canvas,
how the minimalism of a single, floating pixel can be as engaging as the maximalism of an intense multicoloured explosion.
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Curated by design studio Universal Everything and musician Freeform, Advanced Beauty is an international collaboration, taking in a family of artists from London, Russia, New York, Japan, Buenos Aires, Glasgow to San Francisco.
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This collection of films in the first in a series of exhibitions, with upcoming commissions for the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and galleries in Europe, USA and Japan.
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advancedbeauty.org

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Cast: Universal Everything, Maxim Zhestkov

How to Make a Baby

Cassidy Curtis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:40:40 -0500

Take two people, add a little hot air, and boom! It's that simple. Photographed over a period of nine months in our home in San Francisco.

For details on how we did this, see How to Make a "How to Make a Baby": otherthings.com/howtobaby/

Cast: Cassidy Curtis, Raquel Rabbit

Lost Below

Mato Atom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:42:58 -0500

Old Piece

Audio: All the pretty things/ ISOL. Available at Involve Records involve.co.nz

Cast: Mato Atom, occur

The Daily Show Goes to Iran

Sahar Sarshar — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:17:24 -0400

Interview with Jason Jones and Tim Greenberg from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on their trip to Iran.

Produced, Written, and Edited by Sahar Sarshar
Interview Filmed by Arash Azizzada
Narrated by Mehrnoush Irani

Aired on Voice of America - Persian News Network

in farsi: vimeo.com/7085092

Cast: Sahar Sarshar

the Meaning of Life - stop motion

Vytautas Alechnavicius — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:22:08 -0400

Haiku project - stop motion based on Marcia's haiku:

"The Meaning of Life"

She asked me about
The meaning of life,
didnt Know what to say--- blank

Song: Outside - To Forgive But Not Forget

Crew: Vytautas Alechnavicius, Goda Jankute, Sergejs Radkevics,
Add.Help: Christina and Grace

eportfolio.partyofdreamers.com

Cast: Vytautas Alechnavicius

The Body Morphic

Indelible Dance — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:55:39 -0400

Directed by Robin Cantrell
Dancer: Carmen Nicole
Camera, editing: Jake Lodwick
Music: "Knocking the Casket" by Papa M

Cast: Indelible Dance

Voice Print

Olga Mink — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:59:43 -0400

" A short video that expresses a mood of feeling lost and undefined. A place that evokes some unsettling moments, but also seems to ease a certain comfort..."

A video that has been created with photo's only.

Sound by Michel Banabila.

video by
Olga Mink [www.videology.nu]

audio by
Michel Banabila [www.banabila.com]

Cast: Olga Mink

God Bless Darwin

LeslieMonk — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:14:58 -0400

19 September 2009. This weekend we paid homage to Darwin. This was Mrs Monk's idea.

Mrs Monk has evolved in a different avenue of evolution to the rest of us and is at the same time more God fearing than me, but she was nevertheless inspired by talk about the new movie "Creation", a biopic about Darwin which we have not seen, yet.

English Heritage have taken care of Darwin's home in Down, Kent, where Darwin tackled his theory which even today excites the established churchgoer in a secular UK, and also the fundamentalists in the bible belts of the USA..

The Monks speculated about how we arrived on this place on this earth, and the humanity of 2009 Homo Sapiens on the road to Down. A Biker passed us at 100 mph on one wheel on the A13; Mrs Monk caught him on camera. And when we arrived at Darwin's house a Land Rover took the last two parking spaces so we had to park in a field half a mile away.

We conclude from these events that mankind had evolved into a dangerous lunatic selfish species and somehow Darwin was responsible. We negotiated an entrance fee in the gift shop and Mrs Monk asked about Darwin Tee Shirts. When told that there were no such tacky offerings, she offered her best idea for a Darwin Tee Shirt, which should declare, GOD BLESS DARWIN.

Yes they were sniffy about Mrs Monk's money spinning idea, but English Heritage did allow the new movie to be shot on the "Sand Walk" and was also happy to sell fruit off Darwin's Apple tree.

Darwin got his big ideas on a "Sand Walk" from his house and his garden. Darwin saw what we saw today, and as he walked he tackled the concept of evolution that would change the way humanity saw the natural world forever.

Like everyone else Darwin was informed by the church. He was told that what he, and what we surveyed, was there by an act of God, and how persuasive that teaching must have been, when he saw what we saw today on the "Sand Walk". However, Darwin dared to think otherwise.

This new movie is set on a path of confrontation with Fox TV and other right wing American Hostility to Darwin's big idea, "On The Origin Of Species".

Darwin had to tackle the established church in England but also his wife who was a devout Christian and his conscience which was informed by science.

In America science has been conflated with the church in the form of Scientology, but Tom Cruise's Scientology would seem to me more to do with aliens in space and show business, than it is to do with science.

The movie "Creation" struggled to find a distributor in the USA until it did well at the Toronto Film Festival and will be screened this week in the UK and shopping malls in America, where they may expect yet more protest.

