I’m just back from Bristol where Screentest: The National Student Film Festival was held this weekend.
It was a great event and ‘I am Ahab’ picked up 2 awards! One for Best Animation and the other for Best Music Video. That’s 2 years in a row that my knitimations have won best animation. whoop whoop. I guess knitting really is taking over the world. mwah hahaha. If you haven’t seen Ahab in action yet then you can watch it here.
Category: Ahab
Camberwell Degree Show – Last Day!
My knitimation ‘I Am Ahab’ has been showing at my degree show all week to rave reviews… If you haven’t been to see it yet then tomorrow (Sat 23rd) is your last chance to marvel at it in it’s knitted plinth housing. Here are some photos of the crowds enjoying themselves if you can’t make it. It’s on the 4th floor (Sculpture dept.) at Camberwell College of Arts, Peckham Road. I’ll be there in the afternoon invigilating/answering all your knitimation questions. See you there!
New Knitimation is finished!
I’ve finished the video for ‘I am Ahab’ by Not-Too-Distant-Future. It’s currently on display at my degree show at Camberwell College of Arts. You can go and see it in it’s lovely knitted plinth from Tuesday 19th June to Saturday the 23rd. Or you can watch it now in all it’s YouTube glory! Let me know what you think…
Knitted Animation Progress
I Am Ahab is about a week away from completion and I know you’re all waiting on tenterhooks for the big day… maybe. Anyway here’s a sneaky shot of the whale to keep you going.
Woman’s hour again…
In Radio 4 news the woman’s hour piece was broadcast this morning. If you missed it you can listen again. And for amusement purposes only you may like to hear our first outing on woman’s hour in 2003 here. The photo is of Ron Fuller’s Viking from the Cabaret show at Kinetica. Nicked from Chris O’Shea’s Flickr photoset.
And on the knitimation side of things, normal service has resumed on the filming of I am Ahab after a short break. It will be finished in about 3 weeks because if it’s not my degree show might look a bit empty…
Check out the magnets
Now I have floaty people. Which is good because the chairs I’m making are liable to collapse under any kind of weight…
RoboKnit
I always knew that knitting had a life of it’s own. Now I see that it’s been the robots all along.
Erm… anyway, here’s the armature in Ahab’s girlfriend. It’s yet to be proven to work though. I’ll be conducting a series of tests and publishing a report shortly.
Setting up an animation studio
Ta-Da!
Here are the beginnings of my awesome shed-based animation studio. Note the green screen, a new addition funded by a job in Singapore. And you’ll also notice that Ahab now has a boat to carry him off across the seas to seek adventures and whales.
I am Ahab
The dawn of a new knitimation is upon us. It will take the form of a music video to the song ‘I am Ahab’ by Not-Too-Distant-Future. Go and listen to them and jump up and down!
Months of knitting and moving things just a tiny bit at a time await me now… Woo Hoo!!!!