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We have a blackbird who likes to perch on our TV aerial, from where he sings his heart out with unfettered ebullience. He brings me joy. You know he just loves making all that noise. He also dashes about in the garden, picking up bark chip in his yellow beak and chucking it around in…
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I can’t tell you the year these photographs were taken, somewhere between 2003 and 2005. I can tell you they were taken in the front garden of a rural Lincolnshire post-office and that they’re De caen anemones. I can likewise tell you these photographs were taken on 35mm film. This is the thing about plants…
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It’s very early days, but Ethan Shilling and I are working on a new animation project together. Ethan has been my friend and technical director on a whole bunch of whacking great projects, usually involving entire uncharted territories and ridiculously tight time-frames and budgets. Miraculously, Ethan is still talking to me.
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From plump, incipient buds to gas-jets to these glorious metallic starbursts, which in close-up, have all the intergalactic weirdness of a pulp science-fiction jungle planet. Our garden is now brimming with dozens of these pale purple grapefruit-sized sputniks. Alliums are where my affection for b-movies and plant-life collide!
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Written and directed by Michael Shanks, Rebooted is a love letter to the haptic charms of old-school stop-motion special effects. You know your heart belongs to Ray Harryhausen when the existential plight of a Plasticine skeleton puts a lump in your throat!
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A warm welcome to Red Kingdom’s inaugural Kick About – a showcase of new work generated by a group of artists and creative sorts in response to a specific prompt.
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Introducing M.F.T. or ‘My Favourite Things’ – an as-and-when feature wherein I’ll be bringing together a ‘few of my favourite things’, which are unlikely to include cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, but might include a few brown paper packages wrapped in string if those same brown paper packages contain a bunch of 1970s horror…
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It gives me great pleasure to open the door to Red’s Kingdom and invite another artist to take up a short residency here. Last week, Japan-based filmmaker and cg artist, Tom Beg, offered up a sneak peak at his new project-in-the-offing. This week, it’s the turn of Graeme Daly, fresh out of university (he only…
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A few posts back I shared these images of the alliums in my garden on the cusp of bursting their buds. There should have been a whole series of audible pops when they finally did their thing, releasing impossible numbers of tiny purple ‘flames’, destined to open up to form hemispheres of stars.
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