It's reported that Darwin's last words were: "get me the bible". This he would have had in common with WC Fields, and maybe they were both looking for loopholes. However Lady Hope who reported witnessing Darwin recanting his life's work, was later accused of not being present at Darwin's deathbed, Amen.

God Bless America. God Bless Darwin.

shoestringonline.co.uk

Cast: LeslieMonk, sara monk

Parklife

LeslieMonk — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:47:02 -0400

Permission to Park

Parking permits are coming .......... to the road ......... where we live

The council have prepared a scheme and have put on a show at the parish hall. I sense that they have made up their minds about this, but political expediency demands that the public must be consulted.

Plans were posted and the public were invited to inspect the plans, and also to inspect the planning officers that prepared the plans.

I am quite certain that the planning officers had a torrid evening convincing the public at this meeting, that what they proposed was a good idea. More people turned up for this meeting than turned up for the recent local elections that took place in the same hall, because after all, parking the car is more important than democracy.

Every member of the public that turned up was antipathetic to the scheme, but it seemed to me that no two people had the same agenda.

People complained about the charge of £15 per annum; some complained that they already pay for parking control and others cited the example of other boroughs where parking permits were announced at a modest £15, but subsequently escalated to an annual charge of over £200; this would have course have happened, once the revenue-raising potential of parking permits was established by the borough.

At the meeting, people complained about, for example, the town planners, who allowed development of flat conversions without demanding parking provision accommodate the additional drivers.

Shopkeepers complained about their customers having nowhere to park.

The unpopular commuters seemed to be unrepresented at the meeting, but maybe they have rights in this also. Commuters do need to travel to London to make a living and they prefer to park their cars in the road where we live because they can do so for free. This should not surprise town planners at the local authority because the car park designed to meet the needs of commuters, is not free, far from it.

Therefore, a problem has been created by basic economics and town planners.

People complain about not being able to park in their own road in front of their own homes and get extremely agitated and even post their own home-made “No Parking” signs. This annoys the Monks because parking is not allowed on our side of the road, and wherever we park, it is always in front of someone else’s house.

We live in a Victorian street not designed for the motor car and the consequential need for parking. There is enough room for everybody but some neighbours are determined to get more of their fair share of the available space to accommodate all, and these
occasional abuses soon get tongues wagging. See
In this way neighbours have learnt that this or that piece of road here will accommodate two or three cars, and if you park there the trash truck wont get around that bend on a Tuesday.

Neighbours have learnt to buy small cars that will park in those small gaps between a tree and a lamp post, or a random yellow line, which may be more annoying than helpful. And then we have all the crossovers that go nowhere. Yes, there are greedy parkers out there, but on the whole, neighbours get by, united not universally, but nevertheless united by the common enemy, .... the commuter who has been sent to our road by the town planners.

I have had my run-ins with parking officials, but only when they get it wrong and don’t care to put it right. So have these town planners got it right? Only if I am a chocolate Fudge Cake.

We park must frequently directly across the road, where there is a space to accommodate two cars. This mean that 6 cars are chasing 2 spaces, but now if theses plans are approved 6 cars will be chasing 1 space.

It is quite possible that the council are not proposing to solve the problem of the commuters that are exploiting the residential status of the road in which they choose to park all day, but that they are out to raise money to sell the residential road to the highest bidder.

It is proposed that parking permits are to be sold to non-residents for £250 per annum.

Apparently I now live in a car park.

shoestringonline.co.uk

Cast: LeslieMonk, sara monk

Piece

selfburning — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:10:56 -0400

Joint project with an artist Igor Skaletsky and a drummer Evgeniy Labich. Stop motion animation is based on photos representing every stage of making collage. Parts of the drummer’s live performance are arranged and mixed in one track.

Cast: selfburning

Glenn Beck Beats

wreckandsalvage — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:40:02 -0400

Getting stupid with Glenn Beck.

Cast: wreckandsalvage, Aaron Valdez

|-|-| Luxovisioni — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:56:07 -0400

With the light between form and sign, sometimes softly sensual, with some impetus.

AVflying project (Fabio Barisani+Luca Spagnoletti)

Cast: |-|-| Luxovisioni

Two-legged dog gets her wheels

Travis Heying — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:44:23 -0400

Josie the chihuahua was born without front legs. She's now the mascot of Hanger Orthopedic Group.

Cast: Travis Heying

Going Rad*

Sylvain L — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:27:00 -0400

Oscar's first real skateboard.
Handmade at Independent Outlet, Amsterdam.

Music: Playground "1994"

Cast: Sylvain L

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Pencilface

Out of the blue

Shoelace Love

BBC Knowledge

Carpark North - Human

ICE AGE 2009

No Sun Today

noite PONTO P

Revenge of the Telephobic Revisited

Phoenix - Lizstomania / One time too many - A Take Away Show

Ball

Advanced Beauty 13 of 18 / Directed by Maxim Zhestkov

How to Make a Baby

Lost Below

The Daily Show Goes to Iran

the Meaning of Life - stop motion

The Body Morphic

Voice Print

God Bless Darwin

Parklife

Piece

Glenn Beck Beats

Porno sacrale (video excerpt) ©2009

Two-legged dog gets her wheels

Going Rad*