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The Tell Tale Heart (1953)
Designed by Paul Julian, directed by Ted Parmelee and narrated by James Mason, UPA’s 1953 masterful adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short-story is proof – if more proof is even needed – that animation isn’t… Read more
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Throwback Friday #8 A Bonfire Night Alien (c.1989)
An old wallet of photographs surfaced recently from an era of my life I otherwise have no tangible reminders for, including a set of very poorly exposed snaps taken one bonfire night. The subject of… Read more
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MFT #2: Street Of Crocodiles (1986)
Desquamation, deriving from the latin word desquamare, meaning ‘to scrape the scales off a fish’, is the word describing the shedding of our skin. None of us like to think too long or too hard… Read more
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I Peer At Doors (2020)
The nice thing about participating in the fortnightly Kick-About is the gentle pressure it applies to respond in new ways to new prompts. When Gary Thorne proposed ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’ for the Kick-About… Read more
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The Kick-About #3 ‘Dance Of The Happy Shades’
Metropolis – our last kick-about prompt – inspired a wide-range of creative responses from a wide-range of creatives. I experienced a proper thrill of anticipation as the submissions began to arrive via email, blogposts and… Read more
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Throwback Friday #7 Meeting Freddy Pearl (2002)
Back in May, 2002, I was asked to make a short documentary on Fred Pearl. Fred Pearl worked for the toy manufacturer, Lines Brothers, as a model maker of dolls and toys in their factory.… Read more
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Artist In Residence: Tom Beg #3
Hey Tom, first you gave us a goggling cluster of eyes, next a gaggle of jellied Sea Monkeys, and now we appear to have a bristling asteroid field of jaunty traffic-cones… What creative and technical… Read more
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Ox-eye Daisies
Another trip out into the luxuriant froth of the Kent countryside yesterday evening to locate and photography an entire field of ox-eye daisies – or Leucanthemum vulgare if you’re feeling fancy. The sunlight was milky… Read more
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Norman McLaren: Pas de deux (1968)
Norman McLaren’s 1968 study in human locomotion transforming ballet dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren into snaking chains of vertebrae and carousels of smoke… Read more
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Bud Burst Final
As I type this bit of preamble, the swallows are screeching overhead, a fat wood pigeon is hoo-hooing insistently -if melodically – and a blackbird is trilling away like a happy milkman. It’s been very… Read more
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